Samuel Johnson : : Selected Writings: A Tercentenary Celebration / / Samuel Johnson; ed. by Peter Martin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Johnson, Samuel,
• HerausgeberIn: Martin, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Note on the Text --; Introduction --; Part 1. Periodical Essays (1750-1760) --; Morality, Behavior, and Psychology --; Society and Manners --; Biography and Autobiography --; Literature and Authorship --; Death --; Politics --; Part II. Excerpts from the Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) --; Part III. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759) --; Part IV. Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765) --; Part V. Excerpts from Lives of the Poets --; Cowley --; Milton --; Pope --; Collins --; Savage --; Notes --; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674054073; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674054073
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Samuel Johnson; ed. by Peter Martin.

Thanks to Boswell's monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. But in Johnson's own day, he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer. At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Together, these works - allied in their literary, social, and moral concerns - are the ones that continue to speak urgently to readers today.