A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson: Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984 Volume II: 1760-1816 [Hardcover]

J. D. Fleeman (Author)

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Hardcover: 978 pages
Publisher: Clarendon Press (Feb 1 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198122705
ISBN-13: 978-0198122708
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.8 x 5.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.5 Kg

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`Fleeman's monumental bibliography, the work of 30 years, provides an indispensable catalog of Johnson's works from his first published poem (1731) through the editions, anthologies, and translations of the 1980s ... It definitely supersedes a pair of venerable but long-obsolete works' J. T. Lynch, Choice

`Fleeman's monumental bibliography, the work of 30 years, provides an indispensable catalog of Johnson's works from his first published poem (1731) through the editions, anthologies, and translations of the 1980s ... It definitely supersedes a pair of venerable but long-obsolete works' J. T. Lynch, Choice, January 2001

`essential for all serious research collections.' J.T. Lynch, CHOICE, Jan 2001.

`'Dr Fleeman has treated his massive accumulation of information not as an over-sized index but as "the annals of a literary career". And what a career it was! This book is almost a cultural history of the eighteenth century, for Johnson had a finger in every pie. . . . The reader feels herself confided in, as well as instructed and enlightened.'' Isobel Grundy, New Rambler

`'Dr Fleeman was not only erudite but also humane . . . erudition and humanity, the keynotes of this work, each contributes something to the pleasure of using it. The introduction opens a number of windows on eighteenth-century practices in printing, use of paper, binding, and so forth. The body of the book . . . offers collations, corrections of dates, re-assignments of authorship, a wealth of enviably accurate minutiae amounting to a mountain of knowledge.'' Isobel Grundy, New Rambler

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Samuel Johnson is not only famous for his English Dictionary, and as the subject of Boswell's great biography; he was also the author of many different kinds of books - biographies, essays, literary criticism, poetry - and a regular though anonymous contributor to newspapers, magazines and to books by others. There was a little of the business of authors that he did not know, or about which he did not express a judgement. This bibliography by the distinguished Johnson scholar, the late J.D. Fleeman, records Johnson's literary output in chronological order, illuminating not only his multifarious writings but also the development of his career and reputation as a professional writer. It reveals the range of his work and the variety of his anonymous contributions (some of them first identified by Fleeman). Detailed analysis of the works examined sheds light on the practices of the 18th century book trade, and indentified editions, early and late, many of which are valuable and unjustly neglected. The bibliography also lists new editions up to 1984, the bicentenary of Johnson's death, charting the course of his posthumous literary reputation.

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