The reformist ideas of Samuel Johnson / by Ritchie Stefka.
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TextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 305 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781443879125
- 1443879126
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Littérature anglaise -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- History
- Literature & literary studies
- Cultural studies
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English literature
- 1700-1799
- 828/.609 23
- PR3534 .R58 2017eb
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This book explores what remains an under-studied aspect of Samuel Johnson's profile as a person and writer - namely, his attitude to social improvement. The interpretive framework provided here is cross-disciplinary, and applies perspectives from social and cultural history, legal history, architectural history and, of course, English literature. This allows Johnson's writings to be read against the peculiarities of their historical milieu, and reveals Johnson in a new light - as an advocate of social improvement for human betterment. Considering the multiplicity of narrative modes that have be.
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