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Johnson's Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment (Studies in Early Modern English Literature)
Samuel Johnson remains one of the most frequently discussed and cited of the eighteenth-century critics; but historians of criticism have invariably interpreted his work within conventions that have allowed for little evaluative commerce between the needs of the critical present and the voices of th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Paper, Ink, and Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship
by Philip Smallwood • Susan Spencer • James E May • Manuel Schonhorn • Leah Orr • J. T. Scanlan • Linda V. Troost • Brett C. McInelly • David VenturoDuring his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of “long” eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by converting daring ideas into lauded books, “Gabe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham
by David Hopkins • Antjie Krog • Harry Thomas • Margaret Williams • John Richetti • Philip Smallwood • Adam Rounce • Kate Parker • Elaine Wood • Clement Hawes • James Rice • Daniel Little • Gordon Turnbull • Adam Walker • Kevin L. Cope • Anthony W Lee • Cedric D. • Bärbel Czennia • Robert G. Walker • Aaron R. Hanlon • Martine Brownley • Dominic Jermey • Caroline Fassett • Joseph McNicholas • Erin Labbie • Patrick Thomas Henry • Kang Tchou • Gary Sojka • Nina Forsberg • John Rickard • Kieron Winn • Emily GrosholzSamuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Gre... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022