Domestick privacies : Samuel Johnson and the art of biography
Title:
Domestick privacies : Samuel Johnson and the art of biography
Author:
Wheeler, David, 1950-
Publication Information:
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [1987]
©1987
Physical Description:
192 pages ; 23 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction, the uses of Johnson's biographies / David Wheeler -- Johnson's beginnings / Lawrence Lipking -- Life, art, and the Lives of the poets / James L. Battersby -- Dr. Johnson's solemn response to beneficence / John A. Dussinger -- Johnson's portraits of Charles XII of Sweden / James Gray -- Johnson, Imlac, and biographical thinking / Catherine N. Parke -- The contexts and motives of Johnson's Life of Milton / Stephen Fix -- Johnson's Lives and modern students / William R. Siebenschuh -- Johnson and biography / Michael Stuprich.
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780813116129
Format :
Book
