Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson
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Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson
Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson

Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson

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Martine Watson Brownley (Author) O M Brack (Contributor) Martine W. Brownley (Contributor) Greg Clingham (Contributor) Timothy Erwin (Contributor) Christopher D. Johnson (Contributor) Thomas Kaminski (Contributor) Myron D. Yeager (Contributor)  

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As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins's work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over forty-five years, challenged certain adulatory views of Johnson and has continued to raise interesting critical questions about both Johnsonian biography and the genre of biography generally. Reconsidering Biography collects new essays that explore Hawkins's biography of Johnson within its historical, political, legal, and personal contexts. More particularly, this volume considers how Hawkins's approach to recording the Life of Johnson opens up broader questions about early modern biography and its relationship with eighteenth-century trends in aesthetics, politics, and historiography. These sophisticated and informed essays on a curious and often vexed friendship, and its literary offspring, supply a colorful and expansive view of the role of life-writing in the eighteenth-century literary imagination.
Martine W. Brownley is Goodrich C. White Professor of English at Emory University where she also serves as the director of the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry.
  • Contributor: Martine Watson Brownley
  • Imprint: Bucknell University Press
  • ISBN13: 9781611483833
  • Number of Pages: 196
  • Packaged Dimensions: 162x239x18mm
  • Packaged Weight: 431
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Bucknell University Press
  • Release Date: 2011-11-10
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Martine W. Brownley is Goodrich C. White Professor of English at Emory University where she also serves as the director of the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry.

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