A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, 1731-1759 : Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984 - Hardcover
This bibliography by the distinguished Johnson scholar, the late J. D. Fleeman, records Johnson's literary output in chronological order and traces the development of his career and reputation as a professional writer. Detailed analysis of the works illustrates the practices of the 18th-century book trade, and identifies valuable and unjustly neglected editions. The bibliography also charts the course of Johnson's posthumous literary reputation with lists of new editions up to 1984, the bicentenary of his death.
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J. D. Fleeman is at Pembroke College, Oxford. James McLaverty is at University of Keele.
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`Fleeman's monumental bibliography, the work of 30 years, provides an indispensable catalogue 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
`essential for all serious research collections.'
J.T. Lynch, CHOICE
`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
J. T. Lynch, CHOICE
`essential for all serious research collections.'
J.T. Lynch, CHOICE
`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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- PublisherClarendon Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0198122691
- ISBN 13 9780198122692
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages1044
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