Johnson and "The Letters of Junius". New Perspectives on an Old Enigma

Katritzky, Linde

ISBN 10: 0820431060 / ISBN 13: 9780820431062

Published by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Johnson and "The Letters of Junius". New Perspectives on an Old Enigma
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820431060
• ISBN 13: 9780820431062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The anonymous Letters of Junius appeared in the Public Advertiser in London between January 21, 1769 and January 21, 1772. Read and discussed avidly at home and abroad until well into the nineteenth century, they were ascribed to the most distinguished writers of the epoch. Only when all these attributions proved incorrect, and minor authors had to be considered, did interest in them begin to wane. The present study sets out to demonstrate that only an exceptional stylist and scholar could have conducted this influential and farsighted correspondence - that its author commanded all the outstanding gifts, and accomplishments of Johnson himself, and that they both may very well have been one and and the same person.

About the Author

The Author: Linde Katritzky, an adjunct professor at the University of Florida, graduated from the University of Munich, Germany, and holds an M.A. in German and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida. She lived for many years in England and has published articles on literature, the enlightenment, and English/German cultural relations in international journals. Her monograph, Lichtenbergs Gedankensystem, is volume six in the series The Enlightenment: German and Interdisciplinary Studies (Peter Lang, 1995).