contexts, controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson
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c2012
Publisher:
Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Lewisburg [Pa.]
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...
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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 i
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Short Titles; Introduction: Why Hawkins?; Reassessing Sir John Hawkins's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Some Reflections; PART ONE. SIR JOHN HAWKINS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY; A Rhetoric of Truth and Instruction: Hawkins's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., and Eighteenth-Century Biographical Practice; Hawkins and Biography as a Genre; Hawkins's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., and Modern Biographers; PART TWO. SIR JOHN HAWKINS'S LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON AND HIS CONTEXTS
Sir John Hawkins on Richard Savage and the Profession of AuthorshipFrom Bigotry to Genius: The Treatment of Johnson's Politics in Hawkins's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.; Hawkins, Biography, and the Law; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors