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A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson

โœ Scribed by Nicholas Hudson

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Leaves
256
Series
Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies
Category
Library
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Johnson rose from obscure origins to become a major literary figure of the eighteenth century. Through a detailed survey of his major works and political journalism, Hudson constructs a complex picture of Johnson as a moralist forced to accept the realistic nature of politics during an era of revolutionary transition.

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