EDITED BY JAMES ENGELL - Johnson and His Age. Harvard English Studies. 12.

USA/London, Harvard University Press, 1984. 1st Paperback Edition, Binding: Soft Cover, Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0674480767 Paperback Paperback. Johnson and His Age. Previous owners name and date to inside cover. Crease to corner front cover. Contents: Johnson's Life and Thought.: Johnson and the Meaning of Life (1). Johnson's Lives of the English Poets and Earlier Traditions of the Character Sketch in England. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale: The Beginning and the End. Thomas Hollis and Samuel Johnson. The Vision of Theodore: Genre, Contect, Early Reception. Steevens and Johnson. Minim and the Great Cham: Smollett and Johnson on the Prospect of an English Academy. Johnson, Traveling Companion, in Fancy and Fact. A Critical Conspectus: Some Limits in Johnson's Literary Criticism. The Antinomy of Style in Augustam Poetics. The Source, and End, and Test of Art: Hume's Critique. The Anglo-Scottish Critics: Toward a Romantic Theory of Imitation. Adam, Tinker, and Newton. Poets, Statesmen, Historians, Artists: Gray's 'Progress of Poesy' and 'The Bird': An Essay in Literary Transmission. Hogarth's Graphic Friendships: Illustrating Books by Friends. Gibbon's Silences. Burke's American Tragedy. 'What Seems To Be: Is': Blake's Idea of God. The Novel: From Richardson to Austen: 'Johnson's Rule' and the Development of the Eighteenth Century Novel of Moral Action. Women and the City. Sterne and Swift: Augustan Continuities. Engendering Accounts in Sterne's A Sentimental Journey. 'Staightforward Emotions and Zigzag Embarrassments' in Austen's Emma. 576 pp.