Author: Thomas M. Curley
Title: Samuel Johnson and the Age of Travel
Description: Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1976. Cloth. A fascinating study of tourism and travel in the 'Age of Johnson' by Thomas M. Curley. Despite the fact that Samuel Johnson's never strayed more than five hundred miles from his London home, within this text Curley examines Johnson's extensive plans of distant voyages in order to explore the passion for travel and investigating the 'unknown world' that pervaded England in the eighteenth century. Whilst Johnson is often widely referred to as 'the original armchair traveler', this study is the first to emphasise his fascination with exploration and discovery, and the first to explore his life and works to the complex geographical advances of his century. To do this, Curlet draws extensively on Johnson's entire canon, the works of his contemporaries, and a vast store of much neglected travel books; placing Johnson's love of travel and travel literature firmly in its literary and historical context. In a green cloth binding. Externally very smart. Slight wear and bumping to extremities. White marks to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Ink signature to front free-endpaper. Personalised bookplate to front pastedown, Arthur J. Rippey. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: Johnson Literary Criticism Geography Travel Literary Criticism Curley Various


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