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"Writing as he does with energy and grace, Kernan is a thoughtful guide to the world Johnson lived in and helped to make. . . . What is best about Kernan's book is that it is up to date but not voguish; he has assimilated new scholarship but not been overpowered by it."--W. B. Carnochan, The Times Literary Supplement
"Kernan's work is deeply informed and thoughtful, not reductionist but relationist. He does not pretend that print was the direct cause of all the changes he discusses, but shows rather how many or most of the changes relate in one way or another to print, are intertwined with it. . . . Kernan's book is rich and rewarding. . . . There was a dark side to Johnson's awarenesses that frequently shows, and Kernan . . . has rightly brought it to our attention."--Walter J. Ong, Review
"Kernan picks up the image of Johnson where recent biographers left off. Samuel Johnson, he sums up, was 'skeptical, deeply troubled in mind, mad at times, neurotic nearly always, radically doubtful of himself and of the social values he at the same time so stoutly defended.' To that 'existential Johnson,' Kernan adds an image of Johnson as a model of success in the emergent print culture. This makes for fascinating reading."--Thomas D'Evelyn, The Christian Science Monitor
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- PublisherPrinceton University Press
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0691066922
- ISBN 13 9780691066929
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages375
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. xvi, 357 (1) pp, list of b&w illustrations, bibliographical note and acknowledgments, Introduction: Print and Letters in Eighteenth-Century England; Part I. The King of England Meets the Great Cham of Literature; II. Printing, Bookselling, Readers, and Writers in Eighteenth-Century London; III. Making the Writer's Role in a Print Culture; IV. The Writer as Culture Hero: Boswell's Johnson; V. Creating an Aura for Literary Texts in Print Culture; VI. Reading and Readers: The Literacy Crisis of the Eighteenth Century; VII. The Place and Purpose of Letters in Print Society; VIII. The Social Construction of Romantic Literature; Appendix: Letters as a Socially Constructed Reality: A Schematic View; bibliography, index. First Edition, 1987. "This provocative work explores the transition from orality to print and the effect of print on the subculture of letters in 18th-century England, and in particular the life of Samuel Johnson, who lived out the transformation of the writer's role in development of readership. The book is of particular interest in our own age, when technology is radically transforming human society and consciousness." from the jacket flap. Minor edge wear to dj, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown cloth with red title plate and gilt lettering to spine. Size: 8vo. Book. Seller Inventory # 003019
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