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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Samuel Johnson"”.
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My Impossible Task? Writing an Ethical Biopic of Samuel Johnson
… of eighteenth-century lexicographer and writer Samuel Johnson, entitled Sam J, and a thesis which reflects upon the process of writing that film. The research question asks whether it is possible to write a biopic which operates within the conventions of classic Hollywood screenwriting …
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Conscious of Her Own Power: Hester Piozzi's Character Creation in Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson LL.D., During the Last Twenty Years of His Life
… approach to biography in Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson LL. D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life in order to analyze her use of accumulated cultural and social capital. I highlight similarities between Anecdotes and Samuel Johnson’s model for biography given in Rambler #60 and show …
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Out of Johnson's Shadow: James Boswell as Travel Writer
… the evolution of the biography via his work on Samuel Johnson. Ranging over his public, published writing, his private-public unpublished journal writing (read by his friend John Johnston), and his private-private unpublished writing (his personal journals) this thesis sets out to address how he …
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“I think myself as good as anybody” : nationalism, manliness, space and identity in Boswell’s London Journal
James Boswell (1740-1795), biographer of Samuel Johnson and lifelong diarist, provided one of the most detailed descriptions of eighteenth-century London life in his London Journal: 1762-1763. In it, Boswell chronicled his self-conscious attempts to refashion himself from the uncultivated Scottish …
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Cleaning Up the Junkyard: An Exploration in Developing an Online Course
… It saw the beginning of the novel with Samuel Richardson and an outpouring of prose writing across the disciplines With figures such as Samuel Johnson, Christopher Wren, and Alexander Pope, British culture saw vital advances in areas of criticism, architecture, and literature An online …
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From a Record of Death to a Memory of Life: The Rise of the Biographical Obituary in The Gentleman's Magazine
… form as it is treated in the works of Samuel Johnson, a prominent contributor to The Gentleman's Magazine, and practiced at the hands of John Nichols, one of the magazine's most prominent editors. My study also seeks to characterize the content of the obituaries by historicizing them in …
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“Paper Bullets of the Brain”: Satire, Dueling and the Rise of the Gentleman Author
… many notable literary figures such as Samuel Johnson, William Gifford, Thomas Moore, and Lord Byron were involved in literary disputes featuring duels or the threat of physical violence, a pattern indicating a connection between authorship and dueling. This study explicitly examines …
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The influence of the Book of Common Prayer on the prose style of Samuel Johnson's prayers
… only one small aspect of the problem.</p><p>Samuel Johnson is an obvious subject for such a study, because he attended the Church of England;<sup>1</sup> he knew the Prayer Book well;<sup>2</sup> in fact, he was such a good Church of England man that Boswell records in the Life at least two …
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Islam in the English Radical Protestant Imagination, 1660--1830
… vision for writers such as Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, William Blake, Walter Savage Landor, Hannah Cowley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and the Shelleys. These writers, who either rejected or were troubled by the democratic principles promoted by the French Revolution, …
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"The ""intellectual entertainments"" of Charlotte Lennox: Literary strategies of an eighteenth century professional woman writer"
… is known only for her important connections with Samuel Johnson, who thought highly of her, and for her satiric novel The Female Quixote. Lennox is significant because she was one of the foremost women writers of the mid- to late eighteenth century and had expertise in each of the dominant …
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Close encounters: Anna Seward, 1742–1809, a woman in provincial cultural life
… and prepared to criticise the famous, such as Samuel Johnson and Darwin, her former mentor. Her life in Lichfield, moreover, secured the disapproval of the local ecclesiastical establishment, because of her close public relationship with a married man, John Saville. Towards the end of her life …
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Twin stars: Shakespeare and the idea of the theatre in the eighteenth century
… of Shakespeare as a dramatic author from Samuel Johnson onwards. An untheatrical definition of the dramatic (Johnson’s) is answered by one which recognises the power and vitality of the stage, especially in its representation of sympathetic character (Montagu and Kenrick). Yet that very …
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Fundamental Study of the Machinability of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Polymer Composites
Alignment of CNTs in the polymer matrix is important from a material property improvement stand point. Therefore, a microstructure-based finite element machining model was used to study the effect of CNT orientation on the machining responses. The predicted machining responses for aligned CNT …
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Joseph Priestley and the French Connection: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Grammaticography.
… contact, pedagogical concerns, the legacy of Samuel Johnson’s lexicography, and the influence of Lewis Chambaud (d. 1776) and Abbé Girard (1677–1748). I argue that the defining features of Priestley’s work are connected to the French language and the French grammatical tradition. The only …
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‘Edmund Burke: Religion and Eighteenth-Century Modernity’
… England: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and Samuel Johnson’, English Literary History, 64 (1997), 1029–67; Brian Young, Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England: Theological Debate from Locke to Burke (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998); also F.P. Lock, ‘Burke and Religion’, in An …
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William Cave (1637-1713) and the Fortunes of Historia Literaria in England
… of the English literary tradition, including Johnson and Coleridge. Coleridge’s example, in particular, helps us to see why Cave and scholars like him were excluded lastingly from genealogies of English studies in the twentieth century, despite having given the discipline many of its …