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A Johnson Sampler

By Henry Darcy Curwen

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Hardcover:

9780674481008 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 1, 1963, cover price $8.00

Paperback:

9780879238391 | David R Godine Pub, June 1, 1994, cover price $12.95

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain

By Daniel Defoe

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Hardcover:

9780300049800 | Abridged edition (Yale Univ Pr, June 1, 1991), cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain

Paperback:

9780140430660 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1978), cover price $13.95

The Johnson Quotation Book: Based on the Collection of Chartres Biron

Product Description: Book by Johnson, Samuel, Biron, Chartres, Smallwood, Philip

By Chartres Biron, Samuel Johnson and Philip Smallwood

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Paperback:

9781853990656 | Bristol Classical Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Johnson, Samuel, Biron, Chartres, Smallwood, Philip

Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney

By Fanny Burney and Nigel Wood (editor)

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Paperback:

9781853990663 | Bristol Classical Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $29.95

Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson

Product Description: During the second half of the 18th century the most powerful literary work in Britain was nonfictional - philosophy, history, biography, and political controversy, Leo Damrosch argues that this tendency is no accident; at the beginning of the modern age, writers were consciously aware of the role of cultural fictions, and they sought to ground those fictions in a real world beyond the text...read more

By Leo Damrosch

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9780299123802 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, January 1, 1990, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: During the second half of the 18th century the most powerful literary work in Britain was nonfictional - philosophy, history, biography, and political controversy, Leo Damrosch argues that this tendency is no accident; at the beginning of the modern age, writers were consciously aware of the role of cultural fictions, and they sought to ground those fictions in a real world beyond the text.

Paperback:

9780299123840 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, January 1, 1990, cover price $16.95

A Dr. Johnson Chronology

By Norma Page

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Hardcover:

9780816190911 | G K Hall, April 1, 1990, cover price $40.00

A Wollstonecraft Anthology

By Janet M. Todd (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780231072502 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 1990), cover price $84.00

Paperback:

9780231072519 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $34.00

Swift's Irish Pamphlets: An Introductory Selection

Product Description: A selection of Swift's Irish pamphlets, illustrating the full range of his interests and commitments. Also included is a special appendix which lists all his prose writing on Ireland.

By Joseph McMinn (editor) and Jonathan Swift

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Hardcover:

9780389209317, titled "Swift's Irish Pamphlets: An Introductory Selection" | Barnes & Noble Imports, June 1, 1990, cover price $50.50 | also contains DK Eyewitness Travel Cruise Guide to Europe & the Mediterranean | About this edition: A selection of Swift's Irish pamphlets, illustrating the full range of his interests and commitments.

Paperback:

9780861403288, titled "Swift's Irish Pamphlets: An Introductory Selection" | Colin Smythe Ltd, December 15, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A selection of Swift's Irish pamphlets, illustrating the full range of his interests and commitments.

The Dream of My Brother: An Essay on Johnson's Authority

By Fredric V. Bogel

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Paperback:

9780920604465 | Univ of Victoria Dept of English, August 1, 1990, cover price $11.00

Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1798

By William Godwin

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Hardcover:

9781854770462 | Woodstock Books, December 1, 1990, cover price $43.00

Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought

Product Description: Although there are many books on Samuel Johnson's moral and religious thought, none have managed to provide a complete analysis of his relationship to the ethics and theology of the eighteenth-century. This major new study examines the background to Johnson's views on a wide range of issues that were debated by the philosophers and divines of the age, emphasizing the ambivalence and contradiction inherent in his orthodoxy, while challenging the assumption that his religious beliefs were unstable and filled with anxiety...read more

By Nicholas Hudson

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9780198112143 | Clarendon Pr, September 6, 1990, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Although there are many books on Samuel Johnson's moral and religious thought, none have managed to provide a complete analysis of his relationship to the ethics and theology of the eighteenth-century.

Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient

By John Wiltshire

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Hardcover:

9780521383264 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1991, cover price $99.99

Paperback:

9780521022286 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $44.99

Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life

Product Description: This biography emphasises the extraordinary versatility and resourcefulness of a lifetime spent serving the public interest with the pen. At the same time, it shows Swift's distinctive love of writing for personal entertainment and diversion, with little or no interest in publication...read more

By Joseph McMinn

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Hardcover:

9780333485842 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 3, 1991, cover price $219.00 | About this edition: This biography emphasises the extraordinary versatility and resourcefulness of a lifetime spent serving the public interest with the pen.

9780312052751 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 1, 1991, cover price $49.95

Paperback:

9780333485859 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 3, 1991, cover price $29.99

Jonathan Swift: The Fictions of the Satirist

By Jean Paul Forster

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Hardcover:

9783261042590 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 1991, cover price $49.80

David Hume

Product Description: Book by Price, John Valdimir

By John Valdimir Price

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Hardcover:

9780805770049 | Upd sub edition (Twayne Pub, July 1, 1991), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Book by Price, John Valdimir

Oliver Goldsmith Revisited

Product Description: Book by Dixon, Peter

By Peter Dixon

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Hardcover:

9780805770087 | Twayne Pub, July 1, 1991, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Book by Dixon, Peter

New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of the Life of Johnson

Product Description: Boswell's Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost literary biographies in the English language. This 1991 collection of essays, commemorating its bicentenary, investigates Boswell's achievements and limitations in both literary and personal contexts, and goes beyond the Life to examine the full range of Boswell's writings and interests (in legal, social, theological, political and linguistic fields)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Greg Clingham (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780521380478 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Boswell's Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost literary biographies in the English language.

British Romantic Prose Writers, 1789-1832, First Series

By John R. Greenfield (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780810345874 | Gale Group, August 1, 1991, cover price $363.00

Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking

By Catherine N. Parke

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Hardcover:

9780826207890 | Univ of Missouri Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $45.00

Johnson's and Lessing's Dramatic Critical Theories and Practice With a Consideration of Lessing's Affinities With Johnson

Product Description: Lessing displays a remarkable familiarity with the English literary scene and shows himself especially aware of Samuel Johnson's literary output and his dramatic critical achievement in neo-classical England. The study traces and examines affinities of Lessing's ideas with those of Johnson and a certain impact of Johnson on Lessing's ideas in the field of dramatic critical theory and practice...read more

By Emma Hawari

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9783261043580 | Herbert Lang Et Co Ag, October 1, 1991, cover price $46.80 | About this edition: Lessing displays a remarkable familiarity with the English literary scene and shows himself especially aware of Samuel Johnson's literary output and his dramatic critical achievement in neo-classical England.

British Romantic Prose Writers, 1789-1832 Second Series

Product Description: Writes John R. Greenfield in the volume's foreword, "DLB Volume 110 is a companion volume to DLB 107, 1789-1832: First Series, which deals with British Romantic prose writers who were born 1775 or earlier. The writers treated in the Second Series were all born after 1775 and wrote most of their important prose works between 1810 and 1845, years of war, reaction, reform, and general political and social change...read more

By John R. Greenfield (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780810345904 | Gale Group, November 1, 1991, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: Writes John R.

Boswell's Literary Art: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Studies, 1900-1985

By Hamilton E. Cochrane

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Hardcover:

9780824015169 | Taylor & Francis, January 1, 1992, cover price $95.00

Samuel Johnson After Deconstruction: Rhetoric and the Rambler

By Steven Lynn

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Hardcover:

9780809317707 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $29.00

Boswellian Studies: A Bibliography

By Anthony E. Brown

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Hardcover:

9780748603039 | 3 rev sub edition (Edinburgh Univ Pr, June 1, 1992), cover price $90.00

Female Tatler

Product Description: The Female Tatler was a popular scandal sheet published in London in 1709 and 1710. With a cruel humor verging on the libelous, its author Mrs. Crackenthorpe and her successors poked fun at London's well-known citizens three times every week...read more

By Fidelis Morgan (editor)

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Paperback:

9780460870740 | Tuttle Pub, July 1, 1992, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: The Female Tatler was a popular scandal sheet published in London in 1709 and 1710.

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