Howard D. Weinbrot. Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Howard D. Weinbrot. Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2005. 417 pp. ISBN 0-87413-874-4, $40.00.

Howard Weinbrot is among our most eminent eighteenth-century scholars. He has published several important studies since the 1960s, but Aspects of Samuel Johnson is his first book on Johnson. It collects sixteen essays written over four decades covering various aspects of Johnson's writing--poetry, metaphor, narrative style, and the idea of language in the dictionary (in a section on Arts); generality, ...

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