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Title Reconsidering Biography : Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkin's Life of Johnson
Published Lanham : Bucknell University Press, 2011

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Contents Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Short Titles; Introduction: Why Hawkins?; Reassessing Sir John Hawkins's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Some Reflections; PART ONE. SIR JOHN HAWKINS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY; A Rhetoric of Truth and Instruction: Hawkins's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., and Eighteenth-Century Biographical Practice; Hawkins and Biography as a Genre; Hawkins's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., and Modern Biographers; PART TWO. SIR JOHN HAWKINS'S LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON AND HIS CONTEXTS
Sir John Hawkins on Richard Savage and the Profession of Authorship From Bigotry to Genius: The Treatment of Johnson's Politics in Hawkins's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.; Hawkins, Biography, and the Law; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors
Summary As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins'
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Subject Hawkins, John, 1719-1789. Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D
Biography as a literary form.
Biography.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Biography as a literary form
English.
Languages & Literatures.
English Literature.
Form Electronic book
Author Brack, O M, Jr., 1938-2012.
Brownley, Martine Watson.
Clingham, Greg.
Erwin, Timothy.
Johnson, Christopher D. (Christopher Dyer), 1964-
Kaminski, Thomas.
Yeager, Myron, 1950-
Bucknell University Press.
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