Johnson After Three Centuries: New Light on Texts and Contexts

by Thomas A. Horrocks (Editor), Howard D. Weinbrot (Editor), James G. Basker (Contribution by), James Engell (Contribution by), Nicholas Hudson (Contribution by)

Overview

Johnson After Three Centuries: New Light on Texts and Contexts examines several aspects of Johnson's career through fresh perspectives and original interpretations by some of the best-known and widely-respected scholars of our time. Included are essays by James Basker, James Engell, Nicholas Hudson, Jack Lynch, and Allen Reddick.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780981885841
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	09/12/2011
Series:	Houghton Library Publications , #20
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Thomas A. Horrocks is the author of Lincoln’s Campaign Biographies and former Director of the John Hay Library, Brown University.

Howard D. Weinbrot is Ricardo Quintana Professor of English and William Freeman Vilas Research Professor in the College of Arts and Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

James G. Basker is the Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, Columbia University, and President of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

James Engell is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University and co-editor of the Bollingen edition of the Biographia Literaria for the Collected Works of Coleridge.

Nicholas Hudson is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia

Jack Lynch is Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.

Allen Reddick is Professor of English Literature at the University of Zurich.