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Nokes, David - Samuel Johnson / A Life
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| Schrijver: | Nokes, David |
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| Titel: | Samuel Johnson / A Life |
| ISBN: | 9780571226368 |
| Uitgever: | FABER & FABER |
| Bijzonderheid: | 2009, paperback, 415 pp, Conditie : Als nieuw, ongelezen, papier iets verkleurd |
| Prijs: | € 9,99 |
| Meer info | As a critic of Shakespeare, Johnson stressed the empirical persuasiveness of the dramatist's portrayal of human nature. In that spirit, the reader learns to judge fresh biographers of Johnson himself for their skill in limning the great critic's personality and character. By that standard Samuel Johnson, a workmanlike book by the British scholar David Nokes, joins itself to an admirable sequence that includes studies by Robert DeMaria, Walter Jackson Bate, Lawrence Lipking and Peter Martin. Each of these brought a particular warmth and individual insight to the reception of Johnson, and Nokes complements them by his sense of the critic as a Londoner, almost the archetypal citizen of that endless city. . . . Nokes is particularly moving and informative on Johnson's relation to his Jamaican manservant, Frank Barber, a freedman who essentially became Johnson's son, though without formal adoption. . . . I myself qualify as a common reader of Johnson, not a Johnsonian scholar, and Nok |
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