Reconsidering Biography
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Reconsidering Biography

Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson

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eBook - ePub

Reconsidering Biography

Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson

About this book

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's work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over forty-five years, challenged certain adulatory views of Johnson and has continued to raise interesting critical questions about both Johnsonian biography and the genre of biography generally. Reconsidering Biography collects new essays that explore Hawkins's biography of Johnson within its historical, political, legal, and personal contexts. More particularly, this volume considers how Hawkins's approach to recording the Life of Johnson opens up broader questions about early modern biography and its relationship with eighteenth-century trends in aesthetics, politics, and historiography. These sophisticated and informed essays on a curious and often vexed friendship, and its literary offspring, supply a colorful and expansive view of the role of life-writing in the eighteenth-century literary imagination.

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Information

Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9781611483840
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Abbreviations and Short Titles
  3. Introduction: Why Hawkins?
  4. Reassessing Sir John Hawkins’s The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Some Reflections
  5. Part I: Sir John Hawkins and the Development of English Biography
  6. A Rhetoric of Truth and Instruction: Hawkins’s The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., and Eighteenth-Century Biographical Practice
  7. Hawkins and Biography as a Genre
  8. Hawkins’s The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., and Modern Biographers
  9. Part II: Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson and His Contexts
  10. Sir John Hawkins on Richard Savage and the Profession of Authorship
  11. From Bigotry to Genius: The Treatment of Johnson’s Politics in Hawkins’s The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
  12. Hawkins, Biography, and the Law
  13. Bibliography
  14. About the Contributors