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Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics.(Book review)

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Date: 20060922
Author:Hudson, Nicholas

Aspects of Johnson: Essays on his Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics. By Howard D. Weinbrot. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. 417 pages.

Few scholars preside so imposingly over eighteenth-century studies as Howard D. Weinbrot. Over the last forty or so years, he has produced a voluminous stream of studies on poetic form, satire, and literary influence that have confronted a range of entrenched critical orthodoxies and changed the way we talk and think about British literature of this era. That we no longer refer to this time as the "Augustan" age, for example, is ...

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