| Gloria Sybil Gross - 1992 - 224 pages
Gloria Sybil Gross argues that Samuel Johnson was a daring, at times irreverent explorer of human nature, who strenuously rejected old relics of sanctimony and repressive ... | |
| David F. Venturo - 1999 - 344 pages
Through this combination of close reading and contextualized analysis, the book explores Johnson's complicated attitude toward the prevailing conventions of eighteenth-century ... | |
| Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski - 2006 - 434 pages
Paying homage to prayer traditions from around the world and throughout history, this celebration of prayer covers everything from Pentacoastalist revivals to the sacred pipe ... | |
| Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski - 2005 - 444 pages
This landmark book presents prayer in all its richness and variety throughout history, across traditions, and around the globe. Focusing on extraordinary stories of lives ... | |
| Jacob Fuchs - 1989 - 178 pages
This study reclaims Pope's meaning in each successive imitation by focusing on the differences between Horace's Latin poems and Pope's English versions. It considers not only ... | |
| Jacob Fuchs - 1989 - 176 pages
This study reclaims Pope's meaning in each successive imitation by focusing on the differences between Horace's Latin poems and Pope's English versions. It considers not only ... | |
| John Cannon - 1994 - 344 pages
This is a lively and readable reinterpretation of Georgian political life by a leading historian of the eighteenth century. Cannon uses Samuel Johnson's remarkable career as a ... | |
| Sarah Jordan - 2003 - 308 pages
The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture investigates the preoccupation with idleness that haunts the British eighteenth century ... | |
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