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Dille, Catherine D. "Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century education." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367772.
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Steen, Jane Elizabeth. "Samuel Johnson and aspects of Anglicanism." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259528.
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Hitchings, Christian Nicholas Henry. "Samuel Johnson and Sir Thomas Browne." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398115.
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This thesis explores the literary and intellectual relationship between Samuel Johnson and Sir Thomas Browne. It demonstrates the importance of Johnson's contribution to the history of criticism of Browne, and also constitutes a case study of Johnson's methods in compiling his Dictionary. I show what grounds there are for believing that Browne was of special importance to Johnson, and that there were significant affinities between the two writers. I set my work against the background of existing scholarship, which tends to neglect the links between Johnson and Browne. I consider the decline of Browne's reputation in the years that followed his death, suggesting how it is possible to see Johnson's work on Browne as a significant recuperation. I then examine Johnson's Life of Browne and the edition of Christian Morals to which it was prefixed, arguing that the Life is an important event in the development of Johnson's biographical method. I next consider the relationship between Browne's natural philosophy and Johnson's, focusing on three particular areas in which their thinking is allied: the emphasis on experiment and observation, the moral purpose of natural philosophy, and the attraction of `strangeness'. Thereafter I examine in detail Johnson's extensive use of extracts from Browne's works in his Dictionary. First I provide a description of Johnson's deployment of illustrative quotations culled from Browne, showing the distribution and sources of quotations, including those added for the fourth edition; the result is a `map' of the Dictionary's use of Browne. I then analyse these findings, in order to determine what fields of knowledge they delineate, as well as how they illustrate Johnson's critical interests and priorities. Finally, I consider Browne's nineteenth-century afterlife. I chart the influence of Johnson's critique and uses of Browne, and examine the championing of Browne by Coleridge, Hazlitt, Lamb and others
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Ritchie, Stefka. "Samuel Johnson : a promoter of social improvement." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5135/.
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This thesis explores what remains an under-studied aspect of Samuel Johnson’s profile as a person and writer – his attitude to social improvement. Confronting past and current critical opinion and adhering closely to Johnson’s various writings, the thesis aims to establish the reasons for the failure to identify Johnson’s relationship to social concerns during his lifetime. The study also considers the influence of particular moral philosophies on Johnson’s approach to social improvement, such as those of Hugo Grotius, Richard Cumberland, Francis Bacon and John Locke. A range of sources include Johnson’s essays in the Rambler, Idler and Adventurer, his various reviews in the Literary Magazine and the Gentleman’s Magazine, his Diary of his travels in the Midlands and the Tour of the Highlands with Boswell, as well as various texts he wrote for others who were also concerned with social improvement. When Johnson protests against the institutions of his day he seeks to alleviate a tangible evil, such as the wretchedness of prostitutes, the agonies of imprisoned debtors and the destitution suffered by their families and the terrors of those condemned to death, often for some trivial offence. The profiles of Robert Dossie, Robert Chambers, William Chambers and John Gwynne together with those of Saunders Welch and William Dodd are discussed in the context of their interests in agriculture, architecture and the law, respectively. Placing those eighteenth-century figures at the centre of historical enquiry furnishes a richer dimension to the analysis of Johnson’s mode of thinking which allows us to respond to his works in a multi-faceted way. The interpretive framework of the thesis is cross-disciplinary and applies ii perspectives from social and cultural history, legal history, architectural history and, of course, English literature. This allows Johnson’s writings to be read against the peculiarities of their historical milieu and reveal Johnson in a new light – as an advocate of social improvement for human betterment.
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Hitchens, Daniel. "Samuel Johnson and the vocation of the author." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6f8a432e-d34d-42b0-8db9-74cb957c2113.
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Much has been written about Samuel Johnson as a Christian, and much about him as an author; this study is about where the two meet, in the idea of the literary vocation. Though Johnson only uses the word âvocation' a handful of times, it holds both the quotidian sense of a job and the more exalted notion of a divine call, a tension which informs Johnson's thinking. I begin with Johnson's development as a religious writer, influenced by William Law's contention that any form of life can be devout and holy, and by Bernard Mandeville's unsentimental candour. Johnson's writing bears the marks of both. He revised Irene, for instance, to make it less overtly Christian: a reminder that Johnson's religious convictions bring an invisible pressure to bear on apparently secular works. In his early years on the Gentleman's Magazine Johnson develops the principle that authorship, being a public act, carries great responsibilities. It is, in fact, a vocation, and unpacking this concept takes up Chapter 2. Johnson sees writing as a potential form of public service, adding that a solitary writer 'naturally sinks from omission to forgetfulness of social duties'. Too few commentators have grasped that Johnson sees morality in social terms - as a matter of answering the needs of others, according to one's place in an order overseen by divine providence. But again and again he refers to the human need 'to seek from one another assistance and support' (Rambler 104). Instances of mutual help 'by frequent reciprocations of beneficence unite mankind in society and friendship'. Johnson's well-known emphasis on friendship is only one expression of this deeper sense that society is held together by trust; and therefore, by the truth. Writers' communication of truth defines their own social duties. While Johnson can sound close to Shaftesbury when he writes of mankind's sociability, there is really a significant gap between them, because Johnson's view of human nature is more jaded. He expects people to hurt each other for the same reasons they help each other; and he recognises a strong tendency towards pride and superiority - especially among writers, who are tempted to cut themselves off from society. Chapter 3 deals in more depth with a writer's social role, which is simply expressed as the ability to put the truth memorably. Borrowing from a tradition which stretches back to Seneca at least, Johnson believes that a writer becomes a 'benefactor of mankind' by putting the useful, but readily forgotten, principles of the good life into memorable forms. Drawing on Locke's account of the memory, and deviating from Locke's account of moral action, he suggests that literature has a power to move the reason and the passions at once - hence his demand that poetry be both true and pleasurable. While this resembles the Horatian formula of dulce et utile, Johnson added to it a sense of writers' and readers' experience of the text: how âimpressions' are transferred from the world, via the writer, to the text, and so to the reader. Learning how to persuade the audience, however, necessitates first-hand acquaintance with the world. Hence the subjects of Chapters 4 and 5, which are pride and humility respectively. Pride separates the author from the social world, making them ineffectual and unable to communicate truth. The 'Lives' of Swift and Milton establish this partly through their ridicule of the two subjects: though Johnson did not think ridicule established truth, it did restore a balance upset by an author's singularity. 'Singularity' is the word Johnson uses to encapsulate Swift's faults: he was 'fond of singularity, and desirous to make a mode of happiness for himself, different from the general course of things and order of Providence'. Milton, too, is condemned for his arrogance - but even more in order to correct the idolatry of his admirers. Johnson believes that Milton is being written about with absurd reverence, and so puts him back in his place - as just another member of society, with a role to fulfil. Accepting that place involves a measure of humility. The question of the 'dignity of literature', a contested point during the nineteenth century, was alive in Johnson's time, and through his associations with what he himself called 'Grub Street', he lived and worked among many writers who might be thought undignified. Yet in the obscurity of the hacks Johnson found something to praise - an industrious, humble service opposed to the 'letter'd arrogance' of self-satisfied authors. '[T]he humble author of journals and gazettes must be considered as a liberal dispenser of beneficial knowledge' (Rambler 145). By stooping to be merely useful, journalists become great. Particularly in the Journey to the Western Islands, Johnson divests himself of authorial dignity, drawing attention to his own mistakes and omissions. Such a humdrum view of the writer's role, which placed the emphasis on the reader, put Johnson at odds with most of the prominent Romantics - and the scale of their revulsion from Johnson needs two chapters to be dealt with. Chapter 6 argues that their critique, especially that of Hazlitt and Coleridge, was above all about the question of the writer's vocation: and for that reason, Shakespeare was the most contested ground - for Coleridge, Johnson's Shakespeare criticism was impertinent 'filth' aimed at 'the greatest man that ever put on and put off mortality'. But that was exactly the kind of idolatrous view of authorship - what Hazlitt called approvingly 'overstrained enthusiasm' - which Johnson wanted to challenge. However, many of the Romantics' criticisms misrepresented Johnson; he was a more flexible thinker than they realised. In a final chapter, I look at the aftermath of the Romantics: how their accusation that Johnson was too narrow and bigoted to understand Shakespeare is echoed in Macaulay, and even in sympathetic readers like Matthew Arnold, and has dogged Johnson all the way to the present day. And I point out that the Romantic exaltation of the author has faced its own backlash, in ways that suggest Johnson might have seen more clearly than the Romantics thought.
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Leigh, Joanna. "My impossible task? : writing an ethical biopic of Samuel Johnson." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504037.
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McDermott, Anne Colette. "The logic and the epistemological sanctions of Dr. Johnson's arguments." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329610.
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Mayhew, Robert J. "Samuel Johnson on landscape, natural knowledge and geography : a contextual approach." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319041.
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Tankard, Paul 1956. "In full possession of the present moment : Samuel Johnson, reading and the everyday." Monash University, English Dept, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8952.
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Acker, Julia Robertson. ""No woman is the worse for sense and knowledge" Samuel Johnson and women/." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7645.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of English. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in paper. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Avin, Ittamar Johanan. "Driven to distinguish : Samuel Johnson's lexicographic turn of mind : a psychocritical study." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15027.
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As a man of letters with an exceptionally extensive and diverse output, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) has invited consideration from a variety of angles. The present study offers a 'reading' of Johnson as a framer of distinctions. His distinction-making activity is viewed as a capital feature of the oeuvre, characterizing it across almost its entire range, a very substantial body of evidence is adduced in support of this reading. Broken up by distinction-type, the mass of evidence sorts itself out into seventeen different categories themselves grouped under seven 'thematic' heads. The organization of the inquiry on taxonomic lines is intended both to throw into relief the multiform character of Johnson's distinction-making praxis (something not heretofore remarked) and also to provide a comprehensive, systematic and easily 'readable' account of it. That the evidence testifying to Johnson's distinction-making turned out to be so voluminous could not but occasion the thought that it might be an involuntary activity, a 'drive' grounded in the very 'set' of his psyche which comes in consequence to be viewed as in some sort 'formed for distinction-making'. This thought evolved into the thesis that the present study undertakes to defend, in doing which it becomes a psychocritical investigation inscribed within the theoretical frame of psychological stylistics whose aim is to make inferences and advance hypotheses about the build and workings of a mind from an analysis of the linguistic and stylistic data it generates.
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Vries, Catharina Maria de. "In the tracks of a lexicographer : secondary documentation in Samuel Johnson's "Dictionary of the English language", 1755... /." Leiden : Utrecht : [s.n.] ; LEd, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37645520d.
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Stone, John 1967. "The common-law model for standard English in Johnson's dictionary." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23738.
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary has long been regarded as an epoch-making book, as great a scholarly achievement as the dictionaries of the Italian, French and Spanish academies, yet more enlightened in its pretensions and its politics. For Johnson does not claim to have fixed the language; his authority is not backed by the state; his decisions as to currency, propriety, meaning, and spelling are based on a jumble of general custom, literary precedent, and reason.I argue that the intellectual origins of Johnsonian standard English lie in Sir Edward Coke's early seventeenth-century restatement of common law doctrine and terms. Salient issues are common law's need to give an account of its antiquated, medieval vocabulary and its place in the constitutional conflict of the seventeenth century. I give an account of other possible influences on Johnson--Latin and English grammars, pedagogy, philosophical speculation on the nature of language, English prose styles, and proposals for an English academy or similar reform--but cannot find in any of them a sufficiently close conceptual parallel.
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fazlollahi, Afag S. "Elizabeth Carter's Legacy: Friendship and Ethics." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/69.
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"Elizabeth Carter's Legacy: Friendship and Ethics" examines the written evidence about the relationships between Elizabeth Carter and her father, Dr. Nocolas Carte; Catherine Talbot; Sir William Pulteney (Lord Bath); and Samuel Johnson to explain how intellectual and personal relationships may become the principal ethical sdource of human happiness. Based on their own set of moral values, such as intellectual and individual liberty and equality, the relationships between Carter and her friends challenged eighteenth-century traditional norms of human relationships.
The primary source of this study, Carter's poetry and prose, including her letters, present the poet's experience of intellectual and individual friendship, reflecting Aristotle's ethics, specifically his moral teaching that views friendship as a human good contributing to human happiness--to the chief human good. Carter's poems devoted to her friends, such as Dr. Carter, Talbot, Montagu, Lord Bath, as well as her "A Dialogue" between Body and Mind, demonstrate her ethical legacy, her specific moral principles that elevated human relationships and human life. Carter's discussion of human relationships introduces the moral necessity of ethics in human life.
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Carney, Thomas E. "A religious conflict in education the King's College controversy as a historical precedent to separation of church and state, 1752-1756 /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2207.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2001.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 237, 5 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-237).
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Weakley, Anne. "Conscious of Her Own Power: Hester Piozzi's Character Creation in Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson LL.D., During the Last Twenty Years of His Life." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/477.
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This project highlights aspects of Hester Piozzi’s approach to biography in Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson LL. D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life in order to analyze her use of accumulated cultural and social capital. I highlight similarities between Anecdotes and Samuel Johnson’s model for biography given in Rambler #60 and show how Piozzi adheres to his advice as she characterizes Johnson as a pious genius, intolerantly opinionated, and self-indulgent, yet unwilling to accept those qualities in others. I analyze how her editorial choices characterize her as a reliable source of information and a blameless victim of Johnson’s need for attention. This study proves Anecdotes and the corresponding entries in Thraliana are important because her deliberate revisioning of her history speaks to her ability to manipulate social expectations in order to revive her literary career and actively contribute to eighteenth-century British economy, culture, and society.
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Wedge, Lucius G. "Andrew Johnson and the Ministers of Nashville: A Study in the Relationship Between War, Politics, and Morality." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1374506911.
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Castro, Diego de. "A reavaliação da doutrina das unidades no Preface to Shakespeare (1765) : o prenúncio da ruptura com o Ancien Régime." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2016. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/8731.
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The objective of this dissertation is demonstrate by means of a dialectical reading of Preface to Shakespeare (1765) by Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), that the reassessment of the doctrine of the units (action, time and place) no solely unveil the breaking of the English literary criticism with the classical aesthetic but the sign of a deep breaking of the English capitalist society from the eighteenth century with Ancien Régime. The issue (the reassessment of the doctrine of the units) consists in the defense that Johnson does in favor of Shakespeare's plays against the censures of other neoclassical critics, these influenced by French classicism. The defense that English critic undertook in favor of the English poet‘s dramas against the reproaches of neoclassical critics anticipated the rupture of the English criticism with the classical aesthetic. The proposal is treating of the literary and philosophical aspects involved in the chief theme, at last to amplify the horizon of reading through of the notions of structure of feeling by Raymond Williams (1977) and political unconscious by Jameson (1992).
O objetivo desta dissertação é demonstrar, por meio de uma leitura dialética do Preface to Shakespeare (1765) de Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), que a reavaliação das doutrinas das unidades (ação, tempo e lugar) não revela somente a ruptura da crítica literária inglesa com a estética clássica, mas o prenúncio de uma ruptura profunda da sociedade capitalista inglesa do século XVIII com o Ancien Régime. A seguinte questão (a reavaliação da doutrina das unidades) consiste na defesa que Johnson faz a favor das peças de Shakespeare, contra as censuras de outros críticos neoclássicos, estes influenciados pelo Classicismo francês. A defesa que Johnson empreende a favor dos dramas do poeta inglês, contra a acusação dos críticos neoclássicos, antecipa a ruptura da crítica inglesa com a estética clássica. A proposta é tratar dos aspectos literários e filosóficos envolvidos no tema principal, e por fim, ampliar o horizonte de leitura, através dos conceitos de structure of feeling de Raymond Williams (1977) e inconsciente político de Jameson (1992).
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Quayson, Laud Ato. "Tradition(s) and the individual talent : the development of a Nigerian tradition of writing (with special reference to the works of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261547.
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Johnston, F. "Samuel Johnson's diminutive histories." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605670.
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"The greater part of readers [...] will wonder that on mere trifles so much labour is expended, with such importance of debate, and such solemnity of diction. To these I answer with confidence, that they are judging of an art which they do not understand; yet cannot much reproach them with their ignorance, nor promise that they would become in general, by learning criticism, more useful, happier or wiser" (Yale, VII, 108-9). There is an ethics of attention deep in the conduct of this extract, hostile to mockery of trifles but somewhat ashamed of elevating minutiae. It is typically honest about the dubious value of heeding the little. Chapter 1 examines Johnson's double attitude to minutiae, and argues that the border category of diminutives allows him to challenge assumptions about the proper domain of literature. By rehearsing a conflict between great and little, Johnson calibrated the opposing claims of pagan and Christian values. Ancient criticism stated that each subject merited a corresponding style: little matters calls for the low, lofty matters for the high. Gospel writers, however, repeatedly stress Christ's Incarnation in a person of humble station as a positive descent to the humanly little. There is, on Christian terms, no definitively low subject. Nor should everyday occurrences, if they assume the significance of epoch-making events, be expressed in a correspondingly base manner. A double attachment to pagan and Christian tradition accounts for Johnson's simultaneous contempt and regard for trifles. Chapter 2 examines his paternal relation to a sub-genre of nonhuman adventures. These stories are referred to as 'little lives', a phrase taken from Johnson's description of his biographies.
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Lake, Meredith Elayne. "'Such Spiritual Acres': Protestantism, the land and the colonisation of Australia 1788 - 1850." University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3983.
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Doctor of PhilosophyThis thesis examines the transmission of Protestantism to Australia by the early British colonists and its consequences for their engagement with the land between 1788 and 1850. It explores the ways in which colonists gave religious meaning to their surrounds, particularly their use of exile and exodus narratives to describe journeying to the colony and their sense of their destination as a site of banishment, a wilderness or a Promised Land. The potency of these scriptural images for colonising Europeans has been recognised in North America and elsewhere: this study establishes and details their significance in early colonial Australia. This thesis also considers the ways in which colonists’ Protestant values mediated their engagement with their surrounds and informed their behaviour towards the land and its indigenous inhabitants. It demonstrates that leading Protestants asserted and acted upon their particular values for industry, order, mission and biblicism in ways that contributed to the transformation of Aboriginal land. From the physical changes wrought by industrious agricultural labour through to the spiritual transformations achieved by rites of consecration, their specifically Protestant values enabled Britons to inhabit the land on familiar material and cultural terms. The structural basis for this study is provided by thematic biographies of five prominent colonial Protestants: Richard Johnson, Samuel Marsden, William Grant Broughton, John Wollaston and John Dunmore Lang. The private and public writings of these men are examined in light of the wider literature on religion and colonialism and environmental history. By delineating the significance of Protestantism to individual colonists’ responses to the land, this thesis confirms the trend of much recent British and Australian historiography towards a more religious understanding of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Its overarching argument is that Protestantism helped lay the foundation for colonial society by encouraging the transformation of the environment according to the colonists’ values and needs, and by providing ideological support for the British use and occupation of the territory. Prominent Protestants applied their religious ideas to Australia in ways that tended to assist, legitimate or even necessitate the colonisation of the land.
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Moore, Lindsay Emory. "The Laureates’ Lens: Exposing the Development of Literary History and Literary Criticism From Beneath the Dunce Cap." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc822784/.
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In this project, I examine the impact of early literary criticism, early literary history, and the history of knowledge on the perception of the laureateship as it was formulated at specific moments in the eighteenth century. Instead of accepting the assessments of Pope and Johnson, I reconstruct the contemporary impact of laureate writings and the writing that fashioned the view of the laureates we have inherited. I use an array of primary documents (from letters and journal entries to poems and non-fiction prose) to analyze the way the laureateship as a literary identity was constructed in several key moments: the debate over hack literature in the pamphlet wars surrounding Elkanah Settle’s The Empress of Morocco (1673), the defense of Colley Cibber and his subsequent attempt to use his expertise of theater in An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740), the consolidation of hack literature and state-sponsored poetry with the crowning of Colley Cibber as the King of the Dunces in Pope’s The Dunciad in Four Books (1742), the fashioning of Thomas Gray and William Mason as laureate rejecters in Mason’s Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Whitehead (1788), Southey’s progressive work to abolish laureate task writing in his laureate odes 1813-1821, and, finally, in Wordsworth’s refusal to produce any laureate task writing during his tenure, 1843-1850. In each case, I explain how the construction of this office was central to the consolidation of literary history and to forging authorial identity in the same period. This differs from the conventional treatment of the laureates because I expose the history of the versions of literary history that have to date structured how scholars understand the laureate, and by doing so, reveal how the laureateship was used to create, legitimate and disseminate the model of literary history we still use today.
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Hughes, Kimberley Jean. "Streatham revisited, the social and literary context of Samuel Johnson's The fountains a fairy tale." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ65492.pdf.
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Wright, Alexander Robert. "William Cave (1637-1713) and the fortunes of Historia Literaria in England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278574.
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This thesis is the first full-length study of the English clergyman and historian William Cave (1637-1713). As one of a number of Restoration divines invested in exploring the lives and writings of the early Christians, Cave has nonetheless won only meagre interest from early-modernists in the past decade. Among his contemporaries and well into the nineteenth century Cave’s vernacular biographies of the Apostles and Church Fathers were widely read, but it was with the two volumes of his Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria (1688 and 1698), his life’s work, that he made his most important and lasting contribution to scholarship. The first aim of the thesis is therefore to build on a recent quickening of research into the innovative early-modern genre of historia literaria by exploring how, why, and with what help, in the context of late seventeenth-century European intellectual culture, Cave decided to write a work of literary history. To do so it makes extensive use of the handwritten drafts, annotations, notebooks, and letters that he left behind, giving a comprehensive account of his reading and scholarly practices from his student-days in 1650s Cambridge and then as a young clergyman in the 1660s to his final, unsuccessful attempts to publish a revised edition of his book at the end of his life. Cave’s motives, it finds, were multiple, complex, and sometimes conflicting: they developed in response to the immediate practical concerns of the post-Restoration Church of England even as they reflected some of the deeper-lying tensions of late humanist scholarship. The second reason for writing a thesis about Cave is that it makes it possible to reconsider an influential historiographical narrative about the origins of the ‘modern’ disciplinary category of literature. Since the 1970s the consensus among scholars has been that the nineteenth-century definition of literature as imaginative fictions in verse and prose – in other words literature as it is now taught in schools and universities – more or less completely replaced the early-modern notion of literature, literae, as learned books of all kinds. This view is challenged in the final section of this thesis, which traces the influence of Cave’s work on some of the canonical authors of the English literary tradition, including Johnson and Coleridge. Coleridge’s example, in particular, helps us to see why Cave and scholars like him were excluded lastingly from genealogies of English studies in the twentieth century, despite having given the discipline many of its characteristic concerns and aversions.
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Vives, Rofes Gema. "Polémicas Teatrales del siglo XVIII en España y en Inglaterra." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/666498.
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En la primera parte de la tesis se establece una comparación entre dos obras metateatrales de finales del siglo XVIII, La comedia nueva de Leandro Fernández de Moratín y The Critic de Sheridan. Estas obras son examinadas en el contexto de las polémicas teatrales que se produjeron durante el siglo en España y en Inglaterra. La segunda parte de la tesis explora las razones de una discrepancia. A pesar de ser muchas las similitudes entre el panorama teatral dieciochesco en los dos países, en España la solución a un panorama que los neoclásicos consideran deplorable se plantea en términos de una “reforma” y esta es auspiciada por el gobierno; en Inglaterra no sucede nada parecido. En esta parte del trabajo se parte de algunas obras de crítica capitales y, al hilo de los temas que tratan sus autores, se examina el distinto valor, peso o significado de algunos “telones de fondo” de la crítica inglesa y española de la época: el patriotismo, la religión, la política… De esta manera se llega a las diferencias en las circunstancias históricas de ambos países que contribuyen a explicar la ausencia de una “guerra teatral” en Inglaterra. Así, por ejemplo, un factor que modifica sustancialmente la simetría del paralelismo que en principio pudiera establecerse entre las polémicas teatrales que se dan en ambos países es el religioso. Debido al papel que los puritanos habían desempeñado en la historia de Inglaterra, los ataques virulentos al mundo teatral son allí ligeramente sospechosos, y ni el gobierno whig ni la monarquía de Hanover se plantearon intervenir activamente en una reforma teatral. Pero los puritanos y las clases medias, de gustos más remilgados que el público de la Restauración, tuvieron la fuerza suficiente como para influir en el curso del teatro creando un clima del que nació la comedia sentimental.In the first part of the thesis a comparison is drawn between two metatheatrical plays from the end of the 18th century, Leandro Fernández de Moratín’s La comedia nueva and Sheridan’s The Critic. These plays are examined in the context of the theatrical controversies that took place during the 18th century in England and Spain. In the second part of the thesis the reasons for a disparity are explored; for even though the theatrical situation in both countries is very similar, in Spain the answer to a theatrical scene considered deplorable by the neoclassicists is presented in terms of a “reform”, which is moreover backed by the government. Nothing of the kind happens in England. In this part of the thesis, and starting from some capital critical works and the topics discussed by their authors, I look into the different value, weight or meaning of a few “backdrops” in Spanish and English criticism of the time: patriotism, religion, politics… This brings us to the differences in the historical circumstances of both countries that help to explain the absence of a “theatrical war” in England. Religion, for instance, is one factor that substantially modifies the symmetry of the parallelism that could initially be established between the theatrical polemics that take place in both countries. Owing to the role the Puritans had played in the history of England, virulent attacks on the theatre are slightly suspect there, and neither the Whig administration nor the Hanoverian monarchy considered actively intervening in a theatrical reform. But the Puritans and the middle classes, more prudish in their tastes than the audience of the Restoration, had enough weight to affect the course of the drama by creating an atmosphere out of which the sentimental comedy was born.
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Poetzsch, Markus Joachim. "Theoretical and practical biography, principles, problems, processes and the inscrutable subject in Samuel Johnson's Lives of the poets." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ59738.pdf.
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Chiou, Tim Yi-Chang. "Romantic posthumous life writing : inter-stitching genres and forms of mourning and commemoration." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a316a0f-7365-4555-8bc8-9e09b47ec674.
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Contemporary scholarship has seen increasing interest in the study of elegy. The present work attempts to elevate and expand discussions of death and survival beyond the ambit of elegy to a more genre-inclusive and ethically sensitive survey of Romantic posthumous life writings. Combining an ethic of remembrance founded on mutual fulfilment and reciprocal care with the Romantic tendency to hybridise different genres of mourning and commemoration, the study re- conceives 'posthumous life' as the 'inexhaustible' product of endless collaboration between the dead, the dying and the living. This thesis looks to the philosophical meditations of Francis Bacon, John Locke and Emmanuel Levinas for an ethical framework of human protection, fulfilment and preservation. In an effort to locate the origin of posthumous life writing, the first chapter examines the philosophical context in which different genres and media of commemoration emerged in the eighteenth century. Accordingly, it will commence with a survey of Enlightenment attitudes toward posthumous sympathy and the threat of death. The second part of the chapter turns to the tangled histories of epitaph, biography, portraiture, sepulchre and elegy in the writings of Samuel Johnson, Henry Kett, Vicesimus Knox, William Godwin and William Wordsworth. The Romantic culture of mourning and commemoration inherits the intellectual and generic legacies of the Enlightenment. Hence, Chapter Two will try to uncover the complex generic and formal crossovers between epitaph, extempore, effusion, elegy and biography in Wordsworth's 'Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg' (1835-7) and his 'Epitaph' (1835-7) for Charles Lamb. However, the chapter also recognises the ethical repercussions of Wordsworth's inadequate, even mortifying, treatment of a fellow woman writer in his otherwise successful expression of ethical remembrance. To address the problem of gender in Romantic memorialisation, Chapter Three will take a close look at Letitia Elizabeth Landon' s reply to Wordsworth's incompetent defence of Felicia Hemans. Mediating the ambitions and anxieties of her subject, as well as her public image and private pain, 'Felicia Hemans' (1838) is an audacious composite of autograph, epitaph, elegy, corrective biography and visual portraiture. The two closing chapters respond to Thomas Carlyle's outspoken confidence in 'Portraits and Letters' as indispensable aids to biographies. Chapter Four identifies a tentative connection between the aesthetic of visual portraiture and the ethic of life writing. To demonstrate the convergence of both artistic and humane principles, this cross-media analysis will first evaluate Sir Joshua Reynolds's memoirs of his deceased friends. Then, it will compare Wordsworth's and Hemans's verse reflections on the commemorative power and limitation of iconography. The last chapter assesses the role of private correspondence in the continuation of familiar relation and reciprocal support. Landon's dramatic enactment of a 'feminine Robinson Crusoe' in her letters from Africa urges the unbroken offering of service and remembrance to a fallen friend through posthumous correspondence. The concluding section will consider the ethical implications for the belated memorials and services furnished by friends and colleagues in the wake of her death.
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Wikhede, Simone. "Ta sig i kragen : En kvalitativ studie om relationen mellan samarbetsprincipen, metaforer och liknelser i samtal." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för svenska språket (SV), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-33527.
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Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka hur metaforer och liknelser inverkar på ömsesidig förståelse i samtal. Som teoretisk utgångspunkt har jag använt Grices (1989) teori om konversationella implikaturer samt Lakoff & Johnsons (1980) teori om konceptuella metaforer, Stålhammars (1997) teori om förståelse av metaforer och Levinsons (1983) kritik av Grice för dennes påstående om metaforer som brott mot samarbetsprincipen vid konversation. Min analysmetod är samtalsanalys, Conversation Analysis. Materialet för uppsatsen består av transkriberade utdrag ur ett radioprogram som bjuder in lyssnare att ringa in och tala om ett förutbestämt ämne med programledaren och i det här fallet även en bisittare. Resultatet visar att det finns fall där metaforer går obemärkt förbi och inte skapar problem för den ömsesidiga förståelsen i samtalet, men det finns även exempel på att bruk av metaforer och liknelser försvårar förståelsen.
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Sandlin, Peter Andrew. "The soteriology of Samuel Johnson." Diss., 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17661.
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Pearce, Christopher Patrick Hedrick Elizabeth Kimball Sara E. "Terms of corruption Samuel Johnson's Dictionary in its contexts /." 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3143445.
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Kinkade, John Steven. "Samuel Johnson's Rambler and the invention of self-help literature." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2252.
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Pearce, Christopher Patrick. "Terms of corruption: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary in its contexts." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1289.
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Fazlollahi, Afag S. "Elizabeth Carter's Legacy: Friendship and Ethics." 2011. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_diss/69.
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"Elizabeth Carter's Legacy: Friendship and Ethics" examines the written evidence about the relationships between Elizabeth Carter and her father, Dr. Nocolas Carte; Catherine Talbot; Sir William Pulteney (Lord Bath); and Samuel Johnson to explain how intellectual and personal relationships may become the principal ethical sdource of human happiness. Based on their own set of moral values, such as intellectual and individual liberty and equality, the relationships between Carter and her friends challenged eighteenth-century traditional norms of human relationships.
The primary source of this study, Carter's poetry and prose, including her letters, present the poet's experience of intellectual and individual friendship, reflecting Aristotle's ethics, specifically his moral teaching that views friendship as a human good contributing to human happiness--to the chief human good. Carter's poems devoted to her friends, such as Dr. Carter, Talbot, Montagu, Lord Bath, as well as her "A Dialogue" between Body and Mind, demonstrate her ethical legacy, her specific moral principles that elevated human relationships and human life. Carter's discussion of human relationships introduces the moral necessity of ethics in human life.
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Olabimtan, Kehinde Olumuyiwa. "Samuel Johnson of Yoruba Land, 1846-1901 : religio-cultural identity in a changing environment and the making of a mission agent." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1051.
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This thesis explores the cultural and the religious formation of Rev. Samuel Johnson and his response to the changing environment of West Africa, particularly Yorubaland, in the nineteenth century. Divided into two parts, the first part looks at the biography of the man, paying attention to his formative environment and his response to it as a Yoruba evangelist in the service of the Church Missionary Society (CMS). The second part explores the issues that were involved in his response to his changing milieu of ministry—encounter with Yoruba religions and Islam, the search for peace in the Yoruba country, and historical consciousness. The first chapter, which is introductory, sets the pace for the research by looking at the academic use to which the missionary archives have been put, from the 1950s, to unravel Africa’s past. While the approaches of historians and anthropologists have been shaped by broad themes, this chapter makes a case for the study of the past from biographical perspectives. Following the lead that has been provided in recent years on the African evangelists by Adrian Hastings, Bengt Sundkler and Christopher Steed, and John Peel the chapter presents Samuel Johnson, an agent of the CMS in the nineteenth century Yoruba country, as a model worthy of the study of indigenous response to the rapid change that swept through West Africa in the second half of the nineteenth century. Chapter two explores the antecedents to the emergence of Johnson in Sierra Leone and appreciates the nexus of his family history and that of the Yoruba nation in the century of rapid change. The implosion of the Oyo Empire in the second decade of the nineteenth century as a result of internal dissension opened the country to unrestrained violence that boosted the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Sierra Leone offering a safe haven for some of the rescued victims of the trade, “Erugunjimi” Henry Johnson, was rehabilitated under the benevolence of the CMS. At Hastings, where the Basel trained missionary Ulrich Graf exercised a dominant influence, Henry Johnson raised his family until he returned with them to the Yoruba country in 1858 as a scripture reader. The Colony of Sierra Leone, however, was in contrast to the culturally monolithic Yoruba country. Cosmopolitan, with Christianity having the monopoly of legitimacy, the colony gave Samuel and his siblings their early religious and cultural orientations.Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2009.
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Hardy, Molly O'Hagan 1977. "Imperial authorship and eighteenth-century transatlantic literary production." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-3808.
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My project examines eighteenth-century struggles over literary property and its part in England’s control over its colonies. Debates over literary property set in the context of the larger colonial struggles over ownership help us to understand the relationship between authority and authorship: in the colonies, booksellers and authors worked together to make authority and authorship local, to separate it from England, English constructions of authorship, and the book trade system in London. The figures I analyze––Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, and Mathew Carey––brought new models of print capitalism to the colonies, dispersing an understanding of copyright that was an assertion of local affiliations. In the case of Ireland, these affiliations manifested themselves in a nationalist movement, and in Scotland, in an assertion of equality under the union of Great Britain. In the newly formed United States, the affiliations were among those still struggling for legal recognition after the American Revolution. Using book history in the service of literary analysis, my study is the first devoted to reading the way that liminal figures such as George Faulkner, Alexander Donaldson, Absalom Jones, and Richard Allen have influenced the work of these largely canonical authors, and thus local politics, through their literary production practices.text
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Kosykh, T. A., and Т. А. Косых. "«Человек письма» эпохи Просвещения: Сэмюэл Джонсон (1709-1784) : магистерская диссертация." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/28101.
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The master’s thesis is an attempt of reconstruction of the intellectual biography of famous English writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson in the context of British history of the XVIII century. The author investigate a life path of the intellectual through a prism of such institute of sociability as family, church, school, institute and English club, based on the complex of Johnson’s writings and works of his contemporaries. The author emphasizes a problem of the formation of Johnson as professional writer, because the history of his literary successes was closely linked with main sociocultural processes, occurring in Britain of the XVIII century. Moreover in thesis author analyze a Johnson’s political views, using lexicographer’s political pamphlets and papers.Магистерская диссертация представляет собой попытку реконструкции интеллектуальной биографии известного английского литератора и лексикографа Сэмюэла Джонсона в контексте британской истории XVIII века. Опираясь на комплекс сочинений С. Джонсона и его современников, автор исследует жизненный путь интеллектуала сквозь призму таких институтов социабельности как семья, церковь, школа, университет и английский клуб. Особое внимание автор уделяет проблеме становления Джонсона как профессионального писателя, поскольку история его литературных успехов была неразрывно связана с основными социокультурными процессами, происходившими в Британии XVIII века. Кроме того, в диссертации автор анализирует политические воззрения литератора, используя политические памфлеты и статьи С. Джонсона.
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"Structural Validity of the Woodcock Johnson III Cognitive in a Referred Sample." Doctoral diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14813.
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abstract: The structural validity of the WJ-III Cognitive was investigated using the GIA-Extended Battery test scores of 529, six-to-thirteen-year-old students referred for a psychoeducational evaluation. The results of an exploratory factor analysis revealed 11 of the 14 tests loaded on their expected factors. For the factors Gc, Gf, Gs, and Gv, both tests associated with the factor loaded highly; for Gsm, Glr, and Ga, only one test associated with each factor loaded highly. Obtained congruence coefficients supported the similarity between the factors Gs, Gf, Gc, Glr, and Gv for the current referred sample and the normative factor structure. Gsm and Ga were not found to be similar. The WJ-III Cognitive structure established in the normative sample was not fully replicated in this referred sample. The Schmid-Leiman orthogonalization procedure identified a higher-order factor structure with a second-order, general ability factor, g, which accounted for approximately 38.4% of common variance and 23.1% of total variance among the seven, first-order factors. However, g accounted for more variance in both associated tests for only the orthogonal first-order factor Gf. In contrast, the Gc and Gs factors accounted for more variance than the general factor for both of their respective tests. The Gsm, Glr, Ga, and Gv factors accounted for more variance than g for one of the two tests associated with each factor. The outcome indicates Gc, Gf, Gs, and Gv were supported and thus are likely factors that can be utilized in assessment while Gsm, Glr, and Gr were not supported by this study. Additionally, results indicate that interpretation of the WJ-III scores should not ignore the global ability factor.Dissertation/Thesis
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Wildermuth, Mark Edwin. "Energy and elegance the style and context of Samuel Johnson's moral prose /." 1991. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/24595123.html.
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