Samuel Johnson and moral discipline.
This book provides a new reading of Johnson that emphasizes his moral discourse. The ideas in Johnson’s essays are contrasted, as moral writings, with the moral ideas Johnson discussed in his sermons. This is one of the first books on Johnson to explore the essayist’s focus on moral thinking as cent...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Evanston, Ill.]
Northwestern University Press,
1967.
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| Summary: | This book provides a new reading of Johnson that emphasizes his moral discourse. The ideas in Johnson’s essays are contrasted, as moral writings, with the moral ideas Johnson discussed in his sermons. This is one of the first books on Johnson to explore the essayist’s focus on moral thinking as central to his writing. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 219 pages 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |