Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking 1709-1791

ISBN: 9780199251827 出版年：2007 页码：284 Johnston, Freya Oxford University Press

Johnson's centrality in the late eighteenth century makes his fretfulness about the social and aesthetic boundaries of writing especially fertile and influential. This book suggests that literary taxonomies, inventories, and canons simultaneously construct and reject a hierarchy of ethical as well as aesthetic values, and examines how figures of cultural authority conceive of their relationships to and with the margins of writing and of society.