Bøker av Philip Smallwood

"Philip Smallwood celebrates the emotional power and enduring wisdom of Samuel Johnson's literary criticism, showing how the abyss of the heart informs its powerful life"--

Smallwood (English, U. of Central England) argues that despite concerned efforts otherwise of late, literary criticism by Samuel Johnson (1709-84) is read by historians of criticism as a body of theory that is now largely unappreciated as criticism and has lost its persuasive power. The reason it ca