| Reconstructing the Canon: Samuel Johnson and the Universal Visiter Contributor(s): McCormick, E. Allen (Editor), Ferrero, Bonnie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820419869 ISBN-13: 9780820419862 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 828.609 |
| LCCN: 92028960 |
| Series: Studies in European Thought, |
| Physical Information: 146 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: That Samuel Johnson contributed several essays to the "Universal Visiter," an eighteenth-century periodical edited by Christopher Smart and Richard Rolt, has long been known. What is not known is just what pieces he did write. Because the double asterisk was thought to have been Johnson's signature, all six "Visiter" essays so marked have, at various times, been attributed to him. Although only three of the "Visiter" essays are generally accepted as Johnson's, there has been no conclusive evidence that Johnson was not the author of the three conjectural pieces. This study presents evidence that Richard Rolt, not Samuel Johnson, wrote two of the three disputed pieces. |