Samuel JohnsonHarvard University Press, 1998 - 372 oldal He was a servant to the public, a writer for hire. He was a hero, an author adding to the glory of his nation. But can a writer be both hack and hero? The career of Samuel Johnson, recounted here by Lawrence Lipking, proves that the two can be one. And it further proves, in its enduring interest for readers, that academic fashions today may be a bit hasty in pronouncing the "death of the author." |
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... booksellers who commissioned and funded it to the copyists who wrote out the slips to the pressmen who printed the books - not to mention the earlier scholars who prepared Johnson's way or the writers who illustrated how words had been ...
... booksellers com- peted for their works . Sir John Hawkins , in his biography of Johnson , distinguishes between ordinary " authors by profession , " the schol- ars and hacks who " were , in fact , pensioners of the booksellers , ” and ...
... booksellers ' war . Early in 1777 John Bell , an enterprising young publisher , began to advertise his forthcoming series of The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill , in- tended " to furnish the public with the ...
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