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...John Wiltshire A Life of James Boswell . By Peter Martin . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 2000 . Pp. 613. 0-300-08489-7. Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson . By David P. Venturo . Newark : University Press of Delaware / London...

... Response to Kent Puckett, "Celia Johnson's Face" S ue Z emka R eading B rie f E ncounter next to Lukács's Theory o f the Novel, Kent Puckett coaxes out o f David Lean's perfect gem o f a film a statem ent on the representational predicam ent o f character in war-era novels and n o ve listic film .T h e...

...Kent Puckett Copyright © 2011 Regents of the University of Colorado 2011 C elia J o h n s o n s Face Kent Puckett 4 f i g u r e 1 : Celia Johnson's face. Brief Encounter and The Theory o f the Novel It's hard to imagine Georg Lukács having much or at least much nice to say about...

...: Cambridge UP, 2004) 183-86. 14 George W. Johnson, Memoirs o fJohn Seiden (London, 1835) 161-62. is David Berkowitz, John Seiden'sformative years : politics and society in early seventeenth-century England (Washington: Folger, 1988) 283. 16 Albert Edward Bullock, Some Sculptural Works o fNicholas Stone...

...Shelby Johnson Abstract Juliet Granville, the protagonist of Frances Burney’s novel The Wanderer (1814), enters the novel fleeing the French Revolution and disguised in blackface. This article argues that Juliet’s act of racial counterfeiting implicitly gestures toward the Haitian Revolution...

...Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Copyright © 2021 Regents of the University of Colorado 2021 Why acknowledge the non-event of black death?” asks Saidiya Hartman. 1 In light of protests incited by the murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis; Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County, Georgia; and Breonna...

...James D. Johnson Copyright © 2001 Regents of the University of Colorado 2001 40 English Language Notes D ryden s success as political critic and p o et in the Prologue to A m p h itry o n of course, belies his political and poetic argu­ m ent unless w hen you take away / T hat Rage...

...-supremacist violence that reveal the as-yet-incomplete nature of those very events? This essay takes up these questions by considering three recent publications. Shelby Johnson’s 2020 article, “‘The Fate of St. Domingo Awaits You’: Robert Wedderburn’s Unfinished Revolution,” and Betsy Erkkila’s 2021 article...

... contemporary moment—this short reflection considers questions of method and historiography. The three items under consideration in this essay are Betsy Erkkila’s “Phillis Wheatley on the Streets of Revolutionary Boston and in the Atlantic World,” Shelby Johnson’s “‘The Fate of St. Domingo Awaits You’: Robert...

... black panhandlers perform ed public displays o f laughter, songs, and w h istlin g fo r sm all change on the streets o f N ew York after the Civil War. N ext, George W. Johnson m ade a livin g in the low erW est Side by perfo rm in g w h istlin g and la u g h in g songs at th e H udson River fe rry te...

... well established by 1781, before its supposed in­ vention by Samuel Johnson s Lives of the English Poets. In making a superbly erudite argument, Terry, a reader in eighteenth-century literature at the University of Sunderland, focuses on poetry, lives of poets, and literary criticism of poetry...

..., an d by all the Booksellers in Town and Country. 1775.12 To describe its contents, the main body of the work is the Accurate New Spelling and Pronouncing Dictionary with 14,536 entries on 342 pages.13 In comparison, the first edition of Samuel Johnson s Dictionary of the English Language (1755) has...

... on the Capitol with Ta-Nehisi Coates,” January 7, 2021), as well as two recent pieces on insurrectionary activity, “‘The Fate of St. Domingo Awaits You’: Robert Wedderburn’s Unfinished Revolution” ( The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation , Fall 2020), by Shelby Johnson, and “Provocation: Phillis...

... the January 6 rioters. These two articles, “‘The Fate of St. Domingo Awaits You’: Robert Wedderburn’s Unfinished Revolution,” by Shelby Johnson, and “Phillis Wheatley on the Streets of Revolutionary Boston and in the Atlantic World,” by Betsy Erkkila, bring to light similar ways that Wedderburn and Wheatley...

.... It is as if external nature communicates visually what the Vicar communicates verbally in the text of the discourse: that the human mind is constituted like the physical order of nature. Barbara Johnson observes that “a text ‘speaks.’ This is how texts in general are assumed to work: they ‘say’ something. Prosopopoeia...

...Stuart Sherman Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 NEWS AND NOVEL, P ulse and S praw l Stuart S herm an ¡me," wrote Samuel Johnson in the Preface to Shakespeare, "is, of all modes o f existence, most obsequious to imagination." He was w riting to free Shakespeare...

... akers and atlas a ffiliates as D. G riffing Jo h n ­ son and A lvin Jew ett Johnson, (respectively publishing as J.H Colton, D.G. Johnson and A. J. Johnson).16 Thus, it is im p o rta n t to bear in m ind the com pound nature of period maps, made by contract engraver's art, statisticians' geographical...

... the transcendent world and its temporal manifestations, and could identify with the oppressed.” 21 Over time thousands of American Indians have immersed themselves in biblical worldview, employing the Good Book for inspiration and guidance. In the latter half of the eighteenth century, Joseph Johnson...

... However, the distinguished position Schomburg held in Harlem was not always a pleasant experience. His knowledge of Negro history was w ell known and was regularly sought after by em inent intellectual figures such as James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, and Claude McKay. Unfortunately...

... relationship between literature, history, and society, and a host o f other issues. Alfred Lutz Middle Tennessee State University A Life ofJames Boswell. By Peter M artin. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. 613. 0-300-08489-7. Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of SamuelJohnson. By David P...