Download or read book SAMUEL JOHNSON AND THE POWERS OF FRIENDSHIP written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship written by A. D. Cousins and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to assess Johnson’s diverse insights into friendship—that is to say, his profound as well as widely ranging appreciation of it—over the course of his long literary career. It examines his engagements with ancient philosophies of friendship and with subsequent reformulations of or departures from that diverse inheritance. The volume explores and illuminates Johnson’s understanding of friendship in the private and public spheres—in particular, friendship’s therapeutic amelioration of personal experience and transformative impact upon civil life. Doing so, it considers both his portrayals of interaction with his friends and his more overtly fictional representations of friendship across the many genres in which he wrote. It presents at once an original re-assessment of Johnson’s writings and new interpretations of friendship as an element of civility in mid-eighteenth-century British culture.
Download or read book The Club written by Leo Damrosch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as “the Club.” In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the “odd couple” Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.
Download or read book Friendship a Study in Theological Ethics written by Gilbert Meilaender and published by Revisions. This book was released on 1981 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain relationships are of profound importance for the moral life. Gilbert C. Meilaender explores some of the tensions which Christian experience discovers in one such relationship, the bond of friendship. These tensions help to explain why friendship was a more important topic in the life and thought of the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome than it has unusually been within Christendom. The bond of friendship (philia) involves special preference; Christian love (agape) is thought to be like the love of the heavenly Father who makes his sun rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the just and the unjust. Philia requires that love be returned; agape is to be shown even the enemy, who does not love in return. Friendships sometimes fade away; Christians are enjoined to be faithful in love. These tensions have permeated our lives and helped to shape our world. We think politics a more important sphere than the private friendship bond. We seek fulfillment in and identify ourselves with our vocations -- by which we now mean, work for pay -- not our friendships. And in a world where politics and vocation are all-important, lasting friendships become more difficult to sustain. Friendship examines the tension between philia and agape and probes its significance for Christian thought and experience.
Download or read book The Great Fire in St John s Newfoundland July 8 1892 written by Moses Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Norton Book of Friendship written by Eudora Welty and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1991 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous literary friendships such as those between H.L. Mencken and James Joyce, Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev, and Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore are examined in this magnificent collection of stories, legends, poems, essays, letters, and memoirs that illuminate the breadth and depth of friendship in all its human complexity.
Download or read book What Makes a Friend written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Samuel Johnson LL D An essay on the life and genius of Samuel Johnson written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Samuel Johnson written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson written by Jack Lynch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No major author worked in more genres than Samuel Johnson--essays, poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, scholarly editing, lexicography, translation, sermons, journalism. His works are more extensive than those of any other canonical English writer, and no earlier writer's life was documented as thoroughly by contemporaries. Because it's so difficult to know him thoroughly, people have made do with surrogates and simplifications. But Johnson was much more complicated than the popular image of 'Dr. Johnson' suggests: socially conservative but also one of the most radical abolitionists of his age, a firm believer in social hierarchy but an outspoken supporter of women intellectuals, an uncompromising Christian moralist but also a penetrating critic of family structures. Labels fit him poorly. In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, an international team of thirty-six scholars offers the most comprehensive examination ever attempted of one of the most complex figures in English literature. The book's first section examines Johnson's life and the texts of his works; the second, organized by genre, explores all his major works and many of his minor ones; the third, organized by topic, covers the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, as a thinker, and as a moralist.
Download or read book The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Samuel Johnson LL D written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Samuel Johnson His Friends and Enemies written by Peter Quennell and published by London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson. This book was released on 1973 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An essay on the life and genius of Samuel Johnson written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Friendship Verse written by Joseph Morris and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Little Book of Friendship written by Joseph Morris and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Makes a Friend written by Volney Streamer and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
