Johnson, Rasselas, and the Choice of Criticism

By:

Tomarken, Edward, 1938- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813161778

Subject(s):

Criticism

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PR3534 .J646 1989

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Subject: Although Rasselas has received more critical commentary than almost any other work by Samuel Johnson, Edward Tomarken's book is the first full length study to focus on his tale of the Prince of Abyssinia. This anomaly arises, as Tomarken shows, because Rasselas has remained resistant to the customary critical approaches of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, consistently eliciting new kinds of insights and raising new sorts of problems. Tomarken' s contribution is a new methodology to explain this phenomenon. He sees Johnson's early writings, London and Irene, as instances o.

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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PR3534 .66 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn900344838

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations Used; Introduction; Part I. Rasselas and the Critics; 1. A History of Rasselas Criticism, 1759-1986; 2. Prison-Paradise: Preparation for Entry into the World; 3. The History of Imlac: Methodological Implications; 4. A Journey to Understanding; Part II. A Literary-Critical Journey; 5. Trial and Error: Irene and London; 6. Form and Reference: The Vanity of Human Wishes; 7. Historical Understanding: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland; 8. The Limitations of Perspectivism: The Lives of Rasselas and Pope.

9. Theoretical ConclusionNotes; A Chronological Checklist of Rasselas Criticism, 1759-1986; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W.

Although Rasselas has received more critical commentary than almost any other work by Samuel Johnson, Edward Tomarken's book is the first full length study to focus on his tale of the Prince of Abyssinia. This anomaly arises, as Tomarken shows, because Rasselas has remained resistant to the customary critical approaches of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, consistently eliciting new kinds of insights and raising new sorts of problems. Tomarken' s contribution is a new methodology to explain this phenomenon. He sees Johnson's early writings, London and Irene, as instances o.

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