Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-OCT-03

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Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After. Ed. by PHILIP SMALLWOOD. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 179 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5494-5.

In the detail from James Barry's The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture (1783) reproduced somewhat dimly in the text of this book and rather more brightly on the dust jacket, Johnson peers anxiously from the background, shaded by two imposing aristocratic women. It is, as Jaclyn Geller points out (p. 93), an unusual perspective on Johnson, and this book seeks to restore...

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