Dilomprizulike biography of martin johnson

The Philosophical Biographer shows how a shift in philosophical outlook in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-from an understanding of human knowledge rooted in deductive certainties to one resting on inductive probability-influenced the development of biographical narrative in general and in particular the way Johnson dealt with biographical evidence in his Lives of the Poets.

Dialectically undercutting the conclusions of previous biographers of Swift and Milton, Johnson fashions a new, somewhat acidic estimation of Swift and a portrait of Milton that engages contemporary questions of the probable and the marvelous.

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The Life of Pope , Johnson's greatest dialectical achievement, alternates between blame and praise, public and private realms, weaving tone, context, and analogy into great, contrasting patterns of inquiry and judgment. Establishing the centrality of a dialectical method in the Lives of the Poets , Martin Maner links the rise of biography as well as Johnson's interest in the form to the shift in epistemology brought about by empiricism.

The most rewarding study of the Lives of the Poets that I have seen to date. The illumination that is afforded by a stylistic analysis set in the context of the philosophical debates and preoccupations of the Enlightenment makes this a rewarding and scholarly work.

Chambers.

A significant contribution to our understanding of Johnson and also to our knowledge of how he helped shape biography. As an analysis of epistemology and genre, it suggests methods and ideas that could and should be applied more broadly to the study of biography in the eighteenth and other centuries. Convert currency. Add to basket. Condition: New.

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