Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 16: Rasselas and Other Tales: The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, cartea 16
Autor Samuel Johnson Editat de Gwin J. Kolben Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 mar 1991
This volume brings together three of Johnson’s longest fictional pieces, showing the unusual similarities in some of their main themes and emphases. Rasselas, a philosophical tale that embodies the full range of Johnson’s thinking on moral, psychological, and literary matters, has been described as central to an understanding of Johnson and his age. “The Vision of Theodore,” a moral allegory, and “The Fountains,” a fairy tale, demonstrate the variety of Johnson’s narrative skills.
The three works are introduced and annotated by Gwin J. Kolb, an authority on Rasselas. The introductions set the scene surrounding the creation and printing of the texts and cover a wider range of topics than has been addressed in previous editions. And the historical notes, which concentrate on clarifying the meaning of numerous words, comprise the largest body of glosses that has ever accompanied the three pieces. The textual notes provide a record of Johnson’s revisions of Rasselas and of Mrs. Piozzi’s manuscript transcription of “The Fountains.” This book will be the standard edition of these notable works.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300044515
ISBN-10: 0300044518
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 137 x 222 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Seria The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson
ISBN-10: 0300044518
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 137 x 222 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Seria The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson
Recenzii
“Splendid. . . . The new edition of Rasselas is the fullest to date, long-awaited and worth waiting for, with lucid and informative introductions to the three works it brings together, and a valuable commentary.”—Claude Rawson, London Review of Books
“We can rejoice in a perfectly edited Rasselas. . . . Kolb points to significant Johnsonian parallels just sufficiently to inform or remind readers of necessary points for comparison. . . . By inviting attention to previous works on related issues, the notes provide too, with wonderful economy, nice exercises in that intellectual history that Johnson so much encouraged and was perhaps the first to name. . . . [Kolb’s] index is remarkably complete [and] will be of maximum use to all Johnsonians, as will the volumes as a whole.”—Paul Alkon, Johnsonian News Letter
“There is no question in my mind that all scholars and critics in the field will recognize this edition as the most authoritative and reliable one and an invaluable repository of Johnson scholarship.”—Edward Tomarken, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography
“This is the latest volume in the Yale edition, and like the volumes already published, it is handsomely made and usefully introduced and annotated.”—JAS, English Language Notes
“Without doubt, Kolb’s introduction is the best anyone has ever written for an edition of Rasselas. There have been many editions, so his achievement is substantial. . . . I suspect that volume XVI may represent the summit of scholarly annotation of Johnson in this century.”—Paul J. Korshin, Eighteenth-Century Fiction
“We can rejoice in a perfectly edited Rasselas. . . . Kolb points to significant Johnsonian parallels just sufficiently to inform or remind readers of necessary points for comparison. . . . By inviting attention to previous works on related issues, the notes provide too, with wonderful economy, nice exercises in that intellectual history that Johnson so much encouraged and was perhaps the first to name. . . . [Kolb’s] index is remarkably complete [and] will be of maximum use to all Johnsonians, as will the volumes as a whole.”—Paul Alkon, Johnsonian News Letter
“There is no question in my mind that all scholars and critics in the field will recognize this edition as the most authoritative and reliable one and an invaluable repository of Johnson scholarship.”—Edward Tomarken, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography
“This is the latest volume in the Yale edition, and like the volumes already published, it is handsomely made and usefully introduced and annotated.”—JAS, English Language Notes
“Without doubt, Kolb’s introduction is the best anyone has ever written for an edition of Rasselas. There have been many editions, so his achievement is substantial. . . . I suspect that volume XVI may represent the summit of scholarly annotation of Johnson in this century.”—Paul J. Korshin, Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Notă biografică
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) was a poet, essayist, biographer, and editor. Gwin J. Kolb is Chester D. Tripp Professor Emeritus in Humanities, University of Chicago.
Descriere
A new standard edition for three works by Samuel Johnson: Rasselas, “The Vision of Theodore,” and “The Fountains”