János Barcsák, Márta Pellérdi

English literature 1660-1900

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Although Johnson was undoubtedly the most influential man of letters in his own age, which is why it is also often called the “Age of Johnson”, unlike his great predecessors, Dryden and Pope, the name-givers of the previous two periods, he was not the greatest poet of his time. Nor was he the greatest master of drama or of the rising genre of the novel. He tried his hand in all these literary genres and indeed created works of lasting value in each, but his greatest achievement is still probably to be found not so much in individual literary works as in the way he determined the literary life of his period as a moralist and as a literary critic. His moral and aesthetic views, expressed especially in periodical publications and later in his conversation with his friends in the Literary Club, established him as a constant and inevitable presence in the literary life of his time and made it possible for him to dominate that literary life as fully as Dryden and Pope dominated the literary scene of their own time.

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2018

ISBN: 978 963 454 261 2

Irodalom PPKE BTK jegyzetek

A history of the English literature is presented here, with a scope on the years 1660 to 1900. The book is written in three main parts; beginning with the Restoration Period of the 17th century, followed by the first, and second halves of the 18th century. Thus, a sequential development of literary genres is presented, with explorations of the key figures and texts which drove these. The book also synthesises the historical, cultural and sociological background which gave rise to this literature, and allows the reader to effectively contextualise these.

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