{"product_id":"the-life-of-samuel-johnson-john-hawkins-9780820329956","title":"The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's \u003ci\u003eLife of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.\u003c\/i\u003e, a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years. Published in 1787, some four years before James Boswell's biography of Johnson, Hawkins's \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e complements, clarifies, and often corrects numerous aspects of Boswell's \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSamuel Johnson (1709-84) is the most significant English writer of the second half of the eighteenth century; indeed, this period is widely known as the Age of Johnson. Hawkins was Johnson's friend and legal adviser and the chief executor of his will. He knew Johnson longer and in many respects better than other biographers, including Boswell, who made unacknowledged use of Hawkins's \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e and helped orchestrate the critical attacks that consigned the book to obscurity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSir John Hawkins had special insight into Johnson's mental states at various points in his life, his early days in London, his association with the \u003ci\u003eGentleman's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and his political views and writings. Hawkins's use of historical and cultural details, an uncommon literary device at the time, produced one of the earliest \"life and times\" biographies in our language. The Introduction by O M Brack, Jr., covers the history of the composition, publication, and reception of the \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e and provides a context in which it should be read. Annotations address historical, literary, and linguistic uncertainties, and a full textual apparatus documents how Brack arrived at this definitive text of Hawkins's \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Hawkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820329959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820329956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2010","brand":"John Hawkins","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926505718015,"sku":"9780820329956","price":120.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_20f956b3-a3a6-438e-b6ca-0cd9024fbd24.jpg?v=1681083453","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-life-of-samuel-johnson-john-hawkins-9780820329956","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}