Totally Weird and Wonderful Words

Name: Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
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ISBN: 9780195312126

ISBN-10: 0195312120

ISBN-13: 9780195312126

Edition: 2006

Authors: Erin McKean, Roz Chast, Danny Shanahan, Richard Lederer, Simon Winchester

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The traditional view of Samuel Johnson as hostile to particulars, trifles, and aesthetic mediocrity only half-explains his authorial character. Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking 1709-1791 argues that, in a period dominated by social and literary hierarchies, Johnson's works reveal a defining interest in 'little', 'mean', or 'low' topics and people.Freya Johnston moves away from a critical emphasis on what literature of this period excludes, to consider its modes of including recalcitrant material. Of necessity finite, any piece of writing is informed by the subject matter it omits or to which it indirectly alludes. How can we identify the peripheral topics or characters purportedly…

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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.56" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Erin McKean is the blogger behind A Dress A Day , the inspiration for this novel. Her writing has been featured in many media outlets from The NY Times Magazine to Foreign Affairs . She currently works as the editor of VERBATIM , and was previously at OUP.