Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading
Hardcover
1997 · Baltimore
by DeMaria, Robert Jr.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Hardcover. VG/VG clean and tight.. Blue cloth/boards with gold lettering. teal/tan dj with illustration. 270 pp. with bw frontis. "This book's strong and original starting point is to study Samuel Johnson through his activity as a reader, not as a writer. By looking at Johnson as a representative and influential reader, DeMaria helps us to understand not only one author but the history of reading itself. No one can read this book without learning a great deal about practices of reading and how they change from one age to the next." - from the dj. (Inventory #: 147436)