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Bad Behavior
Martin Wechselblatt
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Description for Bad Behavior
Hardback. Num Pages: 202 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 476.
In this book, Martin Wechselblatt explores Samuel Johnson's double professional self-construction as alternately Augustan sage and Grub Street hack: as the exemplary "Dr. Johnson" and as one of the many "authors to let" brought to life and just as suddenly extinguished by mass-market publishing. Unlike previous studies of Johnson and print culture, however, Bad Behavior is concerned with the reasons so many readers and critics of Johnson have been led to regularly subsume into the monumental precedent of Johnson the sage, the material conditions of modern authority expressed by self-reflections of Johnson the hack. Situating Johnson within a historical ... Read more
In this book, Martin Wechselblatt explores Samuel Johnson's double professional self-construction as alternately Augustan sage and Grub Street hack: as the exemplary "Dr. Johnson" and as one of the many "authors to let" brought to life and just as suddenly extinguished by mass-market publishing. Unlike previous studies of Johnson and print culture, however, Bad Behavior is concerned with the reasons so many readers and critics of Johnson have been led to regularly subsume into the monumental precedent of Johnson the sage, the material conditions of modern authority expressed by self-reflections of Johnson the hack. Situating Johnson within a historical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611480856
SKU
V9781611480856
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About Martin Wechselblatt
Martin Wechselblatt received his B.A. from Hunter College and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. The author of articles on Johnson, the representation of slave women, and the rhetoric of English nationalism, he is currently Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati.
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