Timothy Erwin: 3 books
Textual Vision
Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
A stylish critique of literary attitudes towards painting, Textual**Vision explores the simultaneous rhetorical formation and empirical fragmentation of visual reading in enlightenment Britain. Beginning with an engaging treatment of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Timothy Erwin takes the reader on a guided...
Beyond Sense and Sensibility
Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Drawing on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as well as conceptual frameworks developed in the twenty-first century, the essays in Beyond Sense and Sensibility examine moral formation as represented in or implicitly produced by literary works of later eighteenth-century British authors...
Reconsidering Biography
Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over...