Author: Wendy Laura Belcher Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019979331X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 352
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Uncovers African influences on the Western imagination during the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the ways Ethiopia inspired and shaped the work of Samuel Johnson.
Author: W. B. Carnochan Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804760985 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 185
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From the eighteenth century to the present, travellers, explorers, journalists, imaginative writers like Samuel Johnson, and legendary reggae musician Bob Marley have shared a fascination with Abyssinia. So did even earlier writers and mapmakers, who thought Abyssinia was the land of the mythical (and fabulously rich) Christian ruler, Prester John. The principal subject of this book is the allure of the exotic, as represented by Abyssinia, to the British imagination. In addition to Johnson and Marley, some others included are the eighteenth-century Scot James Bruce, nineteenth-century explorer Richard Burton, author Evelyn Waugh, Wilfred Thesiger (best known of twentieth-century British explorers), Sylvia Pankhurst (crusading journalist and daughter of the suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst), and the contemporary Irish traveller Dervla Murphy. The author also considers the beginnings of anthropology and the variations of quest narrative in modern travel writing.
Author: Wendy Laura Belcher Publisher: OUP USA ISBN: 0199793212 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 298
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Uncovers African influences on the Western imagination during the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the ways Ethiopia inspired and shaped the work of Samuel Johnson.
Author: Samuel Johnson Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 161
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Rasselas is a fable-like story, more apologue than novel, written by Johnson in 1759 to help pay for the costs of his recently-deceased mother’s funeral. While the plot is basic and the characters are thin, the work is an important philosophical piece exploring whether or not humanity can attain happiness. Rasselas, an Abyssinian prince, travels with his sister Nekayah, her handmaiden Pekuah, and the wise poet Imlac—a proxy for Johnson himself. Their exploration of happiness and the meaning of leading a happy life is a complex and subtle one, though the work ends with “nothing concluded.” Johnson leaves the reader to ponder: Can an individual ever attain happiness in any meaningful sense?
Author: Samuel Johnson Publisher: Sagwan Press ISBN: 9781376933390 Category : Languages : en Pages : 202
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Author: Wendy Laura Belcher
Author: W. B. Carnochan
Author: Samuel Johnson
Author: Wendy Laura Belcher
Author: Jerónimo Lobo
Author: Jerónimo Lobo
Author: Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson