Discusses the eighteenth-century British writer's approach to biography, suggests what attracted him to the genre, and shows how his works differ from earlier biographies

Samuel Johnson: Biographer

Folkenflik, Robert

Literature & Fiction

Cornell University Press

This book proposes that allegory is not a species of literature but a structure of reading applied to uncomfortable juxtapositions within literary texts. Examples from centuries of response to English Renaissance narrative poetry show not what poems mean but how they may be read and what cultural conditions encourage allegorical or nonallegorical readings. The study also encompasses interpretations of classical verse, biblical parable, Jacobean masque, modern lyric, and television advertising to explore how texts move in and out of the category of allegory.

The English Hero, 1660-1800

History & Criticism

University of Delaware Press

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Books by Folkenflik, Robert

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Samuel Johnson: Biographer

The English Hero, 1660-1800