Publisher:
Southern Illinois University: November 1997
What makes this book on the academic battlegrounds (multiculturalism, deconstruction, etc.) of the culture wars unique is the special attention the author gives to Samuel Johnson. Schwartz sees Johnson -- who enjoyed and appreciated classic and popular literature -- as a real model for readers, teachers and critics. Schwarz wields the already legendary stature of Samuel Johnson as lexicographer, editor, conversationalist, journalist, novelist, poet, cataloger of books, and critic, as a foil to expose the modern intellectual pathologies of specialization, abstraction and ideology.
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