11714 London The cream of Johnson's writings

The cream of Johnson's writings

X-Lib with stickers

With gorgeous Philip Gough dust jacket in mylar

She rather relished her freedom to travel

1/2 leather and marbled paper

11714 London The cream of Johnson's writingsWith chapters by period Medieval, Renaissance, Augustan, Regency, Brave New World. Features such notables as Shakespeare, Jonson, Wycherly, Dryden, Pope, Austen, Peacock, Swift, Fielding, more. Attempts to develop a theory of comedy, to set comedy in relation to culture and chronological history. The section on Peacock and Austen deals convincingly with Austen as a comic writer. UC Press Berkeley 1975. HB, dj. USED. $22. 00