Paul Kent Alkons Samuel Johnson and Moral Discipline provides reading of Johnson that emphasizes his moral discourse. Shortly after its publication, Alkons book became first of all the standard reading of Johnsons essays, contrasting them with the moral ideas Johnson discussed in his sermons, as moral writings, and second, as one of the first books on Johnson to explore the essayists focus on moral thinking as central to his writing. 

Last modified

• 08/08/2018

Creator

• Paul Kent Alkon

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N2WM62

Subject

• Literary Criticism

Publisher

• Northwestern University Press

Keyword

• England

Date created

• 1967

Resource type

• Book

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International