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A neutral being between the sexes : Samuel Johnson's sexual politics by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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Samuel Johnson's image in the popular imagination - that of a swaggering misogynist, a denigrator of women and their abilities - is based largely on frequently repeated quotations gleaned from Boswell's famous Life. By contrast, in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, many women intellectuals who were familiar with Johnson's works considered him a champion of women, an able defender in the ongoing debate about female nature and ability that had been going on since the middle ages, the
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- Author
- Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer
- Publisher
- Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press ; London: Associated University Presses
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780838753873
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Women Authors
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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