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Martin, Peter. Samuel Johnson: A Biography
MARTIN, Peter. Samuel Johnson: A Biography. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xxviii +608 pp. Cloth, $35.00--Peter Martin's biography...
Review of Metaphysics, The, 09/01/09 by James Seaton · More from publication -
Lyric poetry, the novel, and revolution: Milan Kundera's life is elsewhere
Do novels or poems of high literary merit provide any particular guidance about the idea of revolution, or can we say only that different novels...
Humanitas, 03/22/07 by James Seaton · More from publication -
Joseph Conrad's moral imagination
Joseph Conrad: His Moral Vision, by George A. Panichas. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2005. 165 pp. $35 cloth. Joseph Conrad: His Moral...
Humanitas, 03/22/06 by James Seaton · More from publication -
The Enduring Mencken
The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken, by Terry Teachout, New York: HarperCollins, 2002. 432 pp. The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken, by Terry...
Modern Age, 09/22/04 by James Seaton · More from publication -
The Country of Objective Truth
Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism, by Henry T. Edmondson, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2002, 240 pp. Return to...
Modern Age, 01/01/04 by James Seaton · More from publication -
Irving Babbitt and cultural renewal
It is tempting to think of Irving Babbitt as a voice crying in the wilderness, a lonely prophet attempting the impossible task of reversing the...
Humanitas, 03/22/03 by James Seaton · More from publication -
Irving Babbitt on Lincoln and unionism
Surveying American politics, culture and society in Democracy and Leadership, Irving Babbitt found little to admire and much to criticize. (1)...
Humanitas, 03/22/02 by James Seaton · More from publication -
The heritage of Lincoln
In "The Problem of Lincoln in Babbitt's Thought," (1) his scholarly rejoinder to my "Irving Babbitt on Lincoln and Unionism," (2) Richard Gamble...
Humanitas, 03/22/02 by James Seaton · More from publication -
Delighting in the great books
Smiling Through the Cut Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education, by Jeffrey Hart. Yale University Press, 288 pages, $26.95 SMILING...
Human Events, 01/01/02 by Seaton, James · More from publication -
On Politics and Literature: The Case of O Pioneers!
The relation between politics and literature has been a controversial topic ever since Plato's Socrates concluded regretfully that the Homeric...
Perspectives on Political Science, 06/22/99 by SEATON, JAMES · More from publication
