April 30, 2004
Purdue Professor Offers E-Book With Adaptations of 18th-Century Writings to Modern Issues
What would Samuel Johnson, the British lexicographer and critic, make of the poststructuralist movement? How would Lord Chesterfield, Johnson's contemporary and nemesis, handle a position at a modern university?
Such questions might not be the stuff of dissertations or survey courses, but they've proved to be fertile ground for Alan T. McKenzie, a professor of English at Purdue University's campus in West Lafayette, Ind. For nearly a decade, Mr. McKenzie has taken works by his favorite
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