Samuel Johnson in Historical Context
Published on 14. December 2001
Book
Hardback
XII, 318 pages
978-0-333-80447-6 (ISBN)
Description
In one of the more sudden shifts of perspective, and hotly contested controversies of recent historical and literary scholarship, our view of Johnson has been fundamentally changed. This volume offers the best up-to-the-moment account of what has been achieved, and points to the new directions in which scholarship is developing. It will be essential reading for all concerned with eighteenth-century studies.
Reviews / Votes
"This richly suggestive essay will send many readers back to the work to discover examples of Johnson's oscillation..." - The Times Literary Supplement (UK)
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Series
Edition
2002 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XII, 318 p.
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-80447-6 (9780333804476)
DOI
10.1057/9780230522695
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J. Clark | H. Erskine-Hill
Samuel Johnson in Historical Context
E-Book
12/2001
Palgrave Macmillan
€149.79
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Persons
JEREMY BLACK MBE Professor of History, University of Exeter
EVELINE CRUICKSHANKS Fellow, Institute of Historical Research
MATTHEW M. DAVIS Senior Editor at the Core Knowledge Foundation
THOMAS KAMINSKI Editor
NIALL MACKENZIE PhD Candidate in English, University of Cambridge
DAVID MONEY Senior Lecturer in English, University of Sunderland
PAUL MONOD Professor of History, Middlebury College, Vermont
EIRWEN NICHOLSON Researcher
MURRAY G. H. PITTOCK Professor of Literature, University of Strathclyde
RICHARD SHARP Senior Research Fellow and Garden Master, Worcester College, Oxford
Content
List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Preface Abbreviations Introduction: H.Erskine-Hill PART I: THE LOCAL SETTING A Voyage Out of Staffordshire: or, Samuel Johnson's Jacobite Journey; P.Monod The Religious and Political Character of the Parish of St. Clement Danes; R.Sharp The St. Clement Danes Altarpiece and the Iconography of Post-Revolution England; E.E.C.Nicholson PART II: THE PUBLIC REALM Religion and Political Identity: Samuel Johnson as a Nonjuror; J.C.D.Clark Tory and Whig 'Patriots': Lord Gower and Lord Chesterfield; E.Cruickshanks Samuel Johnson, Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands, and the Tory Tradition in Foreign Policy; J.Black Johnson and Scotland; M.G.H.Pittock PART III: THE CULTURAL ALLEGIANCE Samuel Johnson and the Neo-Latin Tradition: D.Money Some Alien Qualities of Samuel Johnson's Art; T.Kaminski 'Elevated Notions of the Right of Kings': Stuart Sympathies in Johnson's Notes to Richard II; M.M.Davis A Jacobite Undertone in White Ladies Interpose'? N.MacKenzie Conclusion: Literature, History and Interpretation; J.C.D.Clark Index