The politics of Samuel Johnson[elect...
Clark, J. C. D.

 

  • The politics of Samuel Johnson[electronic resource] /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 828/.609
    Title/Author: The politics of Samuel Johnson/ edited by Jonathan Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill.
    other author: Clark, J. C. D.
    Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 235 p.) : : ill.
    Subject: Politics and literature - History - 18th century. - Great Britain
    Subject: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
    Subject: HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century.
    Subject: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.
    Subject: POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
    Subject: Great Britain - Fiction.
    ISBN: 9781137265326 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 1137265329 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780230355996 (Cloth)
    ISBN: 0230355994 (Cloth)
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000228]: The Nature of Johnson's Toryism -- Cultures and Coteries in Mid-Century Toryism: Johnson in Oxford and London -- Johnson's Touch-piece and the 'Charge of Fame' -- 'Ask for the Old Paths': Johnson and the Nonjurors -- Johnson: the Last Choices, 1775-1784.
    [NT 15000229]: A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson' as opposed to the 'usable Johnson' that had been devised in the early twentieth century. The trilogy makes untenable the old picture of a Johnson who was Olympian, detached from the conflicts of his age, a timeless moralist. It reinstates a man well-informed about and deeply committed to the conflicts of his era in Church and State, in theology and in political ideology. And instead of a timeless, unchanging Johnson, it offers a picture of a man whose views importantly developed over the course of his agonized lifetime.
    Online resource: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137265326
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