J. C. D. Clark, Jonathan Clark, Clark J. C. D.

Samuel Johnson

Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism

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Produktbeschreibung

The first analysis of the life and thought of the writer Samuel Johnson from an historian's viewpoint.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780521473040
• ISBN-10: 0521473047
• Artikelnr.: 22434377

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Politics, literature and the culture of humanism
2. Johnson and the Anglo-Latin tradition
3. The political culture of Oxford University, 1715-1768
4. Johnson's career and the question of oaths, 1709-1758
5. Johnson and the nonjurors
6. Johnson's political conduct, 1737-1760
7. Johnson's political opinions, 1760-1784
8. Johnson's writings, 1760-1781
9. 'Sophistry', 'indiscretion', 'falsehood': the denigration of Samuel Johnson, 1775-1832.