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Samuel Johnson: An Analysis

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  • © 1988

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  1. Charles H. Hinnant

    1. University of Missouri, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Johnson and Newton: Dismantling the Plenum

    • Charles H. Hinnant
    Pages 1-10

  3. Vacuity, Time and Happiness in Johnson’s Moral Psychology

    • Charles H. Hinnant
    Pages 11-26

  4. Desire, Emulation and the Dialectic of Domination and Servitude in Irene

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    Pages 27-46

  5. The Decline of the Heroic: from London to The Vanity of Human Wishes

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    Pages 47-65

  6. ‘The Maze of Variation’: Johnson’s Philosophy of Language in the Plan and Preface to The Dictionary

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    Pages 66-83

  7. The Choice of Life: Art and Nature in Rasselas

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    Pages 84-102

  8. The Anthropology of Natural Scarcity in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

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    Pages 103-125

  9. Conclusion

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    Pages 126-131

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 132-148
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In this provocative and incisive book the author re-examines Samuel Johnson's major texts, focusing on his famous review of Soame Jenyns's A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil as a principal source of insight and innovation. He offers a lucid exposition of its ideas and methods, defining for the first time its relation to an important strand in eighteenth-century intellectual history, and assessing its implications for Johnson's moral vision. Hinnant's book will be an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding what is most modern in Johnson's thought and writings.

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  • University of Missouri, USA

    Charles H. Hinnant

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