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Samuel Johnson in Historical Context

  • Jonathan Clark
  • Howard Erskine-Hill
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Part of the Studies in Modern History book series (SMH)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Howard Erskine-Hill
      Pages 1-8

  3. The Local Setting

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 9-9
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    2. A Voyage out of Staffordshire; or, Samuel Johnson’s Jacobite Journey
      Paul Monod
      Pages 11-43
    3. The Religious and Political Character of the Parish of St. Clement Danes
      Richard Sharp
      Pages 44-54
    4. The St. Clement Danes Altarpiece and the Iconography of post-Revolution England
      Eirwen E. C. Nicholson
      Pages 55-76

  4. The Public Realm

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 77-77
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    2. Religion and Political Identity: Samuel Johnson as a Nonjuror
      J. C. D. Clark
      Pages 79-145
    3. Tory and Whig ‘Patriots’: Lord Gower and Lord Chesterfield
      Eveline Cruickshanks
      Pages 146-168
    4. Samuel Johnson, Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland’s Islands, and the Tory Tradition in Foreign Policy
      Jeremy Black
      Pages 169-183
    5. Johnson and Scotland
      Murray G. H. Pittock
      Pages 184-196

  5. The Cultural Allegiance

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 197-197
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    2. Samuel Johnson and the neo-Latin Tradition
      David Money
      Pages 199-221
    3. Some Alien Qualities of Samuel Johnson’s Art
      Thomas Kaminski
      Pages 222-238
    4. ‘Elevated Notions of the Right of Kings’: Stuart Sympathies in Johnson’s Notes to Richard H
      Matthew M. Davis
      Pages 239-264
    5. A Jacobite Undertone in While Ladies Interpose
      Niall Mackenzie
      Pages 265-294
    6. Conclusion Literature, History and Interpretation
      J. C. D. Clark
      Pages 295-305
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 307-318
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

England English literature Research in English and American Literature revolution Scotland

Editors and affiliations

  • Jonathan Clark
  • Howard Erskine-Hill
    • 1
  1. 1.University of CambridgeUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230522695
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-42238-8
  • Online ISBN 978-0-230-52269-5
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