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The Politics of Samuel Johnson
Studies in Modern History
ISBN/EAN: 9780230355996
Umbreit-Nr.: 9452696
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xiv, 235 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 12.06.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
- Zusatztext
- 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.'
- Kurztext
- Part of a Palgrave trilogy, with Samuel Johnson in Historical Context (2002) and The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson (2012)Embodies the key essays that effect a 180-degree reinterpretation of the model of Johnson's politics and religion that was prevalent until this projectOffers a mass of new evidence in a field that has been worked over by generations of literary scholarsHas wider consequences for the nature of eighteenth-century English society and letters
- Autorenportrait
- MATTHEW DAVIS Independent scholar, Charlottesville, VA, USA GABRIEL GLICKMAN British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford, UK NEIL GUTHRIE Independent scholar and lawyer THOMAS KAMINSKI Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago, USA