Samuel Johnson in Historical Context [Hardcover]

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.List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Preface Abbreviations Introduction: H.Erskine-Hill PART I: THE LOCAL SETTING A Voyage Out of Staffordshire: or, Samuel Johnson's Jacobite Journey; P.Monod The Religious and Political Character of the Parish of St. Clement Danes; R.Sharp The St. Clement Danes Altarpiece and the Iconography of Post-Revolution England; E.E.C.Nicholson PART II: THE PUBLIC REALM Religion and Political Identity: Samuel Johnson as a Nonjuror; J.C.D.Clark Tory and Whig 'Patriots': Lord Gower and Lord Chesterfield; E.Cruickshanks Samuel Johnson, Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands, and the Tory Tradition in Foreign Policy; J.Black Johnson and Scotland; M.G.H.Pittock PART III: THE CULTURAL ALLEGIANCE Samuel Johnson and the Neo-Latin Tradition: D.Money Some Alien Qualities of Samuel Johnson's Art; T.Kaminski 'Elevated Notions of the Right of Kings': Stuart Sympathies in Johnson's Notes to Richard II; M.M.Davis A Jacobite Undertone in White Ladies Interpose'? N.MacKenzie Conclusion: Literature, History and Interpretation; J.C.D.Clark Index

This richly suggestive essay will send many readers back to the work to discover examples of Johnson's oscillation... - The Times Literary Supplement (UK)

JEREMY BLACK MBE Professor of History, University of ExeterEVELINE CRUICKSHANKS Fellow, Institute of Historical ResearchMATTHEW M. DAVIS Senior Editor at the Core Knowledge FoundationTHOMAS KAMINSKI EditorNIALL MACKENZIE PhD Candidate in English, University of CambridgeDAVID MONEY Senior Lecturer in English, UnilSŸ