Samuel Johnson in Historical Context

by Clark, Jonathan; Erskine-Hill, Howard

• ISBN13: 9780333804476
• ISBN10: 0333804473
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-23
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In one of the more sudden shifts of perspective, and hotly contested controversies of recent historical and literary scholarship, the view of Johnson has been fundamentally changed. This volume offers the richest account of what has been achieved, and points to the new directions in which scholarship is developing. It is essential reading for all concerned with 18th-century studies.

Author Biography

Jonathan Clark is Hall Distinguished Professor of British History at the University of Kansas.

Howard Erskine-Hill is Professor of Literary History, Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	vii
Notes on Contributors	viii
Preface	x
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(8)
Howard Erskine-Hill
Part I The Local Setting	9	(68)
A Voyage out of Staffordshire; or, Samuel Johnson's Jacobite Journey	11	(33)
Paul Monod
The Religious and Political Character of the Parish of St. Clement Danes	44	(11)
Richard Sharp
The St. Clement Danes Altarpiece and the Iconography of post-Revolution England	55	(22)
Eirwen E.C. Nicholson
Part II The Public Realm	77	(120)
Religion and Political Identity: Samuel Johnson as a Nonjuror	79	(67)
J.C.D. Clark
Tory and Whig `Patriots': Lord Gower and Lord Chesterfield	146	(23)
Eveline Cruickshanks
Samuel Johnson, Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands, and the Tory Tradition in Foreign Policy	169	(15)
Jeremy Black
Johnson and Scotland	184	(13)
Murray G.H. Pittock
Part III The Cultural Allegiance	197	(98)
Samuel Johnson and the neo-Latin Tradition	199	(23)
David Money
Some Alien Qualities of Samuel Johnson's Art	222	(17)
Thomas Kaminski
`Elevated Notions of the Right of Kings': Stuart Sympathies in Johnson's Notes to Richard II	239	(26)
Matthew M. Davis
A Jacobite Undertone in `While Ladies Interpose'?	265	(30)
Niall MacKenzie
Conclusion: Literature, History and Interpretation	295	(12)
J.C.D. Clark
Index	307