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Klappentext An analysis of the life and thought of the writer Samuel Johnson from an historian's viewpoint. Zusammenfassung This book offers an analysis of the life and thought of the writer Samuel Johnson from an historian's viewpoint! reversing the orthodoxy which has dominated the subject for over thirty years. Jonathan Clark presents here a strikingly different Johnson from the usual apolitical! pragmatic and eccentric figure of the standard accounts. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Politics, literature and the culture of humanism; 2. Johnson and the Anglo-Latin tradition; 3. The political culture of Oxford University, 1715-1768; 4. Johnson's career and the question of oaths, 1709-1758; 5. Johnson and the nonjurors; 6. Johnson's political conduct, 1737-1760; 7. Johnson's political opinions, 1760-1784; 8. Johnson's writings, 1760-1781; 9. 'Sophistry', 'indiscretion', 'falsehood': the denigration of Samuel Johnson, 1775-1832.
