Samuel Johnson in historical context
By: edited by Jonathan Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill.
Contributors: Clark, J. C. D.; Erskine-Hill, Howard.
Series: Studies in modern history; Studies in modern history (Palgrave (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Houndsmills, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 Howard Erskine-Hill Part I. The Local Setting 9 1 A Voyage out of Staffordshire; or, Samuel Johnson's Jacobite Journey 11 Paul Monod 2 The Religious and Political Character of the Parish of St. Clement Danes 44 Richard Sharp 3 The St. Clement Danes Altarpiece and the Iconography of post-Revolution England 55 Eirwen E.C. Nicholson Part II. The Public Realm 77 4 Religion and Political Identity: Samuel Johnson as a Nonjuror 79 J.C.D. Clark 5 Tory and Whig 'Patriots': Lord Gower and Lord Chesterfield 146 Eveline Cruickshanks 6 Samuel Johnson, Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands, and the Tory Tradition in Foreign Policy 169 Jeremy Black 7 Johnson and Scotland 184 Murray G.H. Pittock Part III. The Cultural Allegiance 197 8 Samuel Johnson and the neo-Latin Tradition 199 David Money 9 Some Alien Qualities of Samuel Johnson's Art 222 Thomas Kaminski 10 'Elevated Notions of the Right of Kings': Stuart Sympathies in Johnson's Notes to Richard II 239 Matthew M. Davis 11 A Jacobite Undertone in 'While Ladies Interpose'? 265 Niall MacKenzie Conclusion: Literature, History and Interpretation 295 J.C.D. Clark.