Johnson after 300 years
By: edited by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood.
Contributors: Clingham, Greg.; Smallwood, Philip.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780521888219
Subjects: Johnson, Samuel, -- 1709-1784 -- Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Johnson after three hundred years; Samuel Johnson after 300 years
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-283) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Johnson now and in time --; title: "We are perpetually moralists": Johnson and moral philosophy  -- Fred parker; title: Johnson, ends, and the possibility of happiness  -- Greg Clingham; title: Johnson and the modern: the forward face of Janus  -- Howard D. Weinbrot; title: Samuel Johnson's politics of contingency  -- Clement Hawes; title: Fideism, the antisublime, and the faithful imagination in Rasselas  -- David F. Venturo; title: Samuel Johnson's legal thought  -- J.T. Scanlan; title: The life of Johnson, "The life of Johnson", the "Lives" of Johnson  -- Jack Lynch; title: The awkward Johnson  -- David Fairer; title: Johnson's criticism, the arts, and the idea of art  -- Philip Smallwood; title: Toil and envy: unsuccessful responses to Johnson's Lives of the poets  -- Adam Rounce; title: Early women reading Johnson  -- Isobel Grundy; title: Johnson and Austen  -- Freya Johnston; title: The works of Samuel Johnson and the canon  -- O.M. Brack, Jr.; title: What Johnson means to me -- David Ferry.