Samuel Johnson
Subtitle: new contexts for a new century
Publisher: Huntington Library Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: San Marino, CA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780873282598
Table of contents: title: Notes toward new Johnsonian contexts / Howard D. Weinbrot; title: Part one : Johnson and the arts of thought.; title: "The future in the instant" : Johnson, Garrick, Boswell, and the perils of theatrical prolepsis / Stuart Sherman; title: The agile Johnson / David Fairer; title: "'Tis well an old age is out" : Johnson, Swift and his generation / Howard D. Weinbrot; title: Part two : Johnson and the writer.; title: Johnson's poetry of repetition / Thomas Keymer; title: "A disposition to write" : Johnson as correspondent / Jack Lynch; title: "Hoot him back again into the common road" : the problem of singularity and the human comedy of the Lives of the Poets / David Nunnery; title: Part three : Johnson and the dull duties.; title: Writing the Dictionary of the English Language : Johnson's journey into words / Lynda Mugglestone; title: "The dreams of a poet" : vocational self-definition in Johnson's Dictionary preface / Stephen Fix; title: Fragments and disquisitions : Johnson's Shakespeare in context / Marcus Walsh; title: Part four : Johnson and politics.; title: "To preserve order and support monarchy" : Johnson's political writings / F.P. Lock; title: Three contexts for reading Johnson's parliamentary debates / Thomas Kaminski; title: Part five : Johnson, religion, and philosophy.; title: Reflections on Johnson's churchmanship / William Gibson; title: The active soul and Vis Inertiae : change and tension in Johnson's philosophy from The Rambler to The Idler / Nicholas J. Hudson; title: Part six : Johnson after Johnson.; title: Blinking Sam, "Surly Sam," and "Johnson's grimly ghost" / Robert Folkenflik; title: Byron's Johnson / Freya Johnston; title: Johnson and Scott, England and Scotland, Boswell, Lockhart, and Croker / James Engell; title: A history of the collected works of Samuel Johnson : the first two hundred years / Robert DeMaria Jr.