Title Samuel Johnson : literature, religion, and English cultural politics from the Restoration to Romanticism / J.C.D. Clark

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Description xiv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents 1. Politics, Literature and the Culture of Humanism. I. The vernacular and the classical. II. The Lives of the Poets: the trajectory of English letters. III. The political significance of the Anglo-Latin tradition. IV. The Jacobite cause as ideology, satire and tragedy -- 2. Johnson and the Anglo-Latin Tradition. I. The cultural politics of rebellion: William Lauder. II. The failure of the Anglo-Latin tradition and the rise of the vernacular. III. 'Caledonian bigotry': the poems of Ossian -- 3. The Political Culture of Oxford University, 1715-1768. I. Oxford's public image. II. State oaths and the intelligentsia. III. Tempora mutantur, 1750-1768 -- 4. Johnson's Career and the Question of the Oasis, 1709-1758. I. Johnson's family background. II. A nonjurors at Oxford, 1728-1729. III. A career frustrated, 1729-1758 -- 5. Johnson and the Nonjurors. I. The nonjurors: survival and decline. II. The theology of the nonjurors. III. Politics and religious commitment 6. Johnson's Political Conduct, 1737-1760. I. Political contacts, 1737-1744, and Johnson's London. II. The political pamphlets of 1739. III. Rebellion and survival, 1739-1746. IV. The aftermath, 1747-1760 -- 7. Johnson's Political Opinions, 1760-1784. I. The conversion of the intelligentsia and Johnson's pension. II. Constancy or compromise, 1760-1784 -- 8. Johnson's Writings, 1760-1781. I. The Dictionary and the political pamphlets of 1770-1774. II. Expiation: the Scottish tour. III. The American Revolution. IV. The Lives of the Poets -- 9. 'Sophistry', 'Indiscretion', 'Falsehood': The Denigration of Samuel Johnson, 1775-1832 Analysis English literature Special subjects Society Biography Great Britain History, Pre-1801 Literature Monarchism Overseas item Political participation Samuel Johnson State and the individual Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Political and social views. Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Contemporary England Politics and culture -- England -- History -- 18th century. Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography. Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043269 England -- Civilization -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043277 Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056900 LC no. 94017934 ISBN 0521473047 (hc) 0521478855 (paperback)

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