Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to RomanticismThis book offers an analysis of the life and thought of Samuel Johnson from a historian's viewpoint, which reverses the orthodoxy that has dominated the subject for over thirty years. J.C.D. Clark presents here a Johnson strikingly different from the apolitical, pragmatic and eccentric figure who emerges from the pages of most students of English literature. Johnson's commitments and conflicts in religion and politics are reconstructed; his role in the literary dynamics of his age is revealed against a new context for English cultural politics between the Restoration and the age of Romanticism. |
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Contents
List of illustrations | ix |
Preface | xi |
List of abbreviations | xiii |
Introduction | 1 |
POLITICS LITERATURE AND THE CULTURE OF HUMANISM | 11 |
the trajectory of English letters | 23 |
III The political significance of the AngloLatin tradition | 32 |
IV The Jacobite cause as ideology satire and tragedy | 43 |
JOHNSON AND THE NONJURORS | 125 |
II The theology of the nonjurors | 129 |
III Politics and religious commitment | 136 |
JOHNSONS POLITICAL CONDUCT 17371760 | 141 |
II The political pamphlets of 1739 | 150 |
III Rebellion and survival 17391746 | 168 |
IV The aftermath 17471760 | 176 |
JOHNSONS POLITICAL OPINIONS 17601784 | 190 |
JOHNSON AND THE ANGLOLATIN TRADITION | 59 |
II The failure of the AngloLatin tradition and the rise of the vernacular | 67 |
the poems of Ossian | 77 |
THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY 17151768 | 88 |
II State oaths and the intelligentsia | 93 |
III Tempora mutantur 17501768 | 99 |
JOHNSONS CAREER AND THE QUESTION OF THE OATHS 17091758 | 105 |
II A nonjuror at Oxford 17281729 | 114 |
III A career frustrated 17291758 | 117 |
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| Title | Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism |
| Authors | J. C. D. Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas Clark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0521478855, 9780521478854 |
| Length | 270 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Biography & Autobiography / Historical History / Europe / Great Britain / General History / Europe / Western History / Modern / General |
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