Johnson after 300 years / edited by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clingham, Greg.

Smallwood, Philip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Criticism and interpretation.

Johnson, Samuel.

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xiv, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Johnson after three hundred years

Samuel Johnson after 300 years

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction: Johnson now and in time

"We are perpetually moralists": Johnson and moral philosophy / Fred parker

Johnson, ends, and the possibility of happiness / Greg Clingham

Johnson and the modern: the forward face of Janus / Howard D. Weinbrot

Samuel Johnson's politics of contingency / Clement Hawes

Fideism, the antisublime, and the faithful imagination in Rasselas / David F. Venturo

Samuel Johnson's legal thought / J.T. Scanlan

The life of Johnson, "The life of Johnson", the "Lives" of Johnson / Jack Lynch

The awkward Johnson / David Fairer

Johnson's criticism, the arts, and the idea of art / Philip Smallwood

Toil and envy: unsuccessful responses to Johnson's Lives of the poets / Adam Rounce

Early women reading Johnson / Isobel Grundy

Johnson and Austen / Freya Johnston

The works of Samuel Johnson and the canon / O.M. Brack, Jr.

What Johnson means to me / David Ferry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-283) and index.

ISBN:

9780521888219

0521888212

OCLC:

297147089