The Politics of Samuel Johnson PDF
Edited by J. Clark, H. Erskine-Hill
Part of the Studies in Modern History series
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A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters.
This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson' as opposed to the 'usable Johnson' that had been devised in the early twentieth century.
The trilogy makes untenable the old picture of a Johnson who was Olympian, detached from the conflicts of his age, a timeless moralist.
It reinstates a man well-informed about and deeply committed to the conflicts of his era in Church and State, in theology and in political ideology. And instead of a timeless, unchanging Johnson, it offers a picture of a man whose views importantly developed over the course of his agonized lifetime.
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- Pages:256 pages, 1 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:12/06/2012
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- ISBN:9781137265326
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:256 pages, 1 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:12/06/2012
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- ISBN:9781137265326
