An edition of Samuel Johnson
(2014)
Samuel Johnson
new contexts for a new century
by Howard D. Weinbrot
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This wide-ranging volume examines the theoretical and scholarly contexts of Johnson's work as a lexicographer, moralist, poet, political commentator, sermon writer, periodical essayist, biographer, literary critic, and theorist. In addition to Johnson's more familiar works, the contributors address his poetry, political writings, sermons, and personal correspondence. - Jacket flap.
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Samuel Johnson: new contexts for a new century
2014, Huntington Library Press
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0873282590 9780873282598
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Table of Contents
Notes toward new Johnsonian contexts / Howard D. Weinbrot
Part one : Johnson and the arts of thought.
"The future in the instant" : Johnson, Garrick, Boswell, and the perils of theatrical prolepsis / Stuart Sherman
The agile Johnson / David Fairer
"'Tis well an old age is out" : Johnson, Swift and his generation / Howard D. Weinbrot
Part two : Johnson and the writer.
Johnson's poetry of repetition / Thomas Keymer
"A disposition to write" : Johnson as correspondent / Jack Lynch
"Hoot him back again into the common road" : the problem of singularity and the human comedy of the Lives of the Poets / David Nunnery
Part three : Johnson and the dull duties.
Writing the Dictionary of the English Language : Johnson's journey into words / Lynda Mugglestone
"The dreams of a poet" : vocational self-definition in Johnson's Dictionary preface / Stephen Fix
Fragments and disquisitions : Johnson's Shakespeare in context / Marcus Walsh
Part four : Johnson and politics.
"To preserve order and support monarchy" : Johnson's political writings / F.P. Lock
Three contexts for reading Johnson's parliamentary debates / Thomas Kaminski
Part five : Johnson, religion, and philosophy.
Reflections on Johnson's churchmanship / William Gibson
The active soul and Vis Inertiae : change and tension in Johnson's philosophy from The Rambler to The Idler / Nicholas J. Hudson
Part six : Johnson after Johnson.
Blinking Sam, "Surly Sam," and "Johnson's grimly ghost" / Robert Folkenflik
Byron's Johnson / Freya Johnston
Johnson and Scott, England and Scotland, Boswell, Lockhart, and Croker / James Engell
A history of the collected works of Samuel Johnson : the first two hundred years / Robert DeMaria Jr.
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