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Item Details
Title:
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THE INTERPRETATION OF SAMUEL JOHNSON
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By: |
Howard Erskine-Hill (Editor), J. C. D. Clark (Editor) |
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Electronic book text |
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£66.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
1137264721 |
ISBN 13: |
9781137264725 |
Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
Pub. date: |
15 June, 2012 |
Series: |
Studies in Modern History |
Description: |
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.' |
Synopsis: |
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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1 black & white illustrations |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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