The Politics of Samuel Johnson

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Howard Erskine-Hill

   Pages 1-8

3. The Nature of Johnson’s Toryism

   • Thomas Kaminski

   Pages 9-56

4. Cultures and Coteries in Mid-Century Toryism: Johnson in Oxford and London

   • Gabriel Glickman

   Pages 57-89

5. Johnson’s Touch-piece and the ‘Charge of Fame’: Personal and Public Aspects of the Medal in Eighteenth-century Britain

   • Neil Guthrie

   Pages 90-111

6. ‘Ask for the Old Paths’: Johnson and the Nonjurors

   • Matthew M. Davis

   Pages 112-167

7. Samuel Johnson: The Last Choices, 1775–1784

   • Jonathan Clark

   Pages 168-222

8. Conclusion

   • Jonathan Clark

   Pages 223-226

9. Back Matter

   Pages 227-235

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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.'

• culture
• English
• nature
• Oxford
• politics
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Cambridge, UK

  Howard Erskine-Hill

MATTHEW DAVIS Independent scholar, Charlottesville, VA, USA GABRIEL GLICKMAN British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford, UK NEIL GUTHRIE Independent scholar and lawyer THOMAS KAMINSKI Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago, USA

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