Samuel Johnson in Historical Context

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Howard Erskine-Hill

      Pages 1-8

3. The Local Setting

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. A Voyage out of Staffordshire; or, Samuel Johnson’s Jacobite Journey

      • Paul Monod

      Pages 11-43

   3. The Religious and Political Character of the Parish of St. Clement Danes

      • Richard Sharp

      Pages 44-54

   4. The St. Clement Danes Altarpiece and the Iconography of post-Revolution England

      • Eirwen E. C. Nicholson

      Pages 55-76

4. The Public Realm

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Religion and Political Identity: Samuel Johnson as a Nonjuror

      • J. C. D. Clark

      Pages 79-145

   3. Tory and Whig ‘Patriots’: Lord Gower and Lord Chesterfield

      • Eveline Cruickshanks

      Pages 146-168

   4. Samuel Johnson, Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland’s Islands, and the Tory Tradition in Foreign Policy

      • Jeremy Black

      Pages 169-183

   5. Johnson and Scotland

      • Murray G. H. Pittock

      Pages 184-196

5. The Cultural Allegiance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

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   2. Samuel Johnson and the neo-Latin Tradition

      • David Money

      Pages 199-221

   3. Some Alien Qualities of Samuel Johnson’s Art

      • Thomas Kaminski

      Pages 222-238

   4. ‘Elevated Notions of the Right of Kings’: Stuart Sympathies in Johnson’s Notes to Richard H

      • Matthew M. Davis

      Pages 239-264

   5. A Jacobite Undertone in While Ladies Interpose

      • Niall Mackenzie

      Pages 265-294

   6. Conclusion Literature, History and Interpretation

      • J. C. D. Clark

      Pages 295-305

6. Back Matter

   Pages 307-318

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In one of the more sudden shifts of perspective, and hotly contested controversies of recent historical and literary scholarship, our view of Johnson has been fundamentally changed. This volume offers the best up-to-the-moment account of what has been achieved, and points to the new directions in which scholarship is developing. It will be essential reading for all concerned with eighteenth-century studies.

• England
• English literature
• Research in English and American Literature
• revolution
• Scotland
• British and Irish Literature

"This richly suggestive essay will send many readers back to the work to discover examples of Johnson's oscillation..." - The Times Literary Supplement (UK)

• University of Cambridge, UK

  Howard Erskine-Hill

JEREMY BLACK MBE Professor of History, University of Exeter EVELINE CRUICKSHANKS Fellow, Institute of Historical Research MATTHEW M. DAVIS Senior Editor at the Core Knowledge Foundation THOMAS KAMINSKI Editor NIALL MACKENZIE PhD Candidate in English, University of Cambridge DAVID MONEY Senior Lecturer in English, University of Sunderland PAUL MONOD Professor of History, Middlebury College, Vermont EIRWEN NICHOLSON Researcher MURRAY G. H. PITTOCK Professor of Literature, University of Strathclyde RICHARD SHARP Senior Research Fellow and Garden Master, Worcester College, Oxford

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