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The Politics of Samuel Johnson

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  • © 2012

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  1. Jonathan Clark
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  2. Howard Erskine-Hill

    1. University of Cambridge, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in Modern History (SMH)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.'

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  • University of Cambridge, UK

    Howard Erskine-Hill

About the editors

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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