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Genre/Form: | Biographies Church history History Biography Bibliography |
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Named Person: | Samuel Johnson; Samuel Johnson; Samuel Johnson; Samuel Johnson; Samuel Johnson; Samuel Johnson; Samuel Johnson; Samuel Johnson; Samuel Johnson; Samuel Johnson |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
J C D Clark |
ISBN: | 0521473047 9780521473040 0521478855 9780521478854 |
OCLC Number: | 30436481 |
Description: | xiv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | 1. Politics, Literature and the Culture of Humanism. I. The vernacular and the classical. II. The Lives of the Poets: the trajectory of English letters. III. The political significance of the Anglo-Latin tradition. IV. The Jacobite cause as ideology, satire and tragedy -- 2. Johnson and the Anglo-Latin Tradition. I. The cultural politics of rebellion: William Lauder. II. The failure of the Anglo-Latin tradition and the rise of the vernacular. III. 'Caledonian bigotry': the poems of Ossian -- 3. The Political Culture of Oxford University, 1715-1768. I. Oxford's public image. II. State oaths and the intelligentsia. III. Tempora mutantur, 1750-1768 -- 4. Johnson's Career and the Question of the Oasis, 1709-1758. I. Johnson's family background. II. A nonjurors at Oxford, 1728-1729. III. A career frustrated, 1729-1758 -- 5. Johnson and the Nonjurors. I. The nonjurors: survival and decline. II. The theology of the nonjurors. III. Politics and religious commitment. |
Responsibility: | J.C.D. Clark. |
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'This is a stimulating and cogent work which offers a refreshing and provocative re-appraisal of some central features of Johnson's life and work.' David Nokes, The Times Literary Supplement
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