Samuel Johnson in Historical Context

JONATHAN CLARK is Hall Distinguished Professor of British History at the University of Kansas. His publications include Samuel Johnson, English Society 1660-1832, The Language of Liberty 1660-1832, and an edition of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. HOWARD ERSKINE-HILL is Professor of Literary History, Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Poetry and the Realm of Politics: Shakespeare to Dryden, Poetry of Opposition and Revolution: Dryden to Wordsworth and as editor, Alexander Pope: Selected Letters.

• List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Preface Abbreviations Introduction: H.Erskine-Hill PART I: THE LOCAL SETTING A Voyage Out of Staffordshire: or, Samuel Johnson's Jacobite Journey; P.Monod The Religious and Political Character of the Parish of St. Clement Danes; R.Sharp The St. Clement Danes Altarpiece and the Iconography of Post-Revolution England; E.E.C.Nicholson PART II: THE PUBLIC REALM Religion and Political Identity: Samuel Johnson as a Nonjuror; J.C.D.Clark Tory and Whig 'Patriots': Lord Gower and Lord Chesterfield; E.Cruickshanks Samuel Johnson, Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands, and the Tory Tradition in Foreign Policy; J.Black Johnson and Scotland; M.G.H.Pittock PART III: THE CULTURAL ALLEGIANCE Samuel Johnson and the Neo-Latin Tradition: D.Money Some Alien Qualities of Samuel Johnson's Art; T.Kaminski 'Elevated Notions of the Right of Kings': Stuart Sympathies in Johnson's Notes to Richard II; M.M.Davis A Jacobite Undertone in White Ladies Interpose'? N.MacKenzie Conclusion: Literature, History and Interpretation; J.C.D.Clark Index

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