The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

Herausgeber: Clingham, Greg

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers, this new Companion is deeply informed and appealingly written, offering fresh insight into Johnson's engagement with eighteenth-century literature, society, politics, and culture and revealing the surprising contemporaneity of his thinking about social justice, slavery, gender, and disability.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 275
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781108965781
• ISBN-10: 1108965784
• Artikelnr.: 64036691

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: contemporary Johnson Greg Clingham
1. Johnson, ethics, and living Min Wild
2. Johnson and the essay Philip Smallwood
3. Johnson and Renaissance humanism Anthony W. Lee
4. Johnson and language Lynda Mugglestone
5. Johnson and British historiography Martine W. Brownley
6. Johnson and fiction Freya Johnston
7. Johnson and gender Samara Anne Cahill
8. Johnson, race, and slavery Nicholas Hudson
9. Johnson's politics Clement Hawes
10. Johnson's poetry John Richetti
11. Johnson's editions of Shakespeare Tom Mason
12. Johnson's Lives of the Poets: a guided tour Fred Parker
13. Johnson as biographer Leo Damrosch
14. Johnson and travel Anne M. Thell
15. Johnson and disability Paul Kelleher
16. Representing Johnson in life and after Heather McPherson
17. Johnson among the scholars Robert De Maria, Jr.