ジョンソンの歴史的解釈 The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson (Studies in Modern History)

Clark, Jonathan (EDT)/ Erskine-Hill, Howard (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2012/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 230 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230356009
• DDC分類 828.609

基本説明

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'.

Full Description

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.'

Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Abbreviations Introduction Planning a Life of Johnson Attack and Mask: James Boswell's Indebtedness to Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson Boswell and the Making of Johnson 'The Casuistical Question': Oaths and Hypocrisy in the Writings of Johnson and Bolingbroke Fire under the Ashes: Johnson's Lives of the Poets as Narratives of History Johnson, Macpherson and the Memoirs of the Marshal Duke of Berwick Conclusion: The forgotten Room: Discovery and Denial in Recent Johnson Studies