{"product_id":"samuel-johnson-literature-religion-and-english-cultural-politics-from-the-restoration-to-romanticism-hardback-9780521473040","title":"Samuel Johnson; Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism (Hardback) 9780521473040","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSamuel Johnson\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiterature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn analysis of the life and thought of the writer Samuel Johnson from an historian's viewpoint.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJ. C. D. Clark (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521473040, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 October 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 12 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.527 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book offers an analysis of the life and thought of the writer Samuel Johnson from an historian's viewpoint, reversing the orthodoxy which has dominated the subject for over thirty years. Jonathan Clark, who has written extensively on English and American religion, ideology and politics in the eighteenth century, presents here a Johnson strikingly different from the apolitical, pragmatic and eccentric figure who emerges from the pages of most students of English literature. Johnson's commitments and conflicts in religion and politics, obscured since Macaulay, are reconstructed; his role in the literary dynamics of his age is revealed against a new context for English cultural politics between the Restoration and the age of Romanticism. This book will therefore be of interest not only to Johnsonians but to historians of ideas and students of English literature.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Politics, literature and the culture of humanism\u003cbr\u003e 2. Johnson and the Anglo-Latin tradition\u003cbr\u003e 3. The political culture of Oxford University, 1715–1768\u003cbr\u003e 4. Johnson's career and the question of oaths, 1709–1758\u003cbr\u003e 5. Johnson and the nonjurors\u003cbr\u003e 6. Johnson's political conduct, 1737–1760\u003cbr\u003e 7. Johnson's political opinions, 1760–1784\u003cbr\u003e 8. Johnson's writings, 1760–1781\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'Sophistry', 'indiscretion', 'falsehood': the denigration of Samuel Johnson, 1775–1832.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Modern%20history%20to%2020th%20century:%20c%201700%20to%20c%201900%20%5BHBLL%5D%22\"\u003eHBLL\u003c\/a\u003e], British \u0026amp; Irish history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on British \u0026amp; Irish history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22British%20\u0026amp;%20Irish%20history%20%5BHBJD1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913110774040,"sku":"9780521473040","price":66.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521473040i_ed8eb42b-26b9-4ccc-a0ba-e0dd04ce1df4.jpg?v=1691382788","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/samuel-johnson-literature-religion-and-english-cultural-politics-from-the-restoration-to-romanticism-hardback-9780521473040","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}