The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson

✍ Scribed by Jonathan Clark, Howard Erskine-Hill (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Series: Studies in Modern History
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Planning a Life of Johnson....Pages 11-42
Attack and Mask: James Boswell’s Indebtedness to Sir John Hawkins’ Life of Samuel Johnson ....Pages 43-71
Boswell and the Making of Johnson....Pages 72-83
‘The Casuistical Question’: Oaths and Hypocrisy in the Writings of Johnson and Bolingbroke....Pages 84-119
Fire under the Ashes: Johnson’s Lives of the Poets as Narratives of History....Pages 120-164
Johnson, Macpherson and the Memoirs of the Marshal Duke of Berwick ....Pages 165-201
Conclusion....Pages 202-223
Back Matter....Pages 224-230

✦ Subjects

Modern History; History of Britain and Ireland; Literary History; British and Irish Literature; European History; Eighteenth-Century Literature