The Politics of Samuel Johnson

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

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Series: Studies in Modern History
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-8
The Nature of Johnson’s Toryism....Pages 9-56
Cultures and Coteries in Mid-Century Toryism: Johnson in Oxford and London....Pages 57-89
Johnson’s Touch-piece and the ‘Charge of Fame’: Personal and Public Aspects of the Medal in Eighteenth-century Britain....Pages 90-111
‘Ask for the Old Paths’: Johnson and the Nonjurors....Pages 112-167
Samuel Johnson: The Last Choices, 1775–1784....Pages 168-222
Conclusion....Pages 223-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-235

✦ Subjects

Political History; British and Irish Literature; History of Britain and Ireland; Modern History; European History; Literature, general