Samuel Johnson in Historical Context

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In one of the more sudden shifts of perspective, and hotly contested controversies of recent historical and literary scholarship, our view of Johnson has been fundamentally changed. This volume offers the best up-to-the-moment account of what has been achieved, and points to the new directions in which scholarship is developing. It will be essential reading for all concerned with eighteenth-century studies.
In one of the more sudden shifts of perspective, and hotly contested controversies of recent historical and literary scholarship, our view of Johnson has been fundamentally changed. This volume offers the best up-to-the-moment account of what has been achieved, and points to the new directions in...

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JEREMY BLACK MBE Professor of History, University of Exeter EVELINE CRUICKSHANKS Fellow, Institute of Historical Research MATTHEW M. DAVIS Senior Editor at the Core Knowledge Foundation THOMAS KAMINSKI Editor NIALL MACKENZIE PhD Candidate in English, University of Cambridge DAVID MONEY Senior Lecturer in English, University of Sunderland PAUL MONOD Professor of History, Middlebury College, Vermont EIRWEN NICHOLSON Researcher MURRAY G. H. PITTOCK Professor of Literature, University of Strathclyde RICHARD SHARP Senior Research Fellow and Garden Master, Worcester College, Oxford
JEREMY BLACK MBE Professor of History, University of Exeter EVELINE CRUICKSHANKS Fellow, Institute of Historical Research MATTHEW M. DAVIS Senior Editor at the Core Knowledge Foundation THOMAS KAMINSKI Editor NIALL MACKENZIE PhD Candidate in English, University of Cambridge DAVID MONEY Senior Lec...

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