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The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
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Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find the New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson deeply informed and appealingly written. Each newly commissioned chapter explores aspects of Johnson's writing and thought, including his ethical grasp of life, his views of language, the roots of his ideas in Renaissance humanism, and his skeptical-humane style. Among the themes engaged are history, disability, gender, politics, race, slavery, Johnson's representation in art, and the significance of the Yale Edition. Works discussed include Johnson's poetry and fiction, his moral essays and political tracts, his Shakespeare edition and Dictionary, and his critical, biographical, and travel writing. A narrated Further Reading provides an informative guide to the study of Johnson, and a substantial Introduction highlights how his literary practice, philosophical values, and life experience provide a challenge to readers new and established. Through fresh, integrated insights, this authoritative guide reveals the surprising contemporaneity of Johnson's thought.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Short Titles and Note on the Text and Cover Art
- Introduction: Contemporary Johnson
- Chapter 1 Johnson, Ethics, and Living
- Chapter 2 Johnson and the Essay
- Chapter 3 Johnson and Renaissance Humanism
- Chapter 4 Johnson and Language
- Chapter 5 Johnson and British Historiography
- Chapter 6 Johnson and Fiction
- Chapter 7 Johnson and Gender
- Chapter 8 Johnson, Race, and Slavery
- Chapter 9 Johnson’s Politics
- Chapter 10 Johnson’s Poetry
- Chapter 11 Johnson’s Editions of Shakespeare
- Chapter 12 Johnson’s Lives of the Poets: A Guided Tour
- Chapter 13 Johnson as Biographer
- Chapter 14 Johnson and Travel
- Chapter 15 Johnson and Disability
- Chapter 16 Representing Johnson in Life and After
- Chapter 17 Johnson among the Scholars
- Further Reading
- Index