The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
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The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

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The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

About this book

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

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Short Titles and Note on the Text and Cover Art
  9. Introduction: Contemporary Johnson
  10. Chapter 1 Johnson, Ethics, and Living
  11. Chapter 2 Johnson and the Essay
  12. Chapter 3 Johnson and Renaissance Humanism
  13. Chapter 4 Johnson and Language
  14. Chapter 5 Johnson and British Historiography
  15. Chapter 6 Johnson and Fiction
  16. Chapter 7 Johnson and Gender
  17. Chapter 8 Johnson, Race, and Slavery
  18. Chapter 9 Johnson’s Politics
  19. Chapter 10 Johnson’s Poetry
  20. Chapter 11 Johnson’s Editions of Shakespeare
  21. Chapter 12 Johnson’s Lives of the Poets: A Guided Tour
  22. Chapter 13 Johnson as Biographer
  23. Chapter 14 Johnson and Travel
  24. Chapter 15 Johnson and Disability
  25. Chapter 16 Representing Johnson in Life and After
  26. Chapter 17 Johnson among the Scholars
  27. Further Reading
  28. Index