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Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism

Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism

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ISBN10: 0521473047
ISBN13: 9780521473040
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 27 1994
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
This book offers an analysis of the life and thought of Samuel Johnson from a historian's viewpoint, which reverses the orthodoxy that has dominated the subject for over thirty years. J.C.D. Clark presents here a Johnson strikingly different from the apolitical, pragmatic and eccentric figure who emerges from the pages of most students of English literature. Johnson's commitments and conflicts in religion and politics are reconstructed; his role in the literary dynamics of his age is revealed against a new context for English cultural politics between the Restoration and the age of Romanticism.

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