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The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson

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  • © 2012

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  1. Jonathan Clark
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  2. Howard Erskine-Hill

    1. University of Cambridge, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in Modern History (SMH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Howard Erskine-Hill
    Pages 1-10

  3. Planning a Life of Johnson

    • F. P. Lock
    Pages 11-42

  4. Attack and Mask: James Boswell’s Indebtedness to Sir John Hawkins’ Life of Samuel Johnson

    • O. M. Brack Jr.
    Pages 43-71

  5. Boswell and the Making of Johnson

    • Murray Pittock
    Pages 72-83

  6. ‘The Casuistical Question’: Oaths and Hypocrisy in the Writings of Johnson and Bolingbroke

    • Adrian Lashmore-Davies
    Pages 84-119

  7. Fire under the Ashes: Johnson’s Lives of the Poets as Narratives of History

    • Howard Erskine-Hill
    Pages 120-164

  8. Johnson, Macpherson and the Memoirs of the Marshal Duke of Berwick

    • Niall MacKenzie
    Pages 165-201

  9. Conclusion

    • Jonathan Clark
    Pages 202-223

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 224-230
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A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson.'

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  • University of Cambridge, UK

    Howard Erskine-Hill

About the editors

O M BRACK JR Professor Emeritus of English at Arizona State University, USA ADRIAN LASHMORE-DAVIES British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of English, Cambridge University, UK F. P. LOCK Professor of English at Queen's University at Kingston, Canada NIALL MACKENZIE Lecturer in English and Humanities departments of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada MURRAY PITTOCK Bradley Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Glasgow, UK

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