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

List of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Politics, literature and the culture of humanism; 2. Johnson and the Anglo-Latin tradition; 3. The political culture of Oxford University, 1715?1768; 4. Johnson's career and the question of oaths, 1709?1758; 5. Johnson and the nonjurors; 6. Johnson's political conduct, 1737?1760; 7. Johnson's political opinions, 1760?1784; 8. Johnson's writings, 1760?1781; 9. 'Sophistry', 'indiscretion', 'falsehood': the denigration of Samuel Johnson, 1775?1832.