Samuel Johnson in Historical Context (Hardcover)

List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Preface Abbreviations Introduction: H.Erskine-Hill PART I: THE LOCAL SETTING A Voyage Out of Staffordshire: or, Samuel Johnson's Jacobite Journey; P.Monod The Religious and Political Character of the Parish of St. Clement Danes; R.Sharp The St. Clement Danes Altarpiece and the Iconography of Post-Revolution England; E.E.C.Nicholson PART II: THE PUBLIC REALM Religion and Political Identity: Samuel Johnson as a Nonjuror; J.C.D.Clark Tory and Whig 'Patriots': Lord Gower and Lord Chesterfield; E.Cruickshanks Samuel Johnson, Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands, and the Tory Tradition in Foreign Policy; J.Black Johnson and Scotland; M.G.H.Pittock PART III: THE CULTURAL ALLEGIANCE Samuel Johnson and the Neo-Latin Tradition: D.Money Some Alien Qualities of Samuel Johnson's Art; T.Kaminski 'Elevated Notions of the Right of Kings': Stuart Sympathies in Johnson's Notes to Richard II; M.M.Davis A Jacobite Undertone in White Ladies Interpose'? N.MacKenzie Conclusion: Literature, History and Interpretation; J.C.D.Clark Index