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The Politics of Samuel Johnson

Part of the Studies in Modern History Book Series

Editors: Clark, Jonathan; Erskine-Hill, Howard

DOI: 10.1057/9781137265326

ISBN: 978-1-349-34727-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 27, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Erskine-Hill, Howard

Pages: 1 –8

[The writings of Samuel Johnson have been widely accessible, and widely familiar, since his own age. Their interpretation depends, rather, on the contexts that are adduced as the appropriate ones, for these contexts either highlight certain themes and evidence, or dismiss them to the shadows....
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Chapter 2The Nature of Johnson’s Toryism

Kaminski, Thomas

Pages: 9 –56

[The twentieth century saw a great revival of interest in Samuel Johnson. For much of the previous century, he had been reduced to the central character of Boswell’s Life, and even then he was often viewed through the lens of Macaulay’s review: ‘The characteristic peculiarity of his intellect was...
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Chapter 3Cultures and Coteries in Mid-Century Toryism: Johnson in Oxford and London

Glickman, Gabriel

Pages: 57 –89

[On 30 January 1761, George Horne, President of Magdalen College Oxford, a friend and correspondent of Samuel Johnson, marked the anniversary of the execution of Charles I with a sermon preached in the university church. His text, published as The Christian King, saw in the pattern of royal...
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Chapter 4Johnson’s Touch-piece and the ‘Charge of Fame’: Personal and Public Aspects of the Medal in Eighteenth-century Britain

Guthrie, Neil

Pages: 90 –111

[One of the treasures of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum is the gold touch-piece which Samuel Johnson is said to have received from the hands of Queen Anne as part of the ritual cure for scrofula, or the King’s Evil.1]
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Chapter 5‘Ask for the Old Paths’: Johnson and the Nonjurors

Davis, Matthew M.

Pages: 112 –167

[Following the recent disputes concerning Johnson’s politics, one hesitates to use the words Nonjuror and Samuel Johnson in the same sentence. My aim in this essay, however, is not to determine whether Johnson was himself a Nonjuror, but rather to try to determine what Johnson knew and thought...
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Chapter 6Samuel Johnson: The Last Choices, 1775–1784

Clark, Jonathan

Pages: 168 –222

[‘Context is king’, announced J. G. A. Pocock in surveying the development of what is generally known as the ‘Cambridge school’ of the history of political thought.1 The contexts for study initially proved to be chiefly early modern ones, and as often contexts set by the recovery of ‘discourses’...
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Chapter 7Conclusion

Clark, Jonathan

Pages: 223 –226

[This trilogy of volumes has important themes in common, shared between Samuel Johnson in Historical Context (2002), The Politics of Samuel Johnson (2012) and The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson (2012). They explore ways in which the interpretation of texts and their authors is confined as well...

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