Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-259) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. Johnson among the scholars / Robert DeMaria, Jr. Johnson, ethics, and living / Min Wild -- Johnson and the Essay / Philip Smallwood -- Johnson and Renaissance humanism / Anthony W. Lee -- Johnson and language / Lynda Mugglestone -- Johnson and British historiography / Martine W. Brownley -- Johnson and fiction / Freya Johnson -- Johnson and gender / Samara Anne Cahill -- Johnson, race, and slavery / Nicholas Hudson -- Johnson's politics / Clement Hawes -- Johnson's poetry / John Richetti -- Johnson's editions of Shakespeare / Tom Mason -- Johnson's Lives of the poets : a guided tour / Fred Parker -- Johnson as biographer / Leo Damrosch -- Johnson and travel / Anne M. Thell -- Johnson and disability / Paul Kelleher -- Representing Johnson in life and after / Heather McPherson -- Johnson among the scholars / Robert DeMaria, Jr.
Summary:
"Invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers, this new Companion is deeply informed and appealingly written, offering fresh insight into Johnson's engagement with eighteenth-century literature, society, politics, and culture and revealing the surprising contemporaneity of his thinking about social justice, slavery, gender, and disability."--Page [4] of cover.
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