Introduction: Modernity Johnson? / Anthony W. Lee -- Johnson, T.S. Eliot, and the city / Melvyn New -- "Saint Samuel of Fleet Street": Johnson and Woolf / Anthony W. Lee -- "Intellectually 'Fuori del mondo'": Pound's Johnson / Joe Moffett -- The antinomies of progress: Johnson, Conrad, Joyce / Clement Hawes -- Johnson goes to war / Jack Lynch -- Samuel Beckett and Samuel Johnson: like-minded masters of life's limitations / Thomas M. Curley -- The "plexed artistry" of Nabokov and Johnson / Carrie D. Shanafelt -- Johnson and Borges-some reflections / Greg Clingham -- Borneman's tomorrow is now: thoughts about a lost novel, with glances toward Samuel Johnson and other modernists / Robert G. walker.
Summary:
"Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists consists of essays penned by various hands that bring Johnson sharply into focus by framing him in an unfamiliar milieu and company, High Modernism and its aftermath. By bringing Johnson to bear on the various authors and topics gathered here, the book foregrounds some aspects of Modernism and its practitioners that would otherwise remain hidden and elusive, even as it sheds new light on Johnson"-- Provided by publisher.
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