Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 POLITICS, LITERATURE AND THE CULTURE OF HUMANISM
• I. The vernacular and the classical
• II. The Lives of the Poets: the trajectory of English letters
• III. The political significance of the Anglo-Latin tradition
• IV. The Jacobite cause as ideology, satire and tragedy
• 2. JOHNSON AND THE ANGLO-LATIN TRADITION
• I. The cultural politics of rebellion: William Lauder
• II. The failure of the Anglo-Latin tradition and the rise of the vernacular
• III. 'Caledonian bigotry': the poems of Ossian
• 3. THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY, 1715-1768
• I. Oxford's public image
• II. State oaths and the intelligentsia
• III. Tempora mutantur, 1750-1768
• 4. JOHNSONS CAREEER AND THE QUESTION OF THE OATHS, 1709-1758
• I. Johnson's family background
• II. A nonjuror at Oxford, 1728-1729
• III. A career frustrated, 1729-1758
• 5. JOHNSON AND THE NONJURORWS
• I. The nonjurors: survival and decline
• II. The theology of the nonjurors
• III. Politics and religious commitment
• 6. JOHNSON'S POLITICAL CONDUCT, 1737-1760
• I. Political contacts, 1737-1744 and Johnsons' London
• II. The political pamphlets of 1739
• III. Rebellion and survival, 1739-1746
• IV. The aftermath, 1747-1760
• 7. JOHNSON'S POLITICAL OPINIONS, 1760-1784
• I. The conversion of the intelligentsia and Johnson's pension
• II. Constancy or compromise, 1760-1784
• 8. JOHNSON'S WRITINGS, 1760-1781
• I. The Dictionary and the political pamphlets of 1770-1774
• II. Expiation: The Scottish Tour
• III. The American Revolution
• IV. The Lives of Poets
• 9. SOPHISTRY, INDISCRETION, FALSEHOOD: THE DENIGRATION OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1775-1832
• Index