The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson

A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive...

O M BRACK JR Professor Emeritus of English at Arizona State University, USA ADRIAN LASHMORE-DAVIES British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of English, Cambridge University, UK F. P. LOCK Professor of English at Queen's University at Kingston, Canada NIALL MACKENZIE Lecturer in English ...