Johnson after 300 years /
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Johnson now and in time
- "We are perpetually moralists": Johnson and moral philosophy / Fred parker
- Johnson, ends, and the possibility of happiness / Greg Clingham
- Johnson and the modern: the forward face of Janus / Howard D. Weinbrot
- Samuel Johnson's politics of contingency / Clement Hawes
- Fideism, the antisublime, and the faithful imagination in Rasselas / David F. Venturo
- Samuel Johnson's legal thought / J.T. Scanlan
- The life of Johnson, "The life of Johnson", the "Lives" of Johnson / Jack Lynch
- The awkward Johnson / David Fairer
- Johnson's criticism, the arts, and the idea of art / Philip Smallwood
- Toil and envy: unsuccessful responses to Johnson's Lives of the poets / Adam Rounce
- Early women reading Johnson / Isobel Grundy
- Johnson and Austen / Freya Johnston
- The works of Samuel Johnson and the canon / O.M. Brack, Jr.
- What Johnson means to me / David Ferry.