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No major author worked in more genres than Samuel Johnson--essays, poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, scholarly editing, lexicography, translation, sermons, journalism. His works are more extensive than those of any other canonical English writer, and no earlier writer's life was documented as thoroughly by contemporaries.
Because it's so difficult to know him thoroughly, people have made do with surrogates and simplifications. But Johnson was much more complicated than the popular image of 'Dr. Johnson' suggests: socially conservative but also one of the most radical abolitionists of his age, a firm believer in social hierarchy but an outspoken supporter of women intellectuals, an uncompromising Christian moralist but also a penetrating critic of family structures. Labels fit him poorly.
In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, an international team of thirty-six scholars offers the most comprehensive examination ever attempted of one of the most complex figures in English literature. The book's first section examines Johnson's life and the texts of his works; the second, organized by genre, explores all his major works and many of his minor ones; the third, organized by topic, covers the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, as a thinker, and as a moralist.
Contents
Introduction
PART I: CAREER
1: Kevin J. Berland: Youth
2: Michael Bundock: Prime
3: Peter Sabor: Age
4: Lisa Berglund: Lives
5: Robert DeMaria, Jr.: Editions
PART II: GENRES
6: Paul Tankard: Journalism
7: David Venturo: Verse
8: Richard Squibbs: Essays
9: Mark Pedreira: Scholarship
10: Steven Scherwatzky: Fiction
11: Jack Lynch: Criticism
12: Howard D. Weinbrot: Sermons
13: Christopher Vilmar: Polemic
14: Anthony W. Lee: Travel
15: Nicholas Seager: Biography
PART III: TOPICS
16: Benjamin Pauley: Authorship
17: Lynda Mugglestone: Language
18: Jenny Davidson: History
19: Greg Clingham: Law
20: Thomas Kaminski: Politics
21: Melinda Rabb: War
22: Frans De Bruyn: Commerce
23: Isobel Grundy: Women
24: Jaclyn Geller: Sociability
25: J. T. Scanlan: Humor
26: Jessica Richard: Education
27: Joseph Drury: Science
28: Brad Pasanek: Philosophy
29: Adam Rounce: Suffering
30: Eric Parisot: Death
31: Carrie Shanafelt: Doubt
32: Adam Potkay: Hope
33: Philip Smallwood: Emotion
34: Brian Michael Norton: Happiness
35: Nicholas Hudson: Virtue
36: Blanford Parker: God
