The Politics of Samuel Johnson
Title Details
Pages: 440
Trim size: 5.500in x 8.500in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 01/01/2009
ISBN: 9-780-8203-3372-4
List Price: $32.95
Related Subjects
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
The Politics of Samuel Johnson
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This provocative book exposes what it justly calls 'one of the great hoaxes of literary history.' Its original and wholly substantiated these are that Samuel Johnson was not a Tory, and that in his time Tories weren't Tories anyway-not, at least, in the sense we attach to that term today. . . . Greene's book sheds bright new light on the politics of the period from which our own institutions emerged.
—Herman W. Liebert, New York Herald Tribune Book Review
This is an admirable, forthright, trenchant book. . . . Greene has put all who love eighteenth-century scholarship in his debt, and he has given, what so many have failed to do, a new dimension to Johnsonian studies.
—J. H. Plumb, Saturday Review
An important book, not merely a contribution to Johnsonian scholarship but necessary reading for political historians.
—The Economist
Greene not only sheds fresh light on the good Doctor and his character and intellectual equipment but provides some excellent political analysis and definition for students of eighteenth-century history.
—Caroline Robbins, Journal of Modern History