Samuel Johnson After 300 Years

To mark the tercentenary of Samuel Johnson's birth in 2009, the specially-commissioned essays in this volume review his scholarly reputation.

Introduction. Johnson now and in time Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood; 1. 'We are perpetually moralists': Johnson and moral philosophy Fred Parker; 2. Johnson, ends, and the possibility of happiness Greg Clingham; 3. Johnson and the modern: the forward face of Janus Howard D. Weinbrot; 4. Samuel Johnson's politics of contingency Clement Hawes; 5. Fideism, the antisublime, and the faithful imagination in Rasselas David F. Venturo; 6. Samuel Johnson's legal thought J. T. Scanlan; 7. The life of Johnson, The Life of Johnson, the lives of Johnson Jack Lynch; 8. The awkward Johnson David Fairer; 9. Johnson's criticism, the arts, and the idea of art Philip Smallwood; 10. Toil and envy: unsuccessful responses to Johnson's Lives of the Poets Adam Rounce; 11. Early women reading Johnson Isobel Grundy; 12. Johnson and Austen Freya Johnston; 13. The Works of Samuel Johnson and the Canon O. M. Brack, Jr.; 14. What Johnson means to me David Ferry.