| 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. |
