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Clemson University Press, [Clemson, SC]
The traditional view of Samuel Johnson has been that of a reactionary conservative. Although many have worked to undermine this stereotype, perhaps enough remains to claim Johnson as a representative of modernity. This book aims to demonstrate that...
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The traditional view of Samuel Johnson has been that of a reactionary conservative. Although many have worked to undermine this stereotype, perhaps enough remains to claim Johnson as a representative of modernity. This book aims to demonstrate that Johnson is a figure of modernity, one with an appeal many modernist writers found irresistible
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Introduction: Modernity Johnson? / Anthony W. Lee -- Johnson, T. S. Eliot, and the city / Melvyn New -- "Saint Samuel of Fleet Street": Johnson and Woolf / Anthony W. Lee -- "Intellectually 'Fuori del mondo'": Pound's Johnson / Joe Moffett -- The antinomies of progress: Johnson, Conrad, Joyce / Clement Hawes -- Johnson goes to war / Jack Lynch -- Samuel Beckett and Samuel Johnson: like-minded masters of life's limitations / Thomas M. Curley -- The "plexed artistry" of Nabokov and Johnson / Carrie D. Shanafelt -- Johnson and Borges-some reflections / Greg Clingham -- Borneman's tomorrow is now: thoughts about a lost novel, with glances toward Samuel Johnson and other modernists / Robert G. walker
