Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists

Anthony W. Lee

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Anthony W. Lee, University of Maryland, University College

Publisher:: Liverpool University Press
Online publication date:: July 2020
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781942954675

Subjects:: Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest
Series:: Clemson University Press

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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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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgments
pp vii-viii

Short Titles
pp ix-x

Abbreviations
pp xi-xii

Introduction: Modernity Johnson?
pp 1-20

1 - Johnson, T. S. Eliot, and the City
pp 21-40

2 - “Saint Samuel of Fleet Street”: Johnson and Woolf
pp 41-68

3 - “Intellectually ‘Fuori del Mondo‘”: Pound's Johnson
pp 69-84

4 - The Antinomies of Progress: Johnson, Conrad, Joyce
pp 85-114

5 - Johnson Goes to War
pp 115-132

6 - Samuel Beckett and Samuel Johnson: Like-minded Masters of Life's Limitations
pp 133-164

7 - The “Plexed Artistry” of Nabokov and Johnson
pp 165-188

8 - Johnson and Borges: Some Reflections
pp 189-212

9 - Ernest Borneman's Tomorrow Is Now (1959): Thoughts about a Lost Novel, with Glances toward Samuel Johnson and other Modernists
pp 213-238

Notes
pp 239-278

Contributors
pp 279-282

Index
pp 283-290

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