{"product_id":"johnson-and-his-age","title":"Johnson and His Age","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in the bicentennial year of Samuel Johnson’s death, \u003ci\u003eJohnson and His Age\u003c\/i\u003e  includes contributions by some of the nation’s most eminent scholars of  eighteenth-century literature. A section on Johnson’s life and thought  presents fresh analyses of Johnson’s friendships with Mrs. Thrale and  George Steevens, new information on Johnson’s relations with Smollett  and Thomas Hollis, a speculative essay on “Johnson and the Meaning of  Life,” and a provocative examination of “Johnson, Traveling Companion,  in Fancy and Fact.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther essays reinterpret basic assumptions in  Johnson’s criticism and examine “The Antinomy of Style” in Augustan  poetics, Hume’s critique of criticism, and the broad Anglo-Scots inquiry  on subjectivity in literature. A section on major figures of the age  discusses Gray and the problems of literary transmissions, Hogarth’s  book illustrations for friends, Gibbon’s oratorical “silences,” Blake’s  concept of God, and Burke’s attempt to forestall Britain’s ruinous  policy toward the American colonies. A section on the novel examines  that genre from Richardson and Sterne to Austen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the  contributors are Bertrand H. Bronson, Jean H. Hagstrum, Patricia Meyer  Spacks, Robert Haisband, Howard D. Weinbrot, Mary Hyde, Ralph W. Rader,  Lawrence Lipking, Gwin J. Kolb, John H. Middendorf, W. B. Carruichan,  and Max Byrd.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54222080606552,"sku":"9780674480759","price":47.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/johnson-and-his-age","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}