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Samuel Johnson and the making of modern England / Nicholas Hudson.

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Samuel Johnson, one of the most renowned authors of the eighteenth century, became virtually a symbol of English national identity in the century following his death in 1784. In Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England Nicholas Hudson argues that Johnson not only came to personify English cul...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Hudson, Nicholas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Johnson, Samuel, > 1709-1784 > Homes and haunts > England.
Johnson, Samuel, > 1709-1784.
Authors, English > 18th century > Biography.
National characteristics, English, in literature.
Nationalism > England > History > 18th century.
England > In literature.
England > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Authors, English.
Homes.
Intellectual life.
Literature.
Nationalism.
England.
1700-1799
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. From "rank" to "class": the changing structures of social hierarchy
  • 2. Constructing the middle-class woman
  • 3. From "Broad-bottom" to "party": the rise of modern English politics
  • 4. "The voice of the nation": the evolution of the "public"
  • 5. The construction of English nationhood
  • 6. The material and ideological development of the British Empire.

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