{"id":1303,"date":"2018-01-24T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T15:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/press\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2024-03-01T16:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T16:58:37","slug":"samuel-johnson-among-the-modernists","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/books\/samuel-johnson-among-the-modernists\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">The traditional view of Samuel Johnson has been that of a reactionary conservative, a narrowly bigoted High Anglican Tory, insular and xenophobic, resistant to innovation and experimentation. Many twentieth-century scholars and critics worked indefatigably to undermine the simplicity of the stereotype, in the process enriching our understanding of this complex and inexhaustibly fecund writer.\u00a0<em>Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists<\/em> casts\u00a0Johnson as a figure of modernity, one who possesses an appeal that many Modernist writers found irresistible. Thus, the essays assembled in this collection urge a simultaneous rethinking of both Johnson and modernism in ways that are compelling, illuminating, and critically fruitful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is prose written in a Johnsonian spirit, even if the style bears few of the master&#8217;s hallmarks. . . . Each of its nine chapters proposes a sort of conversation between Johnson and other eighteenth-century writers, or between Johnson and a more recent author, or both. The comparison of Woolf with Johnson is perhaps the most fruitful of all the pairings in the volume, . . . partly because her literary-critical, biographical and essayistic career shared so much ground with his.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014Freya Johnston, <i>New Rambler<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":157,"template":"","subject":[36,37],"browse_by_series":[],"browse_by_imprints":[],"conference":[],"class_list":["post-1303","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-literature","subject-modernism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4973,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/1303\/revisions\/4973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_series?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_imprints","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_imprints?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"conference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conference?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}