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Jonathan Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill, eds. Samuel Johnson in Historical Context.(Book Review)

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From: Albion
Date: 20030622
Author:Caudle, James J.

(Studies in Modern History.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xii, 318. $78.00. ISBN 0-333-80447-3.

This book of lively and provocative essays has been divided, like Gaul, into three parts. Part One, made up of three essays, addresses "The Local Setting," which turns out to be one county community (Staffordshire, not Middlesex), and one greater London parish church and environs. The four essays in Part Two, "The Public Realm" (thankfully not described as "The Public Sphere"), might be classed as political: they argue that Johnson was a Nonjuror and Jacobite, put Johnson's two ...

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