Nicholas Hudson

Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

Hudson examines Samuel Johnson's contribution to the creation of the modern English identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9780521045742
• ISBN-10: 0521045746
• Artikelnr.: 23176535

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Hudson is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought (1988), Writing and European Thought, 1600-1830 (Cambridge, 1994), and of numerous essays on eighteenth-century literature, thought and culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
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
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.