Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists

ISBN: 9781942954668 出版年：2019 页码：304 Clemson University Press

The traditional view of Samuel Johnson has been that of a reactionary conservative. Many twentieth-century scholars and critics have worked to undermine the simplicity of the stereotype; however, perhaps just enough of a whiff of the old stereotype lingers to make the claim of Johnson as a representative of modernity, one who has significant and enduring connections with such Modernists as Samuel Beckett and T. S Eliot. It is the premise of this book to demonstrate that Johnson is indeed a figure of modernity, one who possesses an appeal that many Modernist writers found irresistible.