"Thomas Reinert has succeeded--while giving his many predecessors their due--both in saying entirely new things about Samuel Johnson and also in addressing in an original and stimulating way the question of what it is that changes in eighteenth-century Britain--what it is that gives that culture its particular 'modernity.'"--Deidre Lynch, State University of New York at Buffalo
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. The Desire for Fame 18
2. Periodical Moralizing 46
3. The Vanity of Human Wishes 75
4. Exemplary Self-Sacrifice 89
5. Probability and Conjecture 122
Conclusion 139
Notes 163
Works Cited 183
Index 189
