Nicholas Hudson
Nicholas Hudson is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought (1988), Writing and European Thought (1994), Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England (2001) and A Political Life of Samuel Johnson (2013). In the area of Race Studies, he has published ' From "Nation" to "Race" The Origin of Racial Classification in Eighteenth-Century Thought' (1996), '"Hottentots" and the Evolution of European Racism'...See more
Nicholas Hudson is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought (1988), Writing and European Thought (1994), Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England (2001) and A Political Life of Samuel Johnson (2013). In the area of Race Studies, he has published ' From "Nation" to "Race" The Origin of Racial Classification in Eighteenth-Century Thought' (1996), '"Hottentots" and the Evolution of European Racism' (2004) and "The 'Hottentots Venus' and the Changing Aesthetics of Race, 1600- 1850 ' (2008). See less
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Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought
essential for Johnsonians
Hudson's book is judicious, learned, engaging, and strongly grounded in the intellectual and cultural history of c-18 Britain. It's a model of clear-minded scholarship, and even when one disagrees ... Read More