Contents to Volume 9
(1998)
- Preface (full text available
on-line)
- Notes on Contributors, pp. xiii-xviii.
- Aaron Stavisky, "Johnson's 'Vile Melancholy' Reconsidered
Once More," pp. 1-24
- John J. Burke, Jr., "Boswell and the Text of Johnson's
Logia," pp. 25-46
- Donald Greene, "'Beyond Probability': A Boswellian Act of
Faith," pp. 47-80
- Jack Lynch, "Studied Barbarity: Johnson, Spenser, and the
Idea of Progress," pp. 81-108
- Stephen Slimp, "A Poet's Apprenticeship: Samuel Johnson's
School Translations," pp. 109-32
- Hugh Reid, "'The Want of a Closer Union...': The Friendship
of Samuel Johnson and Joseph Warton," pp. 133-43
- Sarah R. Morrison, "Toil, Envy, Want, the Reader, and the
Jail: Reader Entrapment in Johnson's Life of Savage," pp.
145-64
- Adam Potkay, "Happiness in Johnson and Hume," pp. 165-86
- Frederik N. Smith, "Johnson, Beckett, and 'The Choice of
Life,'" pp. 187-200
- Elizabeth Lambert, "Boswell's Burke: the Literary
Consequences of Ambivalence," pp. 201-35
- Peter M. Briggs, "Oliver Goldsmith and the Muse of
Disjunction," pp. 237-56
- Celia A. Easton, "Were the Bluestockings Queer? Elizabeth
Carter's Uranian Friendships," pp. 257-94
- Lee Morrissey, "Reading Stonehenge: Toward an Archaeology of
Gray's Elegy," pp. 295-321
Reviews
- Barry Baldwin, ed., The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel
Johnson, reviewed by James Gray, pp. 323-37
- John Cannon, Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian
England, reviewed by Nicholas Hudson, pp. 337-47
- Helen Deutsch, Resemblance and Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the
Deformation of Culture, reviwed by Blakey Vermeule, pp. 347-52
- Anne McDermott, ed., A Dictionary of the English Language
on CD-ROM, reviewed by Jack Lynch, pp. 352-57
- Cynthia Lowenthal, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the
Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter, reviewed by Clare Brant,
pp. 357-60
- Claudia N. Thomas, Alexander Pope and His
Eighteenth-Century Women Readers, reviewed by Karen O'Brien,
pp. 361-64
- Wallace Jackson and R. Paul Yoder, eds., Approaches to
Teaching Pope's Poetry, reviewed by J. T. Scanlan, pp. 364-71
- Dustin Griffin, Literary Patronage in England,
1650-1800, reviewed by Claudia N. Thomas, pp. 372-80
- Harry M. Solomon, The Rise of Robert Dodsley: Creating the
New Age of Print, reviewed by George Justice, pp. 380-87
- David Fairer, ed., The Correspondence of Thomas
Warton, reviewed by Philip Mahone Griffith, pp. 387-97
- Felicity A. Nussbaum, Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality,
and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives, reviewed
by Catherine N. Parke, pp. 397-400
- John Goodridge, Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English
Poetry, reviewed by T. K. Meier, pp. 401-402
- Tom Williamson, Polite Landscapes: Gardens and Society in
Eighteenth-Century England, reviewed by Peter Martin, pp.
403-406
- Betty Rizzo, Companions Without Vows: Relationships among
Eighteenth-Century British Women, reviewed by Claudia N.
Thomas, pp. 406-12
- Frank Felsenstein, Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of
Otherness in English Popular Culture, 1660-1830; Ann
Jessie Van Sant, Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel:
The Senses in Social Context, reviewed by Michael Shinagel,
pp. 413-417
- Peter Martin, Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar: A
Literary Biography, reviewed by Allen Reddick, pp. 417-22
- Alvaro Ribeiro, S.J., and James G. Basker, eds., Tradition
in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the
Eighteenth-Century Canon, reviewed by Betty Rizzo, pp. 422-29