A Bibliography of
Johnsonian and Boswellian Studies,
1986–

This is a complete reworking and expansion of my old bibliography, now based on a database maintained in Zotero. The raw data can be had as a .bib file here.

In converting the old bibliography to the new I’m sure I’ve made mistakes. To be safe, the old bibliography is still available.

1. A Life of Allegory. Videocassette. The Conrad Aiken Video Lectures Series. Savannah: Armstrong State College, 1995.
   A discussion by Walter Jackson Bate. Separate parts: “Samuel Johnson’s Four Great Themes,” “Samuel Johnson: The Dark Years”; “Johnson, Psychology & English Prose Style”; “Samuel Johnson: The Final Years”; “Boswell.”
2. A Short-Title Catalog of Eighteenth Century Editions of Dr. Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary” in Special Collections, the Library of the School of Library and Information Science, the University of Western Ontario. London, Ont.: University of Western Ontario, 1985.
3. Abbott, John L. “Defining the Johnsonian Canon: Authority, Intuition, and the Uses of Evidence.” Modern Language Studies 18, no. 1 (Winter 1988): 89–98. https://doi.org/10.2307/3194703.
4. Abbott, John L. “Dr. Johnson and the Society.” In The Virtuoso Tribe of Arts and Sciences: Studies in the Eighteenth-Century Work and Membership of the London Society of Arts, edited by D. G. C. Allan and John L. Abbott, 7–17. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
5. Abbott, John L. “The Making of the Johnsonian Canon.” In Johnson after Two Hundred Years, edited by Paul J. Korshin, 127–39. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
6. Abbott, John L. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 10 (1996): 14.
7. Abbott, John L. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Essay, by Robert D. Spector. South Atlantic Review 63, no. 1 (1998): 90–93.
8. Abbott, John L. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. South Atlantic Review 63, no. 1 (1998): 90–93.
9. Abbott, John L., and D. G. C. Allan. “‘Compassion and Horror in Every Humane Mind’: Samuel Johnson, the Society of Arts, and Eighteenth-Century Prostitution.” Journal of the Royal Society of the Arts 136 (1988): 749–54, 827–32.
10. Abbott, John L., and D. G. C. Allan. “‘Compassion and Horror in Every Humane Mind’: Samuel Johnson, the Society of Arts, and Eighteenth-Century Prostitution.” In The Virtuoso Tribe of Arts and Sciences: Studies in the Eighteenth-Century Work and Membership of the London Society of Arts, edited by D. G. C. Allan and John L. Abbott, 18–37. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
11. Abe, Masahiko. “Zen’i to bungaku: Katari no ‘teinei’ o megutte (dai 11 kai): Onna o kirau tame no sahō (jō).” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 157, no. 12 (March 2012): 16–25.
12. Abelove, Henry. “John Wesley’s Plagiarism of Samuel Johnson and Its Contemporary Reception.” Huntington Library Quarterly 59, no. 1 (1997): 73–79.
13. Aberdeen Press and Journal. “It’s Only Words [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” April 7, 2005.
14. Abunasser, Rima. “The Commerce of Knowledge in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas.” In Global Economies, Cultural Currencies of the Eighteenth Century, edited by Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz and Tara Czechowski, 215–29. New York: AMS Press, 2012.
15. Ackerley, Chris. “‘Human Wishes’: Samuel Beckett and Johnson: The David Fleeman Memorial Lecture of 2005.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 9 (August 2007): 11–28.
16. Ackroyd, Peter. “Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage.” Los Angeles Times, August 28, 1994.
17. Ackroyd, Peter. Review of Dr Johnson’s London, by Liza Picard. The Times, July 19, 2000.
18. Ackroyd, Peter. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. The Times, February 22, 1992.
19. Adams, James Eli. “The Economies of Authorship: Imagination and Trade in Johnson’s Dryden.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 30, no. 3 (June 1990): 467–86. https://doi.org/10.2307/450707.
20. Adams, Katherine H. “A Critic Formed: Samuel Johnson’s Apprenticeship with Irene 1736–1749.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 183–200. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
21. Adams, Michael. “Allen Walker Read’s Unfinished Histories of Early English Lexicography.” Notes and Queries 65 [263], no. 3 (2018): 417.
22. Adams, Michael. Review of The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought, by Philip Smallwood. Modern Philology 122, no. 2 (2024): 36–39. https://doi.org/10.1086/731745.
23. Adams, Percy G. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 486–92.
24. Adams, Percy G. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. South Atlantic Review 54, no. 1 (January 1989): 85–90.
25. Adamucci, Denise. “The Final Decision: Lover or Friends?” MA thesis, Arizona State University, 1993.
26. Aeschliman, M. D. “The Good Man Speaking Well: Samuel Johnson.” National Review, January 11, 1985.
27. Ahmed, Saleem. “Dr. Johnson’s Rasselas: The Choice of Life.” In Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, edited by T. R. Sharma, 43–50. India: Shalabh, 1986.
28. Alexander, Catherine M. S. “Cymbeline: The Afterlife.” In The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Last Plays, edited by Catherine M. S. Alexander, 135–54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
29. Alexander, Robert John. “‘Empty Sounds’: Johnson’s Dictionary and the Limit of Language,” Chapter 3 of “The Diversions of History: A Nonphenomenal Approach to Eighteenth-Century Linguistic Thought,” 1999.
30. Alff, David. “Samuel Johnson: Infrastructuralist.” Philological Quarterly 100, no. 3–4 (2021): 443–61.
    Abstract: This essay investigates Samuel Johnson’s ideas of public works, undertakings for the common good that became a basis and benchmark for collective life in eighteenth-century Britain. An enthusiastic arbiter of everything, Johnson drew upon his faculties of criticism to treat works no merely as sensuous objects or partisan metonyms, but events that occasioned and affirmed society’s judgment. I argue that Johnson’s evaluation of works in texts ranging from the Life of Richard Savage to The History of Rasselas can help us not only appreciate his contributions to the discourse today called infrastructuralism, but also discern from the vast Johnsonian corpus a blueprint for applying the tools of literary analysis to the study of infrastructures past and present.
31. Al-Ḥarīrī. “A Basran Boswell.” In Impostures, edited by Devin J. Stewart and Richard Sieburth, translated by Michael Cooperson, 21–29. New York: NYU Press, 2020.
    Abstract: In some ways the English literary pair that most resembles al-Ḥārith and Abū Zayd is James Boswell (d. 1795) and Samuel Johnson (d. 1784). In both cases we have a narrator eager to learn from, and to impress, an older contemporary famous for his command of language. The senior member of the pair does not disappoint when it comes to eloquence, though in both cases he occasionally exploits his admirer or treats him with contempt. This Imposture, which is Englished after Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, involves a game similar to one played in Johnson’s literary circle. . . .
32. Ali, Muhsin Jassim. “Rasselas as a Colonial Discourse.” Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages Bulletin 8, no. 1 (June 1996): 47–60.
33. Alkon, Paul. “Déjà Vu All Over Again: Three More Books on Samuel Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking; Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo; and Samuel Johnson’s “General Nature”: Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse, by Scott D. Evans].” Review 23 (2001): 175–86.
34. Alkon, Paul. “Johnson and Time Criticism.” Modern Philology 85, no. 4 (May 1988): 543–57. https://doi.org/10.1086/391662.
35. Alkon, Paul. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. English Language Notes 26 (September 1988): 73–75.
36. Alkon, Paul. Review of Rasselas and Other Tales, by Gwin J. Kolb. Johnsonian News Letter 50, no. 3–51, 3 (September 1990): 3–4.
37. Alkon, Paul K. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Newsletter of the Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California, 1991, 5.
38. Alkon, Paul K. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 1 (1987): 437–42.
39. Alkon, Paul K., and Robert Folkenflik. Samuel Johnson: Pictures and Words: Papers Presented at a Clark Library Seminar 23 October, 1982. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Seminar Papers. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1984. Reviews:
    • Fix, Stephen. Review of Samuel Johnson: Pictures and Words: Papers Presented at a Clark Library Seminar, 23 October 1982, by Paul K. Alkon and Robert Folkenflik. Eighteenth-Century Studies 21 (1988): 521–26.
    • Soupel, Serge. Review of Samuel Johnson: Pictures and Words: Papers Presented at a Clark Library Seminar, 23 October 1982, by Paul K. Alkon and Robert Folkenflik. Études Anglaises 39, no. 2 (April 1986): 218–19.
40. Allan, David. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell with William Johnson Temple. Volume 1: 1756–1777, by Thomas Crawford. Scottish Historical Review 78, no. 205 (1999): 126–28.
41. Allan, David. “The Selfish Narrator.” In Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England, 215–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511760518.014.
    Abstract: This pioneering exploration of Georgian men and women’s experiences as readers explores their use of commonplace books for recording favourite passages and reflecting upon what they had read, revealing forgotten aspects of their complicated relationship with the printed word. It shows how indebted English readers often remained to techniques for handling, absorbing and thinking about texts that were rooted in classical antiquity, in Renaissance humanism and in a substantially oral culture. It also reveals how a series of related assumptions about the nature and purpose of reading influenced the roles that literature played in English society in the ages of Addison, Johnson and Byron; how the habits and procedures required by commonplacing affected readers’ tastes and so helped shape literary fashions; and how the experience of reading and responding to texts increasingly encouraged literate men and women to imagine themselves as members of a polite, responsible and critically aware public.
42. Allen, Brooke. “Boswell’s Turn [Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin, and Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” Hudson Review 54, no. 3 (2001): 489–97.
43. Allen, Brooke. Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin. Wilson Quarterly 33, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 92–95.
44. Allen, Brooke. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers. Wilson Quarterly 33, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 92–95.
45. Allen, Denna. “How the TV Play of Johnson and Boswell Is Set to Spark an Outcry North of the Border.” The Mail on Sunday, October 10, 1993.
46. Allen, Julia. “‘Hateful Practices’ and ‘Horrid Operations’: Johnson’s Views on Vivisection.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1993, 20–29.
47. Allen, Julia. Samuel Johnson’s Menagerie: The Beastly Lives of Exotic Quadrupeds in the Eighteenth Century. Banham: Erskine Press, 2002.
    An exploration of the “exotic quadrupeds” described in the Dictionary.
48. Allen, Robert R. Moses Thomas’s Proposals for the First American Edition of a Complete Johnson’s “Dictionary.” Ojai: Classic Letterpress for The Johnsonians, 2016.
49. Allhusen, Edward, ed. Fopdoodle and Salmagundi: Words and Meanings from Dr Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary” That Time Forgot. Moretonhampstead, Devon: Old House Books, 2007.
    Abstract: This is a book of words that urgently need your help. Fopdoodle, salmagundi, kissingcrust, runnion and stingo are all endangered for lack of use. Since Samuel Johnson completed his dictionary scores of words such as fizgig, jobbernowl and sponk have slipped away from common usage. You will very likely never have heard of most of them while some will be known but not used. Scores of others have definitions so obscure that you wonder why a word was needed at all. Was it necessary to have quite so many different words to describe the less fortunate members of society? Many, such as atom (cannot be split) and urinal (where water is kept for inspection) have changed their meaning completely, often with hilarious consequences. Some, such as tea (lately drunk in Europe) and coffee (comforteth the brain and heart) are included to provide a glimpse of life 250 years ago. Others, such as Dragon (perhaps imaginary) and Swallow (a bird that hides in winter) show as yet unfilled gaps in understanding. This book, Fopdoodle and Salmagundi will delight anyone who is fascinated by the evolution, humor and eccentricity of the English language or enjoys the challenge of a word game. In compiling this selection of little used and unfrequented gems of the language the editor makes the simple request that you slip them into conversation in the hope that their use will be perpetuated. They really are too go to lose.
    Reviews:
    • Harman, Claire. Review of Fopdoodle and Salmagundi: Words and Meanings from Dr Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary” That Time Forgot, by Edward Allhusen. The Telegraph, October 4, 2007.
50. Álvarez de Miranda, Pedro. “Diccionario crítico-burlesco del que se titula Diccionario razonado manual para inteligencia de ciertos escritores que por equivocación han nacido en España.” Dieciocho 46, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 154–57.
    Abstract: Puesto que toda «guerra de ideas» suele llevar aparejada una «guerra de palabras», nada más previsible que la conversión de un objeto aparentemente inocente y práctico, el diccionario, en arma arrojadiza.Subvirtiendo de modo radical el principio de objetividad y asepsia que debe presidir el cometido del diccionarista (el repertorio de voces y definiciones que nos brinde no debe traslucir sus ideas ni sus creencias), los autores de una serie de (pequeños) diccionarios de combate basarían su eficacia en la redacción de entradas lexicográficas burlescas у/o polémicas, merced, sobre todo, a la inclusión de definiciones cínica o irónicamente disparatadas y antifrásticas, o jocosas (en la línea de algunas de las del célebre diccionario de Samuel Johnson). (Hubo, por cierto, voces que alertaban del peligro de que el público conociera ideas «disolventes» justamente por medio de sus contradictores, a los que estaría con ello saliendo el tiro por la culata). En un fundamental estudio de 1996, Germán Ramírez Aledón desveló quién era el autor de la obra: cierto Justo Pastor Pérez sobre el que Cantos Casenave ha reunido copiosa información, incluida la que se refiere a su segundo apellido, Santesteban (pues Pastor es, lo mismo que Justo, nombre de pila).
51. Ameghino, Jenni. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. Birmingham Evening Post, March 23, 1996.
52. Ameter, Brenda. “Samuel Johnson’s View of America: A Moral Judgment, Based on Conscience, Not Compromise.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 71–77. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
53. Amigoni, David. “‘Borrowing Gargantua’s Mouth’: Biography, Bakhtin and Grotesque Discourse — James Boswell, Thomas Carlyle and Leslie Stephen on Samuel Johnson.” In Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque, edited by Colin Trodd, Paul Barlow, and David Amigoni, 21–36. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999.
54. Amir, Sadrul. “Some Aspects of Johnson as a Critic.” Dhaka University Studies Part A 42, no. 1 (1985): 40–58.
55. Amory, Hugh. Dreams of a Poet Doomed at Last to Wake a Lexicographer. Cambridge, Mass.: Privately printed by Houghton Library for The Johnsonians, 1986.
    250 copies printed for the Johnsonians.
56. Anderberg, Bengt. “James Boswell-oemotståndigt gripande, självrannsakande, med okonstlad stil.” Studiekamraten 72, no. 5 (1990): 8–9.
57. Anderson, David R. “Classroom Texts: The Teacher, the Anthology.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 3–7. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
58. Anderson, David R. “Johnson and the Problem of Religious Verse.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 4 (1991): 41–57.
59. Anderson, David R. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. South Atlantic Review 58, no. 3 (September 1993): 116–18.
60. Anderson, David R., and Gwin J. Kolb, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson. Approaches to Teaching World Literature. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
    Abstract: The works of Samuel Johnson — in particular, the famous Dictionary and the Lives of the Poets — have long held a central place in the English curriculum. This volume from the MLA derives its rationale from a different source, however: reports from experienced teachers of Johnson that students truly enjoy reading him. Johnson’s writings can speak directly to students’ concerns about identity and vocation, the role of authority, the relations between the sexes, and the challenge of trying to live according to one’s own ideas. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson shows the ways successful teachers have used these topics to enliven classroom discussion. Like other books in the MLA’s Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, this one is divided into two parts. The first part, “Materials,” weighs the merits of various anthologies of Johnson’s works and evaluates the relevant scholarly and critical resources. In the second part, “Approaches,” sixteen contributors offer thematic teaching strategies for use in courses ranging from composition to women’s studies; explore methods of teaching Johnson’s works to nonmajors, particularly in survey courses of British literature or Western civilization; and focus on teaching specific works, both the familiar ones and those that are less well known, including Johnson’s letters, the Soame Jenyns review, and A Journey to the Western Islands.
    Reviews:
    • Brack, O M, Jr. Review of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (1995): 169–74.
    • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb. Notes and Queries 42 [240], no. 3 (September 1995): 402–3.
61. Anderson, Eric. “Robert Anderson: Johnson’s Other Scottish Biographer.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1992, 1–7.
62. Anderson, Linda. “Serial Selves: James Boswell and Hester Thrale.” In Autobiography. The New Critical Idiom. London: Routledge, 2001.
63. Anderson, Patrick. “Scary Olde England [Review of The Brothers Boswell, by Philip Baruth].” Washington Post, May 4, 2009.
64. Andreae, Christopher. “Exaggerate, Said Dr. Johnson.” Christian Science Monitor, October 31, 1985.
65. Andrew, Donna T. Review of The Journals of James Boswell, 1762–1795, by John Wain. Canadian Journal of History 28, no. 3 (1993): 587.
66. Andrew, Edward G. “Samuel Johnson and the Question of Enlightenment in England.” In Patrons of Enlightenment, 154–69. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
67. Andrews, Corey E. “‘Almost the Same, but Not Quite’: English Poetry by Eighteenth-Century Scots.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 47, no. 1 (March 2006): 59–79. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecy.2007.0014.
68. Anspaugh, Kelly. “Traveling to the Lighthouse with Woolf and Johnson.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 45 (Spring 1995): 4–5.
69. Arac, Jonathan. “The Media of Sublimity: Johnson and Lamb on King Lear.” Studies in Romanticism 26, no. 2 (June 1987): 209–20. https://doi.org/10.2307/25600647.
70. Arac, Jonathan. “Truth.” PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 115, no. 5 (October 2000): 1085–88.
71. Arcistewska, B. Review of The Encyclopaedic Dictionary in the Eighteenth Century: Architecture, Arts and Crafts, by Terence M. Russell. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 58, no. 1 (March 1999): 79–82.
72. Arnstein, Walter L. Review of The Moth and the Candle: A Life of James Boswell, by Iain Finlayson. The Historian 48, no. 4 (1986): 581.
73. Ashmore, Helen. “‘Do Not, My Love, Burn Your Papers’: Samuel Johnson and Frances Reynolds: A New Document.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 10 (1999): 165–94.
74. Ashmore, Helen, and Richard Wendorf, eds. Frances Reynolds and Samuel Johnson: A Keepsake to Mark the 286th Birthday of Samuel Johnson and the 49th Annual Dinner of The Johnsonians. Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Library, Harvard University, 1995.
75. Aston, Nigel. “Principle, Polemic, and Ambition: Boswell’s A Letter to the People of Scotland and the End of the Fox–North Coalition, 1783.” In Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, edited by Donald J. Newman, 144–62. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
76. Atlas, James. “Dr. Johnson’s Open House.” House & Garden 159 (December 1987): 12.
77. Atlas, James. “Holmes on the Case.” New Yorker 29 (September 19, 1994): 57–65.
78. Atlas, James. “Over the Sea to Skye.” Condé Nast Traveler 31 (June 1996): 120–29.
79. Atlas, James. The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale. New York: Pantheon Books, 2017.
    Abstract: Atlas revisits the lives and work of the classical biographers: the Renaissance writers of what were then called “lives,” Samuel Johnson and the “meshugenah” Boswell, among them.
80. Aurthur, Tim, and Steven Calt. “Opium and Samuel Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 85–99.
    SJ was addicted to medicinal opium, which produced rather than alleviated many of his symptoms.
81. Avin, I. “Driven to Distinguish: Samuel Johnson’s Lexicographic Turn of Mind: A Psychocritical Study.” PhD thesis, University of St Andrews, 1997.
    Abstract: As a man of letters with an exceptionally extensive and diverse output, Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) has invited consideration from a variety of angles. The present study offers a ‘reading’ of Johnson as a framer of distinctions. His distinction-making activity is viewed as a capital feature of the oeuvre, characterizing it across almost its entire range. A very substantial body of evidence is adduced in support of this reading. Broken up by distinction-type, the mass of evidence sorts itself out into seventeen different categories themselves grouped under seven ‘thematic’ heads. The organization of the inquiry on taxonomic lines is intended both to throw into relief the multiform character of Johnson’s distinction-making praxis (something not heretofore remarked) and also to provide a comprehensive, systematic and easily ‘readable’ account of it. That the evidence testifying to Johnson’s distinction-making turned out to be so voluminous could not but occasion the thought that it might be an involuntary activity, a ‘drive’ grounded in the very ‘set’ of his psyche which comes in consequence to be viewed as in some sort ‘formed for distinction-making.’ This thought evolved into the thesis that the present study undertakes to defend, in doing which it becomes a psychocritical investigation inscribed within the theoretical frame of psychological stylistics whose aim is to make inferences and advance hypotheses about the build and workings of a mind from an analysis of the linguistic and stylistic data it generates.
82. Aviram, Amittai F. “Poetic Envoi: Epistle of Mrs. Frances Burney to Dr. Samuel Johnson Regarding the Most Unfortunate Mr. Christopher Smart.” In Christopher Smart and the Enlightenment, edited by Clement Hawes, 283–87. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
83. Awliyāyīʹniyā Hilin. Saʻdī va Jānsūn: du nāʹhamzabān-i hamʹdil: taḥlīl-i taṭbīqī-i Gulistān-i Saʻdī va Rāslās-i Jānsūn. Chāp-i Avval. Tihrān: Nashr-i Nigāh-i Muʻāṣir, 2020.
84. Awwad, Amad. “Samuel Johnson and the Issue of Holy Matrimony.” MA thesis, California State University, 1986.
85. Aylmer, Richard. “Johnson in Devon in 1762: Some Near Misses.” New Rambler E:9 (2005): 3–7.
86. Bagnall, Nicholas. “More than Words [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Literary Review, April 2005.
87. Bailey, Richard W. “Dr. Johnson and the American Vocabulary.” Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 30 (2009): 130–35. https://doi.org/10.1353/dic.2009.0009.
88. Bailyn, Bernard. “Does a Freeborn Englishman Have a Right to Emigrate?” American Heritage 37 (1986): 24–31.
89. Bainbridge, Beryl. According to Queeney. London: Little, Brown, 2001.
    Abstract: The time is the 1770s and 1780s and Johnson, having completed his life’s major work (he compiled the first ever Dictionary of the English Language) is running an increasingly chaotic life. Torn between his strict morality and his undeclared passion for Mrs Thrale, the wife of an old friend, According to Queeney reveals one of Britain’s most wonderful characters in all his wit and glory. Above all, though, this is a story of love and friendship and brilliantly narrated by Queeney, Mrs Thrale’s daughter, looking back over her life.
    Reviews:
    • Bennetts, Melissa. “Samuel Johnson Knew the Definition of ‘Peccadillo’ [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” Christian Science Monitor, July 19, 2001.
    • Bernstein, Richard. “Putting Words in Dr. Johnson’s Mouth, Words He’d Like [Review of According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge].” New York Times, August 8, 2001.
    • Bostridge, Mark. “Pride and Patronage [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” The Independent on Sunday, September 2, 2001.
    • Brown, Allan. “The Making of Boswell [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman, According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge, and Boswell’s Edinburgh Journals, 1767–1786].” The Sunday Times, September 16, 2001.
    • Chisolm, Kate. “The Friendship That Couldn’t Last [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” Sunday Telegraph, August 26, 2001.
    • Fletcher, Loraine. “A Sharper Definition of Samuel Johnson [Review of According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge].” The Independent, September 1, 2001.
    • Haverty, Anne. “The Tragic Story of Unspoken Passion [Review of According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge].” Irish Times, August 18, 2001.
    • Kemp, Peter. “In Thrall to Mrs Thrale [Review of According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge].” The Sunday Times, September 2, 2001.
    • Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge. Kirkus Reviews, June 15, 2001.
    • Krist, Gary. “A Doctor in the House [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” Washington Post, August 19, 2001.
    • Mallon, Thomas. “Dr. Johnson’s Maecenas [Review of According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge].” New York Times Book Review, August 12, 2001.
    • Marr, Andrew. “Johnson: The Novel [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” Daily Telegraph, August 25, 2001.
    • Miller, Roger K. “Boswell Gets His Due as Biographer of Samuel Johnson [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 26, 2001.
    • Nye, Robert. “Key to the Doctor’s Padlock [Review of According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge].” The Times, August 22, 2001.
    • Publishers Weekly. Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge. July 23, 2001.
    • Rubin, Merle. “Envisioning the Smaller World of the Great Dr. Johnson [Review of According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge).” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 2001.
    • Rustin, Susanna. “The Doctor Is Debunked [Review of According to Queeney by Henry Hitchings].” Financial Times, September 22, 2001.
    • Sisman, Adam. “Madness and the Mistress [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” The Observer, August 26, 2001.
    • Tankard, Paul. “Novel Treatment of Johnson [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” The Southern Johnsonian 2 (August 2002): 6–7.
90. Bainbridge, Beryl. “Remembering Sam.” New Rambler E:4 (2000): 24–26.
91. Bainbridge, Beryl. “Words Count: Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary Was Published 250 Years Ago This Month.” Guardian, April 2, 2005.
92. Baines, Paul. Review of An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, by James T. Boulton and T. O. McLoughlin. Modern Language Review 103, no. 3 (2008): 826–27. https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2008.0148.
93. Baines, Paul. “Chatterton and Johnson: Authority and Filiation in the 1770s.” In Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture, edited by Nick Groom, 172–87. Macmillan Reference, 1999.
94. Baines, Paul. “Johnson, Ossian, and the Highland Tour.” In The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 103–24. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999.
95. Baines, Paul. Review of Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, by Philip Smallwood. Modern Language Review 98, no. 4 (2003): 968.
96. Baines, Paul. “The Many Lives of Doctor Dodd.” In The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 125–50. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999.
97. Baines, Paul. “‘Putting a Book out of Place’: Johnson, Ossian and the Highland Tour.” Durham University Journal 53, no. 2 (July 1992): 235–48.
98. Baines, Paul. Review of Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill. Modern Language Review 99, no. 1 (2004): 174–76.
99. Baird, John D. “‘A Louse and a Flea’: A Source for Johnson’s Rejoinder.” Notes and Queries 37 [235], no. 3 (September 1990): 312–312. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/37-3-312a.
100. Baker, Russell. “Typical American Noises.” New York Times, March 29, 1997.
101. Baldus, Kimberly Kay. “‘Scandal’s Reign’: Gossip and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century England.” PhD thesis, Northwestern University, 1997.
     Abstract: This dissertation traces the shifting conceptions of what Richard Brinsley Sheridan termed “scandal’s reign,” crafting a cultural history of printed gossip during the period from the 1680s through the 1790s. By examining the complex negotiations of gossip by authors like Delarivier Manley, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and Charlotte Smith, it also seeks to challenge prevalent models of literary history that largely consign male and female authors to separate traditions. In Chapter Three, I trace gossip’s impact on Samuel Johnson’s influential literary career and on the scores of biographies that appeared after his death. Johnson carefully emphasizes how his own labors effect a certain distance from gossip, thereby distinguishing his writing from what he portrays as the miniature scale of trivial tattle or scandal.
102. Baldwin, Barry. “A Bit More Black Dog-Ma.” Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 1 (March 2020): 50–51.
103. Baldwin, Barry. “A Classical Source for Johnson on Augustus and Lord Bute.” Notes and Queries 42 [240], no. 4 (December 1995): 467–68.
104. Baldwin, Barry. “A Johnsonian Self-Reference?” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 1 (March 2022): 41.
105. Baldwin, Barry. “A Latin Verse Misattributed.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 37.
106. Baldwin, Barry. “A Note on Johnson’s Sexuality.” Johnsonian News Letter 76, no. 1 (March 2025): 64–70.
107. Baldwin, Barry. “Animal Crackers and Several Tracts of Snow.” Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 2 (September 2020): 43–48.
108. Baldwin, Barry. “Another Delectable Dictionary.” Johnsonian News Letter 75, no. 1 (March 2024): 39–42.
109. Baldwin, Barry. “Antiquarian’s Error?” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 1 (March 2018): 56.
110. Baldwin, Barry. “Beerbohm & Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 1 (March 2020): 51–52.
111. Baldwin, Barry. “Classica Johnsoniana.” Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 1 (March 2007): 35–40.
     Miscellaneous observations on Johnson’s knowledge of the classics.
112. Baldwin, Barry. “Classical By-Ways.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 46.
113. Baldwin, Barry. “Classic-al Comments.” Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 45–46.
114. Baldwin, Barry. “Classical Moments in Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 1 (March 2023): 26–30.
115. Baldwin, Barry. “Gleaning the Gleaner: Some Notes on A. L. Reade.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 2 (September 2018): 39–47.
116. Baldwin, Barry. “Hester Thrale’s Classicism Revisited.” Johnsonian News Letter 75, no. 1 (March 2024): 36–39.
117. Baldwin, Barry. “Horace and Johnson on Wine.” Latomus: Revue d’études Latines 68, no. 1 (March 2009): 171–73.
118. Baldwin, Barry. “Johnson & the Pembroke Latin Grace.” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 1 (March 2004): 47–48.
119. Baldwin, Barry. “Johnson and Albania.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 30–33.
120. Baldwin, Barry. “Johnson and Cricket.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 2 (September 2019): 38–42.
121. Baldwin, Barry. “Johnson and ‘The Jests of Hierocles.’” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 1 (March 2009): 40–43.
     On Boswell’s attribution of a free translation of “The Jests of Hierocles,” in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1741, to Johnson. G. B. Hill rejected the attribution; Baldwin argues in its favor.
122. Baldwin, Barry. “Johnson and the Mayor of Cambridge — A Lichfield Bookseller — Books Have Their Own Destinies.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 47–50.
123. Baldwin, Barry. “Johnson as Greek Pupil and Pedagogue.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 33–37.
124. Baldwin, Barry. “Johnson on Philips via Cicero on Lucretius.” Johnsonian News Letter 59, no. 1 (March 2008): 42–43.
     A correction to Lonsdale’s note in the Life of J. Philips on Jonson’s quotation of Cicero on Lucretius.
125. Baldwin, Barry. “Johnson on Pope’s Greek.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 2 (September 2021): 50–53.
126. Baldwin, Barry. “Johnson on Smoking.” Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 42–44.
127. Baldwin, Barry. “Johnsoniana: Fritz Liebert and Ian Fleming.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 2 (September 2019): 50–51.
128. Baldwin, Barry. “Johnsoniana: Hogarth’s Latin Club.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 2 (September 2015): 45.
129. Baldwin, Barry. “Johnsoniana: The Spectator, 9 May 2015.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 2 (September 2015): 36–37.
130. Baldwin, Barry. “Johnson’s Conglobulating Swallows.” Notes and Queries 41 [239], no. 2 (June 1994): 199–206. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/41-2-199b.
131. Baldwin, Barry. “Johnson’s Juvenile Juvenal.” Latomus: Revue d’études Latines 67, no. 4 (December 2008): 1041–46.
132. Baldwin, Barry. “The Mysterious Letter ‘M’ in Johnson’s Diaries.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1993): 131–45.
     A classicist’s challenge to Greene’s interpretation of the M in Johnson’s diaries as a reference to masturbation.
133. Baldwin, Barry. “Mrs. Thrale and the Classics.” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 2 (September 2009): 44–48.
     A note on Hester Thrale Piozzi’s knowledge of classical literature, especially as expressed in Thraliana and The Piozzi Letters.
134. Baldwin, Barry. “Plautus in Johnson: An Unnoticed Quotation.” Notes and Queries 43 [241], no. 3 (September 1996): 305–6. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/43.3.305.
135. Baldwin, Barry. “Post-Boswellian Mumpsimus.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 47–48.
136. Baldwin, Barry. “Samuel Johnson and Lincolnshire.” New Rambler E:3 (1999): 46–48.
137. Baldwin, Barry. “Samuel Johnson and Petronius.” Petronian Society Newsletter 25 (1995): 14–15.
138. Baldwin, Barry. “Samuel Johnson and the Classics.” Hellas: A Journal of Poetry and the Humanities 2, no. 2 (September 1991): 227–38.
139. Baldwin, Barry. “Samuel Johnson and Virgil.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 23 (2015): 57–82.
140. Baldwin, Barry. “Scholarship.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 312–19. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
141. Baldwin, Barry. “Some Marginalia on Johnson’s Life of Gray.” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 2 (September 2022): 42–44.
142. Baldwin, Barry. “Some Remarks on Festina Lente.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 1 (March 2021): 37–40.
143. Baldwin, Barry. “Tennyson and Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 1 (March 2021): 32–34.
144. Baldwin, Barry. “Why Nine?” Johnsonian News Letter 76, no. 1 (March 2025): 70–71.
145. Ballaster, Ros. “The Eastern Tale and the Candid Reader in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Tristram Shandy, Candide, Rasselas.” Revue de la Société d’Études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 67 (2010): 109–25. https://doi.org/10.3406/xvii.2010.2506.
146. Ballaster, Ros. “Eovaai and the Fiction of Fantasy in Eighteenth-Century England.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood, edited by Tiffany Potter, 155–61. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2020.
147. Ballaster, Ros. “Philosophical and Oriental Tales.” In The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 2: English and British Fiction, 1750–1820, edited by Peter Garside and Karen O’Brien, 353–69, 2015.
148. Bamforth, Iain. “Catchwords 3.” PN Review 36, no. 2 [190] (November 2009): 9.
149. Bander, Elaine. Review of The Johnson Circle: A Group Portrait, by Lyle Larsen. Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 1 (March 2019): 60–64.
150. Bandiera, Laura. “Samuel Johnson: The History of Rasselas.” In Settecento e malinconia: saggi di letteratura inglese, 101–23. Bologna: Patron Editore, 1995.
151. Banerjee, A. “Dr. Johnson’s Daughter: Jane Austen and Northanger Abbey.” English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 71 (April 1990): 113–24.
152. Banerjee, A. “Johnson’s Patron.” TLS, June 1, 2007, 17.
     A response to Freeman’s “Affection’s Eye,” arguing that the Dictionary definitions of patron “are quite unexceptionable.”
153. Bankert, Dabney A. “Legendary Lexicography: Joseph Bosworth’s Debt to Henry J. Todd’s Edition of Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language.” In “Cunning Passages, Contrived Corridors”: Unexpected Essays in the History of Lexicography, edited by Michael Adams, 25–55. Monza, Italy: Polimetrica, 2010.
154. Bantick, Christopher. “Word Wizard’s Wonder [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Hobart Mercury (Australia), July 9, 2005.
155. Barbarese, J. T. “Samuel Johnson’s Odd Friendship [Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes].” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 4, 1994.
156. Barbour, J. Hunter. “Wit, Mirth & Spleen: ‘I Am Willing to Love All Mankind, Except an American.’” Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 22, no. 4 (2000): 84–85.
157. Barbour, John D. The Conscience of the Autobiographer: Ethical and Religious Dimensions of Autobiography. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1992. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371088.
     Abstract: This book argues that the writing of autobiography raises crucial issues of conscience as an author tries to know, assess, and represent character. Individual chapters explore such issues as the nature of truthfulness, characterization, the virtues, shame, and the religious dimensions of conscience.
158. Baridon, Michel. “On the Relation of Ideology to Form in Johnson’s Style.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 85–105. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
159. Barker, Brooke Ann. “The Representation of Prostitutes in Eighteenth-Century British Literature.” PhD thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1991.
160. Barnaby, Andrew. “Cringing before the Lord: Milton’s Satan, Samuel Johnson, and the Anxiety of Worship.” In The Sacred and Profane in English Renaissance Literature, edited by Mary A. Papazian, 321–44. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008.
161. Barnbrook, Geoff. “Johnson the Prescriptivist? The Case for the Prosecution.” In Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott, 92–112. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
162. Barnbrook, Geoff. “Usage Notes in Johnson’s Dictionary.” International Journal of Lexicography 18, no. 2 (June 2005): 189–201. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/eci020.
163. Barnes, Celia. “‘A Morbid Oblivion’: Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and Remembering Not to Forget.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 23 (2015): 1–19.
164. Barnes, Celia. “Hester Thrale Piozzi’s Foul Copy of Literary History.” Philological Quarterly 88, no. 3 (June 2009): 283–304.
     Abstract: Hester Thrale Piozzi’s unusual diary-commonplace book, the Thraliana (1776–1809), revels in improvisation, fragmentation, and what she terms life “revisal.” In it Piozzi brings a literary self into being by collecting anecdotes, texts, and stories, and then re-reading and reflecting on this miscellany. The diary offers a model for thinking about literary history, and, perhaps more important, a way for Piozzi to talk back to literary history. In the pages of the Thraliana, Piozzi’s friendship with Samuel Johnson makes this larger conversation possible. By rendering him a “foul copy,” a defaced manuscript that is woefully and hopelessly lacking, she exposes the processes of revision, excision, commentary, and self-critique that lie beneath the surface of all textual production and that published texts seek to hide from view.
165. Barnes, Celia. “‘Making the Press My Amanuensis’: Male Friendship and Publicity in The Cub, at New-Market.” In Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, edited by Donald J. Newman, 94–107. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
166. Barnett, Carol. “Elegy: An Epitaph on Claudy Phillips, a Musician.” Holograph score. New York Public Library, 1988.
     Music by Carol Barnett, with words by Samuel Johnson.
167. Barnett, Louise K. “Dr. Johnson’s Mother: Maternal Ideology and the Life of Savage.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 304 (1992): 856–59.
168. Barnhill, D. L. Review of Naming Properties: Nominal Reference in Travel Writings by Bashō and Sora, Johnson and Boswell, by Earl Miner. Monumenta Nipponica 53, no. 1 (1990): 105–8.
169. Barnouw, Jeffrey. “Learning from Experience, or Not: From Chrysippus to Rasselas.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 33 (2004): 313–38.
170. Baron, Janet. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. Times Higher Education Supplement, no. 770 (1987): 19.
171. Barron, Janet. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. New Statesman and Society, October 22, 1993.
172. Barron, Janet. Review of Dr. Johnson: Interviews and Recollections, by Norman Page. Times Higher Education, no. 770 (1987): 19.
173. Barron, Janet. Review of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. Times Higher Education, no. 770 (1987): 19.
174. Barry, Elizabeth. “The Long View: Beckett, Johnson, Wordsworth and the Language of Epitaphs.” Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui: A Bilingual Review/Revue Bilingue 18 (2007): 47–60. https://doi.org/10.1163/18757405-018001004.
175. Barry, Peter. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. English 47 (1998): 81–87.
176. Bartolomeo, Joseph F. “Cracking Facades of Authority: Richardson, Fielding, and Johnson.” In A New Species of Criticism: Eighteenth-Century Discourse on the Novel, 47–87. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1994.
177. Bartolomeo, Joseph F. “Johnson, Richardson, and the Audience for Fiction.” Notes and Queries 33 [231], no. 4 (December 1986): 517.
178. Barton, Anne. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Savage. New York Review of Books 42, no. 3 (February 16, 1995): 6–8.
179. Baruth, Philip. “Mushroom Votes and ‘Staged’ Subjects: Linking Boswell’s Simulations of Consciousness to the Novel and Eighteenth-Century Voting Practices.” In James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, edited by Donald J. Newman, 87–109. New York: St. Martin’s, 1995.
180. Baruth, Philip. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Eighteenth-Century Studies 35, no. 2 (2002): 279–334.
181. Baruth, Philip. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb: Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate, by Nellie Pottle Hankins and John Strawhorn. Eighteenth-Century Studies 35, no. 2 (2002): 279–84.
182. Baruth, Philip E. Review of Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789–1795, by Marlies K. Danziger and Frank Brady. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 13, no. 4 (1990): 343–47. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2010.0323.
183. Baruth, Philip. “The Problem of Biographical Mastering: The Case for Boswell as Subject.” Modern Language Quarterly 52, no. 4 (December 1991): 376–403. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-52-4-376.
184. Baruth, Philip. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 16, no. 2 (1993): 59–64.
185. Baruth, Philip. “Positioning the (Auto)Biographical Self: Ideological Fictions of Self in Boswell, Johnson, and John Bunyan.” PhD thesis, University of California, Irvine, 1993.
186. Baruth, Philip. “Recognizing the Author-Function: Alternatives to Greene’s Black-And-Red Book of Johnson Logia.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 35–59.
187. Baruth, Philip. The Brothers Boswell. New York: Soho Press, 2009.
     Abstract: The year is 1763. Twenty-two-year-old James Boswell of Edinburgh is eager to advance himself in London society. Today his sights are set on furthering his acquaintance with Dr. Samuel Johnson, famed for his Dictionary; they are going to take a boat across the Thames to Greenwich Palace. Watching them secretly is John Boswell, James’ younger brother. He has stalked his older brother for days. Consumed with envy, John is planning to take revenge on his brother and Johnson for presumed slights. He carries a pair of miniature pistols that fire a single golden bullet each, and there is murder in his heart.
     A speculative mystery novel about James Boswell and his murderous brother John, set in 1763, when they come to know Johnson.
     Reviews:
     • Anderson, Patrick. “Scary Olde England [Review of The Brothers Boswell, by Philip Baruth].” Washington Post, May 4, 2009.
     • Ott, Bill. Review of The Brothers Boswell, by Philip Baruth. Booklist 105, no. 19–20 (2009): 39.
     • Publishers Weekly. Review of The Brothers Boswell, by Philip Baruth. March 30, 2009.
188. Basker, James. “Samuel Johnson and the African-American Reader.” New Rambler D:10, no. 10 (1994): 47–57.
189. Basker, James G. “An Eighteenth-Century Critique of Eurocentrism: Samuel Johnson and the Plight of Native Americans.” In La Grande-Bretagne et l’Europe Des Lumières, edited by Serge Soupel, 207–20. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1996.
190. Basker, James G. “Coming of Age in Johnson’s England: Adolescence in The Rambler.” In Les Ages de La Vie En Grande-Bretagne Au XVIIIe Siècle, edited by Serge Soupel, 197–212. Paris: Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1995.
191. Basker, James G. “Dancing Dogs, Women Preachers and the Myth of Johnson’s Misogyny.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 63–90.
192. Basker, James G. “Dictionary Johnson amidst the Dons of Sidney: A Chapter in Eighteenth-Century Cambridge History.” In Sidney Sussex College Cambridge: Historical Essays in Commemoration of the Quatercentenary, edited by D. E. D. Beales and H. B. Nisbet, 131–44. Boydell Press, 1996.
193. Basker, James G. “Intimations of Abolitionism in 1759: Johnson, Hawkesworth, and Oroonoko.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 47–66.
194. Basker, James G. “Johnson and Slavery.” Harvard Library Bulletin 20, no. 3–4 (September 2009): 29–50.
195. Basker, James G. “Johnson, Boswell and the Abolition of Slavery.” New Rambler E:5 (2001): 36–48.
196. Basker, James G. Review of Johnson the Philologist, by Daisuke Nagashima. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 4 (1991): 148–50.
197. Basker, James G. “Multicultural Perspectives: Johnson, Race, and Gender.” In Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, edited by Philip Smallwood, 64–79. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001.
198. Basker, James G. “Myth upon Myth: Johnson, Gender, and the Misogyny Question.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 175–87.
199. Basker, James G. “Radical Affinities: Mary Wollstonecraft and Samuel Johnson.” In Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro S.J. and James G. Basker, 41–55. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198182887.003.0003.
200. Basker, James G. “Resisting Authority; or, Johnson and The Wizard of Oz.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 28–34. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
201. Basker, James G. “Samuel Johnson.” In Britain in the Hanoverian Age 1714–1837, edited by Gerald Newman, 378–80. New York: Garland, 1997.
202. Basker, James G. Review of Samuel Johnson after Deconstruction: Rhetoric and “The Rambler,” by Steven Lynn. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 420–25.
203. Basker, James G. “Samuel Johnson and the American Common Reader.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1993): 3–30.
     A survey of Johnson’s importance in Colonial American libraries and booksellers’ catalogues.
204. Basker, James G. Samuel Johnson in the Mind of Thomas Jefferson: With Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to Herbert Croft, 30 October 1798. New York: privately printed for the Johnsonians, 1999.
205. Basker, James G. “Scotticisms and the Problem of Cultural Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Eighteenth-Century Life 15, no. 1–2 (February 1991): 81–95.
     Noted in The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 25, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 177.
206. Basker, James G. “Scotticisms and the Problem of Cultural Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” In Sociability and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, edited by John Dwyer and Richard B. Sher, 81–95. Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1993.
207. Basker, James G. “‘The Next Insurrection’: Johnson, Race, and Rebellion.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 11 (2000): 37–51.
208. Basney, Lionel. Review of Dr. Johnson’s Critical Vocabulary: A Selection from His “Dictionary,” by Richard L. Harp. Eighteenth-Century Studies 21 (1987): 113–17.
209. Basney, Lionel. “Dr. Johnson’s Wisdom [Review of ‘A Neutral Being between the Sexes’: Samuel Johnson’s Sexual Politics, by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer, and Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt].” Sewanee Review 107, no. 4 (1999): 110–12.
210. Basney, Lionel. “‘His Proper Business’: Johnson’s Adjustment to Society.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 32, no. 3 (September 1990): 397–416.
211. Basney, Lionel. “Johnson’s Theories and Ours [Review of ‘Steel for the Mind’: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant].” Sewanee Review 105, no. 2 (1997): 66–67.
212. Basney, Lionel. “Narrative and Judgment in the Life of Savage.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 14, no. 2 (March 1991): 153–64. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2010.0389.
     Abstract: The complexity of Johnson’s work is normally explained as the result of tension between “facts” and Johnson’s inclination to palliate or moralize them. But the facts of this biography — and of biography in general, as Johnson understood it — are often matters of moral judgment, which, by explaining why actions were committed, makes the biography seem a probable account of the life. Like the law, biographical judgment constitutes the narrative record.
213. Basney, Lionel. “Prudence in the Life of Savage.” English Language Notes 28, no. 2 (December 1990): 17–24.
214. Basney, Lionel. Review of Samuel Johnson: An Analysis, by Charles H. Hinnant. English Language Notes 27, no. 4 (1990): 74–76.
215. Basney, Lionel. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 1, no. 2 (1989): 156–58.
216. Bate, Jonathan. “The Definition of This Biography of Dr Johnson Can Be Found in the Dictionary under ‘S’ for Solid [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Life, by David Nokes].” Sunday Telegraph, October 18, 2009.
217. Bate, Jonathan. “Johnson and Shakespeare.” New Rambler D:1 (1985): 11–13.
218. Bate, Jonathan. “Johnson, Garrick and Macbeth.” New Rambler D:9, no. 9 (1993): 8–12.
219. Bate, Walter Jackson. Samuel Johnson. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1998. Reviews:
     • Jarrett, Derek. “The Doctor’s Prescription [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking, and Samuel Johnson, by Walter Jackson Bate].” New York Review of Books 46, no. 5 (March 18, 1999): 39–42.
     • Mullan, John. Review of Samuel Johnson, by Walter Jackson Bate. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 22, no. 3 (1999): 442.
220. Bate Walter Jackson. 约翰生传 = Yue han sheng chuan = Samuel Johnson: a biography. Translated by Kaiping Li and Peiheng Zhou. Guilin: 广西师范大学出版社, 2022.
221. Bathurst, Bella. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. TLS, November 3, 2000, 36.
222. Battersby, James L. “The ‘Lame and Impotent’ Conclusion to The Vanity of Human Wishes Reconsidered.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 227–55. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
223. Battersby, James L. “Life, Art, and the Lives of the Poets.” In Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, edited by David Wheeler, 26–56. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
224. Battersby, James L. “A Prologue After, Not by, Samuel Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 2 (September 2004): 55–58.
     On an obscene parody of the “Drury Lane Prologue” in a Victorian magazine.
225. Battersby, James L. “A Proverbial Candle and Johnson’s Candlestick.” Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 2 (September 2006): 29–39.
226. Battersby, James L. “Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen.” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 1 (March 2004): 46–47.
227. Battersby, James L. “Samuel Johnson’s Enthusiasm for History.” Review 8 (1986): 157–88.
228. Battershill, Claire. “Johnson and Juvenal in John Ashbery’s ‘An Additional Poem’ (1962).” Notes and Queries 61 [259], no. 4 (December 2014): 613–14. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gju127.
229. Battestin, Martin C. “The Critique of Freethinking from Swift to Sterne.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 15, no. 3–4 (April 2003): 341–420.
     On orthodox critiques of religious heresies in a number of 18th-c. authors.
230. Battestin, Martin C. “Dr. Johnson and the Case of Harry Fielding.” In Eighteenth-Century Genre and Culture: Serious Reflections on Occasional Forms: Essays in Honor of J. Paul Hunter, edited by Dennis Todd and Cynthia Wall, 96–113. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001.
231. Bax, Randy. “Traces of Johnson in the Language of Fanny Burney.” International Journal of English Studies 5, no. 1 (2005): 159–81.
232. Bax, Randy C. “Linguistic Accommodation: The Correspondence between Samuel Johnson and Hester Lynch Thrale.” In Sounds, Words, Texts and Change, edited by Teresa Fanego, Belén Méndez-Naya, and Elena Seoane, 9–23. Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science Series 4. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.224.04bax.
233. Bayley, John. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. London Review of Books 15, no. 21 (1993): 7–8.
234. Bayley, John. Review of Johnson, by Pat Rogers. London Review of Books 15, no. 21 (1993): 7–8.
235. Beach, Adam R. “The Creation of a Classical Language in the Eighteenth Century: Standardizing English, Cultural Imperialism, and the Future of the Literary Canon.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 43, no. 2 (2001): 117–41.
236. Beal, Joan C. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone. Journal of English Linguistics 45, no. 1 (2017): 95–98. https://doi.org/10.1177/0075424216685406.
237. Beaudin, Donna, and Daniel Barwick. Review of James Boswell, 1740–1795: The Scottish Perspective, by Roger Craik. International Review of Scottish Studies 20 (2008). https://doi.org/10.21083/irss.v20i0.777.
238. Beaumont, George Howland. A Pencil Sketch of Samuel Johnson: For the Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California. Edited by O M Brack Jr. [Los Angeles]: Privately printed by Lofgrein’s Printing for the Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California, 1989.
239. Beckett, Lucy. In the Light of Christ: Writings in the Western Tradition. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2006.
240. Bedford, Rachel. “An Intellectual Colossus [Review of David Timson’s Audiobook Version of Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’].” The Spectator 337, no. 9898 (2018): 39.
241. Beer, John. “Coleridge, Wordsworth and Johnson.” Journal of the English Language and Literature (Seoul) 33 (1987): 25–42.
242. Beilman, Michele A. “Anthropological Particulars: Johnson’s Ambivalent Pastoral Dream.” Wascana Review of Contemporary Poetry and Short Fiction 27, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 73–89.
243. Belcher, Wendy Laura. Abyssinia’s Samuel Johnson: Ethiopian Thought in the Making of an English Author. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
     Abstract: As a young man, Samuel Johnson, one of the most celebrated English authors of the eighteenth century, translated A Voyage to Abyssinia by Jeronimo Lobo, a tome by a Portuguese missionary about the country now known as Ethiopia. Far from being a potboiler, this translation left an indelible imprint on Johnson. Demonstrating its importance through a range of research and attentive close readings, Abyssinia’s Samuel Johnson highlights the lasting influence of an African people on Johnson’s oeuvre. Wendy Laura Belcher uncovers traces of African discourse in Johnson’s only work conceived for the stage, Irene; several of his short stories; and, of course, his most famous fiction, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. Throughout, Belcher provides a much needed perspective on the power of the discourse of the other to infuse European texts. Most pointedly, she illuminates how the Western literary canon is globally produced, developing the powerful metaphor of spirit possession to suggest that some texts in the European canon are best understood as energumens—texts that are spoken through. Her model of discursive possession offers a new way of theorizing transcultural intertextuality, in particular how Europe’s others have co-constituted European representations. Drawing on sources in English, French, Portuguese, and Ge’ez, this study challenges the conventional wisdom on Johnson’s work, from the inspiration for the name Rasselas and the nature of Johnson’s religious beliefs to what makes Rasselas so strange. A rich monograph that fuses eighteenth-century studies, comparative literature, and postcolonial theory, Abyssinia’s Samuel Johnson adds a fresh perspective on and a wealth of insights into the great, enigmatic man of letters.
     https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199793211.001.0001.
     A study of the influence of the Ge’ez literatures of Ethiopia on Samuel Johnson.
     Reviews:
     • Kurtz, J. Roger. Review of Abyssinia’s Samuel Johnson: Ethiopian Thought in the Making of an English Author, by Wendy Laura Belcher. Research in African Literatures 46, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 239–41.
244. Belcher, Wendy Laura. “Discursive Possession: Ethiopian Discourse in Medieval European and Eighteenth-Century English Literature.” PhD thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 2009.
245. Belcher, Wendy Laura, and Bekure Herouy. “The Melancholy Translator: Sirak Wäldä Śellasse Ruy’s Amharic Translation of Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 23 (2015): 159–204.
246. Belcher, Wendy Laura. “Origin of the Name Rasselas.” Notes and Queries 56 [254], no. 2 (June 2009): 253–55. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjp007.
247. Bell, Robert H. “Boswell’s Anatomy of Folly.” Sewanee Review 111, no. 4 (Fall 2003): 578–94.
248. Bell, Robert H. “James Boswell by Himself: Boswell Journals; Boswell in The Life of Johnson.” In The Rise of Autobiography in the Eighteenth Century. Rise of Autobiography in the Eighteenth Century. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
     Abstract: Bell utilizes an inter-disciplinary approach to studying autobiography in the 18th Century. Making use of religion and philosophy, history and literature, contemporary theory and humanism, his original analysis offers a unique array of disciplinary interpretations of the genre. This book not only deals with autobiography in a thorough manner, it also incorporates historical and philosophical interpretations to the presentation of self in this type of literature. He also demonstrates some of the problems with first person singular writing, which distinguishes this style from other forms of non-fiction, and shows how the philosophical question of ‘what can we know and how can we know it?’ is intimately related to the problem of the ‘self’ and narrative persona.
249. Bellamy, Liz. Samuel Johnson. Horndon: Northcote, 2005.
250. Bellon, Richard. “Character and Morality in Eighteenth-Century British Thought.” In A Sincere and Teachable Heart: Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736–1859, 51–76. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 14. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
     Abstract: Bellon demonstrates that respectability and authority in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain were not grounded foremost in ideas or specialist skills but in the self-denying virtues of patience and humility. Three case studies clarify this relationship between intellectual standards and practical moral duty. The first shows that the Victorians adapted a universal conception of sainthood to the responsibilities specific to class, gender, social rank, and vocation. The second illustrates how these ideals of self-discipline achieved their form and cultural vigor by analyzing the eighteenth-century moral philosophy of Joseph Butler, John Wesley, Samuel Johnson, and William Paley. The final reinterprets conflict between the liberal Anglican Noetics and the conservative Oxford Movement as a clash over the means of developing habits of self-denial.
251. Benedict, Barbara. Review of Dr Johnson’s Women, by Norma Clarke. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 41 (2002): 627.
252. Bennett, Eric. “Is Historical Fiction Still Revolutionary?: Two Novels Set in Johnson’s World.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 24 (2021): 191–96.
253. Bennett, Steve. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. Chortle, August 8, 2007.
254. Bennett, Susan. “George Keate Esq: Friend of Johnson’s Literary Circle.” New Rambler E:10 (2006): 69–75.
255. Bennett, William J. The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2011.
256. Bennetts, Melissa. “Samuel Johnson Knew the Definition of ‘Peccadillo’ [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” Christian Science Monitor, July 19, 2001.
257. Beretti, Francis. “Correspondance entre Pascal Paoli et James Boswell (1790–1795).” In Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, edited by H. T. Mason, 314:249–73. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1993.
258. Beretti, Francis. Review of État de la Corse; suivi de Journal d’un voyage en Corse et mémoires de Pascal Paoli, by Jean Viviès. XVII–XVIII: Revue de La Société d’études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles 76 (2019). https://doi.org/10.4000/1718.4026.
259. Beretti, Francis. “L’invention de la Corse par les voyageurs britanniques: James Boswell et quelques autres (1764–1769).” In L’invention des Midis: Représentations de l’Europe du Sud, XVIIIe–XXe siècle, edited by Nicolas Bourginat, 21–29. Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pus.14026.
260. Beretti, Francis. Pascal Paoli en Angleterre: trente-trois années d’exil et d’engagement. Corte: Università di Corsica, 2014.
     Abstract: La période d’activité politique de Pascal Paoli concernant son gouvernement de la Corse face à la domination génoise (1755-1769) est bien étudiée et documentée, par les historiens et les biographes du chef corse, ainsi que le rôle qu’il a joué pendant la période révolutionnaire, et sous le régime du royaume anglo-corse (1790-1795). En revanche, les deux séjours que Paoli a effectués en Angleterre, de 1769 à 1790, et de 1795 jusqu’à sa mort survenue en 1807, sont longtemps restés dans l’ombre. On en comprend aisément la raison: à ces moments-là, Paoli n’est plus en position de peser sur les événements, et les États pour qui la Corse pourrait représenter un enjeu ne s’intéressent pas au général en exil. On se propose dans le présent ouvrage de mieux éclairer la “période anglaise” de Paoli en s’appuyant sur sa correspondance, toujours en cours de publication, sur la monumentale édition des “papiers” de James Boswell dirigée par l’Université de Yale, et sur un manuscrit dactylographié inédit d’une historienne anglaise, Mrs Frances Vivian. On voit que Pascal Paoli était reçu parmi l’élite de la nation anglaise, dans un pays où le roi George III et certains cercles littéraires et aristocratiques lui prodiguèrent un accueil respectueux et généreux; dans un pays où, en définitive, il passa près de la moitié de sa vie.
261. Berezkina, V. I. “Iz istorii zhanra ėsse v angliĭskoĭ literature XVIII v.: K probleme istoricheskoĭ poėtiki zhanra.” Filologicheskie Nauki: Nauchnye Doklady Vyssheĭ Shkoly 4 (1991): 49–61.
262. Berglund, Lisa. “A Lexicon! A Lexicon!” Johnsonian News Letter 59, no. 1 (March 2008): 11–13.
     A comic song to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Paradox Trio.”
263. Berglund, Lisa. “Allegory in The Rambler.” Papers on Language and Literature 37, no. 2 (March 2001): 147–78.
264. Berglund, Lisa. “Dr. Johnson’s Apology for the Married Life of Hester Thrale: Hester Lynch Piozzi’s Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.” In Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Tanya M Caldwell, 19–44. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684482306-002.
265. Berglund, Lisa. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 27 (2006): 184–85.
266. Berglund, Lisa. “Fossil Fish: Preserving Samuel Johnson within Hester Lynch Piozzi’s British Synonymy.” Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 30 (2009): 96–107. https://doi.org/10.1353/dic.2009.0001.
267. Berglund, Lisa. “Hester Lynch Piozzi’s Anecdotes versus the Editors.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 18 (2007): 273–90.
268. Berglund, Lisa. “‘I Am Lost without My Boswell’: Samuel Johnson and Sherlock Holmes.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 22 (2012): 131–43.
     Berglund teases out the Johnsonian themes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories.
269. Berglund, Lisa. Review of Johnson in Japan, by Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 34, no. 4 (2022): 493–96.
270. Berglund, Lisa. Review of Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, by Philip Smallwood. Newsletter of the Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California 17, no. 200 (n.d.).
271. Berglund, Lisa. “Learning to Read The Rambler.” PhD thesis, University of Virginia, 1995.
272. Berglund, Lisa. “The Libraries of Mrs. Thrale and Hester Lynch Piozzi.” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 2 (September 2023): 30–37.
273. Berglund, Lisa. “Life.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 3–12. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
274. Berglund, Lisa. “Lives.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 67–82. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
     Abstract: Within days of Johnson’s death, biographies started appearing, first in the magazines, then in books. These early biographies are often inaccurate, more concerned with celebrating Johnson as a moral hero than relating the facts about his life objectively. But in Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, Hester Piozzi’s Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, and James Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Life of Samuel Johnson, we get a detailed portrait from three people who knew Johnson well. So influential was Boswell’s Life that it stifled innovation among modern biographers for generations. In the twentieth century, though, biographers began breaking free of Boswell’s influence, telling his life story with new emphases and trying to understand Johnson’s psychology, usually by viewing it through a Freudian lens.
275. Berglund, Lisa. “‘Look, My Lord, It Comes’: The Approach of Death in the Life of Johnson.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 7 (2002): 239–55.
276. Berglund, Lisa. “Oysters for Hodge; or, Ordering Society, Writing Biography and Feeding the Cat.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 33, no. 4 (December 2010): 631–45. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2010.00327.x.
     Examines Piozzi’s Anecdotes.
277. Berglund, Lisa. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. Albion 33, no. 2 (2001): 316.
278. Berglund, Lisa. “What Is Samuel Johnson’s Role in Contemporary Fiction?” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 2 (September 2004): 27–31.
279. Berglund, Lisa. “Why Should Hester Lynch Piozzi Be ‘Dr Johnson’s Mrs Thrale?’” Names: A Journal of Onomastics 64, no. 4 (2016): 189–201.
280. Berglund, Lisa. “Writing to Mr. Rambler: Samuel Johnson and Exemplary Autobiography.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 29 (2000): 241–59. https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2010.0078.
281. Berkeley, George. Comentarios filosóficos: Introducción manuscrita a los principios del conocimiento humano: Correspondencia con Johnson. Translated by José Antonio Robles. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1989.
282. Berkeley, Gina. “Verses after Dr. Johnson.” New Rambler D:10, no. 10 (1994): 64.
283. Berland, Kevin J. “‘The Air of a Porter’: Lichtenberg and Lavater Test Physiognomy by Looking at Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 10 (1999): 219–30.
284. Berland, Kevin J. “The Paradise Garden and the Imaginary East: Alterity and Reflexivity in British Oriental Romances.” Eighteenth-Century Novel 2 (2002): 137–59.
285. Berland, Kevin J. Review of A Preliminary Handlist of Books to Which Dr. Samuel Johnson Subscribed, by D. D. Eddy and J. D. Fleeman. East-Central Intelligencer 8, no. 3 (September 1994): 9.
286. Berland, Kevin J. Review of Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, by Nalini Jain. East-Central Intelligencer 6, no. 1 (1992): 24–26.
287. Berland, Kevin J. “Youth.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 7–30. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
     Abstract: This chapter reviews the major events in Samuel Johnson’s early life, from birth to his arrival in London, with emphasis on influences on his later life, as well as the manner in which his early life has been represented by acquaintances, biographers, and critics over many years. Johnson’s family history is covered, as well as his medical and neuropsychological issues, his education and early indications of genius, his time at Oxford, his forays into teaching, his marriage, and his religious development.
288. Bernard, Nathalie. “‘What a Man Has Previously in His Mind’: Samuel Johnson en voyage dans les Highlands et les Hébrides.” Bulletin de la societé d’études anglo-americaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 66 (2009): 163–87. https://doi.org/10.3406/xvii.2009.2396.
289. Berninger, Carol Ray. “Across Celtic Borders: Johnson, Boswell, Piozzi, Scott.” PhD thesis, Drew University, 1994.
290. Bernstein, Richard. “Putting Words in Dr. Johnson’s Mouth, Words He’d Like [Review of According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge].” New York Times, August 8, 2001.
291. Berrett, A. M. “Francis Barber’s Marriage and Children: A Correction.” Notes and Queries 35 [233] (June 1988): 193.
292. Berry, Helen. “The Pleasures of Austerity.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 37, no. 2 (June 2014): 261–77. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12137.
293. Betteridge, Robert L. “‘I May Perhaps Have Said This’: Samuel Johnson and Newhailes Library.” Scottish Literary Review 6, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2014): 81–90.
294. Bevington, David. “The Siren Call of Earlier Editorial Practice; or, How Dr. Johnson Failed to Respond Fully to His Own Intuitions about the Principles of Textual Criticism and Editing.” In Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson, edited by Eric Rasmussen and Aaron Santesso, 139–60. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
     Although he developed many of the principles of critical editing, Johnson did not use them in his Shakespeare edition, depending instead on Theobald’s text.
295. Bhattacharya, Ramkrishna. “Two Quotations in Marx’s Capital Identified.” Science & Society 79, no. 4 (2015): 610–13.
296. Bhattacharyya, Kalyan, and Saurabh Rai. “Famous People with Tourette’s Syndrome: Dr. Samuel Johnson (Yes) & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (May Be): Victims of Tourette’s Syndrome?” Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology 18, no. 2 (June 2015): 157–61. https://doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.145288.
     Abstract: It seems that at least two remarkable personalities, Dr. Samuel Johnson, a man of letters and the first person to compile an English dictionary, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arguably the most creative musical composer of all time, were possibly afflicted with this condition.
297. Biester, James. “Samuel Johnson on Letters.” Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric 6, no. 2 (March 1988): 145–66. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1988.6.2.145.
298. Bigold, Melanie. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Review of English Studies 55, no. 222 (November 2004): 805–7.
299. Bigold, Melanie. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Review of English Studies 56, no. 226 (November 2005): 677–79.
300. “Bill Plante Discusses the Birthday of Samuel Johnson.” CBS, September 18, 1988.
301. Billen, Andrew. “A Work of Harmless Drudgery [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language by Jack Lynch].” The Times, December 4, 2004.
302. Billen, Andrew. Who Was . . . Sam Johnson: The Wonderful Word Doctor. London: Short Books, 2004. Reviews:
     • Davis, Matthew M. Review of Who Was . . . Sam Johnson: The Wonderful Word Doctor, by Andrew Billen. Johnsonian News Letter 59, no. 1 (March 2008): 54–55.
     • Fraser, Lindsay. Review of Who Was . . . Sam Johnson: The Wonderful Word Doctor, by Andrew Billen. Guardian, May 25, 2004.
     • Jones, Nicolette. Review of Who Was . . . Sam Johnson: The Wonderful Word Doctor, by Andrew Billen. The Sunday Times, May 23, 2004.
303. Billi, Mirella. “Johnson’s Beauties: The Lexicon of the Aesthetics in the Dictionary.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 19, no. 1 (2006): 131–50.
304. Bindslev, Anne. “‘Introducing Herself into the Chair of Criticism’: Dr. Johnson, Monsieur Voltaire and Mrs. Montagu.” In Proceedings from the Third Nording Conference for English Studies, Hässelby, edited by Ishrad Lindblad and Magnus Ljung, 2:519–31. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiskell, 1986.
305. Bingham, Judith, Samuel Johnson, and James Boswell. Hodge, Dr. Johnson’s Cat: For B♭ Clarinet and Tenor/Speaker. Chipping Norton: Composers Edition, 2023.
     Includes score in C and transposed score Cover title With program notes in English Texts by Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and the composer Words printed separately as text
306. Bingham, Judith, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Newton, and William Blake. Strange Words: For Tenor and Violoncello. Leipzig: Edition Peters, 2018.
     Duration: approximately 11 min Includes biographical notes in English and German Words by Isaac Newton, William Blake and from Johnson’s Dictionary Cello part includes tenor part as cue
307. Binney, Matthew W. “The Authority of Entertainment: John Hawkesworth’s An Account of the Voyages.” Modern Philology 113, no. 4 (2016): 530–49. https://doi.org/10.1086/685390.
     Abstract: Imagine his confusion and consternation, after having been mentored by Samuel Johnson, the eminent writer and personality of his day, after having been applauded as a writer and editor for the Adventurer (1752–54), after having received a degree of doctor of laws from the archbishop of Canterbury for his work on the Adventurer in 1756, and after having received the unheard of sum of 6,000 pounds to edit the journals of James Cook and Joseph Banks in order to publish the first account of Cook’s celebrated first voyage to the South Pacific in An Account of the Voyages (1773), as John Hawkesworth surveyed the criticism of his collection and read such lines as “Sir, I once had an esteem for you, and a respect for your character; but you cannot expect that I should now express any.” Here, Binney details the novelty of Hawkesworth’s collection within eighteenth-century travel writing.
308. Binns, J. W. Review of The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson: Text, Translation, and Commentary, by Barry Baldwin. Review of English Studies 47, no. 188 (November 1996): 592–93.
309. Bjorklund, Joan. “The Art of the Journal.” New York Times, January 4, 1998.
310. Black, J. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Literature and History 1, no. 2 (1992): 112–13.
311. Black, Jeremy. Review of James Boswell: The Journal of His German and Swiss Travels, 1764, by Marlies K. Danziger. Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 1 (March 2009): 49–50.
312. Black, Jeremy. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. Notes and Queries 42 [240] (December 1995): 499–500.
313. Black, Jeremy. “Samuel Johnson, Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland’s Islands and the Tory Tradition in Foreign Policy.” In Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, edited by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill, 169–83. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
314. Blake, Ann. “‘An Ornament of the Metropolis’? Johnson, Sheridan, and the London Theatre.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 12 (2010): 11–34.
315. Blake, N. F. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Lore and Language 7, no. 1 (1988): 113–14.
316. Blanch Serrat, Francesca. “‘I Mourn Their Nature, but Admire Their Art’: Anna Seward’s Assertion of Critical Authority in Maturity and Old Age.” ES Review: Spanish Journal of English Studies 40 (2019): 11–31.
317. Blanco, José Joaquín. “Boswell y el ramonismo.” Nexos 27, no. 334 (October 2005): 79–83.
318. Blanton, Casey. “‘Vain Travelers’: James Boswell and the Grand Tour.” In Travel Writing: The Self and the World, 48–61. Genres in Context. New York: Routledge, 2002. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203819784.
     Abstract: Blanton follows the development of travel writing from classical times to the present, focusing in particular on Anglo-American travel writing since the eighteenth century. He identifies significant theoretical and critical contributions to the field, and also examines key texts by James Boswell, Mary Kingsley, Graham Greene, Peter Mathiessen, V. S. Naipaul, and Bruce Chatwin.
319. Blanton, Gene. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. South Atlantic Review 59 (1994): 125–29.
320. Bloom, Harold, ed. Dr. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House, 1986. Reviews:
     • Lynn, Steven. Review of Modern Critical Views: Dr. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, by Harold Bloom. South Atlantic Review 55, no. 2 (May 1990): 143–46.
321. Bloom, Harold, ed. James Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson.” Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
322. Bloom, Harold. “Samuel Johnson and Goethe.” In Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?, 156–89. New York: Riverhead Books, 2004.
323. Bloom, Harold. “Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann.” In Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds, 166–87. New York: Warner Books, 2002.
324. Bloom, Harold. “The Critic’s Critc [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Life by David Nokes].” New York Times, November 8, 2009.
325. Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994.
326. Blythe, Ronald, ed. The Pleasures of Diaries: Four Centuries of Private Writing. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989.
327. Boag, Alistair. Review of The Politics of Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. TLS, August 24, 1990, 905.
328. Bogel, Fredric. “Johnson and the Role of Authority.” In The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature, edited by Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown, 189–209. New York: Methuen, 1987.
329. Bogel, Fredric. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Modern Philology 91 (May 1994): 517–23.
330. Bogel, Fredric V. Review of “Steel for the Mind”: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 20 (2001): 507–8.
331. Bogel, Fredric V. The Dream of My Brother: An Essay on Johnson’s Authority. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria Department of English, 1990. Reviews:
     • Sherman, Stuart. Review of The Dream of My Brother: An Essay on Johnson’s Authority, by Fredric V. Bogel. Johnsonian News Letter 50, no. 3 (September 1990): 8–9.
332. Boire, Gary. “‘Wide-Wasting Pest’: Social History in The Vanity of Human Wishes.” Eighteenth-Century Life 12, no. 2 (May 1988): 73–85.
333. Bold, Alan. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Herald Weekender, June 29, 1991.
334. Bond, Erik. “Bringing Up Boswell: Drama, Criticism, and the Journals.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 151–76.
335. Bond, Erik. “Conducting Projects: The Imaginative Agenda of Writing in London, 1716–1782.” PhD Thesis, New York University, 2001.
     Abstract: In this dissertation I argue that eighteenth-century writers negotiated their relationship to a newly complex London by using the metaphor of conduct. Focusing on London’s literal geographic and administrative tensions, I claim that writers tried to navigate these tensions by figurative and imaginative means. Printed texts could therefore resemble blueprints for alternative modes of urban organization in which writers, acting as conductors of new social opportunities, established a set of instructions about how to approach, interpret, and reimagine London properly. Conduct became an organizing metaphor writers used to detail the moral importance of their own practice and legitimize their work to the public. By assigning both a vocabulary and a social value to writing, the metaphor of conduct was an invaluable, although abstract, tool of systematization that gave writing both a protocol and a product. Writers such as John Gay, Henry Fielding, Alexander Pope, James Boswell, and Frances Burney valued this metaphor because it could sometimes refer to the literal geographical tensions unique to mid-eighteenth-century London, and, at other times, could lend writers the impression that they exercised an active, yet figurative, control over the literal cityscape. Describing a district that lay on the margins of the Court and the City and between Whitehall and Whitechapel, the writers I examine addressed an informally governed district in which they could imagine themselves as competitors with both the politicians of Westminster and the aldermen of the City of London. As writers refigured these literal, geographical tensions through the metaphor of conduct, they acted out fantasies of a London in which they controlled standards of taste, criticism, and interpretation. But by referring to a marginal district between Court and City, writers strengthened the impression that their figurative fantasies were literally controlling a London that was outgrowing the Court–City binary. As conduct gestured towards new models of urban organization to which the writer was an essential contributor, reading about London came to seem synonymous with defining it. The didacticism of these texts is, therefore, their most imaginative trait.
336. Bonnell, Thomas F. “Bookselling and Canon-Making: The Trade Rivalry over the English Poets, 1776–1783.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 19 (1989): 53–69.
337. Bonnell, Thomas F. “Furnishings: English and Scottish Poetry Series in the Late Eighteenth Century.” Yearbook of English Studies 45 (2015): 109–36.
338. Bonnell, Thomas F. “The Jenyns Review: ‘Leibnitian Reasoning’ on Trial.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 92–98. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
339. Bonnell, Thomas F. “John Bell’s Poets of Great Britain: The ‘Little Trifling Edition’ Revisited.” Modern Philology 85, no. 2 (November 1987): 128–52.
340. Bonnell, Thomas F. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. Modern Philology 86, no. 4 (1989): 427–30.
341. Bonnell, Thomas F. Review of Johnson and Boswell: A Biography of Friendship, by John B. Radner. The Historian 76, no. 3 (2017): 639–41.
342. Bonnell, Thomas F., ed. Paroxysm Lost: Volatility and Evanescence in the “Life of Johnson” Manuscript. Providence: Privately Printed by Stinehour Editions for the Johnsonians, 2023.
343. Bonnell, Thomas F. “Patchwork and Piracy: John Bell’s ‘Connected System of Biography’ and the Use of Johnson’s Prefaces.” Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 48 (1995): 193–228.
344. Boobani, Farzad. “Two Tales of a City: London in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist and Samuel Johnson’s London.” Contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies 1, no. 1 (2018): 5–19.
345. Booth, William Brian. “Samuel Johnson and Work.” PhD thesis, Council for National Academic Awards, United Kingdom, 1991.
346. Borkowski, David. “(Class)ifying Language: The War of the Word.” Rhetoric Review 4 (October 2002): 357–83.
347. Bostridge, Mark. “Pride and Patronage [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” The Independent on Sunday, September 2, 2001.
348. Boswell, James. A Dish of Tea with Dr Johnson: From James Boswell’s “The Life of Samuel Johnson” and “The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.” Edited by Russell Barr, Ian Redford, and Max Stafford-Clark. London: Oberon Books, 2011.
349. Boswell, James. An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. Edited by James T. Boulton and T. O. McLoughlin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
     Abstract: This first complete reprint of Boswell’s book on Corsica since the eighteenth century is enhanced by comprehensive annotation, textual apparatus, and a critical introduction. Boswell designed his text in two parts: first, an Account of Corsica, which gives a historical, political, socio-economic, and cultural overview of the Corsican people, and second, the Journal of his tour to see the Corsican leader Pascal Paoli in 1765. This edition, unlike so many reprints of just the Journal, allows the reader to appreciate Boswell’s original design. The young and adventuresome Boswell wanted to write a book that would swing public opinion, and perhaps the British government, to support the Corsicans in their struggle for independence. He was well aware that his English readers had but the haziest ideas about Corsica gleaned from but snatches of news in the papers. The first part would therefore provide the context within which to understand and appreciate his account of his journey to and meeting with Paoli. The complete text also illustrates aspects of Boswell that have received less attention than they might, namely, his sense of history, his political enthusiasm for national liberty, and his scholarship. He brings to the book a solid foundation in the Classics and the law, a facility in French and Italian, and a sensitivity to writing that, as the notes show, is evident in the reworking of his manuscript. The editors’ introduction and the extensive annotation point up Boswell the scholar — assiduous, sedulous to get at the relevant sources, careful to do justice to those he disagreed with, and open about seeking and acknowledging advice. The text reveals Boswell as a serious and independent thinker and a writer committed to Corsica’s independence. What he argued for and presumed was about to be achieved is still a matter of debate in Corsica and metropolitan France.
     Reviews:
     • Baines, Paul. Review of An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, by James T. Boulton and T. O. McLoughlin. Modern Language Review 103, no. 3 (2008): 826–27. https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2008.0148.
     • Lee, Anthony W. Review of An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, by James T. Boulton and T. O. McLoughlin. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 18 (2007): 449.
     • Lister, Michael. Review of An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, by James T. Boulton and T. O. McLoughlin. TLS 5381 (May 19, 2006): 33.
     • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, by James T. Boulton and T. O. McLoughlin. Notes and Queries 55, no. 1 (2008): 108–10. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjm260.
     • Viviès, Jean. Review of An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, by James T. Boulton and T. O. McLoughlin. Revue de La Société d’études Anglo-Américaines Des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles 66 (2009): 296–97.
350. Boswell, James. Boswell: The English Experiment, 1785–1789. Edited by Irma S. Lustig and Frederick A. Pottle. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986. Reviews:
     • Clayton, Paul. Review of Boswell: The English Experiment, 1785–1789, by Irma S. Lustig and F. A. Powell. Notes and Queries 36, no. 1 (March 1, 1989): 115–16. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/36-1-115a.
     • Stuttaford, Genevieve. Review of Boswell: The English Experiment, 1785–1789, by Irma S. Lustig and Frederick A. Pottle. Publishers Weekly 230, no. 13 (1986): 64.
351. Boswell, James. Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789–1795. Edited by Marlies K. Danziger and Frank Brady. The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989. Reviews:
     • Baruth, Philip E. Review of Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789–1795, by Marlies K. Danziger and Frank Brady. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 13, no. 4 (1990): 343–47. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2010.0323.
     • Clayton, Paul. Review of Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789–1795, by Marlies K. Danziger and Frank Brady. Notes and Queries 38, no. 1 (March 1, 1991): 115–18. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/38.1.115.
     • Miller, Karl. Review of Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789–1795, by Marlies K. Danziger and Frank Brady. London Review of Books 12, no. 2 (1990): 7.
352. Boswell, James. Boswell’s Edinburgh Journals, 1767–1786 Edited by Hugh M. Milne. Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 2001.
     Abstract: James Boswell’s diaries, written while he was practising as an advocate in Edinburgh between 1767 and 1786, provide a vivid picture of the high and low life of the Scottish capital. A friend of philosophers like David Hume and Adam Smith, Boswell also mixed with the criminal classes, was a prodigious drinker and frequented the town’s brothels. Each day he wrote down all that he had done and seen with complete frankness.
     Reviews:
     • Brown, Allan. “The Making of Boswell [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman, According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge, and Boswell’s Edinburgh Journals, 1767–1786].” The Sunday Times, September 16, 2001.
353. Boswell, James. Boswell’s London Journal, 1762–1763. Edited by Frederick A. Pottle and Peter Ackroyd. 2nd ed. The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474464581.
354. Boswell, James. The Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone. Edited by George Morrow Kahrl, Thomas W. Copeland, Peter S. Baker, Rachel McClellan, and James M. Osborn. Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition 4. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987.
     Abstract: The volume collects Boswell’s correspondence with three of the most prominent members of The Club, and each reveals a different facet of Boswell’s full and varied involvement with life and literature. When an admiring Boswell initiated a correspondence in 1767 with Garrick, he was a promising young Scots advocate who was about to publish his popular and influential Account of Corsica, while Garrick was at the height of his theatrical fame. They carried on a lively, light-hearted exchange, always more urgent on Boswell’s than on Garrick’s part, until Garrick’s death in 1779. A year earlier Boswell had begun writing to Burke, and this correspondence extends until 1791, a period that included much of Burke’s active political life as well as Boswell’s major accomplishments and disappointments. It is characterized by a warmth and ease that gradually turned into a cool distance under the strain of personal and political developments. The longest and most intimate correspondence of this volume, that with Edmond Malone, illuminates in a striking manner Boswell’s professionalism as a writer. It begins in 1785 with Boswell and Malone immersed in revisions for the second edition of The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, and continues through their collaboration on his Life of Johnson. Throughout, it reveals not only the essential help Malone provided for Boswell, but also the sureness Boswell with which organized and wrote his great works. This correspondence ends only a month before Boswell’s death in 1795. This volume prints a total of 150 letters: 13 letters to Garrick and 16 from Garrick; 26 letters to Burke and 11 from Burke; 43 letters to Malone and 41 from Malone. Sixteen additional letters (10 to Boswell and 6 from him) of which no texts are known to be extant, receive notice under their proper dates, with as much information about their contents as could be gathered. Boswell’s correspondence with Burke also includes 1 letter from Burke and 1 letter to Burke from Henry Seymour Conway. The majority of the documents in this volume are in the Yale collection; the remainder are reproduced from copies of the originals.
     Reviews:
     • Eastwood, David. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone, by George Morrow Kahrl, Peter S. Baker, Rachel McClellan, and James M. Osborn. The English Historical Review 105, no. 414 (1990): 210.
     • Martin, Peter. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone, by George Morrow Kahrl, Peter S. Baker, Rachel McClellan, and James M. Osborn. Philological Quarterly 68, no. 1 (1989): 125.
355. Boswell, James. London Journal, 1762–1763. Edited by Gordon Turnbull. Penguin Classics. New York: Penguin, 2010.
     Abstract: Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at 22, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal presents a record of adventures ranging from his recounted love affair with a Covent Garden actress to his first amusingly bruising meeting with Samuel Johnson, to whom Boswell would later become both friend and biographer.
     Reviews:
     • Tankard, Paul. “‘My Journal Goes Charmingly On’: Boswell Reedited [Review of London Journal, 1762–1763, by Gordon Turnbull].” Eighteenth-Century Life 38, no. 3 (Fall 2014): 111–14. https://doi.org/10.1215/000982601-2774037.
356. Boswell, James. Das Leben Samuel Johnsons und Das Tagebuch einer Reise nach den Hebriden. Translated by Jutta Schlösser. Bibliothek des 18. Jahrhunderts. München: Beck, 1985.
357. Boswell, James. Diario de un viaje a las Hébridas con Samuel Johnson. Translated by Antonio Rivero Taravillo. Valencia: Editorial Pre-textos, 2016.
     Abstract: En 1773, Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) y James Boswell (1740–1795) emprendieron un viaje por el norte de Escocia, que dio lugar a dos libros memorables. Asistimos en ellos a todo tipo de vicisitudes y personajes, curiosidades y anécdotas en un recorrido de cuatro meses que conduce a los autores por numerosos y pintorescos lugares. En el Diario hallamos dos caracteres bien distintos en delicioso diálogo: el de alguien que comenta, opina y tiene salidas de ingenio desde la madurez, y el de un hombre, aún joven, que aporta el conocimiento de primera mano del país y sus gentes. Como señaló Borges, Boswell quiso subrayar sus diferencias con Johnson como Cervantes marcó la disparidad entre Don Quijote y Sancho o como Arthur Conan Doyle haría lo propio entre Holmes y Watson. El libro, una fuente impagable de datos y erudiciones varias, posee un alto valor histórico y antropológico y ofrece una mirada privilegiada sobre un paisaje de enorme atractivo y una sociedad que aún se rige por el sistema de los clanes. Pero, sobre todo, es una obra de gran calidad literaria, en la que no faltan la finura psicológica y el humor. Aunque el Viaje de Johnson (1775) fue publicado hace algunos años en nuestra lengua, el Diario de Boswell (1785) no había sido vertido antes al español. Lo hace ahora Antonio Rivero Taravillo, traductor de grandes autores de la lengua inglesa y buen conocedor de la literatura gaélica.
358. Boswell, James. Diario di un viaggio alle Ebridi. Edited by Andrea Asioli. Il divano 299. Palermo: Sellerio, 2015.
     Abstract: Questa curiosa avventura di viaggio del dottor Johnson con il suo biografo Boswell (che una ventina d’anni dopo lo avrebbe immortalato ne “Vita di Samuel Johnson”, di cui questo “Viaggio alle Ebridi” è una sorta di prova generale) si svolse tra l’agosto e il novembre del 1773. Il dotto letterato era nel suo sessantaquattresimo anno e dunque la faticosa escursione si caricava di molti significati, soprattutto la prospettiva di “godere gli aspetti selvaggi” di una terra ancora circondata di mistero. Ma come il Dottore guarda al paesaggio e si fa antropologo, così il giovane Boswell si sofferma di più sul venerato maestro (“qualunque cosa riguardi un uomo così grande merita di essere osservata”). Sicché il diario giornaliero di una esplorazione diventa anche il ritratto di un genio in viaggio che giudica dei contemporanei e uno specchio della vita britannica settecentesca.
359. Boswell, James. Dr. Johnson’s “Life in Scenes”: A Reproduction of Those Leaves from James Boswell’s Manuscript of the “Life” (Houghton fMS Eng 1836) in Which Dr. Johnson Dines with Mr. Wilkes. Cambridge, Mass.: Privately printed for the annual meeting of the Johnsonians, 2003.
     With a foreword by Mary, Viscountess Eccles, and an afterword by Bruce Redford.
360. Boswell, James. Dr. Samuel Johnson: Leben und Meinungen. Translated by Fritz Güttinger. Diogenes-Taschenbuch 20786. Zürich: Diogenes, 1990.
361. Boswell, James. Dr. Samuel Johnson Leben und Meinungen; mit dem Tagebuch einer Reise nach den Hebriden. Translated by Fritz Güttinger. Zürich: Diogenes, 2008.
     Abstract: Ein begeisterungsfähiger junger Mann trifft auf einen Gelehrten, den er abgöttisch bewundert. Über Jahrzehnte begleitet er ihn und hält alles, was sein Idol tut oder sagt, akribisch fest: Wen er besucht, was er isst, mit wem, in welchen Kneipen, was dabei geredet wird und so weiter und so fort. Stellen Sie sich weiter vor, der Gelehrte sei geistreich, umfassend gebildet, aufbrausend, schlagfertig, ein höchst widersprüchlicher, freier und faszinierender Geist. Und der junge Mann sei empfindsam und nicht ohne Humor. Dann haben Sie eine Vorstellung von der berühmtesten Biographie aller Zeiten: James Boswells Lebensbeschreibung von Dr. Samuel Johnson, dem Schriftsteller, Lexikographen und Literaturpapst des 18. Jahrhunderts. Aus dem fesselnden Porträt eines außergewöhnlichen Mannes ersteht das Bild seiner Zeit — und unserer europäischen Kultur.
362. Boswell, James. En défense des valeureux Corses. Translated by Béatrice Vierne. Anatolia. Monaco: Éd. du Rocher, 2002.
     Abstract: Includes “La campagne de Corse de James Boswell” by Frederick A. Pottle. With a preface by Samuel Brussel.
363. Boswell, James. “Endpiece: A Very Short Report Admired by Dr Johnson.” British Medical Journal 315, no. 7099 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.315.7099.0f.
364. Boswell, James. “Endpiece: Dr Johnson on Information Retrieval.” British Medical Journal 315, no. 7108 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.315.7108.0h.
365. Boswell, James. “Endpiece: Dr Johnson on Overinterpretation of the Mini Mental State Examination.” British Medical Journal 314, no. 7097 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.314.7097.0h.
366. Boswell, James. État de la Corse. Edited by Jean Viviès. Collection Sud. Paris: Centre national de la recherce scientifique: Presses du CNRS diffusion, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb355609448. Reviews:
     • Ogée, Frédéric. Review of État de la Corse, by Jean Viviès. Dix-huitième siècle 26 (August 1994): 579–80.
367. Boswell, James. État de la Corse; suivi de Journal d’un voyage en Corse et mémoires de Pascal Paoli. Edited by Jean Viviès. Édition bilingue. Ajaccio: Albiana, 2019. Reviews:
     • Beretti, Francis. Review of État de la Corse; suivi de Journal d’un voyage en Corse et mémoires de Pascal Paoli, by Jean Viviès. XVII–XVIII: Revue de La Société d’études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles 76 (2019). https://doi.org/10.4000/1718.4026.
     • Dachez, Hélène. Review of État de la Corse; suivi de Journal d’un voyage en Corse et mémoires de Pascal Paoli, by Jean Viviès. Miranda 20 (2020).
368. Boswell, James. Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell. Edited by Paul Tankard. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.
     Abstract: James Boswell (1740–1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a generous and varied selection of Boswell’s journalistic writings, most of which have not been published since the eighteenth century. It offers a new angle on the history of journalism, an idiosyncratic view of literature, politics, and public life in late eighteenth-century Britain, and an original perspective on a complex and engaging literary personality.
     Reviews:
     • Huch, Ronald K. Review of Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell, by Paul Tankard. The Historian 78, no. 3 (2016): 593–94. https://doi.org/10.1111/hisn.12311.
     • Lee, Anthony W. Review of Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell, by Paul Tankard. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 29, no. 1 (2015): 43–50.
     • Radner, John B. Review of Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell, by Paul Tankard. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 23 (2015): 349–58.
     • Review of Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell, by Paul Tankard. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 51, no. 2 (2019): 196–97. https://doi.org/10.5325/scriblerian.51.2.0196.
     • Sider Jost, Jacob. Review of Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell, by Paul Tankard. Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 56–57.
369. Boswell, James. From the Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Edinburgh: Akros, 1995.
     Abridged. Limited edition of 130 numbered copies.
370. Boswell, James. The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757–1763. Edited by James J. Caudle and David Hankins. Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition 9. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
     Abstract: This volume, ninth in the Research Series of correspondence in the Yale Boswell Editions, assembles the bulk of the surviving letters between the young Boswell and his circle of friends and acquaintances in a period crucial to his personal and authorial development, up to the time he wrote his now famous journal in London in 1762–63. Opening with an exchange — rooted in his rebellious adolescent fascination with the Edinburgh theatre — with the gentleman-actor West Digges, it closes with letters written in July 1763 near the end of his second visit to London (the one in which he first met Samuel Johnson), a short time before his reluctant departure for legal study in Utrecht. The volume features centrally the correspondence between Boswell and his friend and literary collaborator Andrew Erskine (1740–93), a poet/soldier of the kind the young Boswell briefly aspired to be. Their surviving letters, printed here alongside the revised versions in the facetious Letters between the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and James Boswell, Esq., Boswell’s first book-length publication, and the first to bear his name, offer revealingly early evidence of the kinds of selective self-revision Boswell would employ in his later writings and perfect in the Life of Johnson (1791). Overall, these letters document Boswell’s fluid experiments in selfhood as he ponders his life’s future possible trajectories — as soldier, lawyer, wit, author, bon-vivant, Scots laird, or M.P. — and records, and tests against other sensibilities, his fascination with the unfolding drama of his existence. James J. Caudle’s introduction situates this drama in the historical contexts which it mirrors and illuminates, following Boswell from his post-Culloden Edinburgh boyhood to his capitulation to his formidable father’s vision for him (to follow him as a Scots laird and lawyer) soon after the brief and embattled premiership of the Earl of Bute brings a vexed and controversial end to the Seven Years’ War. Some thirty-five correspondents are represented in more than 150 letters and other documents (such as verse-epistles), comprehensively annotated to the long-established standards of the Yale Boswell Editions.
     Abstract: This is the first of two volumes containing Boswell’s correspondence with more than 200 people, including Pitt, Rousseau, Paoli, John Wilkes, Sir Alexander Dick, Baretti and numerous women friends
     Reviews:
     • Lee, Anthony W. “Quo Vadis? Samuel Johnson in the New Millennium [Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757–1763, by David Hankins and James J. Caudle; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man: A Translation from the French, by O M Brack, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick; and Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot].” Modern Philology 104, no. 4 (May 2007): 529–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/519192.
371. Boswell, James. The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769. Volume 1, 1766–1767. Edited by Richard Cargill Cole, Peter S. Baker, and Rachel McClellan. Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition 5. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Reviews:
     • Folkenflik, Robert. Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769, by Richard Cargill Cole, Peter S. Baker, and Rachel McClellan. Eighteenth-Century Studies 33, no. 2 (2000): 289.
     • Jones, A. E., Jr. Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769, by Richard Cargill Cole, Peter S. Baker, and Rachel McClellan. Choice 33, no. 6 (1996): 3158. https://doi.org/10.5860/CHOICE.33-3158a.
     • Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769, by Richard Cargill Cole, Peter S. Baker, and Rachel McClellan. Virginia Quarterly Review 72, no. 1 (1996): SS20.
     • Walsh, Marcus. Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769, by Richard Cargill Cole, Peter S. Baker, and Rachel McClellan. Review of English Studies 47, no. 185 (1996): 98–99.
372. Boswell, James. Historisch-geographische Beschreibung von Corsica: Tagebuch einer Reise nach Corsica (1768). Edited by Hans-Joachim Polleichtner. Neuausg. Hannover: Hohesufer, 2010.
373. Boswell, James. James Boswell: The Journal of His German and Swiss Travels, 1764. Edited by Marlies K. Danziger. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
     Abstract: This volume, first in the Yale Research Series of Boswell’s journals, covers his emotionally eventful youthful travels through the German and Swiss territories, from mid-June 1764 (after his law studies in Utrecht) to New Year’s Day, 1765, when he crossed the Alps for the next stages of his European tour, in Italy, Corsica and France. The volume is the Research Series parallel to Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764, ed. F. A. Pottle (1953), whose annotation the editor, Marlies K. Danziger, has greatly deepened, expanded, supplemented and in many cases corrected. In keeping with the editorial policies of the Research Series, it restores Boswell’s original spelling, punctuation and paragraphing (and his generally less than perfect French). The editor’s detailed notes illuminate the contemporary political and historical context as well as a vast array of contemporary issues, concepts and personalities no longer familiar to modern readers (especially English-speaking ones). As well as the text of the fully-written journal, the volume includes Boswell’s personal daily memoranda and his frequently revealing ‘Ten Lines a Day’ poems; the autobiographical ‘Ébauche de ma vie’ written for Rousseau, along with its various drafts, outlines, and attendant correspondence; his detailed expense accounts (a window on the fluctuating currencies and erratic economy of a Europe not yet formed into our modern nation-states); and four maps, adapted from contemporary cartographic records, illustrating Boswell’s complicated and often arduous itinerary. Boswell’s European travels followed his exhilarating stay in London of 1762–1763 and his mostly bleak winter in the United Provinces in 1763–64. Though forever to be best known for his later accounts of his principal biographical subject, Samuel Johnson, Boswell has emerged since the recovery of his private papers as a compelling autobiographer, and here shows his fascination with, and abilities to record with typical liveliness and percipience, men and women across a strikingly diverse social range. The European journal, which Boswell had unfulfilled hopes later in life of revising and publishing in the manner of his Corsican and Hebridean diaries, records the young Scot’s quest for experience in hopes of a cosmopolitan broadening, cultural enrichment, and religious and spiritual security, and conversations culminating in his deeply gratifying meetings with Rousseau and Voltaire. At the same time, it documents in close personal detail an unstable Europe rebuilding and restoring itself a little more than a year after the end of the Seven Years’ War, a Europe whose quest for stability amid ominous political and religious fluctuation mirrors and parallels the diarist’s own.
     Reviews:
     • Black, Jeremy. Review of James Boswell: The Journal of His German and Swiss Travels, 1764, by Marlies K. Danziger. Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 1 (March 2009): 49–50.
374. Boswell, James. James Boswell visita al profesor Kant. Translated by Miguel Martínez-Lage. Colección Libros del apuntador. Segovia: La uÑa RoTa, 2012.
375. Boswell, James. James Boswell’s Letter to Samuel Johnson, 20th September 1779: This Facsimile Commemorates the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of James Boswell on the 19th May 1795. Edited by Graham Nicholls. Lichfield: Johnson Society of Lichfield, 1995.
376. Boswell, James. James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript. Edited by Marshall Waingrow, Brucre Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. 4 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. Reviews:
     • Abbott, John L. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 10 (1996): 14.
     • Colley, Linda. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. London Review of Books 17, no. 18 (1995): 14–15.
     • Folkenflik, Robert. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. Eighteenth-Century Studies 33, no. 2 (2000): 289.
     • Gray, James. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. Dalhousie Review 76, no. 1 (1996): 135–39.
     • Ingram, Allan. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. Yearbook of English Studies 28 (1998): 319–20.
     • Lee, Anthony W. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 27 (2022): 280–83.
     • O’Hagan, Andrew. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. London Review of Books 22, no. 19 (October 5, 2000): 7–8.
     • Suarez, Michael F. S.J. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. TLS, December 15, 1995, 11–12.
     • Womersley, David. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. Review of English Studies 48 (1997): 114–16.
377. Boswell, James. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, 2004.
378. Boswell, James. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Edited by Iain Galbraith. Köln: Konemann, 2000.
379. Boswell, James. The Journals in Scotland, England and Ireland, 1766–1769. Edited by Hugh M. Milne. The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399501026.
     Abstract: The journals covered by the volume record much of Boswell’s life as a young advocate during the first few years of his practice at the Scottish bar. The journals also record much information about Boswell’s composition and publication of his instant best-seller, Account of Corsica, his involvement as a volunteer for the Douglas camp in the great Douglas Cause and his search for a wife. During Boswell’s visits to London and Oxford in 1768, he produced some of his finest journal-writing, including details of memorable and significant conversations with Samuel Johnson. The manuscript journals in the volume have been printed to correspond to the originals as closely as is feasible in the medium of print.
     Reviews:
     • Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Journals in Scotland, England and Ireland, 1766–1769, by Hugh Milne. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 57, no. 1 (2024): 57–63.
380. Boswell, James. The Journals of James Boswell, 1762–1795. Edited by John Wain. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. Reviews:
     • Andrew, Donna T. Review of The Journals of James Boswell, 1762–1795, by John Wain. Canadian Journal of History 28, no. 3 (1993): 587.
     • Colley, Linda. Review of The Journals of James Boswell, 1762–1795, by Marshall Waingrow. London Review of Books 17, no. 18 (1995): 14–15.
     • Jones, A. E., Jr. Review of The journals of James Boswell, 1762–1795, by John Wain. Choice 30, no. 5 (1993): 2504. https://doi.org/10.5860/CHOICE.30-2504.
     • Rosenblum, Joseph. Review of The Journals of James Boswell, 1762–1795, by John Wain. Library Journal 117, no. 13 (1992): 99.
381. Boswell, James. “No Abolition of Slavery; or, The Universal Empire of Love: A Poem (1791).” In Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation, Vol 6: Writings in the British Romantic Period, edited by Anne K Mellor, Peter J Kitson, James Walvin, and Debbie Lee. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 1999.
382. Boswell, James. La vida de Samuel Johnson. Translated by José Miguel Santamaría López and Cándido Santamaría López. El Acantilado 144. Pozuelo de Alarcón: Espasa, 2007.
383. Boswell, James. La vida del doctor Samuel Johnson. Translated by Antonio Dorta. 2nd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1998.
     Translated and abridged by Antonio Dorta, with a preface by Fernando Savater.
384. Boswell, James. Samuel Johnson’s Life and the Most Meaningful Events of His Times. Gloucester: Gloucester Art, 1993.
385. Boswell, James. Selections from the Life of Samuel Johnson. Edited by R. W. Chapman. Dover Thrift Editions. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2018.
386. Boswell, James. The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the “Life of Johnson. Edited by Marshall Waingrow. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001. Reviews:
     • Campbell, James. Review of The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the “Life of Johnson,” by Marshall Waingrow. TLS, September 14, 2001, 30–31.
     • Tankard, Paul. Review of The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the “Life of Johnson,” by Marshall Waingrow. The Southern Johnsonian 10, no. 3 (October 2003): 6–7.
387. Boswell, James. The Essential Boswell: Selections from the Writings of James Boswell. Edited by Peter Martin. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003. Reviews:
     • Riemer, Andrew. “Posthumous Cheek of a Man of Letters [Review of The Essential Boswell: Selections from the Writings of James Boswell, by Peter Martin].” Sydney Morning Herald, March 27, 2004.
388. Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. London: David Campbell, 1992.
389. Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Translated by Tova Rozen. Jerusalem: Carmel, 1992.
390. Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Edited by Claude Rawson. New York: Everyman’s Library, 1993.
391. Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2008.
     Abstract: Publisher’s blurb: “This new edition collates and corrects the textual inaccuracies of previous versions, returning to the original manuscript in order to present a definitive edition of this landmark text.”
392. Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Berkeley: Mint Editions, 2021.
393. Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson [Abridged]. Edited by John Canning. London: Methuen, 1991.
394. Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 1990.
395. Boswell, James. Vida de Samuel Johnson, doctor en leyes. Barcelona: Acantilado, 2021.
     Abstract: La Vida de Samuel Johnson, de James Boswell, «delicia y orgullo del mundo de habla inglesa», según G. B. Hill, es considerada unánimemente la biografía más lograda que se ha escrito jamás. Pese a que Johnson, coloso de la literatura de su tiempo, era un personaje complejo, Boswell logra presentárnoslo en su insólita riqueza gracias a su conocimiento personal y al minucioso trabajo de recopilación de los testimonios de muchos otros contemporáneos: a través de las enjundiosas conversaciones con Johnson, de sus cartas, poemas, traducciones, panegíricos, críticas o artículos para revistas, va emergiendo el personaje desde su juventud hasta su consagración, con tal viveza que el lector tiene la impresión de conocerlo como si hubiera tenido el privilegio de tratarlo. Y así, merced a una prodigiosa combinación de afecto, respeto, destreza y rigor, Boswell consiguió dar vida al personaje retratado para que trascendiera su existencia temporal y propagara su influjo durante siglos. No es extraño que el tiempo haya convertido la Vida de Samuel Johnson en un auténtico modelo del género biográfico.
396. Boswell James. Yuehanxun zhuan, trans. Luojia Luo and Luofu Mo. Beijing: Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she, 2004.
397. Boswell, James. Zhizn Semiuelia Dzhonsona: Otryvki iz knigi, s prilozheniem izbrannykh proizvedenii Semiuelia Dzhonsona. Translated by Aleksandra Liverganta. Moscow: Tekst, 2003.
     Russian translation of Boswell’s Life (abridged).
398. Boswell James. 約翰生傳 / Yue han sheng chuan [The Life of Samuel Johnson]. Translated by Luo Luojia. 新潮文庫 150. 臺北市: 志文, 民74 Edition: 再版. Tai bei shi: Zhi wen, 1985.
399. Boswell James. 约翰生传: 全译本 = Quan yi ben [The Life of Samuel Johnson]. Translated by Long Pu. Shanghai: 上海: 上海译文出版社有限公司, 2023.
400. Boswell, James, James Bruce, and Andrew Gibb. The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb: Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate. Edited by Nellie Pottle Hankins and John Strawhorn. Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition 8. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
     Abstract: This volume contains the surviving correspondence of James Boswell, who became ninth laird of Auchinleck in Ayrshire in 1782, with his estate overseers James Bruce (1719–90) and Andrew Gibb (1767–1839). Bruce, succeeding his father, served the estate from 1741 until his death. Relations between Bruce and the Auchinleck family were close and long standing, and Bruce, twenty-one years Boswell’s senior, was an avuncular friend and tutor to Boswell in his youth, mediating the vexed relationship between him and his father and playing an integral part in Boswell’s education in estate management. Gibb, just 22 when appointed to succeed Bruce, enjoyed a less close but still cordial relationship with the laird, and eventually served Boswell, his son, and his grandson, for a total of 46 years. The letters in this volume present Boswell in a light perhaps new to those who know him as diarist, advocate, and biographer of Samuel Johnson. He appears here as one of the “gentleman improvers” of a largely agricultural south-western Scotland on the brink of the Industrial Revolution, and the volume, a contribution to regional social and economic history, offers an extensive and detailed case study of estate life and management during this important transitional period.
     Reviews:
     • Baruth, Philip. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb: Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate, by Nellie Pottle Hankins and John Strawhorn. Eighteenth-Century Studies 35, no. 2 (2002): 279–84.
     • Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb: Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate, by Nellie Pottle Hankins and John Strawhorn. Virginia Quarterly Review 75, no. 4 (1999): A128–29.
     • Whatley, Christopher A. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb: Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate, by Nellie Pottle Hankins and John Strawhorn. Scottish Historical Review 79, no. 207 (2000): 130–31. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2000.79.1.130.
401. Boswell, James, and Kenneth Craham. The A–Z of Dr Johnson: Boswell’s Life of Johnson [Abridged]. Audible Audiobook. BBC Audio, 2013.
402. Boswell, James, and William Forbes. The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo. Edited by Richard B. Sher. Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition 10. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.
     Abstract: This volume, tenth in the Yale Boswell Editions Research Series of correspondence, collects the letters exchanged between James Boswell (1740–1795) and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo (1739–1806), eminent banker, civic improver, philanthropist, literary and cultural patron, and lay leader of Edinburgh’s ‘English Episcopal’ community.
     Reviews:
     • Sider Jost, Jacob. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, by Richard B. Sher. Eighteenth-Century Studies 57, no. 2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2024.a916861.
403. Boswell, James, and Billy Hartman. A Life of Samuel Johnson [Abridged]. Audible Audiobook. Naxos AudioBooks, 2006.
404. Boswell, James, and Billy Hartman. The Life of Samuel Johnson [Abridged]. Audio CD. 2 vols. London: Naxos AudioBooks, 1994.
405. Boswell, James, and Jim Killavey. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Audiocassette. 24 vols. Ashland: Classics on Tape, 1988.
406. Boswell, James, and Bernard Mayes. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Audio CD. Blackstone Audiobooks, 2017.
407. Boswell, James, and William Johnson Temple. The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756–1795. Edited by Thomas Crawford. 2 vols. Boswell’s Correspondence 6. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997. Reviews:
     • Allan, David. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell with William Johnson Temple. Volume 1: 1756–1777, by Thomas Crawford. Scottish Historical Review 78, no. 205 (1999): 126–28.
     • Folkenflik, Robert. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756–1795, by Thomas Crawford. Eighteenth-Century Studies 33, no. 2 (2000): 289.
     • Nakanishi, Wendy Jones. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756–1795, by Thomas Crawford. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 79, no. 6 (1998): 568.
     • Womersley, David. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756–1795, by Thomas Crawford. Review of English Studies 50, no. 198 (1999): 247–48. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/50.198.247.
408. Boswell, James, and David Timson. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Audible Audiobook. Naxos AudioBooks, 2017. Reviews:
     • Bedford, Rachel. “An Intellectual Colossus [Review of David Timson’s Audiobook Version of Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’].” The Spectator 337, no. 9898 (2018): 39.
409. Boswell, James, and Roger Willemsen. Dr. Samuel Johnson [abridged]. Audiobook. Diogenes Verlag, 1988.
410. Boswell’s London Journal. Videocassette. Princeton: Films for the Humanities, 1987.
411. Bouler, Steven William. “‘Thunder o’er the Drowsy Pit’: The Performance Historiography of Samuel Johnson’s ‘Mahomet and Irene’ at Drury Lane.” PhD thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002.
412. Boulton, James T. Samuel Johnson. Routledge, 1995.
413. Boulton, James T. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. Notes and Queries 35 [233], no. 1 (1988): 97–98.
414. Boulton, James T. “The Wisdom of Samuel Johnson.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1997, 11–23.
415. Bourke, W. Michael. “One Dogma and One Innocuous Truth of Relativism: Incommensurability, Indeterminism, and Hans-Georg Gadamer.” MA thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1996.
416. Bowden, Ann, and William B. Todd. “Scott’s Commentary on The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson.” Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 48 (1995): 229–48.
417. Bowers, Toni O’Shaughnessy. “Critical Complicities: Savage Mothers, Johnson’s Mother, and the Containment of Maternal Difference.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 115–46.
418. Bowers, Toni O’Shaughnessy. “Maternal Ideology and Matriarchal Authority: British Literature and the Making of Middle-Class Motherhood, 1680–1750.” PhD thesis, Stanford University, 1992.
419. Box, M. A. Review of Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Notes and Queries 56, no. 1 (2009): 155.
420. Boyd, Bradford Q. Review of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, by Anthony W. Lee. Eighteenth-Century Life 47, no. 1 (2023): 102–25.
421. Boyd, Bradford Q. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Eighteenth-Century Life 47, no. 1 (2023): 102–25.
422. Boyd, Bradford Q. “The Highland Tour through the Spectacles of Books: Johnson, Pastoral, and Improvement in Late-Georgian Scotland.” Philological Quarterly 100, no. 3–4 (2021): 463–91.
     Abstract: Contrary to received opinion, Samuel Johnson does not dispatch but instead revives the pastoral mode in English as, prior to the sixteenth century, normatively practiced and theorized. He achieves this improvement by a self-conscious return to sources, valorizing and reactivating the mode’s specifically Greco-Roman tonal and thematic repertoire, in particular the ironized characters, religious traditionalism, and skepticism of “schemes of political improvement” of Theocritus’s Idylls and Vergil’s Eclogues. This Johnsonian revaluation operates both in theory — in Rambler and other essays and individual Lives of the Poets which purge pastoral of its Renaissance-era romance accretions — and in practice: Johnson’s own imaginative writing, dating back to boyhood but expressed most clearly in passages of pastoral (and georgic) prose in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and in the Latin poems that he wrote from Skye.
423. Boyd, Bradford Q. Review of New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, by Anthony W. Lee. Eighteenth-Century Life 47, no. 1 (2023): 102–25.
424. Boyd, Bradford Q. Review of Samuel Johnson among the Modernists, by Anthony W. Lee. Eighteenth-Century Life 47, no. 1 (2023): 102–25.
425. Boyd, Bradford Q. “Working Title.” Eighteenth-Century Life 47, no. 1 (2023): 102–25.
426. Boyd, John D. Review of The Religious Life of Samuel Johnson, by Charles E. Pierce. America 149 (July 9, 1983): 34–36.
427. Boyd, William. “The Pleasure of Their Company: ‘The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides’ by James Boswell.” New York Times, November 14, 1993.
     Abstract: This account of a trip through Scotland to the Western Islands in 1773 is a deserved classic, not only for the portrait it presents of Dr. Johnson — the prototypical Englishman, at the height of his fame — but also for the vivacity, acuity and wit of Boswell’s writing.
428. Bozzy, Mistress and the Bear. Videocassette. Johannesburg: Television Service, University of the Witwatersrand, 1991. Reviews:
     • Roten, M. Review of Bozzy, Mistress and the Bear, by Clare Steyn. Choice 28, no. 10 (June 1991): 5963.
429. Bracegirdle, Brian. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Endeavour 15, no. 3 (1991): 146.
430. Brack, Gay W. “Tetty and Samuel Johnson: The Romance and the Reality.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 147–78.
431. Brack, Gay Wilson. “Sir John Hawkins, Biographer of Johnson: A Rhetorical Analysis.” PhD thesis, Arizona State University, 1992.
432. Brack, O M, Jr. Review of A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson, by Edward Tomarken. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (1995): 169–74.
433. Brack, O M, Jr. Review of A Preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books Associated with Dr. Samuel Johnson, by J. D. Fleeman. The Library 9, no. 1 (1987).
434. Brack, O M, Jr. “An Edition of Samuel Johnson’s Miscellaneous Prose Writings.” East-Central Intelligencer 4, no. 3 (September 1990): 11–13.
435. Brack, O M, Jr. Review of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (1995): 169–74.
436. Brack, O M, Jr. Bred a Bookseller: Samuel Johnson on Vellum Books: A New Essay for The Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California. Mesa, Arizona: Lofgreen’s Printing, 1990.
437. Brack, O M, Jr. “The Gentleman’s Magazine Concealed Printing, and the Texts of Samuel Johnson’s Lives of Admiral Robert Blake and Sir Francis Drake.” Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 40 (1987): 140–46.
438. Brack, O M, Jr. “The Harleian Miscellany: Lost Printing of Volume One Found.” Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 2 (September 2005): 31–35.
439. Brack, O M, Jr. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (1995): 169–74.
440. Brack, O M, Jr. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (1995): 169–74.
441. Brack, O M, Jr. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 21, no. 2 (September 2007): 27–33.
442. Brack, O M, Jr. Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, by Pat Rogers. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (1995): 169–74.
443. Brack, O M, Jr. Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria Jr. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 2 (September 2006): 59–60.
444. Brack, O M, Jr. “Johnson’s First Allusion to Mary Queen of Scots.” Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 51–53.
445. Brack, O M, Jr. “Johnson’s Life of Admiral Blake and the Development of a Biographical Technique.” Modern Philology 85, no. 4 (May 1988): 523–31.
446. Brack, O M, Jr. “Johnson’s Use of Sources in the Life of Sir Francis Drake.” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 42, no. 4 (1988): 197–215. https://doi.org/10.2307/1346973.
447. Brack, O M, Jr. “Publication History.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 13–20. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
448. Brack, O M, Jr. “Reassessing Sir John Hawkins’s The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Some Reflections.” In Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Johnson, edited by Martine W. Brownley, 1–55. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2012.
449. Brack, O M, Jr. “Samuel Johnson and the Epitaph on a Duckling.” Books at Iowa 45 (November 1986): 62–79. https://doi.org/10.17077/0006-7474.1131.
450. Brack, O M, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (1995): 169–74.
451. Brack, O M, Jr. “Samuel Johnson and the Preface to Abbe Prevost’s Memoirs of a Man of Quality.” Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 47 (1994): 155–64.
452. Brack, O M, Jr. “Samuel Johnson and the Translations of Jean Pierre de Crousaz’s Examen and Commentaire.” Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 48 (1995): 60–84.
453. Brack, O M, Jr., ed. Samuel Johnson and Thomas Maurice. Privately printed for the Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California and the Johnson Society of the Central Region, 1991.
454. Brack, O M, Jr. “Samuel Johnson Bicentenary Exhibitions and Catalogues.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 1 (1987): 451–65.
455. Brack, O M, Jr. “Samuel Johnson Edits for the Booksellers: Sir Thomas Browne’s Christian Morals (1756) and The English Works of Roger Ascham (1761).” Library Chronicle of the University of Texas 21, no. 3–4 (1991): 12–39.
456. Brack, O M, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (December 1997): 169–74.
457. Brack, O M, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (December 1997): 169–74.
458. Brack, O M, Jr. “Samuel Johnson Revises a Debate.” Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 21, no. 3 (September 2007): 1–3.
     SJ made substantive revisions to the debate in the House of Lords of 4 Dec. 1741, enough text to fill four galley sheets, as it went through reprints in the Gentleman’s Magazine.
459. Brack, O M, Jr. “Samuel Johnson’s ‘Life of Boerhaave’: Texts New and Old.” Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 22, no. 3 (September 2008): 1–10.
460. Brack, O M, Jr. Review of “Steel for the Mind”: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (1995): 169–74.
461. Brack, O M, Jr. “Surviving as a Professional Author: The Case of Samuel Johnson.” New Rambler D:2, no. 2 (1986): 19–21.
462. Brack, O M, Jr. “The Works of Samuel Johnson and the Canon.” In Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, edited by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood, 246–61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
463. Brack, O M, Jr., and Susan Carlile. “Samuel Johnson’s Contributions to Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote.” Yale University Library Gazette 77, no. 3–4 (April 2003): 166–73.
464. Brack, O M, Jr., and Robert DeMaria Jr. “Some Remarks on the Progress of Learning: A New Preface by Samuel Johnson.” New Rambler E:6 (2002): 61–74.
465. Brack, O M, Jr., and Mary Early. “Samuel Johnson’s Proposals for the Harleian Miscellany.” Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 45 (1992): 127–30.
466. Brack, O M, Jr., and Thomas Kaminski. “Johnson, James, and the Medicinal Dictionary.” In Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers, Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century, edited by Anne C. McDermott, 335–58. London: Routledge, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315233161-32.
467. Brack, O M, Jr., and Loren Rothschild. Samuel Johnson in New Albion: A Descriptive Census of Rare and Useful Johnson Books and Manuscripts and Johnsoniana Now Located in California. Tempe, Ariz.: Impression Makers, 1997.
468. Brack, O M, Jr., and Loren Rothschild. Samuel Johnson, Literary Giant of the Eighteenth Century: An Exhibition at the Huntington Library, May 23–September 21, 2009. Phoenix: Rasselas Press, 2011.
469. Bradley, Susan D. “Cognitive Subjectivity and the Modern Informal Essay: A Study of Montaigne and Johnson.” MA thesis, Wichita State University, 1994.
470. Brady, Andrea. “From Grief to Leisure: ‘Lycidas’ in the Eighteenth Century.” Modern Language Quarterly 77, no. 1 (2016): 41–63.
471. Brady, Charles A. “Retelling Samuel Johnson’s Devil of a Friendship [Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes].” Buffalo News, October 9, 1994.
472. Brady, Frank. James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984. Reviews:
     • Daiches, David. Review of James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795, by Frank Brady. Eighteenth-Century Studies 19, no. 3 (1986): 412.
     • Ferguson, Oliver W. Review of James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795, by Frank Brady. South Atlantic Quarterly 85, no. 4 (1986): 399–400. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-85-4-399.
     • Grundy, Isobel. Review of James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795, by Frank Brady. Modern Language Review 81, no. 2 (1986): 453–55. https://doi.org/10.2307/3729730.
     • Review of James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795, by Frank Brady. Tribune (London) 50, no. 40 (1986): 8.
     • Speck, W. A. Review of James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795, by Frank Brady. Literature and History 12, no. 1 (1986): 114–16.
473. Brady, Frank. “Johnson as a Public Figure.” In Johnson after Two Hundred Years, edited by Paul J. Korshin, 43–54. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
474. Brady, Frank. “Mickle, Boswell, Garrick, and the Siege of Marseilles.” Transactions: The Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences 46 (1987): 235–97.
475. Brand, Geoffrey W. “A Night with Venus and a Year with Mercury: The Germ Theory in the Eighteenth Century.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 1 (1997): 17–21.
476. Brand, Geoffrey W. “Hercules with the Distaff: Johnson and Hannah Glasse’s The Art of Cookery.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 4 (2000): 17–21.
477. Brand, Gerhard. “James Boswell.” In Dictionary of World Biography, edited by Frank N. Magill, Christina J. Moose, and Mark Rehn, 4:174–78. London: Routledge, 1999. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315061863-44.
478. Brant, Clare. “Fume and Perfume: Some Eighteenth-Century Uses of Smell.” Journal of British Studies 43, no. 4 (October 2004): 444–63. https://doi.org/10.1086/421927.
479. Braverman, Richard. “The Narrative Architecture of Rasselas.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 91–111.
480. Brayne, Martin. “Samuel Johnson and OCD.” TLS, no. 6058 (2019): 6.
481. Bree, Linda. “Dr. Johnson and Miss Austen.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 1 (March 2018): 5–15.
482. Brewer, Charlotte. “‘A Goose-Quill or a Gander’s? Female Writers in Johnson’s Dictionary.” In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, 120–39. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
483. Brewer, Charlotte. “Johnson, Webster, and the Oxford English Dictionary.” In A Companion to the History of the English Language, edited by Haruko Momma and Michael Matto, 113–21. Maldon, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
     A short overview of three milestone English dictionaries.
484. Briggs, Asa. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Washington Times, February 16, 1992.
485. Briggs, Peter M. “‘News from the Little World’: A Critical Glance at Eighteenth-Century British Advertising.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 23 (1993): 29–45.
486. Brissenden, Alan. “Sam Johnson Corrected: As You Like It IV.2.” In Renaissance Poetry and Drama in Context: Essays for Christopher Wortham, edited by Andrew Lynch, Anne M. Scott, Christopher Wortham, and Anne Wortham, 115–27. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
487. Brocklebank, Paul. “Identifying Distributional Patterns in Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays.” Discourse and Interaction 8, no. 1 (2015): 5–19. https://doi.org/10.5817/di2015-1-5.
     Abstract: This paper investigates the distribution of words and clusters within a single corpus and across a pair of related corpora. With a corpus containing Samuel Johnson’s periodical essays as the target corpus and a corpus of Addison’s essays as the reference corpus, it is shown how standard techniques for identifying keywords can be extended to identifying distributional tendencies within texts at the levels of sentence, paragraph and whole section/essay. Supplementing the investigation with collocational and concordance data, the main keywords, including TO at sentence, AND at paragraph, BY at essay level, and the main three-word clusters at the various levels, are discussed. It is argued that the methods described are useful additions to the corpus stylistic researcher’s arsenal of techniques.
488. Brocklebank, Paul. “Johnson and the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay: A Corpus-Based Approach.” ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 10 (September 2013): 21–32. https://doi.org/10.4312/elope.10.2.21-32.
     Abstract: This paper investigates the distribution of words and clusters within a single corpus and across a pair of related corpora. With a corpus containing Samuel Johnson’s periodical essays as the target corpus and a corpus of Addison’s essays as the reference corpus, it is shown how standard techniques for identifying keywords can be extended to identifying distributional tendencies within texts at the levels of sentence, paragraph and whole section/essay. Supplementing the investigation with collocational and concordance data, the main keywords, including TO at sentence, AND at paragraph, BY at essay level, and the main three-word clusters at the various levels, are discussed. It is argued that the methods described are useful additions to the corpus stylistic researcher’s arsenal of techniques.
489. Brodey, Inger Sigrun Bredkjaer. “Samuel Johnson and the Morality of Mansfield Park.” In Approaches to Teaching Austen’s “Mansfield Park,” edited by Marcia McClintock Folsom and John Wiltshire, 190–201. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2014.
490. Brody, J. “Constantes et modeles de la critique anti-‘manieriste’ à l’age ‘classique.’” Rivista di litterature moderne e comparate 40, no. 2 (1987): 95–121.
491. Broman, Walter E. Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. Philosophy and Literature 25, no. 1 (2001): 169–71.
492. Bromwich, David. “Samuel Johnson.” In Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature, 46–55. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2007.
     A brief introduction to Johnson’s life, works, and character, with extracts from the Lives of Swift, Pope, and Gray.
493. Bronson, Bertrand H., and Jean M. O’Meara. Selections from Johnson on Shakespeare. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Reviews:
     • Fleeman, J. D. Review of Selections from Johnson on Shakespeare, by Bertrand H. Bronson and Jean M. O’Meara. Notes and Queries 35 [233] (March 1988): 98–99.
     • Middendorf, John H. Review of Selections from Johnson on Shakespeare, by Bertrand H. Bronson and Jean M. O’Meara. Johnsonian News Letter 46, no. 2 (June 1986): 4.
     • Mills, Howard. Review of Selections from Johnson on Shakespeare, by Bertrand H. Bronson and Jean M. O’Meara. English 39, no. 163 (Spring 1990): 65–70.
494. Brooks, Christopher. “Johnson’s Insular Mind and the Analogy of Travel: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.” Essays in Literature 18, no. 1 (Spring 1991): 21–36.
495. Brooks, Christopher. “Nekayah’s Courage and Female Wisdom.” CLA Journal 36, no. 1 (September 1992): 52–72.
496. Brooks, G. P. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. Isis 85, no. 2 (June 1994): 339–40.
497. Broughton, Andrew. “Before Distraction: Reading the Novel, 1750–1798.” PhD thesis, University of Chicago, 2013.
     Abstract: Throughout the eighteenth century, British critics and novelists struggled to make intellectual sense of the process of reading, and the reading of novels in particular. Eighteenth-century writers invested much critical energy in distinguishing “bad,” inattentive, and uncritical reading from more properly attentive modes. This project argues that novelists in the second half of the eighteenth century reacted to this discourse on proper or critical attention by developing a reflexive vocabulary of inattention to describe the structure and effects of novel-reading. Through readings of Scottish Common Sense philosophy, the periodical essays of Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, Frances Burney’s Cecilia, and Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian, I draw out what might be called a novelistic theory of attention, and I connect that theory to eighteenth-century debates about mediation, fiction, and perception. These descriptions of attention, I argue, function as the early novel’s attempts to describe its own status as a medium. By emphasizing the centrality of inattention and distraction to the eighteenth-century novel, my dissertation also connects eighteenth-century debates about novel-reading to current debates about attention and media. By titling this “Before Distraction,” I emphasize the continuity between eighteenth-century problems of attention and our own. At the same time, though, I argue that responses to novel-reading were grounded in (and expand upon) philosophical and scientific debates about attention and perception that are quite unlike our own concerns with, say, the neurological effects of engaging with digital media. The debates about novel reading that I uncover here reveal a now-overlooked history of the early novel as a new and difficult medium, and in doing so force a reconsideration of current narratives about new media and the decline of attention in our age.
498. Brown, Allan. “The Making of Boswell [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman, According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge, and Boswell’s Edinburgh Journals, 1767–1786].” The Sunday Times, September 16, 2001.
499. Brown, Anthony E. Boswellian Studies: A Bibliography. 3rd ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Reviews:
     • Rogers, Pat. Review of Boswellian Studies: A Bibliography, by Anthony E. Brown. New Rambler D:7, no. 7 (1991): 40–41.
500. Brown, Paul. “A New View of Johnson’s Putative Psychological Disorder: In Praise of Mothers.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 5 (2001): 37–43.
501. Brown, R. G. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Choice 27, no. 4 (December 1989): 634.
502. Brown, Robert D. “Some Unpublished Latin Verses on Chronology by Samuel Johnson.” Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin and New Ancient Greek Studies 71, no. 1 (2022): 125–40.
     This is the first known publication of some Latin verses written by Samuel Johnson on the last page of his Welsh Diary. The left column lists the dates of various historical events. The right column contains dactylic hexameters that versify the dates of eleven of these events. The article supplies a text and translation of the verses, together with annotations and a discussion of their content.
503. Brown, Robert D. Review of The Latin Poems, by Niall Rudd. Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 1 (March 2007): 46–49.
504. Brown, Robert D. “‘The Opulent Treasury of Sylvanus Urban’: A Latin Epigram Attributed to Samuel Johnson.” Philological Quarterly 101, no. 1–2 (2022): 95–109.
     Abstract: The epigram In Locupletissimum ornatissimumque SYL. URB. Thesaurum (On the most opulent and ornate treasury of Sylvanus Urban), signed by “Rusticus,” which appears after the title-page in volume 6 of the Gentleman’s Magazine (1736), was attributed to Samuel Johnson by John Nichols in 1821. This article disputes the attribution on two main grounds: (i) A contribution by Rusticus follows Johnson’s ode Ad Urbanum (GM, vol. 8, 1738, 156) which, according to Boswell, was his first contribution to the Gentleman’s Magazine. (ii) This Rusticus can be linked to the Rusticus who was a regular contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine in 1735–36 (vols. 5–6). At least twenty of the twenty-five poems signed by Rusticus in 1735–36 (excluding In Locupletissimum) can be shown to be by the same author, and a case can be made for his having composed them all. The combination of these points makes it highly probable that he was also the author of In Locupletissimum, and that Johnson’s ode Ad Urbanum was . . .
505. Brown, Robert D. “Three Latin Poems Doubtfully Attributed to Samuel Johnson.” Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin and New Ancient Greek Studies 70, no. 1 (2021): 97–114.
     Abstract: The “Poems of Doubtful Authorship” in modern editions of Samuel Johnson’s poetry include three Latin poems that were first associated with Johnson in 1856. This article reveals the weakness of this alleged “attribution” and discusses the arguments for and against Johnson’s authorship of each poem in turn. While certainty is impossible, it concludes that he possibly wrote the translation Ex cantico Solomonis but that Venus in Armour and The Logical Warehouse are unlikely to be his.
506. Brown, Robert D. “A Latin Translation of Verses from Crashaw’s ‘Epitaph upon Husband and Wife.’” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 2 (September 2021): 11–18.
507. Brown, Robert D. “A Partially Unpublished Boswellian Catalogue of Johnson’s Works.” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 2 (September 2023): 5–11.
508. Brown, Robert D. “A School or College Exercise by Samuel Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 1 (March 2023): 7–12.
509. Brown, Robert D. “An Unpublished Latin Epigram by Samuel Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 2 (September 2021): 7–10.
510. Brown, Robert D. “Compatible Incompatibility: A Latin Send-Up of Happy Marriage.” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 1 (March 2022): 29–33.
511. Brown, Robert D. “Johnson’s Poetic Teasing of Lady Lade.” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 1 (March 2023): 5–6.
512. Brown, Robert D. “Johnson’s Texts of the Greek Anthology.” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 1 (March 2022): 22–28.
513. Brown, Robert D. “The Provenance of Johnson’s ‘Verses Wrote on a Window of an Inn at Calais.’” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 1 (March 2021): 6–17.
514. Brown, Robert D. “Samuel Johnson’s Greek Epigram on the Duke of Marlborough.” Notes and Queries 69 [267], no. 2 (2022): 137–41.
515. Brown, Robert D. “Samuel Johnson’s In Birchium.” Notes and Queries 69 [267], no. 2 (2022): 141–43.
516. Brown, Robert D., and Robert DeMaria Jr. “Another False Attribution.” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 1 (March 2023): 25–26.
517. Brown, Robert D., and Robert DeMaria Jr. “New Light on Robert Chambers’s Poetic Epistle to Samuel Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 2 (September 2020): 6–15.
518. Brownell, Morris R. “A Bull in the China Shop of Taste: Johnson’s Prejudice against the Arts Illustrated.” New Rambler D:6, no. 6 (1990): 28–31.
519. Brownell, Morris R. “‘Dr. Johnson’s Ghost’: Genesis of a Satirical Engraving.” Huntington Library Quarterly 50, no. 4 (September 1987): 338–57. https://doi.org/10.2307/3817305.
520. Brownell, Morris R. “Johnson and Mauritius Lowe.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 1 (1987): 111–26.
521. Brownell, Morris R. Samuel Johnson’s Attitude to the Arts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Reviews:
     • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Attitude to the Arts, by Morris R. Brownell. Notes and Queries 38, no. 1 (March 1, 1991): 113–15. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/38.1.113.
     • McGlynn, P. D. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Attitude to the Arts, by Morris R. Brownell. Choice 27, no. 4 (December 1989): 1967.
     • Middendorf, John H. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Attitude to the Arts, by Morris R. Brownell. Johnsonian News Letter 49, no. 3 (Spring 1990): 20.
     • Rawson, Claude. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Attitude to the Arts, by Morris R. Brownell. London Review of Books 13, no. 15 (1991): 15–17.
     • Simon, Irène. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Attitude to the Arts, by Morris R. Brownell. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 72, no. 3 (1991): 277–80.
522. Brownley, Martine Watson. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Albion 36, no. 1 (2004): 140–41.
523. Brownley, Martine Watson. “The Antagonisms and Affinities of Johnson and Gibbon.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 16 (1986): 183–95.
524. Brownley, Martine W. “Hawkins and Biography as a Genre.” In Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Johnson, edited by Martine W. Brownley, 75–88. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2012.
525. Brownley, Martine W. “Johnson and British Historiography.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 69–81. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
526. Brownley, Martine Watson. “Liberty in the Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson.” Edited by Edward B. McLean. Inner Vision: Liberty and Literature 3 (2006): 37–50.
     Johnson “strongly supported political liberties, as long as they liberty asserted was ordered liberty and not license.” Includes readings especially of the Lives and Boswell.
527. Brownley, Martine Watson, ed. Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins’s “Life of Johnson.” Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2012.
     Abstract: As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over forty-five years, challenged certain adulatory views of Johnson and has continued to raise interesting critical questions about both Johnsonian biography and the genre of biography generally. Reconsidering Biography collects new essays that explore Hawkins’s biography of Johnson within its historical, political, legal, and personal contexts. More particularly, this volume considers how Hawkins’s approach to recording the Life of Johnson opens up broader questions about early modern biography and its relationship with eighteenth-century trends in aesthetics, politics, and historiography. These sophisticated and informed essays on a curious and often vexed friendship, and its literary offspring, supply a colorful and expansive view of the role of life-writing in the eighteenth-century literary imagination.
528. Brownley, Martine Watson. “Samuel Johnson (7 September 1709 — 13 December 1784).” In Eighteenth-Century British Poets: First Series, edited by John Sitter, 107–44. Thomson Gale, 1990.
529. Brownley, Martine Watson. “Samuel Johnson and the Writing of History.” In Johnson after Two Hundred Years, edited by Paul J. Korshin, 97–109. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
530. Brückner, Martin. “Addressing Maps in British America: Print, Performance, and the Cartographic Reformation.” In Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in American Culture before 1900, edited by Sandra M. Gustafson and Caroline F. Sloat, 49–72. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.
531. Brunström, Conrad. “‘Not Worth Going to See’: The Place of Ireland in Samuel Johnson’s Imagination.” Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an Dé Chultúr 16 (2001): 73–82.
532. Bruster, Douglas, and Nell McKeown. “Wordplay in Earliest Shakespeare.” Philological Quarterly 96, no. 3 (Summer 2017): 293–322.
     Abstract: Shakespeare is unimaginable without wordplay. Although they sometimes challenge their patience, his puns, quibbles, and witty plays on words remain a central, even defining feature of his works. In Samuel Johnson’s rich conceit, puns have the uncanny property of enticing Shakespeare from the true way of his journey. Shakespeare’s earliest days as a writer were busier still; before and perhaps during the watershed interval of the playhouse closures circa 1592–94, he appears to have composed parts of at least eight works. Taking Johnson’s insight seriously, Bruster and McKeown trace wordplay’s emergence in the early canon in order to gain a deeper appreciation of the textures as well as the distinctiveness of Shakespeare’s compositional habits.
533. Bruyn, Frans. “Commerce.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 389–407. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
     Abstract: A well-read and intellectually curious individual, Samuel Johnson had a solid grasp of principles of economics and commerce, but his remarks on these subjects are scattered and eclectic rather than systematic. Although he was not an original thinker on the subject, his opinions largely reflecting the mercantile perspective prevalent in his time, his reflections on trade and commerce can nonetheless surprise because of the unpredictable moral perspective he brings to bear. His views on the moral and social effects of wealth and consumption, for example, are perceptive precisely because they are not weighed down by received moral strictures about the dangers of riches and luxury. His opinions about colonization, empire, and the slave trade are also memorable for their powerfully expressed moral indignation. Some of the most forceful and scathing statements of this most quotable of writers were prompted by his loathing of slavery and his sense of the questionable legality of European colonial claims.
534. Bryden, Mary. “Samuel Johnson and Beckett’s Happy Days.” Notes and Queries 40 [238], no. 4 (December 1993): 503–4. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/40-4-503b.
535. Buckley, Jennifer. “Facts and Fictionality: Essay-Periodicals and Literary Novelty.” PhD thesis, University of York, 2020.
     Abstract: This thesis is about the influence of the periodical essay on the novel — and vice versa — in the early years of the eighteenth century. Focusing on the period 1700–1760, it addresses the interchange between essay-periodicals and longer form prose writing and, in so doing, begins to close the distance between the two separate fields of periodical studies and histories of the novel. The thesis engages these two areas to challenge, at the same time as taking seriously, the divisions that result from subsuming other print media into a broader narrative of the “rise” of the novel. I argue that fiction, and more specifically fictionality, is not synonymous with the novel (as is often assumed to be the case), but is a mode of literary expression that resulted from the cross-fertilization of periodical and long form prose writing. Yet while attention has been paid to the relationship between the essay-periodical and dramatic writing, there is no current study of the relationship between the essay-periodical and the novel in this period; the significance of the concomitant emergence of these two forms within the complex print ecology of the early eighteenth century has received comparatively little attention. Chapter One explores the emergence of the essay-periodical as a new genre of writing and argues that this form belongs squarely to the eighteenth century. Chapters Two through Five offer four author studies: Daniel Defoe; Eliza Haywood; Henry Fielding; Samuel Johnson. These demonstrate how the terminology of novel studies intersects with periodical studies. Each chapter addresses a specific trait that emerges as a key feature of that author’s periodicals and novels: conversability and inclusivity; witness testimony and credibility; taste and self-conscious innovation; and anxieties over different literary forms.
536. Budge, Gavin. “Samuel Johnson (1709–84).” In The Eighteenth-Century Literature Handbook, edited by Gary Day, Bridget Keegan, Kelly Kramer, Teresa Barnard, and Ian McCormick, 52–53. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009.
537. Budge, Gavin. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Year’s Work in English Studies 84 (2005): 558.
538. Budra, Paul. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Renaissance Quarterly 57, no. 2 (2004): 726–27.
539. Buffalo News. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. August 24, 2003.
540. Bugliani, Paolo. “Regulating the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay: A Poetics from The Tatler, The Spectator and The Rambler.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 32, no. 3 (2019): 13–33.
541. Bullard, Rebecca. “Samuel Johnson’s Houses.” In Lives of Houses, edited by Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee, 133–46. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
542. Bundock, Michael. “‘A Little Charity’: Dr Johnson and His Household.” Book Collector 69, no. 3 (2020): 395–406.
     Abstract: Bundock cites that in the house in Gough Square where Samuel Johnson once lived there hangs an engraving of a well-known painting of the great man of letters. Seated at dinner with Johnson are some of the most celebrated figures of the day: David Garrick, the actor and theatre manager, Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy, the statesman Edmund Burke, the playwright Oliver Goldsmith, James Boswell, Johnson’s biographer, and others too. It forms a sort of eighteenth-century Who’s Who. This is a familiar image of Johnson: the focal point of a group of accomplished men, declaiming, arguing and contradicting. But there was another Johnson, the domestic figure, living at the center of a very different group. One of them can be glimpsed in the portrait, the black servant at the back of the scene, fetching something for the gathering to drink. This is probably intended to represent Francis Barber, once a slave, and now one of Johnson’s dependants.
543. Bundock, Michael. “An Association Copy of Mrs Piozzi’s Anecdotes.” New Rambler E:2 (1998): 63–67.
544. Bundock, Michael. Review of Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1986–1998, by Jack Lynch. New Rambler E:5 (2001): 76–77.
545. Bundock, Michael. “Did John Hawkins Steal Johnson’s Diary?” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 21 (2011): 77–92.
546. Bundock, Michael. “From Slave to Heir: The Strange Journey of Francis Barber.” New Rambler E:7 (2003): 12–28.
547. Bundock, Michael. “Johnson and Women in Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 16 (2005): 81–109.
548. Bundock, Michael. “Johnsonian Celebrations in England: From Lichfield to the Lords, by Way of the Guildhall.” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 2 (September 2009): 29–31.
     On Peter Martin and Nicholas Cambridge’s walk from Lichfield to London in March 2009 and the celebratory dinner at the House of Lords, 14 May 2009.
549. Bundock, Michael. “Johnsoniana: Dr. Johnson’s Summer House.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 2 (September 2015): 37.
550. Bundock, Michael. “Johnson’s ‘Vile Melancholy’ and The Life of Savage.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 11 (2000): 177–85.
     A Response to Stavisky, “Johnson’s ‘Vile Melancholy’ Reconsidered Once More.”
551. Bundock, Michael. Review of Major Authors on CD-ROM: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, by Leopold Damrosch. New Rambler E:2 (1998): 73–74.
552. Bundock, Michael. “Prime.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 31–48. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
     Abstract: This chapter surveys the life and work of Samuel Johnson from his arrival in London in 1737 to his receipt of a pension in 1762. These were Johnson’s most productive years during which he published his major poems, the Rambler and Adventurer periodical essays, the Dictionary and Rasselas, as well as much miscellaneous journalism. Johnson’s domestic life changed fundamentally with the death of his wife Elizabeth in 1752. From that time onward his household-family always included a number of dependants: of particular importance were Anna Williams, Francis Barber and Robert Levet. Outside the home Johnson’s social circle grew with the formation of the Ivy Lane club and the development of a number of significant friendships: amongst those whom Johnson came to know were John Hawkins, Arthur Murphy, Robert Chambers, Bennet Langton, Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Percy.
553. Bundock, Michael. “Samuel Johnson Tercentenary 2009.” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 1 (March 2009): 36–38.
     Abstract: A two-page calendar of lectures and other celebrations of Johnson’s 300th birthday around the world.
554. Bundock, Michael. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. New Rambler E:1 (1997): 75–76.
555. Bundock, Michael. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. New Rambler E:5 (2001): 76–77.
556. Bundock, Michael. “Searching for the Invisible Man: The Images of Francis Barber.” In Editing Lives, edited by Jesse G. Swan, 107–22. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2014.
557. Bundock, Michael. The Fortunes of Francis Barber:: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300213904.
     Abstract: The story of the extraordinary relationship between a former slave and England’s most distinguished man of letters This compelling book chronicles a young boy’s journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London’s literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life. Francis Barber, born in Jamaica, was brought to London by his owner in 1750 and became a servant in the household of the renowned Dr. Samuel Johnson. Although Barber left London for a time and served in the British navy during the Seven Years’ War, he later returned to Johnson’s employ. A fascinating reversal took place in the relationship between the two men as Johnson’s health declined and the older man came to rely more and more upon his now educated and devoted companion. When Johnson died he left the bulk of his estate to Barber, a generous (and at the time scandalous) legacy, and a testament to the depth of their friendship. There were thousands of black Britons in the eighteenth century, but few accounts of their lives exist. In uncovering Francis Barber’s story, this book not only provides insights into his life and Samuel Johnson’s but also opens a window onto London when slaves had yet to win their freedom.
     Reviews:
     • Carey, John. “The Truth about Dr Johnson’s Jamaican Servant Is Not What We Thought [Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir by Michael Bundock].” The Sunday Times, April 19, 2015.
     • Engerman, Stanley L. Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock. Journal of British Studies 55, no. 1 (2016): 171–72. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2015.205.
     • Gerzina, Gretchen H. Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock. New Rambler F:18 (2014): 89–92.
     • Hanley, Ryan. Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock. Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 54–57.
     • Hitchings, Henry. “Saved by Samuel Johnson: How Did a Jamaican Slave End up as the Chief Beneficiary of Samuel Johnson’s Will? This Biography Tells the Remarkable Story [Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock].” Guardian, 2015.
     • Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock. Choice 52, no. 12 (2015): 2088.
     • Mann, Douglas. “The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir.” The Historian 80, no. 1 (2018): 143–44. https://doi.org/10.1111/hisn.12795.
     • Publishers Weekly. “The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir.” 2015.
     • Sutherland, Kathryn. “Different Gaols [Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock].” TLS, no. 5861 (2015): 8–9.
     • Thomson, Ian. “From Lexicon to Liberty [Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock].” New Statesman, May 22, 2015.
     • Wilson, Frances. “Demonised Barber of Fleet Street [Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock].” The Spectator 328, no. 9743 (2015): 42.
558. Bundock, Michael. “The Making of Johnson’s Prayers and Meditations.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 77–97.
559. Bundock, Michael. “The ‘Prayers and Meditations’ of Samuel Johnson.” New Rambler E:5 (2001): 11–23.
560. Bundock, Michael. “The Slave and the Lawyers: Francis Barber, James Boswell and John Hawkins.” In Britain’s Black Past, edited by Gretchen H. Gerzina, 27–44. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621600.003.0003.
     Abstract: This chapter, written by Michael Bundock, describes competing portrayals of Francis Barber, the Jamaican manservant and friend of writer Samuel Johnson who worked in his household for the better part of three decades and became his heir. The incompatible depictions are found in separate biographies of Johnson written by lawyers John Hawkins and James Boswell as well as in other writings and letters. Hawkins’ biography, published first, is openly hostile to Barber. His disdain for Barber’s interracial marriage and criticism of Johnson’s indulgent financial and emotional support of Barber is tinged with racism. Bundock supposes that Boswell’s own biography of Johnson was, in part, a response and rebuke to Hawkins’—especially so in his favourable characterization of Barber, his wife and their closeness with Johnson. Comparing these rival biographies, Bundock attempts to evaluate the authors’ motivations as well as their attitudes to race.
561. Burgess, Anthony. “The Dictionary Makers.” Wilson Quarterly 17, no. 3 (Summer 1993): 104–10.
562. Burke, Jeffrey. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. Wall Street Journal, October 10, 2003.
563. Burke, John J., Jr. Review of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, by Anthony W. Lee. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 26 (2021): 252–58.
564. Burke, John J., Jr. “James Boswell.” In British Prose Writers, 1660–1800, Second Series, edited by Donald T. Siebert, 3–28. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 1991.
565. Burke, John J., Jr. “The Documentary Value of Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 349–72. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
566. Burke, John J., Jr. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. South Atlantic Review 60, no. 2 (May 1995): 153–60.
567. Burke, John J., Jr. “Boswell and the Text of Johnson’s Logia.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 25–46.
568. Burke, John J., Jr. “‘Johnson as Zeus, Boswell as Danaë’: Que(e)r(y)Ing Sex and Gender Roles in Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 7 (2002): 375–85.
569. Burke, John J., Jr. “The Originality of Boswell’s Version of Johnson’s Quarrel with Lord Chesterfield.” In New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” edited by Greg Clingham, 143–61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
570. Burke, John J., Jr. “Reconfiguring the Idea of Eighteenth-Century Literature in a New Epoch: Moving from the Augustan to the Menippean [Review of Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot].” Eighteenth-Century Life 31, no. 2 (March 2007): 83–95. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2006-015.
571. Burke, John J., Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. South Atlantic Review 53, no. 1 (January 1988): 128–30.
572. Burke, John J., Jr. “Talk, Dialogue, Conversation, and Other Kinds of Speech Acts in Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson.” In Compendious Conversations: The Method of Dialogue in the Early Enlightenment, edited by Kevin L. Cope, 65–79. Peter Lang, 1992.
573. Burke, John J., Jr. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 14 (1985): 346–49.
574. Burke, John J., Jr. “When the Falklands First Demanded an Historian: Johnson, Junius, and the Making of History in 1771.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 291–310.
575. Burke, John J., Jr., and Donald Kay, eds. The Unknown Samuel Johnson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. Reviews:
     • Keener, Frederick M. Review of The Unknown Samuel Johnson, by John J. Burke Jr. and Donald Kay. Yearbook of English Studies 17 (1987): 299–300.
     • Lynn, Steven. Review of The Unknown Samuel Johnson, by John J. Burke Jr. and Donald Kay. South Atlantic Review 51, no. 1 (January 1986): 128–31.
576. Burns, F. D. A. “William Shenstone’s Years at Oxford.” Notes and Queries 45 [243], no. 4 (1998): 462–64.
577. Burridge, Kate. “‘Corruptions of Ignorance,’ ‘Caprices of Innovation’: Linguistic Purism and the Lexicographer.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 10 (August 2008): 25–38.
578. Burrowes, Robert. Essay on the Stile of Doctor Samuel Johnson. Edited by Frank H. Ellis. New York: AMS Press, 1992. Reviews:
     • Clingham, Greg. Review of Essay on the Stile of Doctor Samuel Johnson, by Robert Burrowes. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 9 (1986): 248–49.
579. Burrows, John. “The Englishing of Juvenal: Computational Stylistics and Translated Texts.” Style 35, no. 4 (2002): 677–99.
580. Burton, Sarah. “A Treasure House of Words and More [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” The Spectator, April 9, 2005.
581. Bush, James Nicholas Damian. “Samuel Johnson and the Art of Domesticity.” PhD thesis, University of Toronto, 2002.
582. Bush, Jamie. “Authorial Authority: Johnson’s Life of Savage and Nabokov’s Nikolai Gogol.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 19, no. 1 (December 1996): 19–40. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2010.0296.
     Abstract: Authorial biographies—biographies written by authors—as exemplified by Johnson’s Life of Savage and Nabokov’s Nikolai Gogol, constitute a distinctive subgenre of biography, remarkable for, among other features, a relative unconcern with facts, ideological independence, antipanegyrical orientation, and a tendency toward self-assertion and self-investment. This article compares the strategies by which Johnson and Nabokov constitute themselves as authors while operating within the biographical form.
583. Bush, Jamie. “Courtship and Private Character in Johnson’s Rambler Essays on Marriage.” English Language Notes 43, no. 2 (December 2005): 50–59. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-43.2.50.
584. Busst, A. J. L. “Scottish Second Sight: The Rise and Fall of a European Myth.” European Romantic Review 5, no. 2 (1995): 149–77.
585. Butlin, Robin. Review of Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660–1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description, by Robert J. Mayhew. Progress in Human Geography 31, no. 3 (June 2007): 421–22.
586. Cacchiani, Silvia. “Desperately, Utterly and Other Intensifiers: On Their Inclusion and Definition in Dr Johnson’s Dictionary.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 19, no. 1 (2006): 217–36.
587. Cafarelli, Annette. “Narrative, Sequence, and Biography: Johnson and Romantic Prose.” PhD thesis, University of California, Irvine, 1984.
588. Cafarelli, Annette Wheeler. “Johnson and Women: Demasculinizing Literary History.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 61–114.
589. Cafarelli, Annette Wheeler. “Johnson’s Lives of the Poets and the Romantic Canon.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 1 (1987): 403–35.
590. Cafarelli, Annette Wheeler. Prose in the Age of Poets: Romanticism and Biographical Narrative from Johnson to De Quincey. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
591. Cahill, Samara Anne. “Johnson and Gender.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 94–107. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
592. Cai, Tian Ming. “A Reflection on Johnson’s Shakespeare in China.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 48–50.
593. Cai, Tianming. “Johnsonian Studies in Japan and China: A Comparative Approach.” Johnsonian News Letter 76, no. 1 (March 2025): 5–21.
594. Cai, Tian Ming. “The Renaissance of Samuel Johnson in China.” Johnsonian News Letter 75, no. 1 (March 2024): 42–45.
595. Cai Tianming. 约翰生评传 / Yue han sheng ping chuan [A Critical Biography of Johnson ]. Beijing: 国际文化出版公司, n.d. Reviews:
     • Xingjie, Du. Review of 蔡田明),约翰生评传 / Yue han sheng ping chuan [A Critical Biography of Johnson ], by Tianming Cai. Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 1 (March 2023): 38–44.
596. Cai Tianming. 走近约翰生 / Zou jin yue han sheng [Approaching Samuel Johnson]. Beijing: 北京: 社会科学文献出版社, 2018.
597. Calder, Angus. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Scotland on Sunday, November 5, 2000.
598. Caldwell, Michael. “Dr. Clark and Mr. Holmes: Speculation in Johnsonian Biography.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 133–48.
599. Callen, Craig R. “Comments: Kicking Rocks with Dr. Johnson: A Comment on Professor Allen’s Theory.” Cardozo Law Review 13, no. 2–3 (November 1991): 423.
600. Cambridge, Nicholas. “John Wesley, William Copwer and Samuel Johnson: Electricity in the Enlightenment.” New Rambler E:10 (2006): 14–28.
601. Cambridge, Nicholas. “The Samuel Johnson Tercentenary.” New Rambler E:12 (2008–9): 61–66.
602. Campbell, Charles. “Johnson’s Arab: Anti-Orientalism in Rasselas.” Abhath Al-Yarmouk 12, no. 1 (1994): 51–66.
603. Campbell, Charles Leo. “Image and Symbol in Rasselas: Narrative Form and ‘The Flux of Life.’” English Studies in Canada 16, no. 3 (September 1990): 263–77.
604. Campbell, Ian. “Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1996, 1–10.
605. Campbell, James. Review of The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the “Life of Johnson,” by Marshall Waingrow. TLS, September 14, 2001, 30–31.
606. Campbell, Stuart. Boswell’s Bus Pass. Dingwall: Sandstone, 2011.
     Abstract: This is Stuart Campbell’s humorous account of his journey through Scotland in the guise of a modern James Boswell accompanied by a succession of portly Johnsons.
607. Cannadine, David. New Annals of The Club. London: The Club, 2014.
     Abstract: The Club was a London dining club founded in February 1764 by the artist Joshua Reynolds and essayist Samuel Johnson. This is the 250th anniversary of the dining club.
608. Cannon, John. Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Reviews:
     • Black, Jeremy. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. Notes and Queries 42 [240] (December 1995): 499–500.
     • Brack, O M, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (1995): 169–74.
     • Dickinson, H. T. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 19, no. 2 (1996): 220.
     • Fitzpatrick, M. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. History Today 46, no. 5 (May 1996).
     • Gould, E. H. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. Journal of Modern History 69, no. 4 (December 1997): 828–29.
     • Greene, Donald. “The Double Tradition of Samuel Johnson’s Politics [Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon, and Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark].” Huntington Library Quarterly 59, no. 1 (1996): 105–23.
     • Kaminski, Thomas. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. Philological Quarterly 76, no. 1 (1997): 101–4.
     • Lamoine, G. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. Études Anglaises 49, no. 1 (January 1996): 90–91.
     • Lynch, Jack. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by Burke Cannon John Ashton. Choice 33, no. 1 (September 1995): 110.
     • Moore, Judith. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 20 (2001): 503.
     • Phillips, J. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. Albion 28, no. 1 (1996): 109–11.
     • Pittock, Murray G. H. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. JEGP 95, no. 4 (October 1996): 558–60.
     • Reid, Christopher. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. New Rambler D:11, no. 4 (1995): 62–63.
     • Sack, James J. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. American Historical Review 101, no. 3 (June 1996): 847–48.
     • Thomas, P. D. G. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. English Historical Review 112, no. 446 (June 1997): 778.
     • Wiltshire, John. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. English Language Notes 34, no. 1 (September 1996): 98–104.
609. Cannon, John. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. English Historical Review 112 (June 1997): 491–93.
610. Capone, Giovanna. “L’io sperimentale di James Boswell: Il London Journal.” In Science and Imagination in XVIIIth-Century British Culture/Scienza e immaginazione nella cultura inglese del Settecento, edited by Sergio Rossi, 79–106. Milano: Unicopli, 1987.
611. Carboni, Pierre. “Boswell and the Extraordinary Adventures of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in the Hebrides.” In Adventure: An Eighteenth-Century Idiom: Essays on the Daring and the Bold as a Pre-Modern Medium, edited by Serge Soupel, Kevin L. Cope, Alexander Pettit, and Laura Thomason Wood, 211–20. New York: AMS Press, 2009.
612. “Careful and Careless.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 53, no. 1 (Autumn 2020): 19–19.
613. Carey, Brycchan. “Slavery and Abolition.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 352–59. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
614. Carey, John. “Doctor in Distress: Samuel Johnson’s Life Was Shaped by Failure, but This Rewarding Biography Reveals a Man of Remarkable Kindness Pen for Hire [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Life by David Nokes].” The Sunday Times, September 13, 2009.
615. Carey, John. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. The Sunday Times, March 27, 2005.
616. Carey, John. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. The Sunday Times, March 27, 2005.
617. Carey, John. “The Truth about Dr Johnson’s Jamaican Servant Is Not What We Thought [Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir by Michael Bundock].” The Sunday Times, April 19, 2015.
618. Carey, William B. “Doctor Johnson on Corporal Punishment.” Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics 22, no. 5 (October 2001): 333.
     Brief quotation from Boswell.
619. Carlile, Susan. “‘Less of the Heroine than the Woman’: Parsing Gender in the British Novel.” ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830 7, no. 1 (2017): 1–10.
     Abstract: This essay offers two methods that will help students resist the temptation to judge eighteenth-century novels by twenty-first-century standards. These methods prompt students to parse the question of whether female protagonists in novels—in this case, Daniel Defoe’s Roxana (1724), Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas(1759), and Charlotte Lennox’s Sophia (1762)—are portrayed as perfect models or as complex humans. The first method asks them to engage with definitions of the term “heroine,” and the second method uses word clouds to extend their thinking about the complexity of embodying a mid-eighteenth-century female identity.
620. Carlquist, Erik. “Samuel Johnson före Boswell.” Kulturtidskriften Horisont 34, no. 2 (1987): 10–11.
621. Carnall, Geoffrey. “A Conservative Mind under Stress: Aspects of Johnson’s Political Writings.” In Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, edited by Nalini Jain, 30–46. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991.
622. Carnochan, W. B. “Boswell’s Life of Hume.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 305 (1992): 1760–65.
623. Carnochan, W. B. “The Call of Abyssinia: Father Lobo, Samuel Johnson, and Rasselas.” In Golden Legends: Images of Abyssinia, Samuel Johnson to Bob Marley, 3–15. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. Reviews:
     • Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. “Nowhere Land [Review of Golden Legends: Images of Abyssinia, Samuel Johnson to Bob Marley, by W. B. Carnochan].” TLS 5566, no. 5566 (December 4, 2009).
624. Carnochan, W. B. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. Albion 28, no. 3 (1996): 495–96.
625. Carnochan, W. B. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. TLS, April 19, 1991, 9–10.
626. Carpentari Messina, Simone. “James Boswell et l’énigme corse.” In Nations and Nationalisms: France, Britain, Ireland and the Eighteenth-Century Context, edited by Michael O’Dea and Kevin Whelan, 307–22. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1995.
627. Carpentari Messina, Simone. “Les Voyageurs et la nation corse dans les années 1760.” In Les Mots de la nation, edited by Sylvianne Rémi-Giraud and Pierre Rétat, 219–31. Lyon: Presses universitaires de Lyon 2, 1996.
628. Carpenter, Humphrey. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. The Sunday Times, August 15, 1999.
629. Carr, Rosalind. “Enlightened Violence? Elite Manhood and the Duel.” In Gender and Enlightenment Culture in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 142–74. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
     Abstract: On 14 April 1762 the Edinburgh Evening Courant reported that: “two young gentlemen coming from the tavern, and supposed to be the worse for liquor quarrelled in the parliament close. A scuffle ensued, in which one of them wounded the other with a knife, or some sharp weapon, so dreadfully, that his life yesterday was looked upon to be in danger. The aggressor was next morning taken into custody, and committed to the Tolbooth.” This conflict occurred in public, on the streets of Edinburgh at the height of the Scottish Enlightenment. Whereas coffeehouses, intellectual associations, and convivial clubs are emblematic of the Enlightenment project, this incidence of public violence suggests a failure in the processes of refinement. With this chapter I integrate the history of violent manhood with that of men engaging in polite conversation and debate in a sociable urbane world, and ask what place personal violence had in the performance of elite manhood. The main focus of this chapter is a study of duelling. As an elite male cultural ritual, duelling provides useful insights into the relationship between public honour, violent behaviour, and men’s assertion of gentlemanly status. I examine Enlightenment discourses on duelling before moving on to a study of the place of duelling within urban polite society, the duel’s function in men’s assertion of social status, and the sociable and public functions of the duel. I will conclude with an examination of the impact of Enlightenment discourse on men’s understanding of the duel.
630. Carr, Rosalind. “Urbane and Urban Sociability in Enlightenment Edinburgh.” In Gender and Enlightenment Culture in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 102–41. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
631. Carroll, John. “Dr Johnson and the Great Anglo Tradition.” Quadrant 60, no. 12 (2016): 74–80.
632. Cart, Michael. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers. Booklist 14, no. 1 (November 15, 2008): 14.
633. Carter, Laurence. “Samuel Johnson [Letter to the Editor].” TLS, no. 6277 (July 21, 2023): 6.
634. Carter, Philip. “James Boswell’s Manliness.” In English Masculinities, 1660–1800, edited by Michele Cohen and Tim Hitchcock. Women and Men in History. Oxford: Routledge, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315840314.
635. Carter, Philip. Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660–1800. Women and Men in History. Oxford: Routledge, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315840239.
     Abstract: This book presents an account of masculinity in eighteenth century Britain. In particular it is concerned with the impact of an emergent polite society on notions of manliness and the gentleman. From the 1660s a new type of social behaviour, politeness, was promoted by diverse writers. Based on continental ideas of refinement, it stressed the merits of genuine and generous sociability as befitted a progressive and tolerant nation. Early eighteenth century writers encouraged men to acquire the characteristics of politeness by becoming urbane town gentlemen. Later commentators promoted an alternative culture of sensibility typified by the man of feeling. Central to both was the need to spend more time with women, now seen as key agents of refinement. The relationship demanded a reworking of what it meant to be manly. Being manly and polite was a difficult balancing act. Refined manliness presented new problems for eighteenth century men. What was the relationship between politeness and duplicity? Were feminine actions such as tears and physical delicacy acceptable or not? Critics believed polite society led to effeminacy, not manliness, and condemned this failure of male identity with reference to the fop. This book reveals the significance of social over sexual conduct for eighteenth century definitions of masculinity. It shows how features traditionally associated with nineteenth century models were well established in the earlier figure of the polite town-dweller or sentimental man of feeling. Using personal stories and diverse public statements drawn from conduct books, magazines, sermons and novels, this is a vivid account of the changing status of men and masculinity as Britain moved into the modern period.
636. Carter, Philip. “Polite and Impolite Personalities.” In Men and the Emergence of Polite Society: Britain, 1660–1800, 163–208. London: Routledge, 2001. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315840239-6.
     Abstract: The testimonies examined in this chapter offer insight into three personal encounters with eighteenth-century polite society. In June 1715 Dudley Ryder began a daily record of his temper, reading patterns and ‘acts as to their goodness or badness’. Ryder believed his reputation for polite sociability was chiefly dependent on a capacity for good conversation. Penrose’s assessment brings to mind the century-long debate over polite society’s impact on gentlemanliness and manhood that we have traced in contemporary intellectual and popular literature. James Boswell’s discussion of good dress as a general agent of social harmony, or his appreciation of shared civilities between ‘fellow creatures’ in a carriage, reveal this more sophisticated appreciation of a modern community or nation engaged in unprecedented levels of refined sociability. Boswell’s construction of his sentimental persona had been a gradual process. A student of Adam Smith at Glasgow in the late 1750s, his early journals show an appreciation of the language and signs of sensibility. The testimonies examined in this chapter offer insight into three personal encounters with eighteenth-century polite society. In June 1715 Dudley Ryder began a daily record of his temper, reading patterns and ‘acts as to their goodness or badness’. Ryder believed his reputation for polite sociability was chiefly dependent on a capacity for good conversation. Penrose’s assessment brings to mind the century-long debate over polite society’s impact on gentlemanliness and manhood that we have traced in contemporary intellectual and popular literature. James Boswell’s discussion of good dress as a general agent of social harmony, or his appreciation of shared civilities between ‘fellow creatures’ in a carriage, reveal this more sophisticated appreciation of a modern community or nation engaged in unprecedented levels of refined sociability. Boswell’s construction of his sentimental persona had been a gradual process. A student of Adam Smith at Glasgow in the late 1750s, his early journals show an appreciation of the language and signs of sensibility.
637. Casdin, Adam B. “Before Imagination: Literary Reverie’s Opening to the Present.” PhD Thesis, Stanford University, 2004.
     Abstract: In this dissertation I demonstrate that attention to proto-Romantic and Romantic literary reverie should radically revise our long-standing literary-historical accounts of the romantic-modern imagination, that imagination so familiar to us from eighteenth-century and Romantic literature, where it assumed the canonical form it would bequeath to modernism. In a departure from traditional uses of the term, I define reverie as a literary-aesthetic state frequently characterized by blankness and quite distinct from the typically more narrative, color-filled and at least fictively “purposive” or future-oriented imagination. Reverie is in fact a decidedly pre-imaginative, distended moment that — unlike the hard-working imagination — creates an apparently blank and contentless, nonnarrative space of sheer dilating presentness out of which the materials for what may eventually become new thought-experiences can emerge (and can, after the fact, move toward imagination proper and then, finally, toward post-imaginative conceptualization, agency, and action). I trace the central but little recognized role of this reverie — first delineated by Rousseau — in the works of James Boswell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth. The consequences of my readings are great, because traditional liberal intellectual claims for the literary imagination — that it allows artists and audiences creatively to image not-yet-realized socio-historical or scientific progress — would now have to be pushed back towards dependence on what I call reverie. This strange, radically “blank” and formal experience makes the imagination, by comparison, look like a diligent good citizen. Critics and scholars of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature (often following the artists themselves) have generally collapsed these vague and almost incommunicable reverie-states into descriptions of full-blown productive imagination. But I show that reverie-states are best understood as markedly different from imagination itself. In ways that literary critics and historians have hardly accounted for, this proto-Romantic and Romantic literary reverie contributes crucially to modern attempts to conceptualize socio-historically and even scientifically the experience of a present that has not yet been adequately understood using only traditional intellectual tools and conventions.
638. Casey, Shawn. “Literacy and the Social Worlds of Writing in the Scottish Atlantic: 1750–1800.” PhD thesis, Ohio State University, 2013.
     Abstract: This project tracks the rhetorical status of writing as attitudes toward literacy changed in the second-half of the eighteenth century. During this period, vernacular literacy in English became a defining element for many different social groups across the Atlantic world. Two key assumptions guide the research. First, that literacy becomes rhetorical, acquires persuasive meaning, only in the context of a larger discourse on reading and writing. And second, that individual actors and agents generate, promote, and distribute multiple, and sometimes conflicting, rhetorics of literacy as a means of accessing the standards, expectations, and norms of that broader literacy discourse. To elucidate these points, this project identifies three distinct, but connected locations in the Atlantic network: Edinburgh, Philadelphia, and London. Each chapter explores the processes, institutions, and individual writers associated with the rhetoric of literacy at each location. Significantly, each chapter foregrounds the tendency of literacy rhetoric to become associated with a public figure. So, Chapter Two describes the career of Lord Kames, Henry Home; Chapter Three considers Benjamin Franklin’s close association with the social, educational, and print-based institutions of literacy in Philadelphia; and Chapter Four explores the ideal of the authority of both London and the book trade over English literacy in the lexicographical writings of Samuel Johnson. Each chapter also considers how the literacy rhetorics associated with these public figures and their contemporaries responded to the exigencies of changing ideals of social interaction, economic development, and national identity. The project offers new perspectives on how literacy, and the rhetorics that promote and restrict literacy, transformed transatlantic literacy discourses.
639. Cash, Arthur H. “Samuel Johnson and John Wilkes.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 18 (2007): 67–130.
640. Cashin, Edward J. “Glimpses of Oglethorpe in Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 88, no. 3 (September 2004): 398–405.
641. Cass, Thomas G. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Cithara 37, no. 2 (May 1998): 44–45.
642. Catanese, Christopher. “Johnson, Warton, and the Popular Reader.” In Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 214–31. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019.
643. Catto, Susan. “Bonnie Prince Sam?: Mud Is Being Vehemently Slung over Whether a Great 18th-Century Critic Was a Closet Supporter of Prince Charles Edward Stuart.” National Post, May 18, 2000.
644. Caudle, James J. “Affleck Generations: The Libraries of the Boswells of Auchinleck, 1695–1825.” In Before the Public Library: Reading, Community, and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650–1850, edited by Mark Towsey and Kyle B. Roberts, 98–122. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2018.
645. Caudle, James J. “The Case of the Missing Hottentot: John Dun’s Conversation with Samuel Johnson in Tour to the Hebrides as Reported by Boswell and Dun.” In Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 53–76. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684480265-005.
646. Caudle, James J. “The Church’s Kicked Foundation: A Concealed Johnsonian Detail.” Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 2 (September 2007): 42–48.
     On Boswell’s “protective deletion” of episodes in the MS of the Life. When SJ kicks the stone to refute Berkeley, it was originally a foundation stone of a church building; Boswell revised it before publication to portray SJ’s devotion.
647. Caudle, James J. “Clashes of Conversations in James Boswell’s Hebrides and Life of Johnson and ‘My Firm Regard to Authenticity.’” In Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Tanya M. Caldwell, 141–72. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684482306-006.
648. Caudle, James J. “Editing James Boswell, 1924–2010: Pasts, Presents, Futures.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 20 (2010): 111–44.
     Abstract: Start-up grants on a five-year plan (“five-and-done”), especially those based on digital media, are now far easier to win than grants for sustaining long-standing legacy editions based primarily on letterpress editions; the operative principle in evaluating the veteran editions has tended to take the form of “you’ve had your turn at the funding buffet, go look elsewhere,” or “we will provide matching funds, but we want you to find another primary grantor.” Because we began in 1950, however, we are fourteen volumes into a very ambitious continuous forty-volume series, of which fourteen of the projected volumes will be in two series made up almost entirely of materials never before published (the correspondence and the manuscript of the Life of Johnson).” . . .]the editors assigned most recently are sometimes too overscheduled to get to the text on time, thus frustrating us, but more typically and rewardingly, they bring to bear a breadth of knowledge of the period, and an ability to manage their teaching schedules, that few post-docs could possess. . . .]far, the Boswell Editions have operated on the long view that it is better to complete some volumes of the series to the very high standards set, met, and exceeded in the past, rather than to succumb to the temptation of a quick fix just in order to “finish it all” to gratify one’s own vanity or conform to a government agency’s view of how much time is enough. . . .]of this divergence of pagination, we only ever cite the “Trade Edition” page numbers in our editorial notes when we are referring to footnote or introductory material.
649. Caudle, James J. “‘Fact’ or ‘Invention’?: James Boswell and the Legend of a Boswell-Sterne Meeting.” The Shandean: An Annual Devoted to Laurence Sterne and His Works 22 (November 2011): 30–55.
650. Caudle, James J. “James Boswell (H. Scoticus Londoniensis).” In Scots in London in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Stana Nenadic, 109–38. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2010.
651. Caudle, James J. “James Boswell (1740–1795) and His Design for a Dictionary of the Scot[t]Ish Language, 1764–1825.” Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 32 (2011): 1–32.
     Abstract: James Boswell (1740–1795), friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson, strove to emulate Johnson, who had in 1755 produced the most famous dictionary of English to date, by beginning his own dictionary, of the Scottish language, in 1764. A draft of Boswell’s Dictionary of Scots has just been announced as rediscovered, but up to now we have also had Boswell’s sketches for the work. They explain in great detail his motives and goals in the uncompleted magnum opus. Most contemporary word-lists of Scots were aimed at helping Scots to avoid making mistakes in speaking and writing English in order to help them assimilate and get along in London, or they were used as glossaries to poems to help readers of those specific texts. By contrast, Boswell’s dictionary was to be aimed at the preservation, for scholars rather than vernacular speakers, of a once-dominant elite and courtly language, which was now diminishing, and thought by many, including Johnson, to be on its way to extinction. Boswell’s comments on the Dictionary reveal much about Enlightenment views on vanishing indigenous societies and the impact of metropolitanization in the British Empire and other empires. The article contributes to a growing body of work suggesting that the so-called ‘Anglo-Scots’ or ‘North Britons’ (including Boswell) had much more interest in Scottish national identity and national language than had previously been assumed.
652. Caudle, James J. “James Boswell’s Design for a Scottish Periodical in the Scots Language: The Importance of His Prospectus for the Sutiman Papers (ca. 1770?).” In Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, edited by Donald J. Newman, 49–67. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
653. Caudle, James J. The Johnsoniana in Boswelliana. Cambridge, Mass.: The Johnsonians in association with Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2009.
654. Caudle, James J. “Justice for Sir John; or, The Blind Man and His Elephant [Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by John Hawkins].” New Rambler E:12 (2008–9).
655. Caudle, James J. The Migration of the Round Robin, 1776–1887. West Haven, Conn.: Privately printed for The Johnsonians, 2015.
656. Caudle, James J. “‘O Rare Sam Jonson’: James Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to Hawthornden Castle with Samuel Johnson and Ben Jonson, 1773.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 22 (2012): 23–71.
657. Caudle, James J. Review of Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill. Albion 35, no. 2 (2003): 303–5.
658. Caudle, James J. “‘Soaping” and ‘Shaving’ the Public Sphere: James Boswell’s ‘Soaping Club’ and Edinburgh Enlightenment Sociability.” In Association and Enlightenment: Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700–1830, edited by Mark C Wallace and Jane Rendall, 103–26. Lewiston: Bucknell University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684482702-008.
659. Caudle, James J. “Three New James Boswell Articles from The Public Advertiser, 1763.” Scottish Literary Review 3, no. 2 (September 2011): 19–43.
660. Caudle, James J. “Young Boswell and the London Stationers: The Authorial Collaboration of James Boswell with William Flexney, Bookseller, and Samuel Chandler, Printer, 1763.” In Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries, edited by John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong, 93–113. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2008.
661. Caudle, James J., Michael Bundock, and Howard Gralla. The Runaway and the Apothecary: Francis Barber, Edward Ferrand, and the Life of Johnson”. New York: The Johnsonians, 2011.
662. Cavendish, Dominic. “Doctor Needs a Better Script [Review of ‘Johnson in Love,’ by Charles Thomas].” Daily Telegraph, January 9, 2001.
663. Cavendish, Richard. “Publication of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: April 15th, 17th.” History Today 55, no. 4 (April 2005): 52–53.
     A short notice observing the 250th anniversary of the Dictionary.
664. Chafe, Wallace. “Cowper’s Connoisseur #138 and Samuel Johnson.” In Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, 214–25, 1985.
665. Chadwick, Alan. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. Metro (London), August 15, 2007.
666. Chalmers, Alan. “Scottish Prospects: Thomas Pennant, Samuel Johnson, and the Possibilities of Travel Narrative.” In Historical Boundaries, Narrative Forms: Essays on British Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century in Honor of Everett Zimmerman, edited by Lorna Clymer and Robert Mayer, 199–214. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007.
     “While Johnson may have been linked arm-in-arm with Boswell on the road, he was really ‘strolling’ with Pennant in his writing. . . . Pennant’s ambition to write an exhaustive and definitive study of Scotland if anything facilitates rather than inhibits Johnson’s own composition, fostering its distinct subjective voice.”
667. Chambers, D. C. Review of The Encyclopaedic Dictionary in the Eighteenth Century: Architecture, Arts and Crafts vol. 4, Samuel Johnson: A Dictionary of the English Language, by Terence M. Russell. Albion 30, no. 4 (1998): 695–98.
668. Chambers, Sir Robert, and Samuel Johnson. A Course of Lectures on the English Law: Delivered at the University of Oxford 1767–1773. Edited by Thomas M. Curley. 2 vols. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.
     The first edition of Chambers’s Lectures, secretly co-authored by Johnson. Curley’s editorial material makes the case for Johnson’s involvement.
     Reviews:
     • Hackney, Jeffrey. Review of A Course of Lectures on the English Law: Delivered at the University of Oxford 1767–1773, by Thomas M. Curley. Review of English Studies 39 (November 1988): 561–62.
     • Ibbetson, David. Review of A Course of Lectures on the English Law: Delivered at the University of Oxford 1767–1773, by Thomas M. Curley. Notes and Queries 35 [233] (1988): 540–41.
     • Middendorf, John H. Review of A Course of Lectures on the English Law: Delivered at the University of Oxford 1767–1773, by Thomas M. Curley. Johnsonian News Letter 46, no. 2–47, 2 (June 1986): 1–2.
     • Scanlan, J. T. Review of A Course of Lectures on the English Law: Delivered at the University of Oxford 1767–1773, by Thomas M. Curley. New Rambler E:2 (1998): 68–69.
669. Chandler, Anne. “Case Studies in Reading I: Key Primary Literary Texts.” In The Eighteenth-Century Literature Handbook, edited by Gary Day, Bridget Keegan, Kelly Kramer, Teresa Barnard, and Ian McCormick, 70–95. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009.
670. Chandler, David. “John Henry Colls and the Remarks on the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.” Notes and Queries 42 [240], no. 4 (December 1995): 469–71. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/42.4.469.
671. Chandra, Naresh. “Dr. Johnson and the English Language.” In Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, edited by T. R. Sharma, 5–24. India: Shalabh, 1986.
672. Chang, Huei-keng. “Genre Criticism, Textual Strategy and Différance: Historicizing Samuel Johnson’s Writing of Private Lives.” Studies in Language and Literature (Taipei, Taiwan) 9 (June 2000): 61–86. https://doi.org/10.1177/096394700000900105.
673. Chang, Huei-keng. “Mimesis and Copia as Enflaming Strategies: The Function of Samuel Johnson’s Philological and Literary Criticism.” Humanitas Taiwanica 48 (1998): 199–218.
674. Chang, Huei-keng. “The Purloined Shakespeare and Samuel Johnson’s Scriptural Operation.” Humanitas Taiwanica 50 (1999): 143–98.
675. Chang, Huei-keng. “Samuel Johnson and Translating Pastoral.” Humanitas Taiwanica 58 (2003): 212–30.
676. Chang, Hueikeng. “Signs Taken for Wonders: The Vanity of Human Wishes and the Production of a ‘Relevant’ Translation.” NTU Studies in Language and Literature 14 (September 2005): 55–80.
677. Chapin, Chester. “Religion and the Nature of Samuel Johnson’s Toryism.” Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition 29, no. 2 (May 1990): 38–54.
678. Chapin, Chester. “Religious Partisanship in Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary.” Cithara 47, no. 2 (May 2008): 37–52.
     Abstract: The extent to which Johnson may have given a polemical flavor to his Dictionary has recently centered about the many changes he made in the edition of 1 773, with Allen Reddick asserting and Howard Weinbrot denying that Johnson in this fourth edition adopted a religiously conservative “polemical strategy” (Reddick xiv) in response to attempts during the early 1770s to abolish subscription to the Church of England’s Articles of Religion.1 However this may be, I assume that most students of Johnson would agree that both the 1755 and 1773 editions of Johnson’s Dictionary are, in Weinbrot’s words, “broadly moral, Anglican Christian, literary, and English” (54). The prayer book creeds (Apostles, Nicene, Athanasian) are defended in the Dictionary by Richard Fiddes: “Will they, who decry creeds and creedmakers, say that one who writes a treatise of morality ought not to make in it any collection of moral precepts?” During the eighteenth century the Athanasian creed’s damnatory clauses were often a cause of uneasiness to conservative as well as liberal-minded Anglicans.
679. Chapin, Chester. “Samuel Johnson and Joseph Addison’s Anti-Jacobite Writings.” Notes and Queries 48 [246], no. 1 (March 2001): 38–40. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/48.1.38.
680. Chapin, Chester. “Samuel Johnson and the Argument from Prophecy.” Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition 45, no. 1 (November 2005): 28–40.
681. Chapin, Chester. “Samuel Johnson and the Church’s Convocation.” Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition 46, no. 2 (May 2007): 16–24.
682. Chapin, Chester. “Samuel Johnson and the Geologists.” Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition 42, no. 1 (November 2002): 33–44.
683. Chapin, Chester. “Samuel Johnson and the Lock–Stillingfleet Controversy.” Notes and Queries 44 [242], no. 2 (June 1997): 210–11. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/44.2.210.
684. Chapin, Chester. “Samuel Johnson, Anthropologist.” Eighteenth-Century Life 19, no. 3 (November 1995): 22–37.
685. Chapin, Chester. “Samuel Johnson: Latitudinarian or High Churchman?” Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition 41, no. 1 (November 2001): 35–43.
686. Chapin, Chester. “Samuel Johnson on Education and the English Class Structure.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 9 (2003): 189–206.
687. Chapin, Chester. “Samuel Johnson, Samuel Clarke and the Toleration of Heresy.” Enlightenment and Dissent 16 (1997): 136–50.
688. Chapman, James Aaron. “The Foundation of Samuel Johnson’s Morality.” MA thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1995.
689. Chappell, Michael. “‘The Meer Gift of Luck’: A Tale of Lottery Addiction in Rambler 181.” Dalhousie Review 82, no. 3 (September 2002): 482–90.
690. Chappell, Michael J. “Not Your Father’s (or Mother’s) Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 14–16.
691. Chappell, Michael J. “Samuel Johnson and Community.” PhD thesis, Fordham University, 2000.
692. Chen, Lianhong. “A Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Eighteenth-Century British Representations of China.” PhD thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996.
693. Cheng, Cheng. Review of Samuel Johnson’s “A Dictionary of the English Language” (1755), by Xiang Li. Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 2 (September 2015): 49–51.
694. Chernaik, Warren. “Johnson and the Imagination.” New Rambler E:1 (1997): 42–49.
695. Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. Who and Why Was Samuel Johnson. Edited by Robert A. Tibbetts. Akron: Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society, 1991.
     Abstract: Keepsake volume of the text of a 1911 speech by Chesnutt.
696. Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. “Who and Why Was Samuel Johnson.” In Charles W. Chesnutt: Essays and Speeches, edited by Joseph R. McElrath, Robert C. III Leitz, and Jesse S. Crisler, 281–98. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
697. Chesterton, G. K. “Dr. Johnson.” The Chesterton Review: The Journal of the G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture 29, no. 4 (December 2003): 491–97. https://doi.org/10.5840/chesterton2003294113.
698. Chesterton, G. K. El juicio del doctor Johnson: comedia en tres actos. Translated by Miguel Martínez-Lage. Clásico Sexto Piso. México, D.F.: Sexto Piso, 2009.
     Abstract: John Swallow Swift es un espía americano que desembarca en las islas Hébridas junto a su esposa, Mary, con una secreta misión: establecer contacto con la sociedad inglesa para tomarle el pulso en lo referente a la guerra de Independencia de Estados Unidos. La pareja se instala en Londres, donde se verá inmersa en un enredo político que pondrá a prueba tanto sus ideales como su amor, y en el que la simulación es requisito de supervivencia. — Inside back jacket flap John Swallow Swift is an American spy who disembarks in the Hebrides with his wife Mary and a secret
699. Chiari, Margaret. “James Boswell and the Educative Self.” PhD Thesis, University of Southampton, 2004.
     Abstract: This research is a disquisition upon the nature of auto-biographical identity by way of an examination of part of the life and thought of one of the most significant of biographers — James Boswell. Focusing on Boswell’s private journal of his early adult and middle years, from 1762 to the late 1770s, the study extrapolates from these and other readings to bring forth aspects of Boswell which have not been previously accented. What emerges is a complex character, in many ways both arrogant and humble, who also suffered from a debilitating mental condition, known to his century as hypochondria. This condition, which Boswell believes was inherited but to which he may have been psychologically pre-disposed owing to the affective conditions of his early years, expressed itself in episodes of gloom and despondency. In spite of these, Boswell was able to sustain his efforts in fields as varied as the personal, the social, the financial, the literary — not to mention the amatory — as part of his desire to improve aspects of his often impetuous selfhood. This impulse towards betterment was integral to Boswell’s nature, as was his need to seek out a mentor on whose wisdom he could rely. Boswell’s restless questing nature, with its many falls from grace, is the revelation of his early journals. This study is essentially a re-assessment of the historical Boswell, presenting him in the light of his own understanding of himself and as such is a contribution to auto-biographical studies.
700. Chico, Tita. “Rasselas and the Rise of the Novel.” Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 1 (March 2005): 8–11.
701. Chilton, Leslie A. “Samuel Johnson and the Adventures of Telemachus.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1993, 8–13.
702. Chiou, Tim Yi-Chang. “Romantic Posthumous Life Writing: Inter-Stitching Genres and Forms of Mourning and Commemmoration.” DPhil thesis, Oxford University, 2012.
     Abstract: Contemporary scholarship has seen increasing interest in the study of elegy. The present work attempts to elevate and expand discussions of death and survival beyond the ambit of elegy to a more genre-inclusive and ethically sensitive survey of Romantic posthumous life writings. Combining an ethic of remembrance founded on mutual fulfilment and reciprocal care with the Romantic tendency to hybridise different genres of mourning and commemoration, the study re-conceives ‘posthumous life’ as the ‘inexhaustible’ product of endless collaboration between the dead, the dying and the living. This thesis looks to the philosophical meditations of Francis Bacon, John Locke and Emmanuel Levinas for an ethical framework of human protection, fulfilment and preservation. In an effort to locate the origin of posthumous life writing, the first chapter examines the philosophical context in which different genres and media of commemoration emerged in the eighteenth century. Accordingly, it will commence with a survey of Enlightenment attitudes toward posthumous sympathy and the threat of death. The second part of the chapter turns to the tangled histories of epitaph, biography, portraiture, sepulchre and elegy in the writings of Samuel Johnson, Henry Kett, Vicesimus Knox, William Godwin and William Wordsworth. The Romantic culture of mourning and commemoration inherits the intellectual and generic legacies of the Enlightenment. Hence, Chapter Two will try to uncover the complex generic and formal crossovers between epitaph, extempore, effusion, elegy and biography in Wordsworth’s ‘Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg’ (1835-7) and his ‘Epitaph’ (1835-7) for Charles Lamb. However, the chapter also recognises the ethical repercussions of Wordsworth’s inadequate, even mortifying, treatment of a fellow woman writer in his otherwise successful expression of ethical remembrance. To address the problem of gender in Romantic memorialisation, Chapter Three will take a close look at Letitia Elizabeth Landon’ s reply to Wordsworth’s incompetent defence of Felicia Hemans. Mediating the ambitions and anxieties of her subject, as well as her public image and private pain, ‘Felicia Hemans’ (1838) is an audacious composite of autograph, epitaph, elegy, corrective biography and visual portraiture. The two closing chapters respond to Thomas Carlyle’s outspoken confidence in ‘Portraits and Letters’ as indispensable aids to biographies. Chapter Four identifies a tentative connection between the aesthetic of visual portraiture and the ethic of life writing. To demonstrate the convergence of both artistic and humane principles, this cross-media analysis will first evaluate Sir Joshua Reynolds’s memoirs of his deceased friends. Then, it will compare Wordsworth’s and Hemans’s verse reflections on the commemorative power and limitation of iconography. The last chapter assesses the role of private correspondence in the continuation of familiar relation and reciprocal support. Landon’s dramatic enactment of a ‘feminine Robinson Crusoe’ in her letters from Africa urges the unbroken offering of service and remembrance to a fallen friend through posthumous correspondence. The concluding section will consider the ethical implications for the belated memorials and services furnished by friends and colleagues in the wake of her death.
703. Chisholm, Kate. Review of Dr Johnson’s London, by Liza Picard. Sunday Telegraph, July 16, 2000.
704. Chisholm, Kate. “Dr Johnson’s Way with Words [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Sunday Telegraph, April 3, 2005.
705. Chisholm, Kate. “The Friendship That Couldn’t Last [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” Sunday Telegraph, August 26, 2001.
706. Chisholm, Kate. Review of Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat: A Biography, by Oliver Soden. Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 1 (March 2021): 48–50.
707. Chisholm, Kate. “Johnson and ‘the Various Textures of Silk.’” Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 1 (March 2020): 6–18.
708. Chisholm, Kate. “Miss Sainthill and the Female Quixote: Dr. Johnson, Hill Boothby and Charlotte Lennox.” New Rambler E:9 (2005): 56–68.
709. Chisholm, Kate. “Not Too Much Information: Samuel Johnson’s Stern, Honest but Lazy Biographical Writings [Review of Biographical Writings: Soldiers, Scholars, and Friends, by O M Brack, Jr., and Robert DeMaria, Jr.].” TLS, no. 5932 (2016): 11.
710. Chisholm, Kate. Review of The Fall of the House of Thomas Weir, by Andrew Neil Macleod. Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 1 (March 2022): 52–54.
711. Chisholm, Kate. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Times Educational Supplement 4015 (June 11, 1993): 10.
712. Chisholm, Kate. Wits and Wives: Dr Johnson in the Company of Women. London: Chatto & Windus, 2011.
     Abstract: Dr Johnson is often thought of as a strident, overbearing conversationalist, a man who famously asserted that ‘Women have all the liberty they should wish to have’. But in this revealing book Kate Chisholm argues it is time to consider how Johnson lived his life, not just what he said. She proposes that the heart of the man, the truth of his character, can more clearly be seen via his many — close, generous, equal — relationships with women. At one end of the spectrum were Johnson’s mother Sarah; his ‘painted poppet’ wife Tetty; and the women, like the prostitute Poll Carmichael and the blind poetess Anna Williams, he took in when they had nowhere else to go. At the other end were Mary Wollstonecraft, who refers to Johnson in Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Hester Thrale, renowned wit and Johnson’s ‘dear mistress’; and Elizabeth Carter, whose translation of Epictetus was an instant bestseller. In between were the poet and critic Charlotte Lennox, who invented the serialised novel; the accomplished portraitist Frances Reynolds, sister of Sir Joshua; the Derbyshire gentlewoman and Johnson’s spiritual guide Hill Boothby; and the writer and abolitionist Hannah More. By looking again at this controversial figure through the eyes of this extraordinary cast of female characters, we can discover the essential and unexpected Johnson. Kate Chisholm also brilliantly brings to life an exceptional moment in the history of women when, for a short period, talent, wit and independence were not only possible but rewarded.
713. Choudhury, Mita. Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature 22. New York: Routledge, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351108751.
     Abstract: “Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire is a provocative intervention that extends the parameters of on-going dialogues about British identity during the Enlightenment. Drawing on literary, theatrical, artistic, and other cultural productions, this book describes how British identity emerges not despite of but due to its fluid, volatile, and subversive impulses and expressions. The imperial establishment—codified in the logics of the corporation, the academy, the cathedral, the theater, as well the private parlor or garden—derives its power from scripting and championing a resistance to precisely those subversive elements which threaten or undermine the foundations of order and liberalism in civil society. Choudhury argues that imperial Britain can best be understood in terms of this culture’s investment in spatial alignments which celebrated a radial interface with remote points of commercial interest. The volume shows that Daniel Defoe, Arthur Onslow, David Garrick, Joseph Banks, Daniel Solander, Hans Sloane, Francis Barber, Samuel Johnson, Charles Burney, and George Frideric Handel were not only part of a dazzling line-up of the empire’s architects. In retrospect, their contributions reflect a remarkably modern pattern: the spatial dimension of corporate culture, and this culture’s dependence on, and thus its collusion with, global commerce” — Provided by publisher.
714. Christian Science Monitor. “Boswell on Johnson on Conversation.” June 3, 1986.
715. Christianson, Gale E. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Albion 27, no. 1 (1995): 131–33.
716. Christianson, Scott. 100 Documents That Changed the World: From the Magna Carta to Wikileaks. New York: Universe, 2015.
717. Christie’s. English Literature from the Library of George Milne. BKS-4680. London: Christie’s, 1992.
718. Chung, Chung-Ho. “The Great Cham and the Mirror: An Essay on the Multiple Perspectives in Samuel Johnson’s Literary Criticism.” PhD thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1987.
719. Claman, H. N. “Creativity and Illness: Christopher Smart and Samuel Johnson.” Pharos Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society 64, no. 33 (2001): 4–7.
720. Clark, J. C. D. “The Cultural Identity of Samuel Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 15–70.
     A further consideration of Johnson’s take on Jacobitism, placed in a larger cultural context.
721. Clark, J. C. D. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. History Today 46 (December 1996): 55.
722. Clark, J. C. D. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. History Today 46 (February 1997): 48.
723. Clark, J. C. D. “The Politics of Samuel Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 7 (1996): 27–56.
     An early salvo in the arguments over Johnson’s attitudes toward Jacobitism.
724. Clark, J. C. D. “Religion and Political Identity: Samuel Johnson as a Nonjuror.” In Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, edited by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill, 79–145. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
725. Clark, J. C. D. “Religious Affiliation and Dynastic Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century England: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and Samuel Johnson.” ELH: English Literary History 64, no. 4 (December 1997): 1029–67. https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.1997.0030.
726. Clark, J. C. D. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. History: The Journal of the Historical Association 74, no. 242 (October 1989): 535–36.
727. Clark, J. C. D. Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
     Abstract: This book offers an analysis of the life and thought of Samuel Johnson from a historian’s viewpoint, which reverses the orthodoxy that has dominated the subject for over thirty years. J. C. D. Clark presents here a Johnson strikingly different from the apolitical, pragmatic and eccentric figure who emerges from the pages of most students of English literature. Johnson’s commitments and conflicts in religion and politics are reconstructed; his role in the literary dynamics of his age is revealed against a new context for English cultural politics between the Restoration and the age of Romanticism.
     Reviews:
     • Brack, O M, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (December 1997): 169–74.
     • Cannon, John. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. English Historical Review 112 (June 1997): 491–93.
     • Davis, Matthew M. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Modern Age 39, no. 1 (1997): 73–76.
     • Dean, Paul. “Augustans and Romantics [Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism by J. C. D. Clark].” English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 77, no. 1 (January 1996): 81–85.
     • Fitzpatrick, M. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. History Today 46, no. 5 (May 1996).
     • Goldie, Mark. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Political Studies 43, no. 4 (December 1995): 777.
     • Gould, E. H. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Journal of Modern History 69, no. 4 (December 1997): 828–29.
     • Greene, Donald. “The Double Tradition of Samuel Johnson’s Politics [Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon, and Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark].” Huntington Library Quarterly 59, no. 1 (1996): 105–23.
     • Grundy, Isobel. “Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism.” The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 20 (2001): 503–5.
     • Kraus, H. C. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Historische Zeitschrift 263, no. 1 (August 1996): 233–34.
     • Levis, R. B. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Church History 66, no. 4 (December 1997): 845–46.
     • Monod, Paul. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. American Historical Review 102, no. 1 (February 1997): 103–4.
     • Scanlan, J. T. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Religion & Literature 291, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 95–101.
     • Wiltshire, John. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. English Language Notes 34, no. 1 (September 1996): 98–104.
     • Womersley, David. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Historical Journal 39, no. 2 (June 1996): 511–20.
728. Clark, J. C. D., and Howard Erskine-Hill, eds. Interpretation of Samuel Johnson. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
     Abstract: A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the ‘commanding heights’ of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the ‘historic Johnson.’
729. Clark, J. C. D., and Howard Erskine-Hill, eds. Samuel Johnson in Historical Context. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002.
     Abstract: In one of the more sudden shifts of perspective, and hotly contested controversies of recent historical and literary scholarship, our view of Johnson has been fundamentally changed. This volume offers the best up-to-the-moment account of what has been achieved, and points to the new directions in which scholarship is developing. It will be essential reading for all concerned with eighteenth-century studies.
     A collection of scholarly essays, especially on Johnson’s politics. His putative Jacobitism is discussed in many of the contributions.
     Reviews:
     • Baines, Paul. Review of Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill. Modern Language Review 99, no. 1 (2004): 174–76.
     • Caudle, James J. Review of Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill. Albion 35, no. 2 (2003): 303–5.
     • Lynch, Jack. Review of Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill. Choice 39, no. 11 (July 2002): 6287.
     • Mayhew, Robert. Review of Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 25, no. 2 (May 2002): 278–79.
     • Mullan, John. Review of Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill. London Review of Books 26, no. 2 (January 22, 2004).
     • Turner, Katherine. Review of Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill. Essays in Criticism 53, no. 2 (April 2003): 184–91.
     • Weinbrot, Howard D. “Johnson and Jacobite Wars XLV [Review of Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill].” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 307–40.
730. Clark, J. C. D., and Howard Erskine-Hill, eds. The Politics of Samuel Johnson. Studies in Modern History. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
     Abstract: A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the ‘commanding heights’ of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the ‘historic Johnson.’
731. Clark, Jonathan. “Samuel Johnson.” TLS, no. 5792 (April 4, 2014): 6.
     A letter to the editor in which Clark responds to Weinbrot’s letter of 28 March 2014.
732. Clark, Jonathan. “The Heartfelt Toryism of Dr. Johnson.” TLS, October 14, 1994, 17–18.
733. Clark, Peter. “Clubs.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 143–50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
734. Clarke, Jeremy. “Beyond Boswell.” The Spectator 292, no. 9122 (2003): 62.
735. Clarke, Norma. Review of A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson’s Notes for the “Life of Pope,” by Harriet Kirkley. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 27, no. 3 (2004): 611–13.
736. Clarke, Norma. Dr Johnson’s Women. London: Hambledon & London, 2000.
     Abstract: Contents: At Mrs. Garrick’s — Elizabeth Carter — Charlotte Lennox — Hester Thrale and Elizabeth Montagu — Hannah More — Fanny Burney — Women and writing.
     Reviews:
     • Benedict, Barbara. Review of Dr Johnson’s Women, by Norma Clarke. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 41 (2002): 627.
     • Hughes, Kathryn. Review of Dr Johnson’s Women, by Norma Clarke. Daily Telegraph, January 13, 2001.
     • Lynch, Jack. Review of Dr Johnson’s Women, by Norma Clarke. Choice 39, no. 10 (October 2001): 771.
     • Todd, Janet. Review of Dr Johnson’s Women, by Norma Clarke. TLS, April 13, 2001, 33.
     • Wilcox, Lance E. Review of Dr Johnson’s Women, by Norma Clarke. History 65, no. 3 (2003): 751–52.
737. Clarke, Stephen. The Amiable Clergyman & the Forgetful Patron: Robert Potter Writes to Elizabeth Montagu. West Lafayette, Ind.: The Johnsonians & The Samuel Johnson Society of the West, 2014.
738. Clarke, Stephen. “Boswell and Mason, Johnson and Gray: An Encounter.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 20 (2010): 95–106.
739. Clarke, Stephen. A Field in Which Nothing of the First Order Could Be Accomplished”: Books from Samuel Johnson’s Library in the Hyde Collection. London: Dr. Johnson’s House, 2023.
740. Clarke, Stephen. “‘A Field in Which Nothing of the First Order Could Be Accomplished’: Books from Samuel Johnson’s Library in the Hyde Collection.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 25 (2025): 94–108.
741. Clarke, Stephen. “A Johnson Parody.” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 2 (September 2004): 52–55.
742. Clarke, Stephen. The Keepsakes of the Johnsonian Societies of America: A Bibliography. New York? The Johnsonians & The Samuel Johnson Society of the West, 2012.
743. Clarke, Stephen. “The Libraries of Twelve Early Members of The Club.” The Book Collector 71, no. 3 (2022): 515–17.
     Abstract: Clarke presents part eight of a series on the members of the Libraries of Twelve, which profiles James Boswell who was elected in 1773. Boswell had romantic aspirations to being master of a fine library. At Leipzig in 1764, on his Grand Tour, he was introduced to Mr Bel, the Professor of Poetry and University Librarian, whose own library he admired, and the following day Bel showed him the University Library a numerous collection of books arranged according to their subjects. The truth is that the libraries assembled by Boswell’s father and the libraries of his sons Sandy and Jamie were all far more substantial that Boswell’s own acquisitions.
744. Clarke, Stephen. “The Libraries of Twelve Early Members of The Club: Part 12: Samuel Johnson.” Book Collector 72, no. 3 (2023): 545–52.
     Abstract: Of the libraries of Club members, none have been the subject of so much study in proportion to their inherent bibliographical importance as that of Samuel Johnson himself. The Johnson Club in 1892 printed a facsimile of an unpriced copy, but two surviving copies that list both prices and purchasers have also been reproduced in facsimile. Club members, however, were buying relics of their friend, and in the subsequent two and half centuries Johnson’s own copies of books have been treated as just that, treasured for their associational value. Books from Johnson’s library are extremely scarce in trade. Of the books marked up by Johnson for quotations in the Dictionary, Graham Nicholls recorded in 1990 that only thirteen marked-up copies had been found, despite quarter of a million quotations the Dictionary containing about a from about 640 authors.
745. Clarke, Stephen. “Guesses at Truth, Stabs at Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 2 (September 2017): 39–45.
746. Clarke, Stephen. Review of Household Effects: Johnson’s Coffee-Pot and Twain’s Effigy, by Nicola J. Watson. Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 1 (March 2021): 55–60.
747. Clarke, Stephen. “Indifference and Abuse: The Antipathy of Mason, Gray, Walpole and Samuel Johnson.” New Rambler E:6 (2002): 12–25.
748. Clarke, Stephen. “Milton at Bolt Court.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 24 (2021): 3–14.
749. Clarke, Stephen. “‘Prejudice, Bigotry, and Arrogance’: Horace Walpole’s Abuse of Samuel Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 239–57.
750. Clarke, Stephen. “Samuel Johnson and the Sense of Place.” In Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment, 291–308. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2024.
751. Clarke, Stephen. “Samuel Johnson in Victorian Narrative Painting.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 1 (March 2016): 5–21.
752. Clarke, Stephen. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 58–64.
753. Clarke, Stephen. Samuel Johnson’s London Lodgings. London: Dr Johnson’s House, 2022.
754. Clarke, Stephen. “Unhorsed by Pegasus: Gray’s Poetry and the Critics before The Lives of the Poets.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 21 (2011): 193–215.
755. Clarke, Stephen, and Celine Luppo McDaid. “Dr Johnson’s House in Gough Square.” Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 37, no. 2 (2023): 20–32.
756. Clarke, Stephen, and Terry Seymour. “Of Tytler and ‘Eugenio’: An Unpublished Boswell Letter.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 1 (March 2018): 47–53.
757. Claustre, André de, and Samuel Johnson. The History of Tahmas Kuli Khan, Shah, or Sophi of Persia. Edited by O M Brack Jr. [Los Angeles]: Privately printed for the Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California, 1993.
     Johnson’s revision of a translated section from the French work Histoire de Thamas Kouli Kan.
758. Clayton, Paul. Review of Boswell: The English Experiment, 1785–1789, by Irma S. Lustig and F. A. Powell. Notes and Queries 36, no. 1 (March 1, 1989): 115–16. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/36-1-115a.
759. Clayton, Paul. Review of Boswell: The Great Biographer 1789–1795, by Marlies K. Danziger and Frank Brady. Notes and Queries 38, no. 1 (March 1, 1991): 115–18. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/38.1.115.
760. Clayton, Paul. Review of Boswell’s “Life of Johnson”: New Questions, New Answers, by John A. Vance. Notes and Queries 34, no. 4 (December 1, 1987): 548–49. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/ns-34.4.548.
761. Clayton, Paul. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Notes and Queries 39 [237] (June 1992): 231–32.
762. Clery, E. J. “Laying the Ground for Gothic: The Passage of the Supernatural from Truth to Spectacle.” In Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition, edited by Valeria Tinkler-Villani, Peter Davidson, and Jane Stevenson, 65–74. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995.
763. Cline, Dorothy Peake. “The Word Abused: Problematic Religious Language in Selected Prose Works of Swift, Wesley, and Johnson.” PhD thesis, University of Delaware, 1992.
764. Cline, Edward. “Samuel Johnson: Imperious Lexicographer.” Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 20, no. 1 (1997): 42–48.
765. Clingham, Greg. “A Johnsonian in Japan.” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 2 (September 2009): 37–40.
766. Clingham, Greg. “A Minor Source for Johnson’s ‘Life of Pope.’” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1986, 53–54.
767. Clingham, Greg. “Anna Williams’s Miscellanies in Prose and Verse in the Houghton Library.” Johnsonian News Letter 59, no. 1 (March 2008): 44–45.
     A transcription of Thomas Percy’s notes in a copy of Williams now in the Hyde Collection. Percy provides brief biographical background on Williams and attributes several works to Johnson.
768. Clingham, Greg. “Another and the Same: Johnson’s Dryden.” In Literary Transmission and Authority: Dryden and Other Writers, edited by Jennifer Brady and Earl Miner, 121–59. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
769. Clingham, Greg. “The Book in Johnson’s Pocket.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 2 (September 2021): 27–31.
770. Clingham, Greg. “Boswell’s Historiography.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 307 (1993): 1765–69.
771. Clingham, Greg. “Boswell’s Literary Biography [Review of Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: New Questions, New Answers, by John A. Vance].” English 36 (1987): 168–78.
772. Clingham, Greg. “Critical Reception since 1900.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 54–61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
773. Clingham, Greg, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
     Abstract: The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English dictionary, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic of the English poets, author both of the influential journal Rambler and the popular fiction Rasselas, and one of the most engaging conversationalists in literary culture, Johnson is here illuminatingly discussed from a different point of view. Essays on his main works are complemented by thematic discussion of his views on the experience of women in the eighteenth century, politics, imperialism, religion, and travel as well as by chapters covering his life, conversation, letters, and critical reception. Useful reference features include a chronology and guide to further reading. The keynote to the volume is the seamlessness of Johnson’s life and writing, and the extraordinary humane intelligence he brought to all his activities. Accessibly written by a distinguished group of international scholars, this volume supplies a stimulating range of approaches, making Johnson newly relevant for our time.
     Reviews:
     • Barry, Peter. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. English 47 (1998): 81–87.
     • Davis, Matthew M. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. New Rambler D:12, no. 12 (1996): 56–57.
     • Devens, Robert. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 21, no. 2 (1998): 233–34.
     • Folkenflik, Robert. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Eighteenth-Century Studies 33, no. 2 (2000): 297–99.
     • Kemmerer, Kathleen Nulton. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. East-Central Intelligencer 13, no. 2 (May 1999): 19–21.
     • Kolb, Gwin J. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Modern Philology 98, no. 4 (May 2001): 679–82.
     • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Notes and Queries 46 [244], no. 1 (March 1999): 135–36.
     • Lustig, Irma S. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Albion 31, no. 3 (1999): 493–94.
     • Lynch, Jack. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Choice 35, no. 11–12 (July 1998): 6080.
     • Lynch, Jack. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Essays in Criticism 49, no. 1 (January 1999): 75–81.
     • Walker, Keith. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Yearbook of English Studies 30 (2000): 312–14.
774. Clingham Greg, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, Chinese-language edition. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2001.
775. Clingham, Greg. “Double Writing: The Erotics of Narrative in Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” In James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, edited by Donald J. Newman, 189–214. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
776. Clingham, Greg. Review of Essay on the Stile of Doctor Samuel Johnson, by Robert Burrowes. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 9 (1986): 248–49.
777. Clingham, Greg. “Hawkins, Biography, and the Law.” In Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Johnson, edited by Martine W. Brownley, 137–54. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2012.
778. Clingham, Greg. “‘Himself That Great Sublime’: Johnson’s Critical Thinking.” Études Anglaises 41, no. 2 (1988): 165–78.
779. Clingham, Greg. “‘I Stole His Likeness’: An Unknown Drawing of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell.” Burlington Magazine 161, no. 1392 (2019): 222–24.
780. Clingham, Greg. “I Stole His Likeness”: An Unknown Drawing of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Ojai: Privately printed for the Samuel Johnson Society of the West, 2022.
781. Clingham, Greg. “‘The Inequalities of Memory’: Johnson’s Epitaphs on Hogarth.” English: The Journal of the English Association 35, no. 153 (September 1986): 221–32. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/35.153.221.
782. Clingham, Greg. “The J. D. Fleeman Archive at the University of St. Andrews.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 18–25.
783. Clingham, Greg. “Introduction: Contemporary Johnson.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 1–13. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
784. Clingham, Greg. James Boswell: The Life of Johnson. Landmarks of World Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
     Abstract: This is a radical introduction to the Life of Johnson. It discusses the main structural, dramatic, historical and imaginative aspects of the work, and establishes its intellectual contexts: Hume’s philosophy, earlier biographical writings by Boswell, and the French and German Enlightenment and romantic traditions. Professor Clingham offers an account of the Life based upon reassessment of the nature of biography, of Boswell’s style and thought, and of Johnson’s own works. As he examines the Life’s complex psychological, emotional and artistic facets, a fresh picture of Boswell as biographer emerges. The book also provides a table of the principal scenes and conversations in the Life, as well as a chronological table of Boswell’s life and times and a guide to further reading.
     Reviews:
     • Blanton, Gene. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. South Atlantic Review 59 (1994): 125–29.
     • Jones, A. E. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Choice 30, no. 9 (May 1993): 4836.
     • Kinsella, Thomas E. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 452–56.
     • Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 75 (1994): 555–56.
     • Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Psychological Medicine 23, no. 3 (1993): 807–8. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700025654.
     • Urdang, Laurence. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Verbatim 20 (1993): 8–9.
     • Williamson, Karina. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Scottish Literary Journal 39 (1994): 12–14.
     • Woodman, Thomas M. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 18 (1995): 92–94.
     • Zachs, William. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 7 (1993): 30–31.
785. Clingham, Greg. “John Opie’s Portraits of Dr. Johnson.” Harvard Library Bulletin 28, no. 2 (2017): 57–80.
     Abstract: Clingham talks about John Opie’s portraits of Samuel Johnson, one of the most painted individuals in English literary history. Given the advanced state of the scholarship, one assumes that all lifetime paintings of Johnson have been identified, cataloged, and discussed. Contrary to common assumption, Opie produced three and not one portrait of Johnson. One might assume that one of the paintings came from the live sittings and that the others were studio work, and thus derivative.
786. Clingham, Greg. “Johnson and Borges: Some Reflections.” In Samuel Johnson among the Modernists, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 189–212. Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2019.
787. Clingham, Greg. “Johnson and China: Culture, Commerce, and the Dream of the Orient in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 24 (2019): 178–242.
788. Clingham, Greg. “Johnson at Bucknell.” Johnsonian News Letter 59, no. 1 (March 2008): 30–32.
789. Clingham, Greg. “Johnson, Ends, and the Possibility of Happiness.” In Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, edited by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood, 33–54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
790. Clingham, Greg. “Johnson, Homeric Scholarship, and ‘The Passes of the Mind.’” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 113–70.
791. Clingham, Greg. “Johnson in Memoriam.” Cambridge Quarterly 15 (1986): 77–84.
792. Clingham, Greg. Review of Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings, by O M Brack Jr. and Robert DeMaria Jr. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 26 (2021): 243–51.
793. Clingham, Greg. “Johnson on Dryden and Pope.” PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986.
794. Clingham, Greg. “Johnson Subito.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 1 (March 2021): 18–22.
795. Clingham, Greg. Johnson, Writing, and Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484148.
     Abstract: This study demonstrates the importance of memory in Samuel Johnson’s work. Greg Clingham argues that this concept of memory is derived from the process of historical and creative writing; it is embodied in works of literature and other cultural forms. He examines Johnson’s writing; including his biographical writing, as it intersects with eighteenth-century thought on literature, history, fiction and law and its subsequent compatibility with and resistance to modern theory.
     Reviews:
     • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Johnson, Writing, and Memory, by Greg Clingham. Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 1 (March 2004): 56–58.
     • Howe, Tony. Review of Johnson, Writing, and Memory, by Greg Clingham. Romanticism 13, no. 1 (2007): 86–88.
     • Lynch, Jack. Review of Johnson, Writing, and Memory, by Greg Clingham. Choice 40, no. 8 (April 2003): 4460.
     • Scherwatzky, Steven D. Review of Johnson, Writing, and Memory, by Greg Clingham. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 17, no. 2 (2005): 290–93.
796. Clingham, Greg. “Johnsoniana: Alexandra Schwartz in The New Yorker, 17 September 2018.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 1 (March 2019): 58.
797. Clingham, Greg. “Johnsoniana: ‘Freshly in Love’: Johnson’s Literary Power.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 2 (September 2019): 51–52.
798. Clingham, Greg. “Johnsoniana: The New Yorker.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 1 (January 27, 2020): 46.
799. Clingham, Greg. “Johnsoniana: The New Yorker, 27 January 2020.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 1 (March 2021): 46.
800. Clingham, Greg. “Johnson’s Criticism of Dryden’s Odes in Praise of St. Cecilia.” Modern Language Studies 18, no. 1 (December 1988): 165–80. https://doi.org/10.2307/3194709.
801. Clingham, Greg. “Johnson’s Prayers and Meditations and the ‘Stolen Diary Problem’: Reflections on a Biographical Quiddity.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 4 (1991): 83–95.
802. Clingham, Greg. “Johnson’s Use of Two Restoration Poems in His ‘Drury-Lane’ Prologue.” New Rambler D:1 (1985): 45–50.
803. Clingham, Greg. “Lady Anne Barnard, Johnson the Bear, Burke the Lion, and the Cape Baboon.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 2 (September 2021): 32–36.
804. Clingham, Greg. “Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard on Johnson: Two Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 2 (September 2021): 36–39.
805. Clingham, Greg. “Lady Anne Lindsay Meets Dr. Johnson: A (Virtually) Unknown Episode in Johnson’s and Boswell’s Tour of Scotland.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 2 (September 2017): 25–38.
806. Clingham, Greg. “Law.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 332–48. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
     Abstract: Johnson loved the law and counted many lawyers among his closest friends. In this chapter Greg Clingham argues that Johnson’s knowledge of English Common Law, European jurisprudence, and natural law was deep and broad. He establishes the formal and imaginative links Johnson makes between language and law, and between rhetorical argument and legal justice. While Johnson understands legal representation as a kind of poetics contributing to a historical narrative, his thinking is always rooted in legal tradition and practice. Clingham thus demonstrates that Johnson sustains broader philosophical and moral principles by recourse to specific legal knowledge, discussing examples associated with property (the case of the Auchinleck entail) and slavery (the case of Joseph Knight). In these and other instances, Johnson deploys legal knowledge and rhetorical skill to question economic sentimentality, moral platitudes, and sloppy thinking. Clingham concludes that in emphasizing legal efficacy in terms of its moral and social consequences, Johnson enlists his respect for established legal practice and civil society in support of social justice and human emancipation, and, in a surprising turn, looks forward to the idea of a “living constitution” articulated by Justice Stephen Breyer in the twentieth century.
807. Clingham, Greg. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Essays in Criticism 43 (1993): 253–57.
808. Clingham, Greg. “Life and Literature in Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.” In The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 161–91. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.012.
809. Clingham, Greg. “The Love of Anecdotes: Johnsonians, John Hardy, and Oxford in the 1960s.” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 2 (September 2023): 45–49.
810. Clingham, Greg, ed. The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
     Abstract: Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find the New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson deeply informed and appealingly written. Each newly commissioned chapter explores aspects of Johnson’s writing and thought, including his ethical grasp of life, his views of language, the roots of his ideas in Renaissance humanism, and his skeptical-humane style. Among the themes engaged are history, disability, gender, politics, race, slavery, Johnson’s representation in art, and the significance of the Yale Edition. Works discussed include Johnson’s poetry and fiction, his moral essays and political tracts, his Shakespeare edition and Dictionary, and his critical, biographical, and travel writing. A narrated Further Reading provides an informative guide to the study of Johnson, and a substantial Introduction highlights how his literary practice, philosophical values, and life experience provide a challenge to readers new and established. Through fresh, integrated insights, this authoritative guide reveals the surprising contemporaneity of Johnson’s thought.
     Reviews:
     • De Bruyn, Frans. Review of The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 2 (September 2023): 56–61.
     • Lynch, Jack. Review of The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Choice 60, no. 11 (2023): 1094.
     • Lynch, Jack. Review of The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Eighteenth-Century Studies 57, no. 2 (2024): 276–77. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2024.a916860.
     • Vilmar, Christopher. Review of The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 30 (2025).
     • Walker, Robert G. Review of The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. East-Central Intelligencer 37, no. 1 (March 2023): 25–32.
811. Clingham, Greg, ed. New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
     Abstract: Boswell’s Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost literary biographies in the English language. This 1991 collection of essays, commemorating its bicentenary, investigates Boswell’s achievements and limitations in both literary and personal contexts, and goes beyond the Life to examine the full range of Boswell’s writings and interests (in legal, social, theological, political and linguistic fields). Drawing Boswell out of Johnson’s shadow, the volume places him in a wider context, juxtaposing Boswell with other contemporaries and compatriots in the Scottish enlightenment, such as Hume, Robertson and Blair. In addition it investigates some of the critical and theoretical questions surrounding the notion of biographical representation in the Life itself. Boswell emerges as a writer engaged throughout his literary career in constructing a self or series of selves out of his divided Scottish identity. This collection combines archival research with fresh critical perspectives and constitutes a timely review of Boswell’s status in eighteenth-century literary studies. Contains 1. Boswell and the rhetoric of friendship by Thomas Crawford; 2. Scottish divines and legal lairds: Boswell’s Scots presbyterian identity by Richard B. Sher; 3. Boswell and the Scotticism by Pat Rogers; 4. Boswell as man of letters by Joan H. Pittock; 5. Boswell’s liberty-loving Account of Corsica and the art of travel literature by Thomas M. Curley.
     https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511597589. Reviews:
     • Alkon, Paul K. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Newsletter of the Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California, 1991, 5.
     • Baruth, Philip. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 16, no. 2 (1993): 59–64.
     • Bogel, Fredric. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Modern Philology 91 (May 1994): 517–23.
     • Bold, Alan. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Herald Weekender, June 29, 1991.
     • Gray, James. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Dalhousie Review 71 (1991): 502–7.
     • Greene, Donald J. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 17 (1991): 338–39.
     • Lustig, Irma S. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 447–51.
     • McGlynn, P. D. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Choice 29, no. 6 (February 1992): 3178.
     • Ober, William B. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Verbatim 18, no. 4 (1992): 13–14.
     • Radner, John B. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 6 (1992): 15–16.
     • Rawson, Claude. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. London Review of Books 17, no. 18 (1995): 14–15.
     • Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 73 (1992): 537–38.
     • Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Forum for Modern Language Studies 28, no. 3 (1992): 292–93.
     • Sherman, Stuart. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Johnsonian News Letter 51 (September 1991): 10–12.
     • Vance, John B. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. South Atlantic Review 58 (1993): 101–9.
     • Wain, William. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 16 (1993): 84.
     • Walsh, Marcus. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Review of English Studies 44 (1993): 428–29.
     • Ziegler, Robert. “Recent Books on Johnson and Boswell [Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of ‘The Life of Johnson,’ by Greg Clingham; The Politics of Samuel Johnson, 2nd Ed., by Donald Greene; Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan; A Dr. Johnson Chronology, by Norman Page; Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker; The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick; The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford; and Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire].” Papers on Language and Literature 28, no. 4 (September 1992): 457–75.
812. Clingham, Greg. “Playing Rough: Johnson and Children.” In New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 145–82. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.
813. Clingham, Greg. “Recalling Christmas, 1783.” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 1 (March 2023): 22–25.
814. Clingham, Greg. “Resisting Johnson.” In Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, edited by Philip Smallwood, 19–36. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001.
815. Clingham, Greg. “Roscommon’s ‘Academy,’ Chetwood’s Manuscript ‘Life of Roscommon,’ and Dryden’s Translation Project.” Restoration 26, no. 1 (2002): 15–26.
816. Clingham, Greg. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. Review of English Studies 38 (1987): 394–96.
817. Clingham, Greg. “Samuel Johnson, Another and the Same [Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale].” Essays in Criticism 57, no. 2 (April 2007): 186–94.
818. Clingham, Greg. Review of “Steel for the Mind”: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 7 (1996): 480–85.
819. Clingham, Greg. “Truth and Artifice in Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” In New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” edited by Greg Clingham, 207–29. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511597589.015.
820. Clingham, Greg, and N. Hopkinson. “Johnson’s Copy of the Iliad at Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk.” Book Collector 37, no. 4 (December 1988): 503–21.
821. Clingham, Greg, and Philip Smallwood, eds. Johnson after 300 Years. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
     Abstract: To mark the tercentenary of Samuel Johnson’s birth in 2009, the specially-commissioned essays contained here review his scholarly reputation. An international team of experts reflects authoritatively on the various dimensions of literary, historical, critical and ethical life touched by Johnson’s extraordinary achievement. The volume distinctively casts its net widely and combines consistently innovative thinking on Johnson’s historical role with a fresh sense of present criticism. Chapters cover subjects as diverse as Johnson’s moral philosophy, his legal thought, his influence on Jane Austen, and the question of the Johnson canon. The contributors examine the larger theoretical and scholarly contexts in which it is now possible to situate his work, and from which it may often be necessary to differentiate it. All the contributors have a distinguished record of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies, Johnson scholarship, and cultural history and theory.
     A collection of fourteen original essays to mark Johnson’s tercentenary. See the separate entries by Fred Parker, Greg Clingham, Howard Weinbrot, Clement Hawes, David Venturo, J. T. Scanlan, Jack Lynch, David Fairer, Philip Smallwood, Adam Rounce, Isobel Grundy, Freya Johnston, O M Brack, Jr., and David Ferry.
     Reviews:
     • Jackson, H. J. “By Perseverance [Review of Samuel Johnson, the ‘Ossian’ Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland, by Thomas M. Curley; Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood; and Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” TLS 5551–52 (August 21, 2009): 13–14.
     • Rees, Christine. Review of Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood. New Rambler E:12 (2008–9).
822. Clout, Martin. “Hester Thrale and the Globe Theatre.” New Rambler D:9, no. 9 (1993): 34–50.
823. Cochrane, Hamilton E. Boswell’s Literary Art: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Studies, 1900–1985. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 969. New York: Garland, 1992.
824. Codr, Dwight Douglas. “A Store Yet Untouched: Speculative Ideologies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature.” PhD thesis, Cornell University, 2006.
     Abstract: This dissertation explores the ways in which attacks on speculative practices articulated in the financial literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were revised and reformulated in the literary productions of eighteenth-century English fiction writers. The title of this dissertation derives from William Hazlitt’s remark that the “past is . . . like money that is spent,” while the future “is like a store yet untouched, and in the enjoyment of which we promise ourselves infinite gratification” ("On the Past and Future"). Hazlitt’s figuration of time as money refers us to an important historical connection between England’s revolutionized financial order and alterations in the individual’s relationship to futurity. The financial revolution, as P. G. M. Dickson famously styled it, brought the British a new sense of the individual’s control over his or her material destiny in the temporal order of things; and the challenge it posed to a Providentialist view of history was addressed and negotiated by countless literary texts of the period in explicit or implicit fashion. Rather than sidestepping the vexing theoretical problem of how a revolution could be said to exist independently of the discourse that names it so, this dissertation argues that the historically significant fictional discourses of the eighteenth century acted to mark the historical moment as one particularly interested in the status of the forward-looking (often explicitly financial) subject. Ascertaining how texts of this period established ethical distinctions between prudential foresight and “scheming” offers a new way of understanding the development of eighteenth-century fiction as well as the broader cultural narratives from which those fictions drew energy and, indeed, a readership. The carving of ethical space for the speculative subject, one who was forward-looking without being either presumptuous or manipulative, is shown to be a central moral concern and literary opportunity for writers such as Daniel Defoe, Richard Steele, Alexander Pope, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Johnson.
825. Coffman, D’Maris. “Money.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 268–77. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
826. Cogliano, Francis D. “Drivers of Negroes.” In A Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic, 54–71. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.10474609.6.
     Abstract: Samuel Johnson was one of eighteenth-century Britain’s most famous men of letters. In 1755 he published his Dictionary of the English Language, which became a landmark in the history of language and could be found in the libraries of gentlemen on both sides of the Atlantic, including those of Washington and Jefferson. Johnson was also a prolific literary critic, poet, essayist, and novelist. He was known for his caustic wit and trenchant criticism. He was immortalized in James Boswell’s 1791 biography, The Life of Samuel Johnson. While Boswell dedicated thousands of pages to capturing Johnson’s wit, Johnson himself offered a
827. Cohen, Paula Marantz. “The Talking Life: Boswell and Johnson.” Boulevard 17, no. 1-2 [49-50] (Fall 2001): 115–26.
828. Cohen, S. G. “Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British Poet, Critic, Essayist, and Lexicographer.” Allergy and Asthma Proceedings 1 (February 1996): 52–55.
829. Cole, Richard C. “The Yale Boswell.” Studies in Scottish Literature 21 (1986): 158–66.
830. Coleman, Peter. “What Shall We Do with Our Lives? Rasselas Revisited.” Quadrant 53, no. 9 (2009): 102–3.
831. Coletes Blanco, Agustín. Literary Allusion in Johnson’s “Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.” Glasgow: Grimsay Press, 2009.
     Abstract: This book analyses the structure and function of each literary allusion identified in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775). Johnson’s familiarity with the classics and other literatures is thereby manifested in a variety of ways, with a powerful personal voice and, no less important, looking for reader involvement. Allusion, as contended in this monograph, is indeed an integral part of the formal artistry and intellectual depth of the Journey, thus contributing to making Johnson’s Scottish travelogue what it is — a major exponent of Travel Literature.
832. Colley, Linda. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. London Review of Books 17, no. 18 (1995): 14–15.
833. Colley, Linda. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. London Review of Books 17, no. 18 (1995): 14–15.
834. Colley, Linda. Review of The Journals of James Boswell, 1762–1795, by Marshall Waingrow. London Review of Books 17, no. 18 (1995): 14–15.
835. Collings, Frank. “Dr. Johnson and His Medical Advisers.” New Rambler C:25, no. 25 (1984): 3–18.
836. Collins, Michael Dennis. “Taxation No Tyranny: Samuel Johnson, Barrister to the Crown.” MA thesis, California State University, 1989.
837. Colombani, Marie-Jeanne. “‘Corsica Boswell’: Ignominous Peace and Honourable War.” In Guerres et paix: La Grande-Bretagne au XVIIIe siècle, I–II, edited by Paul-Gabriel Boucé, 193–201. Paris: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, 1998.
838. Colombani, Marie-Jeanne. “Samuel Johnson’s and James Boswell’s Grasp of the Infinite Being and the Great Beyond.” In Infinity and Beyond = L’infini et au-delà: Actes du colloque international in memoriam Paul-Gabriel Boucé, 25–26 juin 2014, universitè du Havre, edited by Elizabeth Durot-Boucé. Rennes: TIR, 2014.
839. Coman, B. J. “The Enigmatic Dr Johnson.” Quadrant 59, no. 1–2 (February 1, 2015): 98–104.
     Abstract: Samuel Johnson stands today as one of the most commonly quoted of ail literary figures in the English-speaking world. In my Collins Dictionary of Quotations, he gets about nine pages. Shakespeare gets about sixty and the Bible gets seventeen. Just as there are Shakespeare societies all over the world, so too are there Samuel Johnson societies.
840. Conger, Syndy M. “Three Unlikely Fellow Travellers: Mary Wollstonecraft, Yorick, Samuel Johnson.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 305 (1992): 1667–68.
841. Conley, Tim. “The Truth about Dr. Johnson’s Cat.” Henry Street: A Graduate Review of Literary Studies 7, no. 2 (September 1998): 57–64.
842. Connolly, John. Samuel Johnson vs the Darkness Trilogy. London: Hodder, 2020.
843. Connolly, John. Sinos do Inferno. As Aventuras de Samuel Johnson 2. Rio de Janeiro: Bertrand Brasil, 2015.
     Abstract: Continuação da série Samuel Johnson iniciada com Os PortõesSamuel Johnson está em apuros. Sua visão ruim o faz passar o maior vexame, e o demônio sra. Abernathy está com sede de vingança desde que seus planos de invadir a Terra foram frustrados pelo jovem. Ela planeja aprisioná-lo e, quando o Grande Colisor de Hádrons é religado, a oportunidade bate à porta. Samuel e seu fiel bassê, Boswell, são arrastados para as profundezas do Inferno, onde serão caçados pela sra. Abernathy e seus lacaios infernais.Mas apanhar Samuel não será nada fácil para o demônio, que já testemunhou de perto a bravura e a inteligência do garoto e seu cão, além da leal amizade entre Samuel e o infeliz demônio Nurd. Ela também não conta com a presença de dois incompetentes policiais e de um azarado — no sentido mais otimista da palavra — sorveteiro.Tampouco poderia esperar a intervenção de um grupo de pequenos seres que confirmam que Samuel e Boswell não são os únicos habitantes da Terra a pararem de uma hora para outra no Inferno.Se você pensava que demônios eram assustadores, espere até encontrar Os Elfos do Sr. Merryweather.
844. Connolly, John. The Creeps: A Samuel Johnson Tale. New York: Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2013.
     Abstract: When a new toy shop’s opening goes terrifyingly awry, Samuel must gather a ragtag band of dwarfs, policemen, and very polite monsters to face down the greatest threat the Multiverse has ever known, not to mention assorted vampires, a girl with an unnatural fondness for spiders, and highly flammable unfriendly elves.
845. Connolly, John. The Infernals. New York: Atria Books, 2011.
     Abstract: A boy, his dog, and their struggle to escape the wrath of demons. Young Samuel Johnson foiled the invasion of Earth by the forces of evil; now they want to get their claws on Samuel and his faithful dachshund, Boswell
846. Connolly, William R. “Christian Johnson and Pagan Hume.” Hume Studies 27, no. 1 (April 1, 2001): 149–59.
847. Considine, John. “Annotated Copies of Early Editions of Johnson’s Dictionary: A Preliminary Account.” The Library 22, no. 2 (2021): 135–54. https://doi.org/10.1093/library/22.2.135.
     Abstract: Early responses to Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language included manuscript annotations, sometimes very extensive, in copies of the dictionary. This article surveys twenty-one copies of eighteenth-century editions of the dictionary with critical or informative annotations, bearing on etymology or usage, adding new words or senses, or improving the supply and referencing of quotations. Some of these copies are extant in institutional or private collections, and others are unlocated. The annotators include Johnson himself; members of his circle including Edmund Burke, Samuel Dyer, Edmond Malone, Hester Piozzi, and George Steevens; and other readers including Leigh Hunt, Horne Tooke, Noah Webster, and John Wilkes.
848. Considine, John. “The Lexicographer as Hero: Samuel Johnson and Henri Estienne.” Philological Quarterly 79, no. 2 (Spring 2000): 205–24.
849. Considine, John. “Samuel Johnson and Johann Christoph Adelung.” In Academy Dictionaries, 1600–1800, 121–43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
     An account of Johnson’s composition of the Dictionary, against the background of academic dictionaries, including the Italian Vocabolario and the Dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise. “From the first sentence of the ‘Scheme’ to the editions which closed the Plan, Johnson had dictionaries in the academy tradition in mind.”
     Reviews:
     • Lynch, Jack. Review of Academy dictionaries 1600–1800, by John Considine. Choice 52, no. 10 (June 2015): 1649.
850. Considine, John. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone. Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 38, no. 1 (2017): 123–31. https://doi.org/10.1353/dic.2017.0006.
851. Contemporary Review. Review of Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” by Jack Lynch and Anne C. McDermott. October 2005.
852. Cook, Donald N. “The History of Dr. Johnson’s Summer-House.” New Rambler C:24, no. 24 (1983): 49–58.
853. Cool, Hilary. “Samuel Johnson.” TLS 5572 (January 15, 2010): 6.
     A letter to the editor on David Nokes’s biography, arguing for the importance of Hester Thrale in that book.
854. Cooper, Neil. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. The Herald (Glasgow), August 11, 2007.
855. Cooper, Neil. Review of Resurrection, by Maureen Lawrence. The Herald (Glasgow), April 18, 1996.
856. Cooper, Susan Margaret. “Notes on John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester.” Notes and Queries 58 [256], no. 3 (September 2011): 381–86. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjr109.
857. Cooperman, Robert. “Boswell on Dr. Johnson’s Friend Mrs. Anna Williams.” Antigonish Review 64 (1986): 101.
     Poem on Anna Williams.
858. Cope, Kevin L. “Raising a Risible Nation: Merry Mentoring and the Art (and Sometimes Science) of Joking Greatness.” In Mentoring in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 131–47. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.
859. Cope, Kevin L. “Rational Hope, Rational Benevolence, and Ethical Accounting: Johnson and Swift on the Economy of Happiness.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 1 (1987): 181–213.
860. Cope, Kevin L. “Rational Hope, Rational Benevolence, and Johnson’s Economy of Happiness.” Eighteenth-Century Life 10, no. 3 (October 1986): 104–21.
861. Cope, Kevin L. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. South Atlantic Review 55, no. 1 (January 1990): 136–39.
862. Copley, Stephen. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 20, no. 1 (1997): 78–79.
863. Cording, Robert. “Dr. Johnson: From the Western Isles.” Sewanee Review 4 (December 1986): 519–20.
864. Corman, Brian. “Johnson and Profane Authors: The Lives of Otway and Congreve.” In Johnson after Two Hundred Years, edited by Paul J. Korshin, 225–44. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
865. Corse, Taylor. “Johnson, Statius, and the Classical Motto.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 1 (2019): 20.
     Abstract: In his article Johnson, Statius, and the Classical Motto, Lee argues that Johnson’s deployment of classical mottoes is integral to the larger structure of his essays and other writings. He parts company with Donald Greene, Bruce Redford, and others who view Johnson’s citation of Latin and Greek authors as more decorative than functional. He closely analyzes lines from Statius’s Thebaid (4.400–401) that appear in Rambler 2 and Adventurer 45.
866. Coulter, William. “The Chymistry of ‘On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet.’” Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 1 (March 2020): 19–26.
867. Cousins, A. D. “Samuel Johnson: Stella, Irene and Aspasia.” In The Donna Angelica and the British Enlightenment Poets: Six Studies from Butler to Crabbe. New York: Routledge, 2024.
     Abstract: This is the first book to study how a vital element of European Renaissance culture, the motif of the angelic lady, is translated into the British Enlightenment by some major seventeenth- as well as eighteenth-century poets. It offers a close study of the motif’s various modernization, locating that inclusively within the history of ideas.
868. Cousins, A. D., Daniel Derrin, and Dani Napton, eds. Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature Series. New York: Routledge, 2024.
     Abstract: This book is the first to assess Johnson’s diverse insights into friendship-that is to say, his profound as well as widely ranging appreciation of it-over the course of his long literary career. It examines his engagements with ancient philosophies of friendship and with subsequent reformulations of or departures from that diverse inheritance. The volume explores and illuminates Johnson’s understanding of friendship in the private and public spheres-in particular, friendship’s therapeutic amelioration of personal experience and transformative impact upon civil life. Doing so, it considers both his portrayals of interaction with his friends, and his more overtly fictional representations of friendship, across the many genres in which he wrote. It presents at once an original re-assessment of Johnson’s writings and new interpretations of friendship as an element of civility in mid-eighteenth century British culture.
     Reviews:
     • Walker, Robert G. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship, by A. D. Cousins. Johnsonian News Letter 76, no. 1 (March 2025): 79–83.
869. Cox, Octavia. “‘& Not the Least Wit’: Jane Austen’s Use of ‘Wit.’” Humanities 11, no. 6 (2022): 132. https://doi.org/10.3390/h11060132.
     Abstract: Jane Austen is celebrated for her wit and wittiness. She famously defended novels in Northanger Abbey, for example, on the basis that they display ‘the liveliest effusions of wit’. Critics have long been occupied with detailing the implications of Austen’s wit, but without due attention to Austen’s own explicit deployment of the word within her writing. Offering a re-evaluation of Austen’s use of ‘wit’, this article provides a much-needed examination of how the term is implemented by Austen in her fiction (from her juvenilia, and through her six major novels), contextualises wit’s meaning through its seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century senses, and reveals that ‘wit’ did not necessarily have the positive connotations often presumed in modern suppositions. It transpires that, seemingly paradoxically, Austen routinely adopts the label ‘wit’ ironically to expose an absence of true wit, whilst concurrently avoiding the application of the word in moments displaying true wit. This article argues for the need to understand the crucial distinction between wit and true wit in Austen’s fiction.
870. Craddock, Patricia. Review of A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson’s Notes for the “Life of Pope,” by Harriet Kirkley. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 39, no. 2 (2007): 190–91.
871. Craddock, Patricia B. “Epistolick Art [Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford].” Johnsonian News Letter 51, no. 4 (March 1991): 2–4.
872. Craig, John. “Johnson and Economics.” New Rambler E:2 (1998): 3–15.
873. Craig, John. “Numeracy and Dr Johnson.” New Rambler D:11, no. 11 (1995): 47–54.
874. Craik, Roger. James Boswell, 1740–1795: The Scottish Perspective. Edinburgh: HMSO, 1994.
     Abstract: This is the first biography of James Boswell seen from a specifically Scottish viewpoint. Though born in Scotland, he often wished to be thought of as an Englishman as he came into prominence. While not overlooking his achievements in England and Europe, the book concentrates on his Scottish background.
     Reviews:
     • Beaudin, Donna, and Daniel Barwick. Review of James Boswell, 1740–1795: The Scottish Perspective, by Roger Craik. International Review of Scottish Studies 20 (2008). https://doi.org/10.21083/irss.v20i0.777.
     • Kidd, Colin. Review of James Boswell, 1740–1795: The Scottish Perspective, by Roger Craik. Scottish Historical Review 75, no. 199 (1996): 123–24.
     • Pittock, Murray G. H. Review of James Boswell, 1740–1795: The Scottish Perspective, by Roger Craik. History 81, no. 264 (1996): 674–674.
875. Crane, Julie. “Johnson and the Art of Interruption.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 19 (2009): 29–45.
     A meditation on Johnson’s use of “interruption,” which explores his own relationship with realistic fiction. Crane argues that “here was a novelist, if a reluctant one, in Johnson.”
876. Craven, Maxwell. “Maxwell Craven.” Derby Evening Telegraph, November 24, 2005.
     On the 50p coin commemorating the Dictionary.
877. Craven, Shona. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. On Stage Scotland, August 8, 2007.
878. Crawford, Robert. Devolving English Literature. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474465939.
879. Crawford, Robert. “England’s Scotland.” In Literature and Union: Scottish Texts, British Contexts, edited by Gerard Carruthers and Colin Kidd, 331–48. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
880. Crawford, Thomas. “Boswell and the Rhetoric of Friendship.” In New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” edited by Greg Clingham, 11–27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511597589.003.
881. Crawford, Thomas. “Enlightenment, Metaphysics and Religion in the Boswell-Temple Correspondence.” Studies in Scottish Literature 25 (1990): 49–69.
882. Crawford, Thomas. “Politics in the Boswell–Temple Correspondence.” In Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, edited by Irma S. Lustig, 101–16. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
883. Creasey, Ian. “A Melancholy Apparition.” Fantasy & Science Fiction 131, no. 3–4 (October 2016): 49.
     Abstract: A short story.
884. Crépin, André. “Samuel Johnson, Élisabeth Bourcier et la conscience chrétienne.” In Ténebres et lumière: Essais sur la religion, la vie et la mort chrétiennes en Angleterre en hommage à la mémoire d’Elisabeth Bourcier, 7–10. Paris: Didier, 1987.
885. Cresswell, John. “The Streatham Johnson Knew.” New Rambler E:3 (1999): 22–27.
886. Cribb, Tim. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. South China Morning Post, April 17, 2005.
887. Crotty, Mary Jane Burbank. “Images of Women: Boswell’s Scotland Tour with Johnson Revisited.” PhD thesis, Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities, 1988.
888. Crouch, Robin N. “Samuel Johnson on Drinking.” Dionysos: The Literature and Addiction TriQuarterly 5, no. 2 (September 1993): 19–27.
889. Cruickshanks, Eveline. “Tory and Whig ‘Patriots’: Lord Gower and Lord Chesterfield.” In Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, edited by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill, 146–68. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
890. Cruikshanks, E. “Samuel Johnson and Jacobitism: A Response to Donald Greene.” TLS, September 8, 1995, 17.
891. Crummey, Donald. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. International Journal of African Historical Studies 19, no. 2 (1986): 373–74.
892. Cummings, Brian. “Last Words: The Biographemes of Shakespeare.” Shakespeare Quarterly 65, no. 4 (Winter 2014): 482–90.
     Abstract: The biography of Shakespeare is a paradox. Is he the pre-eminent author precisely because we know so little about him and his life remains a mystery? At once a figure of cultural saturation and an indefinable enigma, Shakespeare’s life history has created as many problems as it has solved. Biography as a genre in any case long postdates Shakespeare’s natural life and is readily seen as an anachronistic intrusion into understanding his work. This essay reflects on the elusive attempts to capture the life of writing since Nicholas Rowe and Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century. It suggests that the conception of life writing in Johnson as anecdotal and fragmentary is more appropriate than the search for a seamless narrative from cradle to grave. The term biographemes, used by Roland Barthes, is reclaimed as an index of the problem of modern literary biography. However, it is also argued that the assumption that biography is necessary to a historical evaluation of Shakespeare is misplaced. On the contrary, historicism, criticism, and even the study of authorship are enriched by a more skeptical and open-minded approach to the idea of a writer’s biography.
893. Cummings, Brian. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. TLS 5237 (August 13, 2003): 23.
894. Cuneo, Paul K. “Another Odd Couple: Dr. Samuel Johnson and David Garrick.” Biblio 3, no. 6 (June 1998): 22.
895. Curley, Thomas M. “America.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 93–100. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
896. Curley, Thomas M. “Boswell’s Liberty-Loving Account of Corsica and the Art of Travel Literature.” In New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” edited by Greg Clingham and David Daiches, 89–103. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3174-5_3.
897. Curley, Thomas M. “Johnson and America.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1993): 31–73.
898. Curley, Thomas M. “Johnson and Burke: Constitutional Evolution versus Political Revolution.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 263 (1989): 265–68.
899. Curley, Thomas M. “Johnson and the Irish: A Postcolonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 67–197.
     A monograph-length survey of Johnson’s interest in and knowledge of Irish culture.
900. Curley, Thomas M. “Johnson, Chambers, and the Law.” In Johnson after Two Hundred Years, edited by Paul J. Korshin, 187–209. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
901. Curley, Thomas M. “Johnson No Jacobite; or, Treason Not Yet Unmasked.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 7 (1996): 137–62.
     A response to Clark and Erskine-Hill, arguing that Johnson was not a Jacobite.
902. Curley, Thomas M. “Johnson No Jacobite; or, Treason Not Yet Unmasked, II: A Quotable Rejoinder from A to C.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 127–31.
     A continuation of Curley’s argument against Johnson’s putative Jacobitism.
903. Curley, Thomas M. “Johnson’s Last Word on Ossian: Ghostwriting for William Shaw.” In Aberdeen and the Enlightenment, edited by Jennifer J. Carter and Joan H. Pittock, 375–431. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987.
904. Curley, Thomas M. “Johnson’s Tour of Scotland and the Idea of Great Britain.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 12 (1989): 135–44.
905. Curley, Thomas M. Review of Rasselas and Other Tales, by Gwin J. Kolb. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 434–49.
906. Curley, Thomas M. “Samuel Beckett and Samuel Johnson: Like-Minded Masters of Life’s Limitations.” In Samuel Johnson among the Modernists, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 133–64. Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2019.
907. Curley, Thomas M. “Samuel Johnson and India.” In Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, edited by Nalini Jain, 9–29. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991.
908. Curley, Thomas M. “Samuel Johnson and Sir Robert Chambers: A Creative Partnership in English Law.” Indian Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 1, no. 1 (June 1986): 1–16.
909. Curley, Thomas M. “Samuel Johnson and Taxation No Tyranny: ‘I Am Willing to Love All Mankind, except an American.’” In New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 87–108. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.
910. Curley, Thomas M. “Samuel Johnson and Truth: The First Systematic Detection of Literary Deception in James Macpherson’s Ossian.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 119–96.
     An extensive investigation of Macpherson’s manipulation of traditional material in the Ossianic poems.
911. Curley, Thomas M. Samuel Johnson, the “Ossian” Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
     Abstract: James Macpherson’s famous hoax, publishing his own poems as the writings of the ancient Scots bard Ossian in the 1760s, remains fascinating to scholars as the most successful literary fraud in history. This study presents the fullest investigation of his deception to date, by looking at the controversy from the point of view of Samuel Johnson. Johnson’s dispute with Macpherson was an argument with wide implications not only for literature, but for the emerging national identities of the British nations during the Celtic revival. Thomas M. Curley offers a wealth of genuinely new information, detailing as never before Johnson’s involvement in the Ossian controversy, his insistence on truth-telling, and his interaction with others in the debate. The appendix reproduces a rare pamphlet against Ossian written with the assistance of Johnson himself. This book will be an important addition to knowledge about both the Ossian controversy and Samuel Johnson.
     Reviews:
     • Jackson, H. J. “By Perseverance [Review of Samuel Johnson, the ‘Ossian’ Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland, by Thomas M. Curley; Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood; and Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” TLS 5551–52 (August 21, 2009): 13–14.
     • Sandler, Erin M. Review of Samuel Johnson, the “Ossian” Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland, by Thomas M. Curley. Eighteenth-Century Studies 44, no. 1 (2010): 142–43.
912. Curley, Thomas M. “Samuel Johnson’s Forgotten Friendship with William Shaw: Their Last Stand for Truth in the Ossian Controversy.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 18 (2007): 19–65.
913. Curley, Thomas M. Review of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 483–86.
914. Curran, Louise. “The Form of Samuel Johnson’s Letters.” Essays in Criticism 73, no. 2 (2023): 156–93.
915. Curran, Louise. “In Vino Veritas: Samuel Johnson and Drink.” New Rambler F:17 (2014): 72–84.
916. Currie, Jennifer. “Doctors Steal the Limelight.” Times Higher Education Supplement, July 9, 1999, 8–9.
     On honorary degrees.
917. Curtis, Anthony. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Financial Times, March 21, 1992.
918. Curtis, Julia. “John Lahr.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 29.
919. Curtis, Julia. “Review of Reviews.” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 2 (September 2009): 49–51.
     A survey of reviews of the recent biographies by Peter Martin and Jeffrey Meyers, drawn from the New York Times, the Financial Times, the New Yorker, and the Johnsonian News Letter.
920. Curtis, Nick. “A Grave Look into the Past [Review of Resurrection, by Maureen Lawrence].” Evening Standard, May 15, 1996.
921. Cushner, Arnold W. “Plot and Episode in James Boswell’s Grand Tour Journal.” English Language Notes 32, no. 1 (September 1994): 53–62.
922. Dachez, Hélène. Review of État de la Corse; suivi de Journal d’un voyage en Corse et mémoires de Pascal Paoli, by Jean Viviès. Miranda 20 (2020).
923. Daiches, David. Review of James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795, by Frank Brady. Eighteenth-Century Studies 19, no. 3 (1986): 412.
924. Daily Telegraph. “‘Having a Very Bonnie Time’: Aboard a Highlands and Islands Voyage, Caroline Hendrie Follows in the Wake of Two Pioneering 18th-Century Tourists.” 2014.
925. Daily Telegraph. “Dr Samuel Johnson Letter Found in Cupboard.” September 4, 2023.
926. Damrosch, Leo. “A Tercentenary Address: Doctor Johnson and Jean-Jacques: Two Styles of Thinking and Being.” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 2 (September 2009): 8–17.
     “In a talk of this kind, the usual gambit would be to say that Rousseau and Johnson may look different superficially, but deep down they turn out to be alike. Well, they don’t. They’re 180 degrees apart on pretty much everything.”
927. Damrosch, Leo. “Johnson as Biographer.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 178–90. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
928. Damrosch, Leo. The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
     Abstract: In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as “the Club.” In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the “odd couple” Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.
     Reviews:
     • Boyd, Bradford Q. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Eighteenth-Century Life 47, no. 1 (2023): 102–25.
     • Darcy, Jane. “Publick Dinners: A Place Not at the Heart of the Eighteenth Century [Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch].” TLS, no. 6056 (April 26, 2019): 26.
     • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 2 (September 2019): 59–62.
     • Eger, Elizabeth. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Journal of British Studies 59, no. 1 (2020): 177–78.
     • Epstein, Joseph. “‘An Assembly of Good Fellows’: Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon and Adam Smith Were Members — but Samuel Johnson Outshone Them All [Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch].” Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2019.
     • Hardiman, Edward. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 47, no. 3 (2024): 336–37.
     • Jack, Malcolm. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 26 (2021): 266–69.
     • Lambert, Elizabeth. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 33, no. 1 (March 2019): 39–45.
     • Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 53, no. 2 (2021): 88.
     • Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Choice 57, no. 1 (September 2019): 49.
     • Meyers, Jeffrey. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Times Higher Education, no. 2404 (April 18, 2019).
     • Moore, Peter. “Enlightenment: Nightclubbing [Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch].” History Today 69, no. 6 (June 6, 2019): 102.
     • Redford, Bruce. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Eighteenth-Century Studies 53, no. 2 (2020): 321–23.
     • Richards, Penny. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 33, no. 1/2 (2021): 151–52.
     • Saxton, Teresa. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 34, no. 1 (2021): 110–13.
     • Uglow, Jenny. “Big Talkers [Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch].” New York Review of Books 66, no. 9 (May 23, 2019): 26.
929. Damrosch, Leopold. Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
     Abstract: During the second half of the eighteenth century, the most powerful literary work in Britain was nonfictional: philosophy, history, biography, and political controversy. Leo Damrosch argues that this tendency is no accident; at the beginning of the modern age, writers were consciously aware of the role of cultural fictions, and they sought to ground those fictions in a real world beyond the text. Their political conservatism (often neglected by modern scholars) was an extensively thought out response to a world in which meaning was inseparable from consensus, and in which consensus was increasingly under attack. Damrosch finds strong affinities between writers who are usually described as antagonists. The first chapter places Hume and Johnson in dialogue, showing that their responses to the challenge of their age have deep similarities, and that their thinking points forward in significant ways to twentieth-century pragmatism. Subsequent chapters explore the interrelationship of the fictive and the “real” in a wide range of works by Boswell, Gibbon, White, Burke, and Godwin. In its combination of literary, philosophical, and cultural criticism, this book will appeal to scholars in many fields as well as to nonacademic readers interested in intellectual history.
     Reviews:
     • Womersley, David. Review of Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson, by Leopold Damrosch Jr. Review of English Studies 43 (1992): 274–75.
930. Damrosch, Leopold. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. Modern Language Review 83, no. 4 (1988): 962–64.
931. Damrosch, Leopold, Jr., ed. Major Authors on CD-ROM: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Woodbridge: Primary Source Media, 1997. Reviews:
     • Bundock, Michael. Review of Major Authors on CD-ROM: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, by Leopold Damrosch. New Rambler E:2 (1998): 73–74.
     • LaGuardia, Cheryl. Review of Major Authors on CD-ROM: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, by Leopold Damrosch. Library Journal 123, no. 20 (December 1998): 168.
932. Danckert, Stephen C., ed. The Quotable Johnson: A Topical Compilation of His Wit and Moral Wisdom. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1992.
     With a foreword by Joseph Sobran.
933. Dando, Joel Allan. “The Poet as Critic: Byron in His Letters and Journals: Case Studies of Shakespeare and Johnson.” PhD thesis, Harvard University, 1985.
934. Danziger, Marlies K. “Boswell in Braunschweig, 1764: Eindrücke eines Aufenthaltes am herzoglichen Hof.” Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch 75 (1994): 161–70.
935. Danziger, Marlies K. “‘Horrible Anarchy’: James Boswell’s View of the French Revolution.” Studies in Scottish Literature 23 (1988): 64–76.
936. Danziger, Marlies K. “James Boswell and Frederick of Prussia.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 305 (1992): 1654–57.
937. Danziger, Marlies K. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 10 (1996): 15–16.
938. Danziger, Marlies K. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neal Parke. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 16, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 175–76.
939. Danziger, Marlies K. “Self-Restraint and Self-Display in the Authorial Comments in the Life of Johnson.” In New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” edited by Greg Clingham, 162–73. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511597589.012.
940. Darcy, Jane. “Boswell and Cheyne, The English Malady.” In Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640–1816. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
941. Darcy, Jane. “Johnson, Melancholy and Biography.” In Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640–1816. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
942. Darcy, Jane. “Publick Dinners: A Place Not at the Heart of the Eighteenth Century [Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch].” TLS, no. 6056 (April 26, 2019): 26.
943. Davenport, Hester. “What to Tell Flirtilla: Masquerade in the Age of Johnson.” New Rambler E:9 (2005): 22–30.
944. Davidson, George. “Johnsoniana: Henry Hitchings in The Wall Street Journal, 9 November 2018.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 1 (March 2019): 58.
945. Davidson, George. “Johnsoniana: Michael P. Lynch.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 1 (March 2018): 64.
946. Davidson, George. “Johnsoniana: Sir James Digby.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 26.
947. Davidson, George A. “‘A Clergyman’ Identified.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 33–38.
948. Davidson, Jenny. “History.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 315–31. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
     Abstract: Johnson is not commonly thought of a historian, partly because his affinities led him to reject the secular and skeptical precepts of Enlightenment historiography. This essay shows how historical thinking pervades Johnson’s writing, enumerating concerns and beliefs about history that include the following: the relationship between oral and written testimony; the nature of historical evidence, including material evidence; and the value of considering history and life-writing, in the absence of written sources, as akin to ethnography.
949. Davidson, Jenny. “The ‘Minute Particular’ in Life-Writing and the Novel.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 48, no. 3 (2015): 263–81.
     Abstract: This essay considers the interdependence of formal and ethical questions about the appropriate use of particular detail by juxtaposing eighteenth-century fiction to contemporary practices of life-writing, especially the use of detail by Johnson in his Lives of the Poets and Boswell in his Life of Johnson. After laying out some premises about what constitutes novelistic detail during this period, the essay explores a productive tension between an ethical argument against “being particular” when writing about real historical figures and an increasingly strong preference for specificity in both fiction and nonfiction.
950. Davidson, Jenny. Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. Modern Philology 100, no. 1 (2002): 112–15.
951. Davie, Donald. “Politics and Literature: John Adams and Doctor Johnson.” In A Travelling Man: Eighteenth-Century Bearings, edited by Doreen Davie. Manchester: Carcanet, 2003.
952. Davies, Laura. “Anecdotal Death: Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets.” In The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature, edited by W. Michelle Wang, 307–18. London: Routledge, 2021.
     Abstract: This chapter explores Johnson’s attempts, through the narrative construction of the Lives, to negotiate challenges and to acknowledge if not resolve the moral, theological, and existential questions that they raise. A useful starting point for such an analysis is Johnson’s own Dictionary definition of coherence: The texture of a discourse, by which one part follows another regularly and naturally. The “Life of William Collins” is organized around his poverty, mental “disorder,” and the twists of fortune and misfortune that befell him. Johnson was famously the subject of numerous anecdotes, but read, recommended, and collected them himself. In historiographical studies the anecdote “has always stood in close relation to the longer, more elaborate narratives of history, sometimes in supportive role, as examples and illustrations, sometimes in a challenging role, as the repressed of history — “la petite histoire.” Incomplete, it consists only of a scene set at Bolt Court in which the characters reflect on the nature and meaning of death.
     https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003107040-28.
953. Davies, Laura. “Boswell in London: An Eighteenth-Century Soundscape Study.” Études Epistémè 29, no. 29 (2016). https://doi.org/10.4000/episteme.1046.
     Abstract: The journals in which James Boswell records his experiences in London between 1760 and 1795 are a rich source of information regarding the sounds that were generated by and heard within the city. They are also highly revealing in terms of the manner in which a single individual listened, thought about sound and noise, and represented this form of sensory experience through writing. This article makes the case that a productive approach to this material is to examine it in relation to the widely used but often loosely defined concept of the soundscape. It draws together the various dimensions of this concept, including the ideas of immersion, selection, regulation, manipulation, and imagination, and brings them into dialogue with existing scholarship on Boswell’s construction of self through writing, and on the influence of The Spectator project and the role ascribed to the senses within the philosophical writing of Locke and Hume, both on him personally and eighteenth-century society more broadly. In so doing, it argues that we can nuance our understanding of Boswell in relation to others, himself, and the world and can identify patterns regarding the relationship between Boswell’s external and internal experience as they change over time.
954. Davies, Laura. “‘No Vain Speculation’: Samuel Johnson’s Rambler and Eighteenth-Century Attitudes to Orality.” Literature Compass 5, no. 3 (2008): 461–71.
955. Davies, Laura. “Samuel Johnson and the Frailties of Speech.” In Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability: Talking Normal, edited by Chris Eagle, 44–64. New York: Routledge, 2014.
956. Davies, Laura. “Samuel Johnson and the Grammar of Death.” In Narrating Death: The Limit of Literature, edited by W. Michelle Wang, Daniel K. Jernigan, and Walter Wadiak, 107–25. London: Routledge, 2019.
     Abstract: This chapter focuses on the periodical essays written for The Rambler and The Idler, which demonstrate what have been termed the “peculiarities” that “distinguish the prose of Johnson’s maturity.” Johnson asserts that the contemplation of death is necessary for a virtuous life. A number of The Rambler essays reveal Johnson’s awareness of both the necessity of attending to the passing of time and his horror at the thought of its destructive action. There are clearly grounds on which to align this mode of representation with what has been identified as Johnson’s “emphasis on the common and the general” and to a universalizing tendency in his work. The frequency of Johnson’s repetition of the adverbs in conjunction with the progressive construction, therefore, can also be construed as a representation of his personal experience of this state of “permanent imminence” as well as his insistent determination to attend to what horrifies him.
957. Davies, Richard A. Review of A Reading of Samuel Johnson’s “The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated” (1749), by Patrick O’Flaherty. Mouseion 15, no. 1 (2018): 165–68. https://doi.org/10.3138/mous.15.1.165.
958. Davies, Robertson. Why I Do Not Intend to Write an Autobiography. Toronto: Harbourfront Reading Series, 1993.
     Fiction based on Johnson.
959. Davies, Ross. “Bless You, Dr. Johnson.” Connoisseur 214 (September 1984): 36.
960. Davies, Ross. “Samuel Johnson and Vauxhall Gardens.” New Rambler F:18 (2014): 37–46.
961. Davis, Bertram H. “Johnson’s 1764 Visit to Percy.” In Johnson after Two Hundred Years, edited by Paul J. Korshin, 25–41. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
962. Davis, Bertram H. Thomas Percy: A Scholar-Cleric in the Age of Johnson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
963. Davis, Jodie. “Words of Wisdom [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” The Herald Sun, July 9, 2005.
964. Davis, Lennard J. “Dr. Johnson, Amelia, and the Discourse of Disability.” In “Defects”: Engendering the Early Modern Body, edited by Helen Deutsch and Felicity Nussbaum, 54–74. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
965. Davis, Lennard J. “Dr. Johnson, Amelia, and the Discourse of Disability.” In Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions, 47–66. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
966. Davis, Matthew M. “Animated Johnson Talks in New Video.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 26.
967. Davis, Matthew M. “‘Ask for the Old Paths’: Johnson and the Usages Controversy.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 17–68.
     A scholarly investigation of SJ’s involvement in a religious dispute.
968. Davis, Matthew M. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. New Rambler D:12, no. 12 (1996): 56–57.
969. Davis, Matthew Miller. “Conflicts of Principle in Samuel Johnson’s Literary Criticism.” PhD thesis, University of Virginia, 2000.
970. Davis, Matthew M. “Denying That the Sun Makes the Day: An Allusion to Fontenelle’s Histoire Des Oracles in Taxation No Tyranny.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 38–42.
971. Davis, Matthew M. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Modern Age 39, no. 1 (1997): 73–76.
972. Davis, Matthew M. “‘Elevated Notions of the Right of Kings’: Stuart Sympathies in Johnson’s Notes to Richard II.” In Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, edited by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill, 239–64. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
973. Davis, Matthew M. “Fructus Sanctorum: A Newly Identified Title from Johnson’s Library.” Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 29–32.
974. Davis, Matthew M. “A Discussion Panel on the Prevalence of Insanity.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 1 (March 2018): 56–58.
975. Davis, Matthew M. “Further Musings on Johnson and the Cat Parasite.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 2 (September 2017): 57–58.
976. Davis, Matthew M. “Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi and the Dissertation on Flying.” Johnsonian News Letter 76, no. 1 (March 2025): 71–74.
977. Davis, Matthew M. “Johnson, American Radicalism, and the Modes of Migration.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 25 (2025): 72–93.
978. Davis, Matthew M. “Johnson, Genre, and ‘Lycidas.’” In Approaches to Teaching Milton’s Shorter Poetry and Prose, edited by Peter C. Herman, 171–74. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2007.
979. Davis, Matthew M. “Johnson’s London in the Diary of William Bulkeley of Brynddu.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 23–24.
980. Davis, Matthew M. “Johnsonian Acrostic Puzzle.” Johnsonian News Letter 75, no. 1 (March 2024): 57–61.
981. Davis, Matthew M. “Johnsoniana.” Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 17–27.
982. Davis, Matthew M. “Johnsoniana: ‘7 Tips for Spotting Samuel Johnson (on the Very off-Chance That He’s Still Alive).’” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 20–22.
983. Davis, Matthew M. “Johnsoniana: Dull as a Torpedo.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 1 (March 2016): 23–24.
984. Davis, Matthew M. “Johnsoniana: Fred Allen.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 1 (March 2018): 64.
985. Davis, Matthew M. “Johnsoniana: Johnson Epistle to Sophy Thrale Sells for £38,460.” Johnsonian News Letter 76, no. 1 (March 2025): 53–55.
986. Davis, Matthew M. “Johnsoniana: Michael P. Lynch: ‘Kick This Rock: Climate Change and Our Common Reality.’” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 2 (September 2017): 46.
987. Davis, Matthew M. “Johnsoniana: The Memes of a Lexicographer.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 22–25.
988. Davis, Matthew M. “Kicking the Stone, Once Again.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 1 (March 2019): 50–53.
989. Davis, Matthew M. “Like Little Pompadour.” Johnsonian News Letter 75, no. 1 (March 2024): 45–47.
990. Davis, Matthew M. “Lydiat’s Life: A Note on The Vanity of Human Wishes.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 24–30.
991. Davis, Matthew M. “‘The Most Fatal of All Faults’: Samuel Johnson on Prior’s Solomon and the Need for Variety.” Papers on Language and Literature 33, no. 4 (September 1997): 422–37.
992. Davis, Matthew M. “The Noachian Mathematics of Bishop John Wilkins.” Johnsonian News Letter 76, no. 1 (March 2025): 55–58.
993. Davis, Matthew M. “Oxford Oath-Taking: The Evidence from Thomas Hearne’s Diaries.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 22 (2012): 169–89.
     Abstract: William Fullerton was a son of the Nonjuring Scottish bishop John Fullerton.12 His father had been confirmed as a bishop by the king across the water. Since Fullerton was raised in a Nonjuring, Jacobite family, it seems safe to assume that his Nonjuring principles were in place upon his arrival at Oxford rather than acquired there. . . .]Hearne argues that Tanner made this “addition” to bring a slur upon the university-just as he made deletions elsewhere in his edition, e.g., when he omitted comments on Wallis and Bathhurst that were distasteful to the “Trimming” (moderate, complying, anti-Jacobite) interest at Oxford. Here again Hearne’s remarks imply that the timing of the oath of allegiance did not change from 1699 to 1729/30, and also that the basic pattern of requirements did not vary from college to college. Because practice was consistent at the university level, one could reliably infer that a graduate like Hearne had taken the oath of allegiance, without bothering to ask which college he had attended.24 In another entry dated 17 March 1730/31, Hearne wrote of the oath of allegiance, “which all are obliged to take, that take Degrees regularly in our Universities” (Hearne, 10:395-96 n. 1). . . .]there would appear to be more and better reasons for doubting the accuracy of the public, politically charged claims of Turner, Amhurst, and Kennicott than there are for doubting the accuracy of the repeated, private observations of Hearne.
994. Davis, Matthew M. “Rasselas and the Visual Arts: A Parallel.” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 2 (September 2023): 38–44.
995. Davis, Matthew M. “Samuel Johnson and the Allen Family.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 24 (2021): 32–62.
996. Davis, Matthew M. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 8 (2003): 369–72.
997. Davis, Matthew M. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Modern Age 39, no. 1 (1997): 73–76.
998. Davis, Matthew M. Review of Selected Essays, by David Womersley. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 1 (March 2005): 38–42.
999. Davis, Matthew M. “‘These Kings of Me’: The Provenance and Significance of an Allusion in Johnson’s Taxation No Tyranny.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 26 (2021): 42–64.
1000. Davis, Matthew M. Review of Who Was . . . Sam Johnson: The Wonderful Word Doctor, by Andrew Billen. Johnsonian News Letter 59, no. 1 (March 2008): 54–55.
1001. Davis, Philip. “Extraordinarily Ordinary: The Life of Samuel Johnson.” In The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 4–17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.002.
1002. Davis, Philip. In Mind of Johnson: A Study of Johnson the Rambler. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.
      Abstract: The original and imaginative portrait of Dr Johnson — the man and the writer — gets behind his public face and uncovers the human struggle out of which Johnson’s moral view of life emerged. The author presents a challenging reading of the Rambler essays and Rasselas, unveiling the presence in these works of Johnson’s inner life. Convincing and persuasive, it is an approach which flies in the face of established critical fashions and preconceptions and which reveals Johnson in a completely new light.
      Reviews::
      • Knight, Charles A. Review of In Mind of Johnson: A Study of Johnson the Rambler, by Philip Davis. JEGP 90, no. 2 (1991): 243–45.
      • McGlynn, P. D. Review of In Mind of Johnson: A Study of Johnson the Rambler, by Philip Davis. Choice 27, no. 2 (October 1989): 798.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of In Mind of Johnson: A Study of Johnson the Rambler, by Philip Davis. Johnsonian News Letter 48, no. 3–49, 2 (June 1988): 21–22.
1003. Davis, Philip. “Johnson: Sanity and Syntax.” In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, 49–61. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0005.
1004. Davis, Robert, Jr. A Catalogue of Choice Books by Michael Johnson of Lichfield, 21st March 1717–18. Tempe, Ariz.: Impression Makers Printing for the Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California, 2008.
1005. Day, Geoffrey. “Stealing Johnson’s Sheets.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 1 (March 2018): 33–37.
1006. Day, Leanne. “‘Those Ungodly Pressmen’: The Early Years of the Brisbane Johnsonian Club.” Australian Literary Studies 21, no. 1 (May 2003): 92–102. https://doi.org/10.20314/als.bcd2510d52.
1007. Day, Robert Adams. “Psalmanazar’s ‘Formosa’ and the British Reader (Including Samuel Johnson.” In Exoticism in the Enlightenment, edited by G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter, 197–221. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989.
1008. De Bruyn, Frans. Review of The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 2 (September 2023): 56–61.
1009. De la Bédoyère, Quentin. “Setting the Standard [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch, and Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Catholic Herald, June 3, 2005.
1010. De La Torre, Lillian. The Exploits of Dr. Sam Johnson, Detector: Told as If by James Boswell. New York: International Polygonics, 1987.
      Abstract: The 18th century lexicographer Samuel Johnson with the help of his friend James Boswell solves seven baffling crimes.
1011. De La Torre, Lillian. The Return of Dr. Sam. Johnson, Detector: As Told by James Boswell. New York: International Polygonics, 1985.
      Abstract: The eighteenth-century lexicographer Samuel Johnson accompanied by his biographer James Boswell solves a series of strange crimes
1012. De Ritter, Richard. “‘This Changeableness in Character’: Exploring Masculinity and Nationhood on James Boswell’s Grand Tour.” Scottish Literary Review 2, no. 1 (March 2010): 23–40.
1013. De Vries, Gerard. “Pale Fire and The Life of Johnson: The Case of Hodge and Mystery Lodge.” The Nabokovian 26 (March 1991): 44–49.
1014. Deacon, Merrowyn. “Dr. Johnson and Music.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 2, no. 1 (1998): 1–7.
1015. Dean, Kitty Chen. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Library Journal Reviews, September 15, 2005, 66.
1016. Dean, Paul. “Augustans and Romantics [Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism by J. C. D. Clark].” English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 77, no. 1 (January 1996): 81–85.
1017. Dean, Paul. Review of “The Fictions of Romantick Chivalry”: Samuel Johnson and Romance, by Eithne Henson. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 74, no. 6 (December 1993): 549–58.
1018. Dean, Tim. “Psychopoetics of Lexicography: Johnson with Lacan.” Literature and Psychology 37, no. 4 (1991): 9–28.
1019. Delaney, Frank. A Walk to the Western Isles: After Boswell & Johnson. London: HarperCollins, 1993.
      Abstract: This travel book retraces Samuel Johnson and James Boswell’s journey through Scotland and its Western Isles in the autumn of 1773. The book tells in some part the history of Scotland in the 18th century and today, of the people of the Highlands and islands then and now, their history, their whisky distilleries, the Loch Ness monster, their literature and songs, their food and hospitality, their lochs and harbours and sea-sounds — all observed via a stream of anecdotes. Johnson’s book A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland and Boswell’s book Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson are compared throughout.
      Reviews:
      • Schwartz, Richard B. Review of A Walk to the Western Isles: After Boswell & Johnson, by Frank Delaney. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 20 (2001): 505–6.
1020. Delaney, Frank. “The Devout Dr Johnson.” New Rambler E:2 (1998): 16–22.
1021. DeLuca, Anthony Louis. “Reading Samuel Johnson ‘Anew’: Hester Thrale’s Private, Social, and Public Views of Samuel Johnson.” PhD thesis, City University of New York, 2000.
1022. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. JEGP 101, no. 1 (2002): 142–44.
1023. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 2 (September 2005): 58–60.
1024. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “A Dictionary of the English Language on DVD-ROM.” Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 2 (September 2005): 58–60.
1025. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “A History of the Collected Works of Samuel Johnson: The First Two Hundred Years.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 343–66. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
1026. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson, by Nicholas Hudson. Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 40–44.
1027. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Addison, Samuel Johnson, and the Test of Time.” In Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays, edited by Robert Davis Jr., 251–71. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
1028. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Annotating the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson.” In Notes on Footnotes: Annotating Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Robert New Jr. and Robert Lee Jr., 160–70. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023.
1029. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt. Modern Philology 98, no. 3 (February 2001): 495–99.
1030. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Boswell’s Books: Four Generations of Collecting and Collectors, by Terry Seymour. Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 55–58.
1031. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Careful and Careless: Epic Tales in the Editing of Dr Johnson.” TLS, no. 5840 (2015): 14–15.
      Abstract: Robert DeMaria Jr. explores the history of scholarship on the life and works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and the many scholastic controversies that have arisen over time about the collecting, selecting for publication and editing of his works. Perhaps the greatest of these is the story of the Yale Edition of the “Works of Samuel Johnson,” which has taken over sixty years to publish and has grown to twenty-three volumes in print (21 available online, for free). The history of the battles over the scope, method and reasons for publishing the Yale Edition gives readers an encapsulated look at 20th and 21st century conflicts over the nature of literary biography and literary criticism.
      Noted in The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 53, no. 1 (Autumn 2020): 19.
1032. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “China, Johnson, and Marx: A Supplement.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 2 (September 2015): 43.
1033. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Editions.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 83–99. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, 23 vols. (1958–2018), is the most comprehensive and accurate edition of Johnson’s works ever published and ever likely to be published. There is, nevertheless, much of Johnson’s work lacking in the Yale Edition, including the full texts of the Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare’s plays. Also lacking are many of Johnson’s contributions to the works of others. In addition to the printed Yale Edition, there is a Yale Digital Edition of the Works, which corrects some of the original’s errors, and can be expanded over time, but it is unlikely that there will be a new comprehensive edition. There have been, however, and may continue to appear important editions of discrete parts of Johnson’s works that improve on some of the Yale volumes.
1034. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Exeunt the Kit-Cats, Pursued by Pope, Reviewed by Johnson.” English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 102, no. 7 (2021): 918–36.
      Abstract: The two great literary events of 1721 were the death of Matthew Prior and the publication of the Works of Joseph Addison, the beloved public figure who had died in 1719. These events are representative of a turning point in the history of authorship in Britain, which was accompanied by a change in the nature of poetry. Authors became more professional and specialised, less dependent on patrons and social connections. At the same time the genres of panegyric and epic were largely abandoned in favour of satire and mock-epic. The history of these changes is complicated, however, as this essay shows in an examination of Addison’s celebration of the Battle of Blenheim, The Campaign (1705), and Prior’s celebration of the Battle of Ramilies, An Ode, Humbly Inscrib’d to the Queen on the Glorious Success of Her Majesty’s Arms, 1706.
1035. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Fraudulence and Savagery in Three Eighteenth-Century British Writers.” Il Confronto Letterario: Quaderni Di Letterature Straniere Moderne e Comparate Dell’Università Di Pavia 33, no. 65 [1] (2016): 37–53.
1036. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “History.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Robert Lynch Jr., 208–15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
1037. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Johnson among the Scholars.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 239–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
1038. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Johnson and Change.” In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, 24–36. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0003.
1039. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Johnson and the Teutonic Roots of English.” In The Harp and the Constitution: Myths of Celtic and Gothic Origin, edited by Robert Parker Jr., 47–65. Leiden: Brill, 2016.
1040. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Johnson, Johnsonians, and ‘Cooperative Enterprise.’” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 1 (March 2004): 20–29.
1041. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Johnson, Writing, and Memory, by Greg Clingham. Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 1 (March 2004): 56–58.
1042. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Johnsoniana: Another Concentrated Mind.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 20.
1043. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Johnsoniana: Johnson’s Anec-Dotage.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 2 (September 2015): 43–44.
1044. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Johnson’s Dictionary.” In The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 85–101. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.007.
1045. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
      Abstract: Although the Dictionary is primarily a philological work, DeMaria shows how it also serves literary, moral, and educational purposes. By analyzing the content of the 116,000 illustrative quotations used by Johnson, the author illuminates the major themes of the book: knowledge and ignorance, truth and probability, learning and education, language, religion, and morality. Johnson’s choice of which quotations to include represents his vision of the intellectual landscape.
      One of the few truly essential books on the Dictionary.
      Reviews:
      • Blake, N. F. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Lore and Language 7, no. 1 (1988): 113–14.
      • Griffith, Philip Mahone. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 453–55.
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Yearbook of English Studies 18 (1988): 324–26.
      • Hedrick, Elizabeth. “Reading Johnson’s Dictionary [Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria, Jr.].” Annals of Scholarship 7 (1990): 91–101.
      • McLaverty, James. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Notes and Queries 35 [233], no. 2 (1988): 239–41.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Johnsonian News Letter 46, no. 2–47, 2 (June 1986): 3.
      • Pailler, Albert. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Études Anglaises 40, no. 2 (April 1987): 216–17.
      • Pittock, Murray G. H. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 12 (1989): 111–12.
      • Reddick, Allen H. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Modern Philology 86, no. 3 (1989): 312–16.
      • Rogers, Pat. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. London Review of Books 9, no. 1 (1987): 13–14.
      • Stack, Robert. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Times Higher Education Supplement, no. 731 (1986): 15.
      • Womersley, David. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Review of English Studies 39, no. 153 (1988): 113–14.
1046. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Johnson’s Dictionary and the ‘Teutonick’ Roots of the English Language.” In Language and Civilization: A Concerted Profusion of Essays and Studies in Honor of Otto Hietsch, edited by Claudia Blank, 1:20–36. Peter Lang, 1992.
1047. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Johnson’s Editorial Lexicography.” Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 35 (2014): 146–61.
      Abstract: In his editions of Sir Thomas Browne’s Christian Morals (1756) and of Roger Ascham’s English Works (1761) Samuel Johnson provided many definitions of words (or particular senses of words) that are absent in his Dictionary of the English Language (1755). These editorial glosses constitute hidden acts of lexicography: they are assembled herewith as addenda to Johnson’s Dictionary. The similarity between Johnson’s editorial glosses and his dictionary definitions suggests that as a lexicographer he was often interpreting contextual usage rather than seeking, like some lexicographers, the general meanings of words.
1048. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Johnson’s Extempore History and Grammar of the English Language.” In Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott, 77–91. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
1049. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Latter-Day Humanists and the Pastness of the Past.” Common Knowledge 3 (1993): 67–76.
1050. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Melancholy and the Body in the Eighteenth Century: The Example of Samuel Johnson.” ACME: An International e-Journal for Critical Geographies 70, no. 2 (2017): 11–18. https://doi.org/10.13130/2282-0035/9352.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), the great lexicographer and essayist, suffered from melancholy all his life. He believed that the disorder was congenital and that it afflicted his mind. To some degree, he saw the problem as arising in his abnormally large and partially disabled body. Locating the source of melancholy in his body, gave Johnson a way to deal with it, and it partially relieved him of the guilt and shame he felt concerning the disease. Johnson’s greatest fear concerning his condition was that it touched not only his mind but also his soul. In the form of scruples and spiritual torpor, melancholy weighed Johnson down and stimulated his fears of death and damnation. As a physical body, Johnson was perhaps deformed, but he was courageous. No physical danger frightened him, but he trembled for the life of his soul, and his melancholy, even if it was psycho-somatic (avant la lettre), was his greatest threat.
1051. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Mentoring Relationships in the Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson: A Study in the Dynamics of Eighteenth-Century Literary Mentoring, by Anthony W. Lee. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 62–63.
1052. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “More Neglected Classicists.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 2 (September 2015): 44–45.
1053. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, by Anthony W. Lee. Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 1 (March 2020): 54–57.
1054. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “North and South in Johnson’s Dictionary.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 19, no. 1 (2006): 11–32.
1055. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Plutarch, Johnson, and Boswell: The Classical Tradition of Biography at the End of the Eighteenth Century.” Eighteenth-Century Novel 6–7 (2009): 79–102.
1056. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson, by Timothy Wilson-Smith. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 64.
1057. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 437–43.
1058. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
      Abstract: If readers of the twentieth century feel overwhelmed by the proliferation of writing and information, they can find in Samuel Johnson a sympathetic companion. Johnson’s career coincided with the rapid expansion of publishing in England—not only in English, but in Latin and Greek; not only in books, but in reviews, journals, broadsides, pamphlets, and books about books. In 1753 Johnson imagined a time when ‘writers will, perhaps, be multiplied, till no readers will be found.’ Three years later, he wrote that England had become ‘a nation of authors’ in which ‘every man must be content to read his book to himself.’ In Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, Robert DeMaria considers the surprising influence of one of the greatest readers in English literature. Johnson’s relationship to books not only reveals much about his life and times, DeMaria contends, but also provides a dramatic counterpoint to modern reading habits. As a superior practitioner of the craft, Johnson provides a compelling model for how to read—indeed, he provides different models for different kinds of reading. DeMaria shows how Johnson recognized early that not all reading was alike—some requiring intense concentration, some suited for cursory glances, some requiring silence, some best appreciated amid the chatter of a coffeehouse. Considering the remarkable range of Johnson’s reading, DeMaria discovers in one extraordinary career a synoptic view of the subject of reading.
      Reviews:
      • Abbott, John L. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. South Atlantic Review 63, no. 1 (1998): 90–93.
      • Cass, Thomas G. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Cithara 37, no. 2 (May 1998): 44–45.
      • Davis, Matthew M. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 8 (2003): 369–72.
      • Deutsch, Helen. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Modern Philology 97, no. 4 (May 2000): 599–605.
      • Ingram, Allan. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Modern Language Review 94, no. 3 (July 1999): 792–93.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Choice 35, no. 3 (November 1997): 1365.
      • Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Biblio 3, no. 7 (July 1998): 73.
      • Womersley, David. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Review of English Studies 49, no. 196 (November 1998): 519–21.
1059. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England, by Nicholas Hudson. Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 2 (September 2004): 60–63.
1060. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Samuel Johnson and the Reading Revolution.” Eighteenth-Century Life 16, no. 3 (November 1992): 86–102.
1061. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Samuel Johnson and the Saxonic Shakespeare.” In Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson, edited by Eric Rasmussen and Aaron Santesso, 25–46. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
      On Johnson’s treatment of Shakespeare in the Dictionary in light of his comments on the Germanic origins of the English language.
1062. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Samuel Johnson at Vassar.” Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 38–42.
1063. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Modern Philology 98, no. 3 (February 2001): 495–99.
1064. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers. Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 1 (March 2009): 57–61.
1065. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Samuel Johnson, William Shakespeare, and the Vanity of Human Wishes.” Memoria Di Shakespeare: A Journal of Shakespearean Studies 6 (2019): 127–38.
1066. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Philosophers.” In Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment, 91–106. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2024.
1067. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the “Dictionary of the English Language”: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen H. Reddick. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 60–62.
1068. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Samuel Parr’s Epitaph for Johnson, His Library, and His Unwritten Biography.” In Editing Lives, edited by Jesse G. Swan, 67–92. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2014.
1069. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Terms of Corruption: Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary” in Its Contexts, by Chris P. Pearce. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 1 (March 2005): 46–47.
1070. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 2 (September 2019): 59–62.
1071. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “The Gove–Liebert File of Quotations from Johnson’s Dictionary (II).” Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 1 (March 2005): 28–30.
1072. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. Reviews:
      • Brack, O M, Jr. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (1995): 169–74.
      • Chisholm, Kate. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Times Educational Supplement 4015 (June 11, 1993): 10.
      • Hudson, Nicholas. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Modern Philology 93, no. 2 (November 1995): 263–67.
      • Ingram, Allan. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Yearbook of English Studies 25 (1995): 296–97.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Notes and Queries 42 [240], no. 1 (March 1995): 98–99.
      • Rosenblum, Joseph. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria, Jr. Library Journal 118, no. 5 (March 15, 1993): 76–77.
      • Suarez, Michael F. S.J. “Uncommon Reader [Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria, Jr.].” Review of English Studies 46 (August 1995): 415–17.
      • Tate, J. O. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. National Review, February 27, 1987.
      • The Observer. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. January 29, 1994.
      • Thompson, J. W. M. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. The Times, July 15, 1993.
      • Womersley, David. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Review of English Studies 49, no. 196 (November 1998): 519–21.
1073. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 1 (March 2007): 41–45.
1074. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Modern Philology 90 (November 1992): 268–73.
1075. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “The Politics of Johnson’s Dictionary.” PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 104, no. 1 (1989): 64–74. https://doi.org/10.2307/462332.
      Abstract: In definitions, occasional comments, and especially the selection of illustrative quotations, Johnson’s Dictionary both conveys specific linguistic information and presents its readers with knowledge of the broadest kind. Like the abstract authority ‘the dictionary,’ Johnson’s Dictionary is an active instrument of the culture it reflects and helps to shape. As such, Johnson’s book embodies a politics, while transmitting political views on every one of its quotation-filled pages. As a collection of quotations, the Dictionary tends to display an underlying political consensus founded on cultural assumptions winnowed from the arguments of combatants on a variety of different but, at a distance, analogous controversies. As a cultural act in its own right the Dictionary supports the growth of democracy and liberalism through its assistance to and dependence on the growing population of literate, book-buying, voting English citizens.
1076. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “The Theory of Language in Johnson’s Dictionary.” In Johnson after Two Hundred Years, edited by Paul J. Korshin, 159–74. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
1077. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, 1958–2018.” Book Collector 69, no. 3 (2020): 487–96.
      Abstract: DeMaria offers information on the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, 1958–2018. The twenty-third and last volume of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson was officially published on January 8, 2019. The date on the last volume, however, is 2018, so for me that is the terminus ad quem. Besides, 2018 makes it an even six decades between the publication of the first volume and the last. Six decades is not just a number. The length of time that it took to complete the Yale Edition and the changes in personnel that took place over those six decades are a big part of the story of how the Edition came to be what it now is — and, unless some hearty soul undertakes to revise it, how it always will be, at least in its printed form.
1078. DeMaria, Robert, Jr., and Daniel Hitchens. The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
      Abstract: This book gives a full but concise introduction to Samuel Johnson’s life and works. For literature students, it will be a useful survey of Johnson’s work; for the general reader, a readable overview of this legendary figure of English literature and history.
1079. DeMaria, Robert, Jr., and Gwin J. Kolb. “Johnson’s Dictionary and Dictionary Johnson.” Yearbook of English Studies 28 (1998): 19–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/3508754.
1080. Denizot, Paul. Review of État de la Corse, by Jean Viviès. XVII–XVIII: Revue de La Société d’études Anglo-Américaines Des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles 36 (1993): 123–24.
1081. Derbyshire, John. “The Emperor of Common Sense [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” National Review, November 17, 2008.
1082. Derbyshire, John. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. New Criterion 19, no. 7 (2001): 61.
1083. Deutsch, Helen. “Doctor Johnson’s Autopsy; or, Anecdotal Immortality.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 40, no. 2 (June 1999): 113–27.
1084. Deutsch, Helen. “Exemplary Aberration: Samuel Johnson and the English Canon.” In Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities, edited by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, 197–210. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2002.
1085. Deutsch, Helen. Loving Dr. Johnson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
      Abstract: The autopsy of Samuel Johnson (1709–84) initiated two centuries of Johnsonian anatomy — both in medical speculation about his famously unruly body and in literary devotion to his anecdotal remains. Even today, Johnson is an enduring symbol of individuality, authority, masculinity, and Englishness, ultimately lending a style and a name — the Age of Johnson — to the eighteenth-century English literary canon. Loving Dr. Johnson uses the enormous popularity of Johnson to understand a singular case of author love and to reflect upon what the love of authors has to do with the love of literature. Helen Deutsch’s work is driven by several impulses, among them her affection for both Johnson’s work and Boswell’s biography of him, and her own distance from the largely male tradition of Johnsonian criticism — a tradition to which she remains indebted and to which Loving Dr. Johnson is ultimately an homage. Limning sharply Johnson’s capacious oeuvre, Deutsch’s study is also the first of its kind to examine the practices and rituals of Johnsonian societies around the world, wherein Johnson’s literary work is now dwarfed by the figure of the writer himself.
      On scholarly and popular fascination with SJ as a man, including interest in his body.
      Reviews:
      • Jackson, H. J. “Big and Little Matters: Discrepancies in the Genius of Samuel Johnson [Review of Loving Dr. Johnson by Helen Deutsch; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’ by Allen Reddick; Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791 by Freya Johnston; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; and A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man by O M Brack, Jr.” TLS, November 11, 2005, 3–4.
      • Kermode, Frank. “Lives of Dr. Johnson [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791, by Freya Johnston; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’, by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; and Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick].” New York Review of Books 53, no. 11 (June 22, 2006): 28–31.
      • Lee, Anthony W. “Quo Vadis? Samuel Johnson in the New Millennium [Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757–1763, by David Hankins and James J. Caudle; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man: A Translation from the French, by O M Brack, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick; and Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot].” Modern Philology 104, no. 4 (May 2007): 529–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/519192.
      • Tankard, Paul. Review of Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 30, no. 2 (March 2007): 220–24.
      • Tankard, Paul. Review of Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch. Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 1 (March 2007): 49–52.
1086. Deutsch, Helen. Review of Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd, by Thomas Reinert. Modern Philology 97, no. 4 (May 2000): 599–605.
1087. Deutsch, Helen. “Reputation.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 83–89. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
1088. Deutsch, Helen. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Modern Philology 97, no. 4 (May 2000): 599–605.
1089. Deutsch, Helen. “The Author as Monster: The Case of Dr. Johnson.” In “Defects”: Engendering the Early Modern Body, edited by Helen Deutsch and Felicity Nussbaum, 177–209. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
1090. Deutsch, Helen. “‘The Name of the Author’: Moral Economics in Johnson’s Life of Savage.” Modern Philology 92, no. 3 (February 1995): 328–45.
1091. Deutsch, Helen. “The Scaffold in the Marketplace: Samuel Johnson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Romance of Authorship.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 68, no. 3 (December 2013): 363–95. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2013.68.3.363.
1092. Deutsch, Helen. “‘Thou Art a Scholar, Speak to It, Horatio’: Uncritical Reading and Johnsonian Romance.” In Polemic: Critical or Uncritical, edited by Jane Gallop, 65–102. New York: Routledge, 2004.
1093. Deutsch, Helen Elizabeth. “‘The Confines of Distinction’: Horace, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson and the Making of the Literary Career.” PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1991.
1094. Devan, Janadas. “Word Treat from the Dictionary [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language by Jack Lynch].” Straits Times (Singapore), June 6, 2004.
1095. D’Evelyn, Thomas. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Christian Science Monitor, March 4, 1987.
1096. D’Evelyn, Thomas. Review of The Oxford Authors: Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. Christian Science Monitor, December 5, 1984.
1097. Devens, Robert. Review of Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd, by Thomas Reinert. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 21, no. 2 (1998): 234.
1098. Devens, Robert. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 21, no. 2 (1998): 233–34.
1099. Devlin, Vivien. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. Edinburgh Guide, August 10, 2007.
1100. DeWispelare, Daniel. “‘What We Want in Elegance, We Gain in Copiousness’: Eighteenth-Century English and Its Empire of Tongues.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 57, no. 1 (2016): 121–40.
      Abstract: Recognizing the simultaneous rise of the English standardization movement and the British Empire, this article addresses how eighteenth-century attempts at ‘correcting, improving, and ascertaining the English tongue’ can be read as political and social allegories offering insight into the expanding empire’s emerging self-image. With close readings of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, and Hugh Blair, this article focuses in particular on the many contentious resonances of English as a ‘copious’ language, one whose hybridity seemed capable at times of both worsening and alleviating the empire’s fissures. By using language theory to locate the original articulation of copiousness as problem and solution, this article continues with a reading of a poem by Sir William Jones, a writer who saw a specific form of cultural and linguistic syncretism as a way to advance both literature and empire.
1101. D’Ezio, Marianna. Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi: A Taste for Eccentricity. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
      Abstract: Scholars and readers who are interested in eighteenth-century British literature are surely familiar with Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi in the light she came to be known in her lifetime and after: first, as the “formidable hostess” of Streatham House, South London, and then as an outcast from respectable eighteenth-century society after she had married the Italian piano teacher of her daughter. As a writer, her importance has long been that of a footnote to Samuel Johnson and as a consequence, she has been part of the official British literary canon only as a character. This volume introduces Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi as a whole, trying to link her fascinating and subversive biography to her development as a writer, emphasizing the innovative issues of her works, her style and her social and personal beliefs. Piozzi’s biography is an interesting example of the dynamic scene of the late eighteenth century, where she was both conservative and subversive: she was an eccentric, and although her decision to marry the Italian singer and composer Gabriele Piozzi disgraced her, it was through this act of subversion that Hester Thrale Piozzi could finally make her own entrance into the world as a public writer. Once she had transgressed the social codes of so-called “feminine” behaviour, she was also ready to move into the public sphere, publish her works and make money out of them, pioneering several traditional literary genres through her passionate search for professional independence in the literary canon of the eighteenth century.
1102. Dibdin, Thom. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. The Stage, March 28, 2008.
1103. Dick, Sandra. “The Very Odd Couple and a Defining Hebridean Odyssey.” The Herald (Glasgow), September 20, 2020.
      Abstract: Later this year a Sky Arts documentary, Boswell and Johnson’s Scottish Road Trip, will track comedian Frank Skinner and best-selling novelist Denise Mina as they recreate the 1773 journey, travelling in the same 18th century style as Boswell and Johnson.
1104. Dickinson, H. T. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 19, no. 2 (1996): 220.
1105. Diefenbach, John. “Samuel Johnson and the Tacksmen of Skye.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 2 (September 2019): 28–34.
1106. Dietz, Bernd. “Tenerife en las letras inglesas: Posibles antecedentes de un texto de Samuel Johnson.” In Tenerife en las letras inglesas: Posibles antecedentes de un texto de Samuel Johnson, edited by Ana Regulo Rodríguez, Maria Regulo Rodríguez, and Spanish. Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna, 1985.
1107. Dijk, Suzan van. “Belle de Zuylen et les ‘talents’ des Hollandaises.” Cahiers Isabelle de Charriere/Belle de Zuylen Papers 5 (2010): 64–74.
1108. Dilks, Stephen John. “Samuel Beckett’s Samuel Johnson.” Modern Language Review 98, no. 2 (April 2003): 285–98. https://doi.org/10.2307/3737811.
1109. Dille, Catherine. “Education.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 174–81. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
1110. Dille, Catherine. Review of Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Johnson’s “Dear Mistress,” by Ian McIntyre. New Rambler E:10 (2006): 79–81.
1111. Dille, Catherine. “Johnson, Hill, and the ‘Good Old Cause’: Liberal Interpretation in the Editions of George Birkbeck Hill.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 193–219.
      Dille examines Hill’s Johnsonian editions, paying particular attention to his politics.
1112. Dille, Catherine. “Johnson’s Dictionary in the Nineteenth Century: A Legacy in Transition.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 16 (2005): 21–37.
1113. Dille, Catherine. “‘A Juster View of Johnson’: George Birkbeck Hill, Johnson and Boswell’s Victorian Editor.” New Rambler E:5 (2001): 24–35.
1114. Dille, Catherine. Review of “A Neutral Being between the Sexes”: Samuel Johnson’s Sexual Politics, by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer. New Rambler E:1 (1997): 73–74.
1115. Dille, Catherine. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England, by Nicholas Hudson. New Rambler E:7 (2003): 78–79.
1116. Dille, Catherine. Review of Studies in the Johnson Circle, by Arthur Sherbo. Review of English Studies 51, no. 201 (February 2000): 135–37.
1117. Dille, Catherine. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Review of English Studies 51, no. 202 (May 2000): 305–6.
1118. Dille, Catherine. “The Dictionary in Abstract: Johnson’s Abridgments of the Dictionary of the English Language for the Common Reader.” In Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott, 198–211. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
      The most thorough consideration of the abridged editions of the Dictionary.
1119. Dille, Catherine. “The Johnson Dictionary Project.” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 2 (September 2004): 42–44.
1120. Dille, Catherine. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. New Rambler D:10 (1995 1994): 66–68.
1121. Dille, Catherine D. “Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Education.” DPhil thesis, University of Oxford, 2001.
1122. Dingley, R. J. “Johnson’s ‘Reply to Impromptu Verses by Baretti’: A Clue to Dating.” Notes and Queries 42 [240], no. 4 (December 1995): 468.
1123. Dirckx, J. H. “The Death of Samuel Johnson: Was It Hastened by Digitalis Intoxication?” American Journal of Dermatopathology 6, no. 6 (December 1984): 531–36.
1124. Dirda, Michael. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Washington Post, August 19, 2001.
1125. Ditchfield, G. M. “A Deathbed Anecdote of Dr. Johnson.” Notes and Queries 42 [240], no. 4 (December 1995): 468–69.
1126. Ditchfield, G. M. “Dr. Johnson and the Dissenters.” New Rambler C:25 (1985): 5–7.
1127. Ditchfield, G. M. “Dr. Johnson and the Dissenters.” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 68, no. 2 (March 1986): 373–409.
1128. Ditchfield, G. M. “Dr Johnson at Oxford, 1759.” Notes and Queries 36 [234], no. 1 (March 1989): 66–68. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/36-1-66.
1129. Ditchfield, G. M. “Dr. Johnson’s Derbyshire Connections.” New Rambler D:8, no. 8 (1992): 30–42.
1130. Ditchfield, G. M. “Some Unitarian Perceptions of Dr. Johnson.” Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society 19, no. 3 (1989): 139–52.
1131. Dix, R. Review of Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, by Nalini Jain. Durham University Journal 53, no. 2 (1992): 342–43.
1132. Dix, Robin. “Fugitive References to Johnson in Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 19 (2009): 47–52.
      Dix notes three previously neglected brief mentions of Johnson in unpublished sources.
1133. Dix, Robin. “The Pleasures of Speculation: Scholarly Methodology in Eighteenth-Century Literary Studies.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 23, no. 1 (2000): 85–103.
1134. Dixon, Anne Campbell. “Just What the Doctor Ordered: James Boswell’s Newly Opened Family Home Is a Tonic for All Who Visit.” Daily Telegraph, April 13, 2002.
1135. Dixon, John C. “Tempering Ambitions: The Cultural Project of Samuel Johnson’s Moral Essays.” PhD thesis, Boston University, 1996.
1136. Dixon, John Converse. “Politicizing Samuel Johnson: The Moral Essays and the Question of Ideology.” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 25, no. 3 (September 1998): 67–90.
1137. Dixon, Peter. “Goldsmith and Johnson.” New Rambler E:1 (1997): 50–57.
1138. Dixon, R. M. W. “The Way Forward.” In The Unmasking of English Dictionaries, 218–29. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108377508.016.
      Abstract: Previous chapters have recounted the story of monolingual dictionaries. Samuel Johnson established English lexicology, and only minor improvements have been made since his time. Johnson combined erudition, imagination, and application. He also had a sense of perspective, according to each word a length of entry appropriate to its role in the language. Legal, medical, and agricultural terms were taken — with acknowledgement — from standard works. Highly technical terms were avoided, these being accessible in specialist manuals.Johnson’s innovations included recognising several senses for those words which have a wide range of meaning, including quotations to demonstrate how a word was used by the ‘best authors’, plus basic grammatical information concerning word class, and transitivity value for verbs.His work has been criticised for not paying sufficient attention to usage in everyday discourse. This is only partly justified. Johnson did confine his quotations to the ‘best authors’, but his definitions would have been informed by the conversational round in London for which he was a central figure. (The same could not be said of his predecessors and successors.) Another (justified) criticism is that the senses within a definition could have been more thoughtfully organised, around a ‘central meaning’, with extensions in different directions from this.What Johnson absolutely failed to do was make any attempt to contrast words of similar meaning, providing criteria and clues concerning the circumstances in which it would be more felicitous to use one word rather than another. Each word was regarded as an isolated entity, its definition autonomous.Johnson’s definitions were original, avoiding the ‘theft’ of unattributed plagiarism. The same applied for Charles Richardson in 1835–7, but his huge tome lies a little outside the mainstream. The OED worked in its own way, although it sometimes did utilise elegant portions of Johnson, shown by ‘(J)’. For example, how could the meaning of swift be better characterised than by ‘moving far in a short time (J)’?Leaving aside these two exceptions we can return to the self-description of how a lexicographer works with ‘a row of dictionaries’ propped on the desk. It is worth revisiting quotations already given in chapter 10.
1139. Doguet, Jean-Paul. Les philosophes et l’esclavage. Paris: Editions Kimé, 2016.
      Abstract: L’esclavage, qui semble un scandale pour la conscience contemporaine, n’a pas toujours été objet de réprobation. La philosophie, qui prétend volontiers à un regard transcendant sur l’histoire, a été en la matière le plus souvent fille de son temps, et a accompagné, plus qu’elle ne les a précédées, les transformations du statut de l’esclave et de l’esclavage dans la conscience des hommes. Ce livre est une tentative pour restituer et comprendre la logique de ces transformations successives de la philosophie sur plusieurs millénaires. Il met en perspective, pour la première fois, tant la philosophie antique et médiévale que la philosophie moderne. Il se veut plus au-delà une contribution à l’histoire de la raison. Trois étapes en effet scandent la relation des philosophes à l’esclavage — et plus généralement à l’hétéronomie: la raison extérieure, qui légitime — à partir de positions assez diverses — la mise en tutelle de l’homme par l’homme, et qui a dominé l’Antiquité; la raison contractuelle moderne, qui au contraire fait procéder toute autorité d’un contrat, et porte en elle la condamnation de l’esclavage; la raison historique enfin qui adopte sur l’institution esclavagiste un point de vue moralement plus neutre, allant jusqu’à attribuer à l’esclavage un rôle et une utilité sur le long terme.
1140. Doherty, Francis. “Rape of the Lock: Stretching the Limits of Allusion.” Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 111, no. 3–4 (1993): 355–72. https://doi.org/10.1515/angl.1993.1993.111.355.
1141. Dolezal, Fredric F. M. “Charles Richardson’s New Dictionary and Literary Lexicography, Being a Rodomontade upon Illustrative Examples.” Lexicographica: International Annual for Lexicography/Revue internationale de lexicographie/Internationales Jahrbuch für Lexikographie 16 (2000): 104–51.
1142. Doll, Daniel E. “‘Daughters of Earth and Sons of Heaven’: Johnson on Swift on Language.” Lamar Journal of the Humanities 17, no. 2 (September 1991): 23–39.
1143. Dollard, P. A. Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. Library Journal 121, no. 17 (October 15, 1996): 53.
1144. Domnarski, William. “Samuel Johnson and the Law.” New Rambler C:24, no. 23 (1982): 2–10.
1145. Donadio, Stephen. “On the Unquestionable Certainty of One’s Own Virtue: The Rambler, No. 76, Saturday, December 8, 1750.” New England Review 45, no. 4 (December 8, 2024): 188–91. https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2024.a949000.
1146. Donaldson, Ian. “Samuel Johnson and the Art of Observation.” ELH: English Literary History 53, no. 4 (December 1986): 779–99. https://doi.org/10.2307/2873174.
1147. Donaldson, Ian. The Death of the Author and the Lives of the Poet: The David Fleeman Memorial Lecture, 1994. Melbourne: Johnson Society of Australia, 1994.
1148. Donoghue, Steven. Review of Boswell’s Enlightenment, by Robert Zaretsky. Christian Science Monitor, March 30, 2015.
1149. Doody, Margaret Anne. “The Law, the Page, and the Body of Women: Murder and Murderess in the Age of Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 1 (1987): 126–60.
1150. Doody, Margaret Anne. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. London Review of Books 14, no. 21 (1992): 10–11.
1151. Dossena, Marina. “‘The Cinic Scotomastic’? Johnson, His Commentators, Scots, French, and the Story of English.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 19, no. 1 (2006): 51–68.
1152. Dossena, Marina. “The Search for Linguistic Excellence in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 10, no. 2 (July 1997): 355–76.
1153. Douglas, Aileen. Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690–1840. Oxford Textual Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198789185.001.0001.
      Abstract: Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690–1840 argues that between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries manual writing was a dynamic technology. It examines script in relation to becoming a writer; in constructions of the author; and in emerging ideas of the human. Revising views of print as displacing script, Work in Hand argues that print reproduced script, print generated script, and print shaped understandings of script. In this, the double nature of print, as both moveable type and rolling press, is crucial. During this period, the shapes of letters changed as the multiple hands of the early modern period gave way to English round hand; the denial of writing to the labouring classes was slowly replaced by acceptance of the desirability of universal writing; understandings of script in relation to copying and discipline came to be accompanied by ideas of the autograph. The work begins by surveying representations of script in letterpress and engraving. It discusses initiation into writing in relation to the copybooks of English writing masters, and in the context of colonial pedagogy in Ireland and India. The middle chapters discuss the physical work of writing, the material dimensions of script, and the autograph, in constructions of the author in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and in relation to Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, William Blake, Isaac D’Israeli, and Maria Edgeworth. The final chapter considers the emerging association of script with ideas of the human in the work of the Methodist preacher Joseph Barker.
1154. Douglas, Hugh. “Highlanders and Heroines: Dr Johnson’s Meeting with Flora Macdonald.” New Rambler D:9, no. 9 (1993): 15–20.
1155. Douglas, Hugh. Review of Johnson, by Pat Rogers. New Rambler D:10 (1994): 68–70.
1156. Dowling, William C. “Boswell at the Breakfast Table.” New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 83, no. 1 (March 2010): 123–28. https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq.2010.83.1.123.
1157. Dowling, William C. “Structure and Absence in Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” In Modern Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Leopold Damrosch Jr., 355–78. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
1158. “Down into Egypt.” Philosophy 65, no. 254 (October 1990): 395–97.
1159. Downie, J. A. “Biographical Form in the Novel.” In The Cambridge History of the English Novel, edited by Robert L. Caserio and Clement Hawes, 30–45. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521194952.004.
1160. Downie, J. A. “Johnson’s Politics.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 11 (2000): 81–104.
1161. Downie, J. A. “Printing for the Author in the Long Eighteenth Century.” In British Literature and Print Culture, edited by Sandro Jung, 58. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782041993-006.
1162. Downie, J. A. “Swift and Johnson: The Problems of the Life of Swift.” New Rambler C:24, no. 24 (1983): 26–27.
1163. Downing, Ben. “On First Looking into Bate’s Life of Johnson.” In The Calligraphy Shop, 3–6. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
1164. “Dr. Johnson by Mrs. Thrale: The ‘Anecdotes’ of Mrs. Piozzi in Their Original Form.” New Yorker 61 (December 30, 1985): 80.
1165. “Dr. Johnson on Trial: Catherine Talbot and Jemima Grey, Responding to Samuel Johnson’s The Rambler.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 53, no. 1 (Autumn 2020): 19–20.
1166. Drozd, John. “Tools for the Embrace: An Ethical Consideration of ‘Candide’ and ‘Rasselas.’” PhD thesis, Fordham University, 2000.
1167. Drury, Joseph. “Science.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 496–518. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: Although Johnson paid close attention to the natural sciences, conducted chemical experiments at home, and included a large number of scientific terms in his Dictionary, he is typically thought to have made no significant contribution to Enlightenment science. This chapter challenges this view by reading Johnson’s periodical essays as important examples of “experimental moral philosophy,” an eighteenth-century field of inquiry that sought to extend the Newtonian method from the sensible world to the study of human subjectivity. Drawing on the methods and conceptual repertoire of vitalist natural philosophy, especially chemistry, Johnson’s essays offer a qualitative, experimental account of the primary forces of the mind that emphasizes the tragic burden imposed by its restless activity.
1168. Du Xingjie. Review of Yue han sheng ping chuan [A Critical Biography of Johnson, by Tianming Cai. Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 1 (March 2023): 38–44.
1169. Ducharme, Diane J. “The Rest of the Boswells.” Yale University Library Gazette 62, no. 1–2 (October 1987): 41–55.
1170. Dugaw, Dianne. “Theorizing Orality and Performance in Literary Anecdote and History: Boswell’s Diaries.” Oral Tradition 24, no. 2 (October 2009): 415–28.
1171. Duke, Paul M. “Players on Unbroken Spinets: Thomas Wolfe and James Boswell.” Thomas Wolfe Review 16, no. 2 (Fall 1992): 47–51.
1172. Duncan, Ian. “Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson and the Institutions of English.” In The Scottish Invention of English Literature, edited by Robert Crawford, 37–54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
1173. Duncan, Ian. “Environmental Aesthetics: Dorothy Wordsworth in Scotland.” In Romantic Ecologies: Selected Papers from the Augsburg Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism, edited by David Kerler and Martin Middeke, 215–28. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT), 2023.
1174. Duncan, Ian. “The Pathos of Abstraction: Adam Smith, Ossian, and Samuel Johnson.” In Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism, edited by Leith Davis, Ian Duncan, and Janet Sorensen, 38–56. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511484186.003.
1175. Dunn, Douglas. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. TLS, August 11, 1995, 4–5.
1176. Dunn, R. D. “Samuel Johnson’s Prologue to A Word to the Wise and the Epilogue by ‘A Friend.’” English Language Notes 25, no. 3 (March 1988): 28–35.
1177. During, Simon. “Waiting for the Post: Some Relations between Modernity, Colonization, and Writing.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 20, no. 4 (October 1989): 31–61.
1178. During, Simon. “Waiting for the Post: Some Relations between Modernity, Colonization and Writing.” In History and Post-War Writing, edited by Theo D’haen and Hans Bertens, 227–57. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990.
1179. During, Simon. “Waiting for the Post: Some Relations between Modernity, Colonization, and Writing.” In Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism, edited by Ian Adam and Helen Tiffin, 23–45. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1990. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004647213_013.
1180. Dussinger, John A. “Dr. Johnson’s Solemn Response to Beneficence.” In Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, edited by David Wheeler, 57–69. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
1181. Dussinger, John A. “Hester Piozzi, Italy, and the Johnsonian Aether.” South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 9, no. 4 (December 1992): 46–58. https://doi.org/10.2307/3189480.
1182. Dussinger, John A. “Johnson’s Unacknowledged Debt to Thomas Edwards in the 1765 Edition of Shakespeare.” Philological Quarterly 95, no. 1 (2016): 45–100.
      Abstract: In the Preface to Shakespeare Johnson attacks Thomas Edwards and Benjamin Heath as William Warburton’s most relentless critics, who are allegedly not even worthy of comparison with the bishop. Yet Johnson’s contemporaries and some modern scholars alike have remarked his unacknowledged debt to these two critics in his 1765 edition. Immediately after Johnson’s edition appeared in 1765 William Kenrick, a learned but libelous journalist, reviewed it at length and demonstrated some of the many lapses in giving credit to Edwards’s commentary. For the revisions of 1773 and 1778, George Steevens even cited Kenrick favorably for some readings and also made a point of including not only Edwards’s relevant commentary from the Canons of Criticism but also new Edwards manuscript material he had acquired in time for the revisions. It was not until the twentieth century that fresh allegations of plagiarism were leveled against the 1765 Shakespeare. This essay reviews the charges presented and conclu
1183. Dussinger, John A. “Samuel Richardson’s Manuscript Draft of The Rambler No. 97 (19 February 1751).” Notes and Queries 57 [255], no. 1 (March 2010): 93–99. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjp241.
1184. Dussinger, John A. “‘The Solemn Magnificence of a Stupendouse Ruin’: Richard Savage, Poet Manqué.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 167–82. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
1185. Dyer, Daniel. “Defining Story Explores Making of First Solid English Dictionary [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 16, 2005.
1186. Eadie, Lorraine. “Johnson, the Moral Essay, and the Moral Life of Women: The Spectator, the Female Spectator, and the Rambler.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 21 (2011): 21–42.
1187. Eadie, Lorraine. “The Significance of ‘the Purposeful Life’ in Works by Addison, Steele, and Johnson.” PhD thesis, Loyola University, 2010.
1188. Easthorpe, Antony. “An Empiricist Tradition.” In Englishness and National Culture, 97–124. London: Routledge, 1999. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203209134-13.
1189. Easting, Robert. “Johnson’s Note on ‘Aroint Thee, Witch!’” Notes and Queries 35 [233], no. 4 (December 1988): 480–82. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/35-4-480.
1190. Eastwood, David. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone, by George Morrow Kahrl, Peter S. Baker, Rachel McClellan, and James M. Osborn. The English Historical Review 105, no. 414 (1990): 210.
1191. Eccles, Mary Hyde, and Donald D. Eddy, eds. Dr Johnson & Mrs Thrale, the End of Their Long Friendship: Letters in the Hyde Collection. Somerville, N.J.: Four Oaks Farm Library, 1992.
      Contains “Unraveling the Fabric of Friendship” by Bruce Redford, “Provenance” by Mary Hyde Eccles, and facsimiles of four letters. For the annual dinner of The Johnsonians commemorating Johnson’s two hundred eighty-third birthday at the Grolier Club in New York.
1192. Eccles, Mary Hyde. “The Pursuit of Boswell’s Papers.” Yale University Library Gazette 66, no. 3–4 (April 1992): 141–49.
1193. Eddy, D. D., and J. D. Fleeman. “A Preliminary Handlist of Books to Which Dr. Samuel Johnson Subscribed.” Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 46 (1993): 187–220. Reviews:
      • Berland, Kevin J. Review of A Preliminary Handlist of Books to Which Dr. Samuel Johnson Subscribed, by D. D. Eddy and J. D. Fleeman. East-Central Intelligencer 8, no. 3 (September 1994): 9.
      • McDermott, Anne. Review of A Preliminary Handlist of Books to Which Dr. Samuel Johnson Subscribed, by D. D. Eddy and J. D. Fleeman. Review of English Studies 46, no. 181 (February 1995): 137.
      • Tankard, Paul. Review of A Preliminary Handlist of Books to Which Dr. Samuel Johnson Subscribed, by D. D. Eddy and J. D. Fleeman. Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 18, no. 1 (1994): 56–58.
      • Weinbrot, Howard D. Review of A Preliminary Handlist of Books to Which Dr. Samuel Johnson Subscribed, by D. D. Eddy and J. D. Fleeman. Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 9 (1994): 80–84.
1194. Eddy, Donald D. “‘Additional Copies Found in Cornell University Libraries’: An Unprinted Appendix to J. D. Fleeman’s Bibliography.” East-Central Intelligencer 16 (May 2002): 27–28.
1195. Eddy, Donald D., ed. Sale Catalogues of the Libraries of Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale (Mrs. Piozzi) and James Boswell. New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1993.
      Abstract: Reproduces photographically the sale catalogue of Samuel Johnson’s library from the facsimile edition of A. Edward Newton . . . catalogues of Mrs. Piozzi’s library produced in 1972 by Dr. Stephen Parks . . . James Boswell’s library is reproduced from a copy owned by Oak Knoll Books.
      Reviews:
      • Hill, T. H. Howard. Review of Sale Catalogues of the Libraries of Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale (Mrs. Piozzi) and James Boswell, by Donald D. Eddy. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 88, no. 1 (March 1994): 113–14.
1196. Eddy, Donald D., and Robert J. Barry. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 2, no. 2 (June 2001): 161–78. https://doi.org/10.1093/library/2.2.161.
1197. Eder, Richard. “Turning the Tables on a Groundbreaking Biographer [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman].” New York Times, August 2, 2001.
1198. Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning. “Gray and Johnson: Parallel Sentiments in the ‘Eton College Ode’ and Rasselas.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 20, no. 2 (March 2007): 20–22. https://doi.org/10.3200/ANQQ.20.2.20-22.
1199. Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning. “Rasselas and Hardy’s In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations.’” Thomas Hardy Journal 15, no. 3 (October 1999): 109.
1200. Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning. “Wordsworth’s ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.’” Explicator 60, no. 3 (March 2002): 134–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940209597683.
1201. Edinger, William. “Eighteenth-Century Language Theory and Imlac’s Tulip.” Hellas: A Journal of Poetry and the Humanities 7, no. 2 (September 1996): 171–91.
1202. Edinger, William. Johnson and Detailed Representation: The Significance of the Classical Sources. ELS Monograph Series. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria Department of English, 1997. Reviews:
      • Venturo, David F. Review of Johnson and Detailed Representation: The Significance of the Classical Sources, by William Edinger. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 443–48.
1203. Edward, David. “Johnson, Boswell and the Conflict of Loyalties.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1995, 1–17.
1204. Edward Short, “C. S. Lewis, and Samuel Johnson. “A Study in Affinity.” CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 48, no. 1 (2017): 1–12.
1205. Edwards, Christopher. “Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas: Two Presentation Copies.” Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies 89–90 (2018): 99–107.
1206. Edwards, Gavin. “The Illegitimation of Richard Savage.” Sydney Studies in English 17 (1991): 67–74.
1207. Edwards, Gavin. “Why Are Human Wishes Vain? On Reading Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes.” In Proceedings of the English Association North, 2:52–62, 1986.
1208. Edwards, John. “Samuel Johnson and Irish.” TLS, no. 6280 (2023): 6.
1209. Edwards, Owen Dudley. “Rambling Sam: The Dr. Johnson Show, Southside Courtyard, Theatre.” The Scotsman, August 17, 1997.
      Brief extracts from Rambling Sam.
1210. Egan, Grace. “Richardson, Johnson, and Modern Novel Writing in the Eighteenth Century.” New Rambler F:18 (2014): 47–55.
1211. Eger, Elizabeth. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Journal of British Studies 59, no. 1 (2020): 177–78.
1212. Eger, Elizabeth. “Shakespeare’s Critics: Elizabeth Montagu, Samuel Johnson and Voltaire.” New Rambler E:10 (2006): 41–53.
1213. Eleftheriou-Smith, Loulla-Mae. “How the First Modern English Language Dictionary Was Created.” The Independent, September 18, 2017.
1214. Elias, A. C., Jr. Review of Scott of Amwell: Dr. Johnson’s Quaker Critic, by David Perman. East-Central Intelligencer 16 (May 2002): 16–17.
1215. Eliot, Margaret, and P. G. Suarez. Dr. Johnson Said . . . London: Privately printed for the Trustees of Dr. Johnson’s House by Thomas Harmsworth, 1988.
1216. Elliott, Charles. “Fencers Treading upon Ice: Boswell and the ‘Question of Literary Property.’” The Book Collector 65, no. 3 (September 2016): 445–50.
1217. Elliott, Helen Yvonne. “Johnson, Nature, and Women: The Early Years.” PhD thesis, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1995.
1218. Ellis, David. “Biography and Friendship: Johnson’s Life of Savage.” In Imitating Art: Essays in Biography, edited by David Ellis, 19–35. London: Pluto Press, 1993.
1219. Ellis, David. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Cambridge Quarterly 23, no. 4 (1994): 384–88.
1220. Ellison, Katherine. “James Boswell’s Revisions of Death as The Hypochondriack and in His London Journals.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 21, no. 1 (2008): 37–59. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecf.0.0038.
1221. Elson, Peter. “A Great Man Whose Humanity Shines On after 200 Years.” Daily Post (Liverpool), September 21, 2009.
1222. Elson, Peter. “Defining the Man Who Gave Us the Modern Dictionary: Johnson Could Be Irritable and Rude to His Equals [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Daily Post (Liverpool), June 6, 2005.
1223. Embry, Thomas J. “Twelfth Night’s ‘Fustian Riddle’: A Puzzle with No Solution?” Shakespeare 16, no. 4 (2020): 356–72.
      Abstract: This essay makes the controversial claim that it has finally solved Twelfth Night’s “fustian riddle,” the riddle Maria devises to entrap Malvolio. Paying close attention to First Folio spellings, Elizabethan pronunciation, and uncommon meanings of key words and phrases, it uncovers essential hints and clues that have been obscured by the passage of time but would have been readily accessible to Twelfth Night’s original audiences. The most helpful of these, it turns out, are embedded in Fabian’s quip — made as Malvolio is trying to discover the correct “alphabetical position” of the letters M.O.A.I. — “And O shall end, I hope.” As Samuel Johnson long ago proposed, this remark alludes to the subject of hanging: the “O” makes a visual pun on the hangman’s noose, with “end” of course being a reference to the fate of the person being hanged. In addition to this figurative meaning, Fabian’s comment provides literal clues about the correct ordering of the four letters, the most obvious being
1224. Emery, Gordon. Denbigh: Doctor Johnson’s Haunts. Walks in Clwyd. Chester: G. Emery, 1990.
1225. Emery, Gordon. Denbigh: Doctor Johnson’s Haunts. Rev. ed. Walks. Chester: G. Emery, 1998.
1226. Engar, Ann. “Johnson in a Western Civilization Course.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 64–70. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
1227. Engell, James. “Coleridge, Johnson, and Shakespeare: A Critical Drama in Five Acts.” Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture and Criticism 4, no. 1 (1998): 22–39. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.1998.4.1.22.
1228. Engell, James, ed. Johnson and His Age. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984.
      Abstract: Published in the bicentennial year of Samuel Johnson’s death, Johnson and His Age includes contributions by some of the nation’s most eminent scholars of eighteenth-century literature. A section on Johnson’s life and thought presents fresh analyses of Johnson’s friendships with Mrs. Thrale and George Steevens, new information on Johnson’s relations with Smollett and Thomas Hollis, a speculative essay on “Johnson and the Meaning of Life,” and a provocative examination of “Johnson, Traveling Companion, in Fancy and Fact.”
      Reviews:
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of Johnson and His Age, by James Engell. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 10 (1987): 103–5.
      • McDermott, Anne. Review of Johnson and His Age, by James Engell. Critical Quarterly 27, no. 4 (1985): 86–88.
      • Rogers, Pat. Review of Johnson and His Age, by James Engell. Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism 10, no. 1 (1987): 111–12.
1229. Engell, James. “Johnson and Scott, England and Scotland, Boswell, Lockhart, and Croker.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 313–42. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
1230. Engell, James. “Johnson on Blackmore, Pope, Shakespeare — and Johnson.” Harvard Library Bulletin 20, no. 3–4 (September 2009): 51–61.
1231. Engell, James. “Johnson’s Anatomy of the Lie.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 2 (September 2015): 6–35.
1232. Engerman, Stanley L. Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock. Journal of British Studies 55, no. 1 (2016): 171–72. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2015.205.
1233. English, Mark. “Samuel Johnson: A Portrait in OED-Antedatings.” Notes and Queries 40 [238], no. 3 (1993): 331–34. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/40.3.331.
      Abstract: There is evidence of words such as atrabiliousness, dogmatism and grandiosity antedating the Oxford English Dictionary examples in passages referring to Dr Samuel Johnson. Phrases such as ox in a china shop, a variant of bull in a china shop, and general knowledge were also used first in connection with Johnson. The number of words whose earliest usage refers to Johnson causes speculations about whether they were coined to describe him.
1234. Enright, D. J. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language, by Samuel Johnson. The Independent, September 30, 1990.
1235. Enright, D. J. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. London Review of Books 13, no. 12 (1991): 14–15.
1236. Epstein, Joseph. “A Biography as Great as Its Subject: James Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’ Helped Ensure the Posterity of the Ever Quotable Samuel Johnson.” Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2015.
      Abstract: Biography we call it, but in some ways it also qualifies as an autobiography of its author, who regularly obtrudes in its pages and may even be said to be its secondary subject.
1237. Epstein, Joseph. “‘An Assembly of Good Fellows’: Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon and Adam Smith Were Members — but Samuel Johnson Outshone Them All [Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch].” Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2019.
1238. Epstein, William H. “Patronizing the Biographical Subject: Johnson’s Life of Savage.” In Recognizing Biography, 52–70. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.
1239. Epstein, William H. “Patronizing the Biographical Subject: Johnson’s Savage and Pastoral Power.” In Johnson after Two Hundred Years, edited by Paul J. Korshin, 141–57. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
1240. Epstein, William H. “Professing the Eighteenth Century.” Profession, 1985, 10–15.
      On scholarly publishing, with Johnson and Boswell as examples.
1241. Epstein, William H. “Recognizing the Biographer: Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” In Recognizing Biography, 90–137. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.
1242. Erdman, Ruthi Roth. “Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man Thief: Samuel Johnson and the Economics of Poverty.” MA thesis, Central Washington University, 1991.
1243. Eremin, V. S. “The Many Faces of Doctor Johnson [review of Kosykh, Сэмюэл Джонсон и его эпоха: Британия и мир глазами английского интеллектуала XVIII в. = Samuel Johnson and his Era: Britain and the World through the eyes of an 18th-century English intellectual].” Гуманитарные и юридические исследования 10, no. 4 (2024): 731–36. https://doi.org/10.37493/2409-1030.2023.4.24.
1244. Erskine-Hill, Howard. “A Kind of Liking for Jacobitism.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 3–13.
1245. Erskine-Hill, Howard. “Johnson the Jacobite? A Response to the New Introduction to Donald Greene’s The Politics of Samuel Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 7 (1996): 3–26.
1246. Erskine-Hill, Howard. “The Decision of Samuel Johnson.” In Poetry of Opposition and Revolution, Dryden to Wordsworth, 111–38. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
1247. Erskine-Hill, Howard. “The Poet and Affairs of State in Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.” Man and Nature/ L’Homme et La Nature 6 (1987): 93–113.
1248. Erskine-Hill, Howard. “The Political Character of Samuel Johnson: The Lives of the Poets and a Further Report on The Vanity of Human Wishes.” In The Jacobite Challenge, edited by Eveline Cruickshanks and Jeremy Black, 161–76. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1988.
1249. Erskine-Hill, Howard. “The Vanity of Human Wishes in Context.” In Poetry of Opposition and Revolution, Dryden to Wordsworth, 139–66. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
1250. Erwin, Timothy. “Johnson’s Life of Savage and Lockean Psychology.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 18 (1988): 199–212.
1251. Erwin, Timothy. “On Teaching Johnson and Lockean Empiricism.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 35–41. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
1252. Erwin, Timothy. “Promise and Performance in Johnson’s Life of Savage.” In Textual Vision: Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture, 59–103. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2015.
1253. Erwin, Timothy. “Scribblers, Servants, and Johnson’s Life of Savage.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 99–130.
1254. Erwin, Timothy. “Sir John Hawkins on Richard Savage and the Profession of Authorship.” In Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Johnson, edited by Martine W. Brownley, 101–14. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2012.
1255. Erwin, Timothy. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Johnsonian News Letter 52, no. 2–53, 2 (June 1992): 28–31.
1256. Erwin, Timothy. “Voltaire and Johnson Again: The Life of Savage and the Sertorius Letter (1744).” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 284 (1991): 211–23.
1257. Eslamieh, Razieh. “Imposed Identity through Foucauldian Panopticism and Released Identity through Deleuzian Ressentiment in Samuel Johnson’s The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.” Advances in Language and Literary Studies 8, no. 1 (2017): 125–32.
1258. Eto, Hideichi. “A Brief History of Johnsonian Studies in Japan.” In Johnson in Japan, edited by Kimiyo Ogawa, Mika Suzuki, and Greg Clingham, 10–26. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
1259. Eto, Hideichi. “Johnson’s Translated Works and Criticisms in Japanese.” In Johnson in Japan, edited by Kimiyo Ogawa, Mika Suzuki, and Greg Clingham, 155–62. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
1260. Eto, Hideichi. “Samuel Johnson and the Gentleman’s Magazine.” Musashino Bijutsu Daigaku Kenkyu Kiyo 20 (1990): 109.
      In Japanese.
1261. Evans, Scott D. Samuel Johnson’s “General Nature”: Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999.
      Abstract: This study illuminates the importance and meaning of the term author in eighteenth-century discourse from the perspective of its prominent usage by Samuel Johnson. It explains Johnson’s employment of nature in his periodical essays, his qualified endorsement of the new science, and his commendation of Shakespeare’s drama and other literary works on the basis of their just representation of general nature. This study illuminates the importance and meaning of the term author in eighteenth-century discourse from the perspective of its prominent usage by Samuel Johnson. It explains Johnson’s employment of nature in his periodical essays, his qualified endorsement of the new science, and his commendation of Shakespeare’s drama and other literary works on the basis of their just representation of general nature.
      Reviews:
      • Alkon, Paul. “Déjà Vu All Over Again: Three More Books on Samuel Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking; Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo; and Samuel Johnson’s “General Nature”: Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse, by Scott D. Evans].” Review 23 (2001): 175–86.
      • McDermott, Anne. Review of Samuel Johnson’s “General Nature”: Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse, by Scott D. Evans. Review of English Studies 209 (February 2002): 145–47.
      • Patey, Douglas L. Review of Samuel Johnson’s “General Nature”: Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse, by Scott D. Evans. Choice 37 (June 2000): 5517.
      • Rounce, Adam. “Samuel Johnson’s ‘General Nature’: Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 24, no. 2 (2001): 229–32.
      • Wilcox, Lance E. Review of Samuel Johnson’s “General Nature”: Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse, by Scott D. Evans. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 25 (2003): 436–37.
1262. Evans, Scott David. “Samuel Johnson’s ‘General Nature’ in Its Context.” PhD thesis, Arizona State University, 1998.
1263. Evenson, Brian. “Boswell’s Grand Tour of Selves.” In James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, edited by Donald J. Newman, 71–85. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
1264. Eyres, Harry, and George Myerson. Johnson’s Brexit Dictionary; or, An A to Z of What Brexit Really Means. London: Pushkin Press, 2018.
      Abstract: A delightful and essential compendium of words, new, old or abused through Brexit.
1265. Ezell, Margaret J. M. “Epilogue: From Sociable Clubs to the Voice of Authority, 1740–1750s: Eliza Haywood’s The Female Spectator and Samuel Johnson’s The Rambler.” In Early English Periodicals and Early Modern Social Media. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
      Abstract: Using the lens of early modern social authorship and contemporary social media, this Element explores a new print genre popular in England at the end of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the periodical. Traditionally, literary history has focused on only one aspect, the periodical essay. This Element returns the periodical to its original, complex literary ecosystem as an ephemeral text competing for an emerging audience, growing out of a social authorship culture. It argues that the relationship between authors, publishers, and audiences in the early periodicals is a dynamic participatory culture, similar to what modern readers encounter in the early phases of the transition from print to digital, as seen in social media. Like our current evolving digital environment, the periodical also experienced a shift from its original practices stressing sociability to a more commercially driven media ecology. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
1266. Fabre, Bruno. L’Art de la biographie dans “Vies imaginaires” de Marcel Schwob. Genève: Diffusion hors France Slatkine, 2010.
      Abstract: Vies imaginaires (1896) de Marcel Schwob a longtemps souffert de l’image de conteur érudit accolée au nom de l’auteur et de l’absence d’originalité qui lui fut reprochée. Cette étude montre l’importance de ce livre dans l’histoire de la biographie, en le confrontant à ses modèles et aux oeuvres des devanciers de l’écrivain. En rupture avec la biographie référentielle et scientifique, Vies imaginaires s’inscrit dans une filiation d’oeuvres anglaises qui ont conduit l’auteur à renoncer à l’exemplarité et à l’exigence de vérité propres au paradigme classique du genre. La plupart des textes exploités par l’écrivain pour réinventer la vie de ses protagonistes sont des oeuvres littéraires, des biographies ou des traductions en langue anglaise. L’inventaire du matériau intertextuel et l’étude de sa réécriture révèlent une appropriation multiple de ces écrits par Schwob et met en lumière la créativité de l’écrivain. Le retraitement de biographies préexistantes et la réinterprétation de personnages empruntés à l’Histoire aboutissent à l’élaboration d’un livre radicalement nouveau, dont la genèse, les principes d’écriture, la composition et l’imaginaire manifestent une création originale et personnelle qui ouvre la voie aux fictions biographiques du XXe siècle.
1267. Fairer, David. “Dr. Johnson’s Gift to Trinity College Library and the Dating of Letter 318.” New Rambler D:7, no. 7 (1991): 47–49.
1268. Fairer, David. “‘Fishes in His Water’: Shenstone, Sensibility, and the Ethics of Looking.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 19 (2009): 129–47.
1269. Fairer, David. “Johnson and the Warton Brothers.” In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, 181–94. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0015.
1270. Fairer, David. “Some Thoughts on Johnson’s Philosophical Hermits.” Johnsonian News Letter 75, no. 1 (March 2024): 6–15.
1271. Fairer, David. “The Agile Johnson.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 33–46. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
1272. Fairer, David. “The Awkward Johnson.” In Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, edited by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood, 145–63. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
1273. Fairer, David. “Thomas Warton and His Friends.” New Rambler D:7, no. 7 (1991): 36–37.
1274. Fakhoury, Arwa Mahmoud. “Transgression in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas.” PhD thesis, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
1275. Fallon, Brian. “The Life of a Landmark [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World by Henry Hitchings].” Irish Times, May 7, 2005.
1276. “False Patriotism.” Filipino Reporter 44, no. 23 (May 6, 2016): 16.
      Abstract: The write-up on this quote says James Boswell, writer and biographer of Samuel Johnson, tells us that Johnson made this famous pronouncement that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel on the evening of April 7, 1775. He doesn’t provide any information how the remark came about, so we don’t really know for sure what was on Johnson’s mind at the time.
1277. Famous Authors: Samuel Johnson, 1709–1784. Venice, California: TMW Media, 2017.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson was one of the most interesting figures of literature in 18th c England. He founded a literary magazine The Rambler and compiled the first major dictionary of English. He is best remembered as the subject of a biography by his friend Boswell. This film by Malcolm Hossick explores his life and the influence he had on the thought and manners of his age. It is followed by an overview of his work.
1278. Farquhar, Ron. “Samuel Johnson at Oxford.” TLS 5795 (April 25, 2014): 6.
      Letter to the editor, suggesting one reason Johnson left Oxford may have been that he “knew he was superior in both intelligence and learning to his tutors.”
1279. Farr, Jason S. “Sharp Minds/Twisted Bodies: Intellect, Disability, and Female Education in Frances Burney’s Camilla.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 55, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 1–17.
      Abstract: This essay examines Frances Burney’s novel Camilla (1796) in terms of its portrayal of the relationship between ‘deformity’ (physical disability) and female education. It argues that in Camilla, Burney applies the ‘monster’-as-genius trope (typically a male phenomenon in the eighteenth century) to Eugenia Tyrold, whose bodily abnormalities enable her to develop into a Classical scholar. Eugenia’s ‘masculine’ education, in turn, allows her to pen a critique of patriarchy and the male gaze. By exploring Eugenia’s character alongside other prominent eighteenth-century historical and literary figures, such as Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, William Hay, Aesop, and Mrs. Smith from Jane Austen’s Persuasion, this essay posits that Camilla contributes to a Georgian-era discourse of disability in which bodily impairments facilitate intellectual development.
1280. Farrokh, Faridoun. “The Vanity of Human Wishes: Samuel Johnson and the Discovery of the Poetic Self.” In Selected Essays from the International Conference on Word and World of Discovery, edited by Gerald Garmon, 50–60. Carrollton: Department of English, West Georgia College, 1992.
1281. Fazlollahi, Afag. “Elizabeth Carter’s Legacy: Friendship and Ethics.” PhD thesis, Georgia State University, 2013.
      Abstract: ‘Elizabeth Carter’s Legacy: Friendship and Ethics’ examines the written evidence about the relationships between Elizabeth Carter and her father, Dr. Nicolas Carter; Catherine Talbot; Sir William Pulteney (Lord Bath); and Samuel Johnson to explain how intellectual and personal relationships may become the principal ethical source of human happiness. Based on their own set of moral values, such as intellectual and individual liberty and equality, the relationships between Carter and her friends challenged eighteenth-century traditional norms of human relationships.The primary sources of this study, Carter’s poetry and prose, including her letters, present the poet’s experience of intellectual and individual friendship, reflecting Aristotle’s ethics, specifically his moral teaching that views friendship as a human good contributing to human happiness — to the chief human good. Carter’s poems devoted to her friends, such as Dr. Carter, Talbot, Montagu, Lord Bath, as well as her “A Dialogue” between Body and Mind, demonstrate her ethical legacy, her specific moral principles that elevated human relationships and human life. Carter’s discussion of human relationships introduces the moral necessity of ethics in human life.
1282. Feder, Stuart. “Transference Attended the Birth of the Modern Biography.” American Imago 54, no. 4 (1997): 399–415.
1283. Fekadu-Uthoff, Sarah. “Samuel Johnson, A Voyage to Abyssinia (1735).” In Handbook of British Travel Writing, edited by Barbara Schaff, 181–98. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
1284. Fenouillet, Paul, and Robert DeMaria Jr. “Samuel Johnson in Post-Revolutionary France.” Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 43–48.
      Includes the text and translation of a poem on Johnson by Rose-Cêleste Bache Vien, “Samuel Johnson, ou le 21 Novembre.”
1285. Fenton, James. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. Guardian, April 1, 2006.
1286. Fergus, Jan. “The Provincial Buyers of Johnson’s Dictionary and Its Alternatives.” New Rambler D:6, no. 6 (1990): 3–5.
1287. Ferguson, Gillian. “Boswell the Philanderer Rides Again.” The Sunday Times, August 8, 1993.
      Interview with John Sessions on BBC2’s Tour of the Western Isles.
1288. Ferguson, Oliver W. Review of James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740–1769, by Frederick A. Pottle. South Atlantic Quarterly 85, no. 4 (1986): 399–400. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-85-4-399.
1289. Ferguson, Oliver W. Review of James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795, by Frank Brady. South Atlantic Quarterly 85, no. 4 (1986): 399–400. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-85-4-399.
1290. Ferguson, William. “Samuel Johnson’s Views on Scottish Gaelic Culture.” Scottish Historical Review 77 (October 1998): 183–98.
1291. Fergusson, James. “Towering Ambitions [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography by Peter Martin].” The Sunday Times, August 17, 2008.
1292. Fernald, Karin. “Fanny Burney and the Witlings.” New Rambler E:2 (1998): 38–50.
1293. Fernald, Karin. “Mrs Piozzi and the Millennium.” New Rambler E:4 (2000): 49–57.
1294. Fernández, Isaac Morales. “W. Shakespeare Ante Samuel Jonson.” Dramateatro Revista Digital 9 (January 2003).
1295. Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. “Nowhere Land [Review of Golden Legends: Images of Abyssinia, Samuel Johnson to Bob Marley, by W. B. Carnochan].” TLS 5566, no. 5566 (December 4, 2009).
1296. Ferrero, Bonita Mae. “Reconstructing the Canon: Samuel Johnson and the Universal Visiter.” PhD thesis, University of Connecticut, 1991.
      Abstract: That Samuel Johnson contributed several essays to the Universal Visiter, an eighteenth-century periodical edited by Christopher Smart and Richard Rolt, has long been known. What is not known is just what pieces he did write. Because the double asterisk was thought to have been Johnson’s signature, all six Visiter essays so marked have, at various times, been attributed to him. Although only three of the Visiter essays are generally accepted as Johnson’s, there has been no conclusive evidence that Johnson was not the author of the three conjectural pieces. This study presents evidence that Richard Rolt, not Samuel Johnson, wrote two of the three disputed pieces.
1297. Ferrero, Bonnie. “Alexander Chalmers and the Canon of Samuel Johnson.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 22 (1999): 173–86.
1298. Ferrero, Bonnie. “Johnson, Murphy, and Macbeth.” Review of English Studies 42, no. 166 (May 1991): 228–32. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/XLII.166.228.
1299. Ferrero, Bonnie. Reconstructing the Canon: Samuel Johnson and the “Universal Visiter.” New York: Peter Lang, 1993.
1300. Ferrero, Bonnie. “Samuel Johnson and Arthur Murphy: Curious Intersections and Deliberate Divergence.” English Language Notes 28, no. 3 (March 1991): 18–24.
1301. Ferrero, Bonnie. “Samuel Johnson, Richard Rolt, and the Universal Visiter.” Review of English Studies 44, no. 174 (May 1993): 176–86. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/XLIV.174.176.
1302. Ferrero, Bonnie. “Samuel Johnson, Richard Rolt, and the Universal Visiter.” In Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers, Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century, edited by Anne C. McDermott, 341–51. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012.
1303. Ferry, David. “What Johnson Means to Me.” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 2 (September 2004): 7–10.
1304. Ferry, David. “What Johnson Means to Me.” In Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, edited by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood, 262–67. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
1305. Fierobe, Claude. “Rasselas: Le Décor voilé de l’impossible utopie.” La Licorne 10 (1986): 45–54.
1306. Finch, G. J. “Reason, Imagination and Will in Rasselas and The Vanity of Human Wishes.” English: The Journal of the English Association 38, no. 162 (September 1989): 195–209. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/38.162.195.
1307. Fine, Leon G. “Samuel Johnson’s Illnesses.” Journal of Nephrology 10 (June 2006): 110–14.
      Abstract: The handwritten note of the post-mortem examination of Dr Samuel Johnson resides in the library of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Headed “asthma” it suggests that he had only one functioning kidney, probably had hypertension, left ventricular hypertrophy and congestive heart failure. This article describes an imaginary presentation by Dr James Wilson, who did the autopsy, and alludes to Johnson’s life, and medical history, including impaired vision and hearing, scrofula, abnormal limb movement, gout, abdominal cramps, melancholia and episodes of “asthma” which were, more than likely to have been episodes of left ventricular failure. Johnson’s personality as a demanding patient who took things into his own hands are described based upon reports from his physicians.
1308. Finlayson, Iain. The Moth and the Candle: A Life of James Boswell. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984. Reviews:
      • Arnstein, Walter L. Review of The Moth and the Candle: A Life of James Boswell, by Iain Finlayson. The Historian 48, no. 4 (1986): 581.
1309. First Things. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. February 2001.
1310. Fisher, Barbara. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Boston Globe, October 2, 2005.
1311. Fisher, Barbara. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Boston Globe, December 3, 2000.
1312. Fitzpatrick, M. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. History Today 46, no. 5 (May 1996).
1313. Fitzpatrick, M. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. History Today 46, no. 5 (May 1996).
1314. Fix, Stephen. “Prayer, Poetry, and Paradise Lost: Samuel Johnson as Reader of Milton’s Christian Epic.” In Seeing into the Life of Things: Essays on Literature and Religious Experience, edited by John L. Mahoney, 126–51. New York: Fordham University Press, 1998.
1315. Fix, Stephen. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Eighteenth-Century Studies 21 (1988): 521–26.
1316. Fix, Stephen. Review of Samuel Johnson: Pictures and Words: Papers Presented at a Clark Library Seminar, 23 October 1982, by Paul K. Alkon and Robert Folkenflik. Eighteenth-Century Studies 21 (1988): 521–26.
1317. Fix, Stephen. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 22, no. 4 (1999): 614–18.
1318. Fix, Stephen. “Teaching Johnson’s Critical Writing.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 128–34. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
1319. Fix, Stephen. “The Contexts and Motives of Johnson’s Life of Milton.” In Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, edited by David Wheeler, 107–32. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_547-1.
1320. Fix, Stephen. “‘The Dreams of a Poet’: Vocational Self=Definition in Johnson’s Dictionary Preface.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 143–56. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
1321. Fizer, Irene. “Emballing, Empalling, Embalming, and Embailing Anne Bullen: The Annotation of Shakespeare’s Bawdy Tongue after Samuel Johnson.” In Reading Readings: Essays on Shakespeare Editing in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Joanna Gondris, 281–95. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998.
1322. Fleck, Richard F. “Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas: A Perspective on Islam.” Weber Studies: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal 10, no. 1 (December 1993): 50–57.
1323. Fleeman, J. D. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson: Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
      A monumental bibliography of Johnson’s works, a project to which Fleeman devoted much of his career. McLaverty completed the bibliography upon Fleeman’s death, and maintains a running list of corrections and additions on the Web.
      Reviews:
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. JEGP 101, no. 1 (2002): 142–44.
      • Eddy, Donald D., and Robert J. Barry. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 2, no. 2 (June 2001): 161–78. https://doi.org/10.1093/library/2.2.161.
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. New Rambler E:3 (1999): 49–50.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. Choice 38, no. 5 (January 2001): 2478.
      • Meulen, David Vander. “An Essay Towards Perfection [Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman].” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 13 (2002): 389–435.
      • Reddick, Allen. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. Review of English Studies 208 (November 2001): 588–90.
      • Reference and Research Book News. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. August 1, 2000.
      • Rogers, Shef. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 97, no. 1 (March 2003): 93–98.
      • Tankard, Paul. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. The Southern Johnsonian 7, no. 4 (November 2000): 6.
      • Tankard, Paul. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 25, no. 3 (2001): 121–27.
1324. Fleeman, J. D. Review of A Preface to Samuel Johnson, by Thomas M. Woodman. Notes and Queries 41 [239] (September 1994): 395–96.
1325. Fleeman, J. D. A Preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books Associated with Dr. Samuel Johnson. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society & Bodleian Library, 1984. Reviews:
      • Brack, O M, Jr. Review of A Preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books Associated with Dr. Samuel Johnson, by J. D. Fleeman. The Library 9, no. 1 (1987).
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of A Preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books Associated with Dr. Samuel Johnson, by J. D. Fleeman. New Rambler C:25 (1984): 48–49.
1326. Fleeman, J. D. “Dr. Johnson and ‘Miss Fordice.’” Notes and Queries 33 [231] (March 1986): 59–60.
1327. Fleeman, J. D. Review of Dr. Johnson: Interviews and Recollections, by Norman Page. New Rambler D:3, no. 3 (1987): 48–50.
1328. Fleeman, J. D. Review of Dr. Johnson’s Household, by Lyle Larsen. New Rambler C:26 (1985): 39–40.
1329. Fleeman, J. D. Review of Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, by Prem Nath. New Rambler D:5, no. 5 (1989): 38–41.
1330. Fleeman, J. D. Review of Johnson, by Pat Rogers. Notes and Queries 41 [239], no. 2 (June 1994): 249–50.
1331. Fleeman, J. D. “Johnson and Boswell in Scotland.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1989, 51–72.
1332. Fleeman, J. D. Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, by Pat Rogers. Notes and Queries 41 [239], no. 1 (March 1994): 106–9.
1333. Fleeman, J. D. “Johnson and Scotland in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides.” Notes and Queries 41, no. 1 (1994): 106-.
1334. Fleeman, J. D. “Johnson in the Schoolroom: George Fulton’s Miniature Dictionary (1821).” In An Index of Civilisation: Studies of Printing and Publishing History in Honour of Keith Maslen, edited by Ross Harvey, Wallace Kirsop, and B. J. McMullin, 163–71. Victoria, Australia: Monash University Center for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 1993.
1335. Fleeman, J. D. “Johnson’s Dictionary (1755).” Trivium 22 (June 1987): 83–88.
1336. Fleeman, J. D. “Johnson’s ‘Secret.’” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1993): 147–49.
      A reply to Greene’s argument about the letter M in Johnson’s diaries.
1337. Fleeman, J. D. “Johnson’s Shakespeare (1765): The Progress of a Subscription.” In Writers, Books, and Trade, edited by O M Brack Jr., 355–88. New York: AMS Press, 1994.
1338. Fleeman, J. D. “Memorabilia.” Notes and Queries 36 [234], no. 1 (March 1989): 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/36-1-1.
1339. Fleeman, J. D. “Michael Johnson, the ‘Lichfield Librarian.’” Publishing History 39 (1996): 23–44.
1340. Fleeman, J. D. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neale Parke. New Rambler D:7, no. 7 (1991): 39–40.
1341. Fleeman, J. D. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript, by b1 Vander Meulen and G. Thomas Tanselle. The Library 16, no. 2 (June 1994): 155–56.
1342. Fleeman, J. D. Review of Selections from Johnson on Shakespeare, by Bertrand H. Bronson and Jean M. O’Meara. Notes and Queries 35 [233] (March 1988): 98–99.
1343. Fleeman, J. D. Review of The Birth of Shakespeare Studies: Commentators from Rowe (1709) to Boswell–Malone (1821), by Arthur Sherbo. Modern Philology 86, no. 1 (August 1988): 90–92.
1344. Fleeman, J. D. “The Genesis of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary.’” In A Dictionary of the English Language. Harlow: Longman, 1990.
1345. Fleeman, J. D. “Uttoxeter Commemorative Address.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1989, 77–80.
1346. Fleming, Susan Adele. “Mary Shelley and Samuel Johnson: Social and Ethical Implications of the Individual’s Pursuit of Perfection.” MA thesis, Auburn University, 1990.
1347. Fletcher, Loraine. “A Sharper Definition of Samuel Johnson [Review of According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge].” The Independent, September 1, 2001.
1348. Fletcher, Loraine. “Charlotte Smith and the Lichfield Two.” New Rambler E:2 (1998): 51–61.
1349. Fletcher, William. “Dr Johnson and the Seven Provinces.” New Rambler D:2, no. 2 (1986): 27–36.
      On Johnson and Dutch languages, culture, and history.
1350. Florschuetz, Timothy Jon. “An Examination of the Nile River in Samuel Johnson’s The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.” MA thesis, Arizona State University, 1991.
1351. Fludernik, Monika. “Spectators, Ramblers and Idlers: The Conflicted Nature of Indolence and the 18th-Century Tradition of Idling.” Anglistik 28, no. 1 (March 3, 2017): 133–54.
1352. Folkenflik, Robert. “Blinking Sam, ‘Surly Sam,’ and ‘Johnson’s Grimly Ghost.’” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 265–94. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
1353. Folkenflik, Robert. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756–1795, by Thomas Crawford. Eighteenth-Century Studies 33, no. 2 (2000): 289.
1354. Folkenflik, Robert. Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769, by Richard Cargill Cole, Peter S. Baker, and Rachel McClellan. Eighteenth-Century Studies 33, no. 2 (2000): 289.
1355. Folkenflik, Robert. Review of James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, by Donald J. Newman. Eighteenth-Century Studies 33, no. 2 (2000): 289.
1356. Folkenflik, Robert. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. Eighteenth-Century Studies 33, no. 2 (2000): 289.
1357. Folkenflik, Robert. “Johnson’s Modern Lives.” In Johnson after Two Hundred Years, edited by Paul J. Korshin, 3–23. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
1358. Folkenflik, Robert. “Johnson’s Politics.” In The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 102–13. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.008.
1359. Folkenflik, Robert. “‘Little Lives, and Little Prefaces’? Lonsdale’s Edition of Johnson’s Lives of the Poets [Review Essay of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale].” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 19 (2009): 273–83.
1360. Folkenflik, Robert. Review of A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson, by Nicholas Hudson. New Rambler F:18 (2014): 83–87.
1361. Folkenflik, Robert. “Rasselas and the Closed Field.” Huntington Library Quarterly 57, no. 4 (September 1994): 337–52. https://doi.org/10.2307/3817841.
1362. Folkenflik, Robert. “Representations.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 62–82. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
1363. Folkenflik, Robert. “Samuel Johnson.” In Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th ed. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 1995.
1364. Folkenflik, Robert. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England, by Nicholas Hudson. TLS 5375 (April 7, 2006): 7–8.
1365. Folkenflik, Robert. “Samuel Johnson: The Return of the Jacobites and Other Topics.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 33, no. 2 (December 2000): 289–99. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2000.0008.
      Review essay on several recent studies of Johnson.
1366. Folkenflik, Robert. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 20 (2010): 319–31.
      Abstract: In stressing Johnson’s dissatisfaction with his own participation in the parliamentary debates in the Gentleman’s Magazine for giving the impression that he was presenting his words as those of the speakers, none of the major biographers of the twentieth century — Clifford, Bate, Wain, or DeMaria — notices the crucial fact that the speeches are introduced by “spoke to this effect” or a similar formula. Meyers claims that the ineffectuality of Queen Anne’s touch for Johnson’s scrofula as an infant “undermined” “his lingering belief in the divine right of kings.” According to Meyers, “Johnson’s first and only students” were David Garrick, his brother, and a third, later identified as Lawrence Offley, at the school Johnson set up at Edial ("pronounced EE-jall"), but Sir John Hawkins, who knew him closest to the event of all his biographers, says he had “five or six students,” including “a son of Mr. Offley.” According to the Italian translator John Hoole, he muttered something about a cup of milk that was handed to him improperly, which seems too banal.
1367. Folkenflik, Robert. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Eighteenth-Century Studies 33, no. 2 (2000): 297–99.
1368. Folkenflik, Robert. “The Politics of Johnson’s Dictionary Revisited.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 18 (2007): 1–17.
1369. Folkenflik, Robert. Three Samuel Johnson Portraits: Taylor’s Johnson; Lamborn’s Taylor; Mytton’s Lamborn. Los Angeles: Rasselas Press, 2013.
1370. Forbes, Alexander M. “Johnson, Blackstone, and the Tradition of Natural Law.” Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal 27, no. 4 (December 1994): 81–98.
1371. Forbes, Alexander M. “Ultimate Reality and Ethical Meaning: Theological Utilitarianism in Eighteenth-Century England.” Ultimate Reality and Meaning 18, no. 2 (1995): 119–38.
1372. Forbes, Alexander Malcolm. “The Measure and the Choice: Empiricism and Revelation in Johnson’s Vanity of Human Wishes, Rambler, and Rasselas.” PhD thesis, University of Toronto, 1990.
1373. Forster, Antonia. Review of Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer: A Duty to Examine the Labors of the Learned, by Brian Hanley. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 413–15.
1374. Forsyth, Helen. “Samuel Johnson: A Sonnet.” New Rambler C:25, no. 25 (1984): 27.
1375. Forsyth, Helen. “Samuel Johnson: A Sonnet.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, vii. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
1376. Foxton, Ra. “A Johnsonian Heritage: The Hussey Copy of Boswell’s Life.” Eighteenth-Century News (Melbourne) 24 (1985): 9–17.
1377. Foy, Roslyn Reso. “Johnson’s Rasselas: Women in the ‘Stream of Life.’” English Language Notes 32, no. 1 (September 1994): 39–53.
1378. France, Peter. “Western Civilization and Its Mountain Frontiers.” History of European Ideas 6, no. 3 (1985): 297–310.
1379. Francus, Marilyn. “‘Down with Her, Burney!’: Johnson, Burney, and the Politics of Literary Celebrity.” In Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 108–31. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019.
1380. Frank, Joseph. Review of The Chain of Becoming: The Philosophical Tale, the Novel, and Neglected Realism of the Enlightenment: Swift, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Johnson, and Austen, by Frederick M. Keener. Sewanee Review 94, no. 4 (1986): 650–57.
1381. Frasca-Spada, Marina. “Books and the Imagination: Arabella, David Hume and the Eighteenth-Century Readers of History and Fiction.” New Rambler E:2 (1998): 23–31.
1382. Fraser, Lindsay. Review of Who Was . . . Sam Johnson: The Wonderful Word Doctor, by Andrew Billen. Guardian, May 25, 2004.
1383. Fraser, Michael. “Chaucer, Johnson, and Shakespeare on CD-ROM [Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott].” Computers & Texts 12 (July 1996): 21–25.
1384. Fraser, Russell. “What Is Augustan Poetry?” Sewanee Review 98, no. 4 (1990): 620–85.
1385. Fraser, Russell A. “Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.” Sewanee Review 120, no. 1 (Winter 2012): 157–67. https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2012.0014.
1386. Frawley, William. “Lexicography and Samuel Johnson: Special Section.” Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 30 (2009): 95–135. https://doi.org/10.1353/dic.2009.0010.
1387. Frazer, Douglas H. “Boswell’s Entail: A Study in Legal Reasoning.” Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law Journal 56, no. 3 (2021): 369–79.
      Abstract: At each nomination of a United States Supreme Court justice, a discussion is renewed about textual interpretation and legal reasoning. This Article will show—by analyzing a classic estate planning problem considered by two eighteenth-century giants, Samuel Johnson and his amanuensis, James Boswell — that the principles giving rise to these questions are mostly unchanged.
1388. Frazier, Ian. “Boswell’s Life of Don Johnson.” New Yorker 62 (September 15, 1986): 32.
      Parody of Boswell’s Life about television actor Don Johnson.
1389. Freeberg, Bruce Allen. “The Problem of Divine Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Immaterialism: A Comparative Study of the Philosophies of George Berkeley, Samuel Johnson, Arthur Collier, and Jonathan Edwards.” PhD thesis, Emory University, 1999.
1390. Freedman, Carl. “London as Science Fiction: A Note on Some Images from Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Dickens, and Orwell.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 43, no. 3 (2002): 251–62.
1391. Freeman, Arthur. “Affection’s Eye.” TLS 5434 (May 25, 2007): 13.
      Freeman suggests a death notice of Robert Levet in the Gentleman’s Magazine for Jan. 1782 was by SJ and had escaped Fleeman’s notice in his Bibliography.
1392. Freeman, Jan. “The Word Zoilist’s Delight [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch].” Boston Globe, December 7, 2003.
1393. Freiburg, Rudolf. “Cuncta Prius Tentanda: The Treatment of War in Samuel Johnson’s Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland’s Islands (1771).” In Guerres et Paix: La Grande-Bretagne Au XVIIIe Siècle, I–II, edited by Paul-Gabriel Boucé, 325–40. Paris: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, 1998.
1394. Freiburg, Rudolf. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 123, no. 4 (2005): 742–45.
1395. Freiburg, Rudolf. “The Pleasures of Pain? Soame Jenyns versus Samuel Johnson.” In “But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man”: Literature and Theodicy, edited by Rudolf Freiburg, Susanne Gruss, Simone Broders, and Katharina Lempe, 225–44. Stauffenburg, 2004.
1396. Freixa, Consol. “Piso de soltero en ll Londres del siglo XVIII.” Scripta Nova: Revista electrónica de geografía y ciencias sociales 7 (2003).
      Abstract: El enorme crecimiento de Londres (650.000 habitantes aproximadamente en 1700 a 1.474.069 en el censo de 1831) y el fuego que la destruyó en 1666 hicieron necesario un gran proceso de construcción y expansión del que surgió la ciudad que hoy conocemos. No obstante la escasez de vivienda y el hecho curioso de que no hubiera hoteles obligó a muchos de sus habitantes a vivir realquilados. James Boswell (1740–95) escribió un diario durante su estancia en la ciudad en 1762, en él cuenta cómo eran las habitaciones que alquiló, cuánto le costaron y las condiciones del contrato. También muestra cómo convirtió la ciudad — tabernas, casas de comidas, teatros, parques, calles e iglesias — en “su” casa. / The great fire of 1666 destroyed London, this and the growth of its population (650.000 in 1700–1.474.069 in 1831) made it necessary to begin a process of building and development that shaped the city we know today. However as there were still no houses for everybody and there were almost no hotels, people had to hire furnished lodgings. James Boswell ( 1740–1795) lived in London in 1762, in his diary he describes “his rooms,” the money he paid for them, he also writes about his life and how London — its coffee-houses, eating-houses, theatres, churches, parks and streets — became “his house.”
1397. French, Annette. “Monuments and Communal Memory: Johnson and Public Sculpture.” New Rambler E:7 (2003): 68–77.
1398. Friedman, Emily C. “Considering Johnson’s ‘Nose of the Mind’ and Mind’s Nose: Olfaction Deployed and Suppressed in the ‘Age of Johnson.’” In New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 203–16. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.
1399. Friedman, Michael D. “‘He Was Just a Macheath’: Boswell and The Beggar’s Opera.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 4 (1991): 97–114.
1400. Fritze, Ronald H. “The Oxford English Dictionary: A Brief History.” Reference Services Review 17, no. 3 (1989): 61–70.
1401. Frontain, Raymond-Jean. “Johnson in the British Literature Survey Course.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 56–63. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
1402. Frost, Alan. “‘Very Little Intellectual in the Course’: Exploration and Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 6 (2002): 44–51.
1403. Fruman, N. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Choice 29, no. 11–12 (1992): 1677.
1404. Fry, Michael. “James Boswell, Henry Dundas, and Enlightened Politics.” In Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, edited by Irma S. Lustig, 87–100. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
1405. Fujii, Tetsu. “A List of Johnson and Boswell Studies in Japan (3): Those Published in University Bulletins and Others from 1878 to 2002.” Bulletin of Central Research Institute of Fukuoka University 2, no. 9 (March 2003): 105–222.
1406. Fujii, Tetsu. “A List of Johnson and Boswell Studies in Japan: Those Published in Book Form from 1871 to 1997.” Bulletin of Central Research Institute of Fukuoka University 208 (1998): 39–122.
1407. Fujii, Tetsu. “A List of Textual Differences between the First and the Second Editions of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by Sir John Hawkins.” Bulletin of Central Research Institute of Fukuoka University 247 (2001): 1–37.
1408. Fujii, Tetsu. “A Note on a Variant Copy of Hawkins’s The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.” Notes and Queries 48 [246], no. 4 (December 2001): 429–30. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/48.4.429.
1409. Fujii, Tetsu. “A Supplementary List of Johnson and Boswell Studies in Japan: Those Published in Book Form from 1946 to 2000.” Bulletin of Central Research Institute of Fukuoka University 234 (2000): 19–58.
1410. Fujii, Tetsu. “An Essay Concerning How Dr. Johnson’s ‘Life of Collins’ Exerted Influence in the 18th Century.” Fukuoka University Review of Literature & Humanities 24 (1993): 1233–63.
1411. Fujii, Tetsu. “Bāmingamu daigaku Eibungaku-ka Jonson sentā no gaiyō.” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 146, no. 12 (March 2001): 797–797.
1412. Fujii, Tetsu. “Historical Review of the Studies on Sir John Hawkins’s The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.” In Festschrift for Professor Shun’ichi Takayanagi, edited by Japanese, 121–40. Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 2002.
1413. Fujii, Tetsu. “How Samuel Johnson Has Been Described in Successive Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.” In Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature, 71–91. Tokyo: Yusho-Do, 1996.
1414. Fujii, Tetsu. “Invitation to ‘Johnson Studies in Japan.’” In Translations in the Meiji Era 13: Eighteenth Century English Literature, 342–44. Tokyo: Ozorasha, 2000.
1415. Fujii, Tetsu. “James Boswell Reconstructed from Various Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.” Bulletin of Central Research Institute of Fukuoka University 116 (1989): 29–60.
1416. Fujii, Tetsu. “Johnson’s ‘Roscommon’ in the 18th Century.” Sophia English Studies 16 (1991): 3–18.
1417. Fujii, Tetsu. “On the Addition of Two Pages Sir John Hawkins Made for the Second Edition of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.” In Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature 2, 288–304. Tokyo: Kaitakusha, 2002.
1418. Fujii, Tetsu. “The Johnson Centre of the Birmingham University.” Rising Generation 146, no. 12 (March 2001): 53.
1419. Fujii, Tetsu. “Why Chalmers?: A Note on a Life of Hawkins.” Notes and Queries 48 [246], no. 4 (2001): 433–34.
1420. Fukumoto, Tadayuki. “100 nen buri no shinban.” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 152, no. 3 (June 2006): 158–158.
1421. Fukumoto, Tadayuki. “Johnson’s Prose Style and His Notion of the Periodical Writer.” In Johnson in Japan, edited by Kimiyo Ogawa, Mika Suzuki, and Greg Clingham, 116–29. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
1422. Fukumoto, Tadayuki. “Wasurerareta josei hihyōka.” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 152, no. 9 (December 2006): 546–47.
1423. Fulford, Tim. “De Quincey’s Literature of Power.” Wordsworth Circle 31, no. 3 (June 2000): 158–64. https://doi.org/10.1086/twc24044121.
1424. Fulford, Tim. Landscape, Liberty and Authority: Poetry, Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519000.
1425. Fulton, Henry L. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. Studies in Scottish Literature 31 (1999): 307–10.
1426. Furbank, P. N. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. New Republic 224, no. 12 (2001): 44–45.
1427. Gabbard, Dwight C. “The Drudgery of Wit — Samuel Johnson as an Engineer of Language.” MA thesis, San Francisco State University, 1993.
1428. Gabbard, Dwight Christopher. “Disability Studies and the British Long Eighteenth Century.” Literature Compass 8, no. 2 (February 2011): 80–94.
      Abstract: Disability studies approaches the British eighteenth century as a period in transition, with the conception of disability as spiritual sign of wonder or warning giving way to an understanding of it as pathology and abnormality. Period-appropriate terms for disability are ‘deformity,”defect,’ and ‘monster,’ which were used for exotic bodily configurations and gender and racial differences: women and non–Europeans were perceived as defective. John Milton, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Inchbald, and William Hay have generated interest on account of their disabilities, while Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Mary Wortley Montagu, Sarah Scott, Sarah Fielding, Henry Fielding, John Cleland, Francis Burney, and William Godwin have received attention for disability thematics. Topics of concern include disability and old age, physiognomy in characterization, joke book humor and sensibility, ugliness as aesthetic category, defect in tropes of national identity, deafness and sign language, intellectual disability and Lockean epistemology, the exotic deformed, disfigurement from smallpox as well as political rhetoric associated with the disease, and femininity as monstrosity.
1429. Garcia, Humberto. “Islam in the English Radical Protestant Imagination, 1660–1830.” PhD thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.
      Abstract: My dissertation challenges postcolonial accounts that suggest that Islam was depicted as a reactionary and “backward” religion in the long eighteenth century. Building on the work of Nabil Matar, James R. Jacob, Norman O. Brown, and Bernadette Andrea, I argue for the crucial significance of “Mahometanism” in the Radical Enlightenment critique of Church and State, from 1660 to 1830, proposing that English radical Protestant fantasies about “Islamic Republicanism” offered an alternative political vision for writers such as Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, William Blake, Walter Savage Landor, Hannah Cowley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and the Shelleys. These writers, who either rejected or were troubled by the democratic principles promoted by the French Revolution, embraced Islam as a source of political hope in moments of crisis: when notions of liberty, equality, and fraternity turned out to be “false universals” that deprived English men and women of the constitutional-religious rights granted to Anglican citizens. English writers sought to replace the secular ideals of “Western Europe” with a vision of the “Islamic Republic” as an alternative system of secular, democratic values; a resurfacing of an earlier radical Protestant discourse that encodes Islam as the original religion of an egalitarian form of Protestant antitrinitarianism. In their imaginations, the values of “Mahometanism” are more durable and dependable than Lockean notions of liberal individualism and “human rights.” And yet, by the turn of the nineteenth century, Burke, Landor, Coleridge, Cowley, and Percy Shelley shunned “Islamic Republicanism” for various reasons: to conform to the standards of a developing conservative ideology, to conceal radical ideas as a cautious way of avoiding draconian censorship restrictions in a reactionary era, to resist any identification between radical politics and the setbacks of the French Revolution, or to search for alternative models of liberty in the Greco-Hellenistic world. Overall, this dissertation reveals the limitations inherent in the secular progressivist narratives through which postcolonial critics continue to read the reception of Islam in eighteenth-century England. As a corrective to this approach, I offer historizied re-readings of the political complexities that inflect the discourse of “Islamic Republicanism.”
1430. García Landa, José Angel. “Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas: The Duplicity of Choice and the Sense of an Ending.” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 19–20 (April 1989): 75–99.
1431. García Landa, José Angel. “‘The Enthusiastick Fit’: The Function and Fate of the Poet in Johnson’s Rasselas.” Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica 17, no. 1–2 (1991): 103–26. https://doi.org/10.18172/cif.2301.
1432. García, Mariano. “Genus irritabile: Reflexiones biográficas entre Borges y el doctor Johnson.” Variaciones Borges 29 (2010): 107–26.
1433. Gardner, Lyn. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. Guardian, August 9, 2007.
1434. Gardner, Lyn. Review of Resurrection, by Maureen Lawrence. Guardian, May 13, 1996.
1435. Gardner, Lyn. “Sammy and Rosie Get Laid: Dr Johnson’s Brothel Antics Leave Lyn Gardner Unconvinced [Review of ‘Johnson in Love,’ by Charles Thomas].” Guardian, January 6, 2001.
1436. Garī, Tomu. “Baka no kotoba.” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 154, no. 6 (September 2008): 352–53.
1437. Garner, Bryan A. “Harmless Drudgery? [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch].” Essays in Criticism 1 (January 2007): 65–72.
1438. Garner, Bryan A. “Immortal Utterances: A ‘Conversation’ with the Late, Great Author, Lexicographer and Letters Writer Samuel Johnson.” ABA Journal 102, no. 3 (March 2016): 24–25.
      Abstract: A ‘conversation’ with the late, great author, lexicographer and letters writer Samuel Johnson Bryan Garner on Words Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with the great Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)-or rather with his books- to see what he had to say about lawyers, their profession and their writing. [. . .]he wrote what is perhaps the greatest letter ever written. [. . .]months before the tome was to be published, Lord Chesterfield started claiming some credit for it.
1439. Garner, Bryan A., and Jack Lynch. “Johnson Redivivus: The Year 1818.” In Hardly Harmless Drudgery: A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographic Geniuses, Sciolists, Plagiarists, & Obsessives Who Defined the English Language, 159–60. Boston: Godine, 2024.
1440. Garner, Bryan A., and Jack Lynch. “Samuel Johnson: Beating 40 Frenchmen.” In Hardly Harmless Drudgery: A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographic Geniuses, Sciolists, Plagiarists, & Obsessives Who Defined the English Language, 103–10. Boston: Godine, 2024.
1441. Garner, Bryan A., and Jack Lynch. “Samuel Johnson: Disclaiming a Patron.” In Hardly Harmless Drudgery: A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographic Geniuses, Sciolists, Plagiarists, & Obsessives Who Defined the English Language, 99–102. Boston: Godine, 2024.
1442. Garner, Bryan A., and Jack Lynch. “Samuel Johnson’s Folio Severely Abstracted.” In Hardly Harmless Drudgery: A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographic Geniuses, Sciolists, Plagiarists, & Obsessives Who Defined the English Language, 116–18. Boston: Godine, 2024.
1443. Gaskill, Howard. “What Did James MacPherson Really Leave on Display at His Publisher’s Shop in 1762?” Scottish Gaelic Studies 16 (Winter 1990): 67–89.
1444. Gavin, Michael. “James Boswell and the Uses of Criticism.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 50, no. 3 (June 2010): 665–81. https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2010.0003.
1445. Gebhardt, Genevieve. “Rough Music: Guerrilla Theatre and Public Protest in Johnson’s London.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 7 (2005): 37–64.
1446. Gebhardt, Genny. “‘A Violent Passion’: Pugnacity and the Prizefighting Phenomenon in Johnson’s England.” New Rambler E:4 (2000): 3–16.
1447. Gebhardt, Genny. “Reflections on the Death Mask of Samuel Johnson Exhibited at Dr. Johnson’s House in Gough Square.” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 1 (March 2004): 32–33.
1448. Gebhart, Genevieve. “‘A Violent Passion’: Pugnacity and the Prizefighting Phenomenon in Johnson’s England — A Montage.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 3 (1999): 37–57.
1449. Geirland, John. “Doctor Feelgood: Stricken by ‘Vile Melancholy,’ the 18th-Century Critic and Raconteur Samuel Johnson Pioneered a Modern Therapy.” Smithsonian 37, no. 10 (January 2007): 97–103.
      A brief biographical overview, with an argument that SJ’s attempts to ward off his melancholy anticipated modern cognitive-behavioral therapy.
1450. Geller, Jaclyn. “Domestic Counterplots: Representations of Marriage in Eighteenth-Century British Literature.” PhD thesis, New York University, 2003.
      See particularly chapter 2, “Conjugal Vexations’: Samuel Johnson’s Marriage Critique.”
1451. Geller, Jaclyn. “Domestic Life.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 166–73. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
1452. Geller, Jaclyn. “Sociability.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 425–52. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: This chapter considers Johnson’s writing on family, friendship, and relationship status. She treats Johnson as an independent thinker on each of these subjects, who was guided (but not dominated) by proverbial classical valuations of interpersonal relationships. Ever the empiricist and social observer, Johnson brought his own quirky observations to bear on subjects like romance-based marriage, which was enjoying great cultural currency in the eighteenth century. His treatment of Britons disenfranchised by marital custom and law, such as never-married women and non-maritally born children, evinces deep sympathy and penetrating understanding of the problem of upholding one relationship model at the expense of all others. Himself a passionate friend who divided his time between two non-standard households, Johnson emerges as a forward-looking thinker on the general subject of social relationships and the status or disesteem they incur.
1453. Geller, Jaclyn. “The Unnarrated Life: Samuel Johnson, Female Friendship, and the Rise of the Novel Revisited.” In Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, edited by Philip Smallwood, 80–98. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001.
1454. Gellis, Mark. “Burke, Campbell, Johnson, and Priestley: A Rhetorical Analysis of Four British Pamphlets of the American Revolution.” PhD thesis, Purdue University, 1993.
1455. Gemmill, Kathleen Katie. “Novel Conversations, 1740–1817.” PhD Thesis, Columbia University, 2017.
      Abstract: “Novel Conversations” examines how and why eighteenth-century novelists came to represent people interacting in ways that registered as lively and real. Speech had long been crucial in literary genres as varied as drama, philosophical dialogue, romance and narrative poetry; but techniques for representing speech would proliferate in the eighteenth century as writers gave conversation a new centrality in the novel, seeking to capture the manner of speech over and above its basic matter. “Novel Conversations” explores this literary-historical development with chapters on four writers who were especially interested in the technical challenge of recording vocal effects: Samuel Richardson, James Boswell, Frances Burney and Jane Austen. They developed a set of tools for rendering in prose the auditory and social nuances of conversation, including tone and emphasis, pacing and pausing, gesture and movement. I argue that their experiments resulted in a new “transcriptional realism” in the novel. This term describes the range of techniques used to craft dialogue that faithfully approximates the features of real speech, while remaining meaningful and effectual as an element of prose narrative. In developing methods to this end, eighteenth-century writers borrowed techniques from other genres, combined them, and invented new ones. One rich source was life writing, the broad category of documentary prose genres that both absorbed and influenced the novel form in its early stages. Writers also sought complementary techniques in drama, whose stage directions, tonal notations and cues about who is speaking to whom at what point in time could be readily adapted for prose narrative. The task at hand was to calibrate two often opposing styles: the empirically driven, transcriptional mode of life writing and the more overtly stylized mode of drama. Writers did so by developing two resources within the novel form: the narrator, who occupies a flexible platform from which to elaborate conversational dynamics with description; and print itself, with all of its graphic and spatial possibilities for shaping speech on the page, including accidentals, line breaks, and typography. What are in one sense formalist readings are complemented by a careful attention to the materiality of the manuscript page and the printed page. In approaching my primary authors’ texts from a technical perspective, I do justice to their experimental efforts to use writing as a technology for capturing voice: a recording device avant la lettre. This approach in turn gives me critical purchase to analyze the effect that this technology serves: detailed representations of characters operating in a lively, familiar social world.
1456. Gerrard, Christine. “Jacobites and Patriots: Johnson and Savage.” In The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725–1742, 230–47. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
1457. Gerzina, Gretchen H. Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock. New Rambler F:18 (2014): 89–92.
1458. Gibbs, Denis. “Dr Richard Wilkes ‘MD’ (1691–1760): Physician of Willenhall and Antiquary of Staffordshire.” New Rambler E:7 (2003): 46–53.
1459. Gibson, William. “Reflections on Johnson’s Churchmanship.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 219–40. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
1460. Gibson, William, and Robert G. Ingram. Religious Identities in Britain, 1660–1832. London: Routledge, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315244631.
1461. Gigante, Denise. “James Boswell (1740–95).” In The Great Age of the English Essay: An Anthology, 210–30. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300151817-012.
1462. Gilbert, Sharon Lynn. “Viewing Things in a Different Shade: Thematic and Structural Unity in the Early Journals of James Boswell.” PhD Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995.
1463. Gill, R. B. “The Enlightened Occultist: Beckford’s Presence in Vathek.” In Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations, edited by Kenneth W. Graham, 131–43. New York: AMS Press, 1990.
1464. Gilmore, Thomas B. “Implicit Criticism of Thomson’s Seasons in Johnson’s Dictionary.” Modern Philology 86, no. 3 (February 1989): 265–73.
1465. Gilmore, Thomas B. “James Boswell’s Drinking.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 24, no. 3 (Spring 1991): 337–57. https://doi.org/10.2307/2738667.
1466. Gilvary, Kevin. “Dr. Johnson’s Unattempted Life of Shakespeare.” In The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare, 55–57. 27. London: Routledge, 2017.
1467. Gladfelder, Hal. “The Hard Work of Doing Nothing: Richard Savage’s Parallel Lives.” Modern Language Quarterly 64, no. 4 (December 2003): 445–72. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-64-4-445.
1468. Glasser, Paul. “Heated by Wine, Fevered by Cards, and Possessed by a Whoring Rage: The Sociability of James Boswell.” The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 30, no. 1 (2016): 31–49. https://doi.org/10.1086/SHAD30010031.
      Abstract: Although scholars have described writer James Boswell as a prolific drinker, he not only imbibed heavily at times but also employed occasional sobriety when it was appropriate. Thus, his journals indicate that eighteenth-century sociability was very fluid in practice. These records provide many details that illuminate how Boswell successfully negotiated the changing social and cultural trends of the late eighteenth century. Rather than applying a dichotomous perspective, a pluralistic interpretation is more useful because it fully captures the many nuances of sociability in the early modern era. This lens also provides insight when considering other aspects of elite male eighteenth-century sociability, including gambling and philandering. On the other hand, it allows scholars to explore how occasional sobriety also came into conflict with older habits that promoted the consumption of alcohol.
1469. Glendening, John. “Northern Exposures: English Literary Tours of Scotland, 1720–1820.” PhD thesis, Indiana University, 1992.
1470. Glendening, John. “Young Fanny Burney and the Mentor.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 4 (1991): 281–312.
1471. Globe and Mail (Toronto). Review of The Journals of James Boswell, 1762–1795, by John Wain. 1992.
1472. Glover, Brian. Review of Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, by Donald J. Newman. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 56, no. 1–2 (2023): 25–27. https://doi.org/10.5325/scriblerian.56.1-2.0025.
1473. Glover, Brian. “The Boswell Club of Chicago, 1942–1973.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 25 (2025): 127–48.
1474. Glover, Brian. “The Boswell Papers (1927–2021) and the Mediated Meaning of Place.” CounterText: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary 8, no. 2 (August 2022): 283–300. https://doi.org/10.3366/count.2022.0271.
1475. Glover, Brian David. “The Public Sphere and Formal Nostalgia, 1709–1785.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences. PhD Thesis, University of Virginia, 2008. MLA International Bibliography.
1476. Glover, Brian. “Spectacle and Speculation on James Boswell’s German Tour, 1764.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 57, no. 3 (2017): 561–81.
      Abstract: While in Samuel Johnson and others James Boswell chases men of distinguished accomplishments, in the journals and letters of his 1764 tour of German Courts his imagination is fired by the idea of hierarchical greatness in itself. Among the petty princes of Germany he fantasizes about a sense of importance that transcends not only the judgment of the observer but also anything anyone might write about them in the public sphere of print. Yet in his writings he can only imagine that greatness through a critical consciousness shaped by print culture. This article explores publicness as an aesthetic category in Boswell’s writing.
1477. Glover, Stephen L. “‘Trumpet’ in Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language (1755.” ITG Journal 22, no. 4 (1998): 40–43.
1478. Glover, Susan Paterson. “The Real Slim Shady and Samuel J.” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 1 (March 2004): 9–12.
      On teaching Johnson’s works at the University of Toronto.
1479. Godlewski, Christina Eleanor. “‘It Matters Not How a Man Dies, but How He Lives’: Samuel Johnson and the Rhetoric of Consolation.” MA thesis, University of Maryland at College Park, 1992.
1480. Goergen, Corey. “Dr. Johnson’s Palliative Care: The Spiritual Economics of Dissipation in The Life of Savage.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 52, no. 4 (2019): 379–94.
1481. Gold, Joel J. “Literate Conversation, Scholarship, and ‘Clubbability’: High Spots and Low among Johnsonians of the Midwest.” Chronicle of Higher Education 34, no. 46 (July 27, 1988): 82–83.
1482. Gold, Joel J. “The Failure of Johnson’s Irene: Death by Antithesis.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 201–14. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
1483. Goldberg, Gerald. “Collector’s Corner: Boswell to His Brother.” Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 47–48.
1484. Goldberg, Gerald. “Sale of Johnsonian Books and Manuscripts.” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 2 (September 2004): 49–51.
1485. Goldberg, Gerald M. “A Private Collection of Johnson and His (Extended) Circle.” Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 19, no. 3 (September 2005): 19–26.
1486. Goldberg, Michael. “‘Demigods and Philistines’: Macaulay and Carlyle — A Study in Contrasts.” Studies in Scottish Literature 24 (1989): 116–28.
1487. Golden, Richard L. “Medicine & Numismatics: Samuel Johnson and the Golden Angel.” Numismatist 109, no. 4 (April 1, 1996): 411.
1488. Goldgar, Bertrand A. “Imitation and Plagiarism: The Lauder Affair and Its Critical Aftermath.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 34, no. 1 (March 2001): 1–16.
1489. Goldie, Mark. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Political Studies 43, no. 4 (December 1995): 777.
1490. Goldring, Elizabeth. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. New Rambler E:4 (2000): 91–93.
1491. Goldsborough, James O. “Summertime and a Chance to Visit One of the World’s Great Men of Letters.” San Diego Union-Tribune, July 8, 1999.
1492. Gomme, A. Review of The Encyclopaedic Dictionary in the Eighteenth Century: Architecture, Arts and Crafts vol. 4, Samuel Johnson: A Dictionary of the English Language, by Terence M. Russell. TLS, February 6, 1998, 10.
1493. Gondris, Joanna. “Of Poets and Critics [Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker, and Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken].” Johnsonian News Letter 51, no. 4 (March 1991): 4–7.
1494. Gong Yan (龚龑塞缪尔·约翰逊的道德关怀 /. (龚龑)塞缪尔·约翰逊的道德关怀 / Sai mou erYue han xun de dao de guan huai [Samuel Johnson’s Moral Concerns]. Beijing: 北京: 中国社会科学出版社, 2015.
1495. Goode, Stephen. “A Generous and Elevated Mind.” Insight on the News 16, no. 16 (May 1, 2000): 4.
      On quotations of Johnson in the new Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
1496. Goodin, Michelle Leona. “The Spectator and the Blind Man: Seeing and Not-Seeing in the Wake of Empiricism.” PhD thesis, New York University, 2009.
1497. Goodland, Giles. “Music amidst the Tumult.” In Words in Dictionaries and History, edited by Olga Timofeeva and Tanja Säily, 79–89. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.14.08goo.
1498. Goodman, Allegra S. “Virtuous Philosopher and Chameleon Poet: The Shakespeare of Samuel Johnson and John Keats.” PhD thesis, Stanford University, 1997.
1499. Goodwin, Stephen. “Dr. Johnson’s Gem in Peril.” The Independent, November 4, 1996.
      Newhailes House, praised by Johnson as “the most learned drawing-room in Europe,” threatened with destruction.
1500. Gopnik, Adam. “Man of Fetters: Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale.” New Yorker, December 8, 2008.
      A long review essay prompted by the Johnson biographies by Peter Martin and Jeffrey Meyers, with a glance at Ian McIntyre’s Hester. It develops into a wide-ranging essay on Johnson’s life and friendships.
1501. Gopnik, Adam. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. New Yorker, November 27, 2000.
1502. Gordon, Lyndall. “Conversations with Friends.” New York Times Book Review, April 7, 2019.
1503. Gordon, Scott Paul. “A Note on Reynolds’s ‘The Infant Johnson.’” Johnsonian News Letter 47, no. 3–4 (September 1988): 16.
1504. Gordon, Scott Paul. Review of Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson, by Fred Parker. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 16 (2005): 288–91.
1505. Gordon-Clark, Henry. “Johnson and Savage.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 2 (1997): 1–5.
1506. Gordon-Clark, Henry. “Was Johnson a Thief?: Plagiarism in the Account of the Life of Richard Savage.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 3 (1999): 59–67.
1507. Goring, Rosemary. “Great Broth of Words: Dr Johnson’s Dictionary Defined the World [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” The Herald (Glasgow), April 2, 2005.
1508. Gottlieb, Evan Michael. “Feeling British: Sympathy and the Literary Construction of National Identity, 1707–1832.” PhD Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2002.
      Abstract: “Feeling British: Sympathy and the Literary Construction of National Identity, 1707–1832,” explores how the discourse of sympathy functions in eighteenth-century and Romantic literature to encourage, but also to problematize, a sense of shared national identity in Britain. The Act of Union of 1707 officially joined England and Scotland, but government policy alone could not overcome centuries of feuding and ill-will between these nations. Accordingly, the literary public sphere became a vital arena for the promotion of a new national identity: Britishness. I locate the discursive origins of modern Britishness in Scotland, more specifically, in the Scottish Enlightenment’s theorization of sympathy, the mechanism by which feelings are naturally transferred between people. From these philosophical beginnings, I track how the discourse of sympathy is both deployed and interrogated by novelists and poets, predominantly but not exclusively Scottish, invested in shaping the nation’s sense of itself. My introduction sets out these issues through case studies of Daniel Defoe’s and James Boswell’s meditations on national identity. Chapter One, “‘That Propensity We Have’: Sympathy and the Scottish Invention of Britishness,” examines the political implications of the Scottish Enlightenment’s theorizations of sympathy. Chapter Two, “‘The Fools of Prejudice’: Tobias Smollett and the Novelization of National Identity,” traces the development of Smollett’s literary strategies for promoting Britishness via the discourse of sympathy. Chapter Three, “‘Harp of the North’: Romantic Poetry and the Sympathetic Uses of Scotland,” examines the relationship between Britishness and the Romantic turn to poetic appropriations of Scottish folk traditions. Chapter Four, “‘To be at Once Another and the Same’: Walter Scott, the Waverley Novels, and the End(s) of Sympathetic Britishness,” argues that Scott’s contemporary literary popularity hinged upon his ability to reassure readers from all parts of Britain that they shared a common national identity. My Postscript considers several Romantic-era prose writers whose work presages the ensuing decline of sympathy as an important mechanism for teaching English and Scottish readers to feel British together.
1509. Gottlieb, Evan. “Samuel Johnson and London.” In Home and Nation in British Literature from the English to the French Revolutions, edited by A. D. Cousins and Geoff Payne, 141–53. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
      Abstract: In a world of conflicting nationalist claims, mass displacements and asylum-seeking, a great many people are looking for ‘home’ or struggling to establish the “nation.” These were also important preoccupations between the English and the French revolutions: a period when Britain was first at war within itself, then achieved a confident if precarious equilibrium, and finally seemed to have come once more to the edge of overthrow. In the century and a half between revolution experienced and revolution observed, the impulse to identify or implicitly appropriate home and nation was elemental to British literature. This wide-ranging study by international scholars provides an innovative and thorough account of writings that vigorously contested notions and images of the nation and of private domestic space within it, tracing the larger patterns of debate, while at the same time exploring how particular writers situated themselves within it and gave it shape.
1510. Gould, E. H. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. Journal of Modern History 69, no. 4 (December 1997): 828–29.
1511. Gould, E. H. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Journal of Modern History 69, no. 4 (December 1997): 828–29.
1512. Gove, Philip B. “Notes on Serialization and Competitive Publishing: Johnson’s and Bailey’s Dictionaries, 1755.” In Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers, Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century, edited by Anne C. McDermott, 177–92. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.
1513. Graeber, Laurel. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. New York Times, May 26, 1996.
1514. Graham, Andrew Scott. “Johnson, Law and Literature.” MA thesis, Bucknell University, 2005.
1515. Graustein, Gottfried. “‘What Do You Read My Lord?’: Samuel Johnson Quoting Jonathan Swift.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 48, no. 2 (2000): 137–50.
1516. Gray, James. “‘A Native of the Rocks’: Johnson’s Handling of the Theme of Love.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 106–22. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
1517. Gray, James. “Arras/Hélas! A Fresh Look at Samuel Johnson’s French.” In Johnson after Two Hundred Years, edited by Paul J. Korshin, 79–96. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4628-6_31.
1518. Gray, James. “Auctor et Auctoritas: Dr. Johnson’s Views on the Authority of Authorship.” English Studies in Canada 12, no. 3 (September 1986): 269–84.
1519. Gray, James. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 7 (1996): 485–95.
1520. Gray, James. “Dr Johnson and the Theatre.” New Rambler D:4, no. 4 (1988): 37–38.
1521. Gray, James. “Home of the Athenian Blockheads: Guidebook Glimpses of Johnson’s Oxford.” New Rambler E:4 (2000): 74–83.
1522. Gray, James. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. Dalhousie Review 76, no. 1 (1996): 135–39.
1523. Gray, James. “Johnson, Cromwell, and the Jacobite Cause.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 90–153.
1524. Gray, James. “Johnson’s Portraits of Charles XII of Sweden.” In Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, edited by David Wheeler, 70–84. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
1525. Gray, James. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Modern Philology 89, no. 1 (August 1991): 127–31.
1526. Gray, James. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Dalhousie Review 71 (1991): 502–7.
1527. Gray, James. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neale Parke. Dalhousie Review 71 (1991): 502–7.
1528. Gray, James. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 461–72.
1529. Gray, James. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Dalhousie Review 71 (1991): 120–21.
1530. Gray, James. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays, by Isobel Grundy. Dalhousie Review 65, no. 2 (1985): 300–307.
1531. Gray, James. “Some Thoughts on the Eighteenth Century Response to Miracles.” New Rambler D:7, no. 7 (1991): 4–5.
1532. Gray, James. “‘The Athenian Blockheads’: New Light on Johnson’s Oxford.” New Rambler D:3, no. 3 (1987): 30–45.
1533. Gray, James. Review of The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson: Text, Translation, and Commentary, by Barry Baldwin. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 323–37.
1534. Gray, James. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Dalhousie Review 73 (1993): 113–16, 420–23.
1535. Gray, James. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Dalhousie Review 70 (1990): 260–63.
1536. Gray, James, and T. J. Murray. “Dr. Johnson and Dr. James.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 7 (1996): 213–45.
      On Johnson’s friendship with the famous medical doctor.
1537. Gray, Stephen. “Johnson’s Use of Some African Myths in Rasselas.” Standpunte 38, no. 2 (April 1985): 16–23.
1538. Green, Jonathon. “Samuel Johnson: The Pivotal Moment.” In Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made, 251–83. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.
1539. Green, Jonathon. “The Higher Plagiarism.” Critical Quarterly 44, no. 1 (2002): 97–102.
1540. Green, Julien. Suite anglaise. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1988.
1541. Green, Karen. “Influences from the Scottish Enlightenment: St James’s Place, 1760–66.” In Catharine Macaulay’s Republican Enlightenment, 29–63. London: Routledge, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429342530-3.
      Abstract: This chapter deals with her marriage to George Macaulay, his connections with elements in the Scottish Enlightenment, and the political situation in Great Britain immediately after the accession of George III, during which period the first three volumes of the history were written. This chapter provides an account of the content of those volumes, her exchanges with David Hume and Samuel Johnson, and the contemporary reception of her work more broadly. This chapter deals with Catharine Macaulay’s marriage to George Macaulay, his connections with elements in the Scottish Enlightenment, and the political situation in Great Britain immediately after the accession of George III, during which period the first three volumes of the history were written. It provides an account of content of those volumes, her exchanges with David Hume and Samuel Johnson, and the contemporary reception of her work more broadly. The marriage of George and Catharine would, presumably, have been equally approved of by Austen, had it not been before her time, being likewise based on friendship and mutual respect. Catharine was fortunate to find a husband who had developed rather different ideas of women’s appropriate activities to those that were then still predominant, and he has been called ‘a feminist’ by his biographers. His sympathy for his wife’s determination to become an historian is evident in fact that he showed no opposition to her publishing under her own name.
1542. Green, Mary Elizabeth. “Defoe and Johnson in Scotland.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 20 (1990): 303–15. https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2010.0063.
1543. Greene, Brian. “A Dictionary of the English Language on DVD-ROM.” Library Journal, July 15, 2005, 124.
1544. Greene, Donald. “Johnson: The Jacobite Legend Exhumed: A Rejoinder to Howard Erskine-Hill and J. C. D. Clark.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 7 (1996): 57–136.
      Greene’s feisty reply to Clark and Erskine-Hill’s suggestion that Johnson was a Jacobite.
1545. Greene, Donald. “The Double Tradition of Samuel Johnson’s Politics [Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon, and Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark].” Huntington Library Quarterly 59, no. 1 (1996): 105–23.
      Abstract: Cannon deserves congratulation for having consulted, among works in the latter category that throw important light on Johnson’s political and social thinking, the introduction to the report of the committee charged with providing charitable assistance to French prisoners of war interned in Great Britain (which the International Red Cross published in French translation two centuries later as anticipating the humanitarian work of Henri Dunant); the little essay on “The Bravery of the Common English Soldiers” (both the essay and the report appeared in 1760 in the midst of the Seven Years’ War); the splendid commentaries on the origins of that war, in which Johnson fiercely condemned both belligerents, Britain and France (and was fired from the editorship of his journal for his lack of patriotism); and the “State of Affairs in Lilliput,” the introduction to Johnson’s reports of the parliamentary debates in the early 1740s. There was much in the existing order that Johnson found indefensible-slavery, imperialistic aggression and expansionism, European oppression of indigenous peoples, government censorship of the press and the stage, capital punishment, imprisonment for debt, the economic and social bases of prostitution, parental tyranny over children, even High Toryism like that of Tom Tempest in Idler No. 10, who thought “King William burned Whitehall that he might steal the furniture and that Tillotson died an atheist.” . . .]a good deal is known about what he was doing in 1745–46 — writing proposals for an abortive edition of Shakespeare, and then doing the preliminary work for his great Dictionary. . . .]there is the wonderful tale of how Samuel, “not quite three years old,” insisted on being taken to hear a harangue by the High Tory propagandist Henry Sacheverell, for “he had caught the public spirit and zeal for Sacheverel.”
1546. Greene, Donald J. “‘A Secret Far Dearer to Him than His Life’: Johnson’s ‘Vile Melancholy’ Reconsidered.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 4 (1991): 1–40.
      Greene, reviewing the evidence offered by Katherine C. Balderston in “Johnson’s Vile Melancholy” (1949), argues that the “mysterious letter M” in Johnson’s diaries alludes to masturbation.
1547. Greene, Donald J. “‘A Secret Far Dearer to Him than His Life’: Johnson’s ‘Vile Melancholy’ Reconsidered.” In The Selected Essays of Donald Greene, edited by John L. Abbott, 1–40. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2004.
1548. Greene, Donald J. “‘Beyond Probability’: A Boswellian Act of Faith.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 47–80.
1549. Greene, Donald J. “Catholicism in Johnson’s Lobo.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1994, 12–18.
1550. Greene, Donald J. “Dr Johnson’s Charity.” TLS, May 2, 1997, 17.
1551. Greene, Donald J. “Housman and Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 48, no. 3–49, 2 (June 1988): 24–26.
1552. Greene, Donald J. “Johnson on Columbus.” Johnsonian News Letter 52, no. 2–53, 2 (June 1992): 23–25.
1553. Greene, Donald J. “Johnson: The Jacobite Legend Exhumed: A Rejoinder to Howard Erskine-Hill and J. C. D. Clark.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 7 (1996): 57–135.
1554. Greene, Donald J. “Johnsonian Punctuation.” Johnsonian News Letter 47, no. 3–4 (September 1988): 7–9.
      On the punctuation of the letter to Chesterfield.
1555. Greene, Donald J. “Johnson’s Doctorate.” TLS, September 14, 1990, 974.
1556. Greene, Donald J. “Johnson’s ‘Saintdom’: A Note.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1992, 43–44.
1557. Greene, Donald J. “Jonathan Clark and the Abominable Cultural Mind-Set.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 71–88.
      Further arguments against the thesis that Johnson was sympathetic to Jacobitism.
1558. Greene, Donald J. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 17 (1991): 338–39.
1559. Greene, Donald J. “Progress towards Where? Conservation of What?” New Rambler D:9, no. 9 (1993): 88–102.
      Response to Nagashima, “Progressive or Conservative? Two Trends in Johnson Studies.”
1560. Greene, Donald J. “Samuel Johnson.” In The Craft of Literary Biography, edited by Jeffrey Meyers, 9–32. New York: Schocken Books, 1985.
1561. Greene, Donald J. Samuel Johnson. Updated ed. Boston: Twayne, 1989.
1562. Greene, Donald J. “Samuel Johnson.” In British Prose Writers, 1660–1800, Second Series, edited by Donald J. T. Siebert, 181–216. Thomson Gale, 1991.
1563. Greene, Donald J. “Samuel Johnson.” TLS, August 23, 1991, 13.
      Abstract: On the authenticity of Johnson’s “Opera: an Exotick and Irrational Entertainment.”
1564. Greene, Donald J. “Samuel Johnson and Jacobitism.” TLS, October 13, 1995, 19.
1565. Greene, Donald J. “Samuel Johnson, Psychobiographer: The Life of Richard Savage.” In The Biographer’s Art: New Essays, edited by Jeffrey Meyers, 11–30. London: Macmillan, 1987.
1566. Greene, Donald J. “Samuel Johnson’s ‘Body Language’: A New Perspective.” In Enlightened Groves: Essays in Honour of Professor Zenzo Suzuki, edited by Eiichi Hara, Hiroshi Ozawa, and Peter Robinson, 240–62. Tokyo: Shohakusha, 1996.
1567. Greene, Donald J. “The Logia of Samuel Johnson and the Quest for the Historical Johnson.” In The Selected Essays of Donald Greene, edited by John L. Abbott, 1–33. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1990.
1568. Greene, Donald J. “The Logia of Samuel Johnson and the Quest for the Historical Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 1–33.
1569. Greene, Donald J. “The Myth of Johnson’s Misogyny: Some Addenda.” South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 9, no. 4 (December 1992): 6–17. https://doi.org/10.2307/3189477.
1570. Greene, Donald J. The Politics of Samuel Johnson. 2nd ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990.
      Abstract: First published in 1960, The Politics of Samuel Johnson remains one of the most significant studies of Johnson ever written. Contrary to virtually all preceding studies of Johnson’s life, politics, and art, Donald Greene declared that the popular image of Johnson — one that even pervaded academic circles—was a caricature, an amalgam of misconceptions, inaccuracies, and sometimes deliberate untruths drawn from the works of his well-intentioned friend Boswell and his detractor Macaulay. In the Introduction to the second edition, Greene reasserts — in light of three decades of Johnsonian scholarship — his attack on the stereotyping of Johnson as a bigoted, party-line Tory and a crypto-Jacobite. Utilizing new material such as Thomas Curley’s edition of the Chambers/Johnson Vinerian law lectures and the sale catalogue to Johnson’s library to support his argument, Greene also warns that Johnson is still misquoted and misunderstood in situations from classroom lectures to discussions of Britain’s role in the 1982 Falklands War.
      Reviews:
      • Boag, Alistair. Review of The Politics of Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. TLS, August 24, 1990, 905.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of The Politics of Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. Notes and Queries 38 [236], no. 4 (December 1991): 545–46.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of The Politics of Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. Johnsonian News Letter 49, no. 3 (September 1989): 21–22.
      • O’Flaherty, Patrick. “Samuel Johnson’s Politics: Some Points of Disagreement [Review of The Politics of Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene].” Dalhousie Review 72, no. 3 (September 1992): 382–98.
      • Scherwatzky, Steven D. “Review Essay: Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Politics [Review of The Politics of Samuel Johnson, 2nd Ed., by Donald J. Greene; Jacobitism and the English People, 1688–1788, by Paul Kléber Monod; Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism: Political Ideology in Late Eighteenth-Century England and America, by Isaac Kramnick; and Politics in the Age of Fox, Pitt and Liverpool: Continuity and Transformation, by John W. Derry].” Edited by John W. Derry. Politics in the Age of Fox 15, no. 3 (November 1991): 113–24.
      • Ziegler, Robert. “Recent Books on Johnson and Boswell [Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of ‘The Life of Johnson,’ by Greg Clingham; The Politics of Samuel Johnson, 2nd Ed., by Donald Greene; Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan; A Dr. Johnson Chronology, by Norman Page; Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker; The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick; The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford; and Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire].” Papers on Language and Literature 28, no. 4 (September 1992): 457–75.
1571. Greene, Donald J. The Selected Essays of Donald Greene. Edited by John Lawrence Abbott. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2004.
      Abstract: Donald Greene suggested that the eighteenth century should be seen as “The Age of Exuberance.” It was an era unmatched, he argued, for intellectual ferment and literary accomplishment of the highest order. In his numerous books and in an essay canon that has few scholarly parallels in the postwar period, Greene helped recenter not only the age as a whole but also its principal writer, Samuel Johnson. He did so with a consistent scholarly commitment: one must reexamine intellectual and literary documents always in reference to the milieu and the values of the world in which they were reproduced; one must take no critical judgment, however imposing its author’s reputation, on faith. Not only did Greene help redefine “The Age of Exuberance” and Samuel Johnson as few scholars of the post-World War II era, he also demonstrated that his scholarly methodology could illuminate such literary figures as Jane Austen, a near chronological neighbor, and equally a more distant one Evelyn Waugh. The essays included here provide a sample of a far larger canon that might fairly be characterized as F. R. Leavis did of Johnson’s critical commentary “alive and life-giving.”
      Reviews:
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of The Selected Essays of Donald Greene, by Donald J. Greene. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 465–69.
      • Review of The Selected Essays of Donald Greene, by Donald J. Greene. Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 2 (September 2009): 56–59.
1572. Greene, Donald J. “The World’s Worst Biography.” The American Scholar 62, no. 3 (June 1993): 365–82.
1573. Greene, Donald J. “Was Dr Johnson Really a Jacobite?” TLS, August 18, 1995, 13–14.
1574. Greene, Donald J., and John A. Vance. A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1970–1985. Victoria, B.C.: English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1987. Reviews:
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1970–1985, by Donald J. Greene and John A. Vance. New Rambler D:2, no. 2 (1986): 25–27.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1970–1985, by Donald J. Greene and John A. Vance. Johnsonian News Letter 47, no. 3–4 (September 1988): 1.
1575. Greene, Donald J., and John A. Vance. Chief Glories: The Life of Samuel Johnson. Audio disk. Research Triangle Park: National Humanities Center, 1985.
      Interviews with Greene and Vance.
1576. Greenfield, Sayre N. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. East-Central Intelligencer 3 (September 2003): 50–52.
1577. Greentree, Shane. “Mrs. Macaulay’s Footman: The Life and Afterlife of an Anecdote.” CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 44, no. 3 (2015): 317–39.
1578. Griffin, Dustin. “Authorship.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 118–26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
1579. Griffin, Dustin. “Johnson’s Lives of the Poets and the Patronage System.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 1–33.
1580. Griffin, Dustin. “Regulated Loyalty: Jacobitism and Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.” ELH: English Literary History 64, no. 4 (December 1997): 1007–27. https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.1997.0033.
1581. Griffin, Dustin. “Samuel Johnson.” In Literary Patronage in England, 1650–1800, 220–45, 1996.
1582. Griffin, J. R. Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. Choice 38, no. 3 (November 2000): 1432.
1583. Griffin, J. R. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. Choice 30, no. 3 (November 1992): 464.
1584. Griffin, Julian. “Out of Johnson’s Shadow: James Boswell as Travel Writer.” PhD thesis, Open University, 2017.
      Abstract: James Boswell has generally been regarded as a key figure in the evolution of the biography via his work on Samuel Johnson. Ranging over his public, published writing, his private-public unpublished journal writing (read by his friend John Johnston), and his private-private unpublished writing (his personal journals) this thesis sets out to address how he should also be seen as a travelogue writer of note. The most important contention is that the rise of Boswell as a travel writer is key to understanding his prowess as an auto/biographical writer — with the topography of the man-monument central. The principal aim is to stress that he was ‘Corsica Boswell’ long before he was ‘Johnson Boswell’.
1585. Griffin, Robert J. “Reflection as Criterion in The Lives of the Poets.” In Dr. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, edited by Harold Bloom, 239–62. Modern Critical Views: New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
1586. Griffin, Robert J. “The Age of ‘The Age of’ Is Over: Johnson and New Versions of the Late Eighteenth Century.” Modern Language Quarterly 62, no. 4 (December 2001): 377–91.
1587. Griffin, Robert John. “Samuel Johnson and the Act of Reflection,” 1986.
1588. Griffith, Philip Mahone. “Boswell’s Johnson and the Stephens (Leslie Stephen and Virginia Woolf).” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1993): 151–64.
      A survey of Stephen’s and Woolf’s interest in Johnson.
1589. Griffith, Philip Mahone. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 453–55.
1590. Griffith, Philip Mahone. “Samuel Johnson and King Charles the Martyr: Veneration in the Dictionary.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 235–61.
1591. Griffiths, Eric. Review of Dr Johnson’s London, by Liza Picard. Evening Standard, July 17, 2000.
1592. Grimes, Brian D. “An Afterlife of Rasselas.” Johnsonian News Letter 76, no. 1 (March 2025): 59–64.
1593. Grimes, Brian K. “The Answer Is In!” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 2 (September 2022): 22–39.
1594. Grimes, Brian K. “Are We There yet? 70 Years of Identifying Self-Quotations in Johnson’s 1755 and 1773 Dictionaries.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 2 (September 2018): 47–50.
1595. Grimes, Brian K. “An Exercise in Making Matter Matter: Samuel Johnson Dictionary Sources.” Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 37, no. 1 (March 2023): 13–19.
1596. Grimes, Brian K. “A Footnote to a Footnote in Yale, XVIII — J. J. Scaliger’s ‘Tears of the Lexicographer’ Poem.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 2 (September 2017): 54–57.
1597. Grimes, Brian D. “Johnson and John Quincy Adams.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 43–47.
1598. Grimes, Brian D. “Johnsoniana: Nel Gusto Del Doctor Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 1 (March 2016): 22–23.
1599. Grimes, William. “Making a World of Sense, the Long and the Short of It [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” New York Times, November 12, 2005.
1600. Groom, Nick. “Obsessions of a Drunken Philanderer [Review of All the Sweets of Being: A Life of James Boswell by Roger Hutchison].” Financial Times, August 5, 1995.
1601. Groom, Nick. “Percy and Johnson.” New Rambler E:4 (2000): 39–48.
1602. Groom, Nick. “Samuel Johnson and Truth: A Response to Curley.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 197–201.
      Groom responds to Curley’s “Samuel Johnson and Truth,” suggesting that Curley’s evidence is familiar, and that notions of “forgery” have to be reconsidered.
1603. Groom, Nick. “William Seward’s Annotations to George Gregory’s Life of Thomas Chatterton (1789).” John Clare Society Journal 34 (2015): 7–15.
1604. Gross, Gloria Sybil. “‘A Child Is Being Beaten’: Suggestions toward a Psychoanalytical Reading of Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 181–218.
1605. Gross, Gloria Sybil. “In a Fast Coach with a Pretty Woman: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 199–253.
      A survey of Johnson’s influence on Jane Austen, developed into a book-length work with the same title.
1606. Gross, Gloria Sybil. In a Fast Coach with a Pretty Woman: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson. New York: AMS Press, 2002.
      The most thorough survey of Johnson’s influence on Jane Austen.
      Reviews:
      • Loe, T. Review of In a Fast Coach with a Pretty Woman: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson, by Gloria Sybil Gross. Choice 40, no. 4 (December 2002): 2022.
      • Moody, Ellen. Review of In a Fast Coach with a Pretty Woman: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson, by Gloria Sybil Gross. East-Central Intelligencer 3 (September 2004): 30–32.
      • Wilson, Carol Shiner. Review of In a Fast Coach with a Pretty Woman: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson, by Gloria Sybil Gross. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 388–93.
1607. Gross, Gloria Sybil. “Johnson and the Uses of Enchantment.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 299–311. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
1608. Gross, Gloria Sybil. “Mentoring Jane Austen: Reflections on ‘My Dear Dr. Johnson.’” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 11 (December 16, 1989): 53–60.
1609. Gross, Gloria Sybil. “Reading Johnson Pyschoanalytically.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 49–55. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
1610. Gross, Gloria Sybil. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 439–44.
1611. Gross, Gloria Sybil. This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
      Abstract: Gross contends that Samuel Johnson was a pioneer in the development of modern psychological thought, challenging the timeworn, stilted typecasting of Samuel Johnson as the pious Christian moralist. Instead, she argues that Johnson was a daring, at times irreverent, explorer of human nature, who strenuously rejected old relics of sanctimony and repressive authority. To make her case, Gross draws on a wide range of materials from Johnson’s life and works, as well as from eighteenth-century medical psychology. Throughout, she is scrupulous in analyzing Johnson’s psychological thought within the cultural idiom that would have been available to him. At the same time, she employs a classical psychoanalytic approach, that seeks to establish a coherent relationship among Johnson’s life, his fantasies, and his creative work. This reading of Johnson reveals the radical direction of his investigations of mental experience, which put him in clear prospect of the basic premises underlying Freudian psychoanalysis. Gross argues that these premises — the principle of psychological determinism, the view of the mind as dictated by forces in conflict, the concept of the dynamic unconscious, and the submerged power of desire in all human activity — pervade Johnson’s writings. Gross demonstrates not only that Johnson can profitably be read in psychoanalytic terms, but that Johnson is a psychological theorist of primary importance. This original and insightful work will be of interest to students and scholars of English literature, eighteenth-century studies, and literature and psychology.
      Reviews:
      • Brack, O M, Jr. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (1995): 169–74.
      • Brooks, G. P. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. Isis 85, no. 2 (June 1994): 339–40.
      • Griffin, J. R. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. Choice 30, no. 3 (November 1992): 464.
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. Eighteenth-Century Studies 27, no. 1 (1993): 174–75.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. Notes and Queries 43 [241], no. 2 (June 1996): 225.
      • McDermott, Anne. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 17, no. 2 (1994): 219–20.
      • Parke, Catherine N. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1994): 391–93.
      • Weinsheimer, Joel. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. JEGP 92, no. 4 (1993): 556–58.
1612. Gross, John. “Our Lady Is Still Abseiling Theatre [Review of ‘Johnson in Love,’ by Charles Thomas].” Sunday Telegraph, January 7, 2001.
1613. Gross, John. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Sunday Telegraph, March 13, 1994.
1614. Groves, Paul. “Discovering Dictionary Delights the Johnson Way [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Birmingham Post, April 9, 2005.
1615. Grundy, Isobel. Review of A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1970–1985, by Donald J. Greene and John A. Vance. New Rambler D:2, no. 2 (1986): 25–27.
1616. Grundy, Isobel. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. New Rambler E:3 (1999): 49–50.
1617. Grundy, Isobel. “A Note on Johnson’s Charles, Shakespeare’s Caesar.” New Rambler D:8, no. 8 (1992): 51.
1618. Grundy, Isobel. Review of A Preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books Associated with Dr. Samuel Johnson, by J. D. Fleeman. New Rambler C:25 (1984): 48–49.
1619. Grundy, Isobel. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 10 (1987): 103–5.
1620. Grundy, Isobel. “Celebrare Domestica Facta: Johnson and Home Life.” New Rambler D:6, no. 6 (1990): 6–14.
1621. Grundy, Isobel. Review of Dr. Johnson’s Household, by Lyle Larsen. Notes and Queries 34 [232], no. 4 (1987): 547–48.
1622. Grundy, Isobel. “Early Women Reading Johnson.” In Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, edited by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood, 207–24. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
1623. Grundy, Isobel. Review of James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795, by Frank Brady. Modern Language Review 81, no. 2 (1986): 453–55. https://doi.org/10.2307/3729730.
1624. Grundy, Isobel. Review of Johnson and His Age, by James Engell. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 10 (1987): 103–5.
1625. Grundy, Isobel. Review of Johnson, “Rasselas,” and the Choice of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 3, no. 4 (1991): 377–79.
1626. Grundy, Isobel. “Johnson’s Bookman.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 393–404.
1627. Grundy, Isobel. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Yearbook of English Studies 18 (1988): 324–26.
1628. Grundy, Isobel. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 10 (1987): 103–5.
1629. Grundy, Isobel. “‘Over Him We Hang Vibrating’: Uncertainty in the Life of Johnson.” In Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, edited by Irma S. Lustig, 184–202. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
1630. Grundy, Isobel. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 455–61.
1631. Grundy, Isobel. “Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660–1780).” In An Outline of English Literature, edited by Pat Rogers, 200–249. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
1632. Grundy, Isobel. Review of Samuel Johnson: An Analysis, by Charles H. Hinnant. New Rambler D:4, no. 4 (1988): 62–63.
1633. Grundy, Isobel. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. Eighteenth-Century Studies 23 (Winter 1988): 238–39.
1634. Grundy, Isobel. Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. Reviews:
      • Alkon, Paul K. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 1 (1987): 437–42.
      • Boulton, James T. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. Notes and Queries 35 [233], no. 1 (1988): 97–98.
      • Burke, John J., Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. South Atlantic Review 53, no. 1 (January 1988): 128–30.
      • Clingham, Greg. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. Review of English Studies 38 (1987): 394–96.
      • Damrosch, Leopold. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. Modern Language Review 83, no. 4 (1988): 962–64.
      • Lipking, Lawrence. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. Eighteenth-Century Studies 21 (1987): 109–13.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. Johnsonian News Letter 46–47 (June 1986): 2–3.
      • Nokes, David. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. Times Higher Education, no. 713 (1986): 19.
      • Payne, Laura. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 51, no. 1 (1988): 142–46.
      • Trickett, Rachel. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. New Rambler D:2, no. 2 (1986): 24–25.
1635. Grundy, Isobel. “Samuel Johnson as Patron of Women.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 1 (1987): 59–77.
1636. Grundy, Isobel. “Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism.” The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 20 (2001): 503–5.
1637. Grundy, Isobel, ed. Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays. Toronto: Barnes & Noble, 1984. Reviews:
      • Gray, James. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays, by Isobel Grundy. Dalhousie Review 65, no. 2 (1985): 300–307.
      • Leicester, J. H. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays, by Isobel Grundy. New Rambler C:25 (1984): 55–57.
      • Lipking, Lawrence. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays, by Isobel Grundy. Eighteenth-Century Studies 21 (1987): 109–13.
      • Pailler, Albert. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays, by Isobel Grundy. Études Anglaises 39, no. 2 (April 1986): 217–18.
      • Vance, John A. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays, by Isobel Grundy. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 492–98.
      • Wheeler, David. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays, by Isobel Grundy. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 9, no. 2 (1986): 254–56.
      • Woods, Samuel H., Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays, by Isobel Grundy. Yearbook of English Studies 18 (1988): 326–27.
1638. Grundy, Isobel. “Swift and Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 154–80.
1639. Grundy, Isobel. Review of “The Fictions of Romantick Chivalry”: Samuel Johnson and Romance, by Eithne Henson. New Rambler D:8 (1992): 48–51.
1640. Grundy, Isobel. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Eighteenth-Century Studies 27 (1993): 170–74.
1641. Grundy, Isobel. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 415–20.
1642. Grundy, Isobel. Review of The Oxford Authors: Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. New Rambler C:25 (1985): 39–40.
1643. Grundy, Isobel. “The Stability of Truth.” New Rambler C:25, no. 25 (1984): 35–44.
1644. Grundy, Isobel. “The Techniques of Spontaneity: Johnson’s Developing Epistolary Style.” In Johnson after Two Hundred Years, edited by Paul J. Korshin, 211–24. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-644360-8.50013-3.
1645. Grundy, Isobel. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. Eighteenth-Century Studies 27, no. 1 (1993): 174–75.
1646. Grundy, Isobel. “‘This Is Worse than Swift!’: Johnson as Speaker of the Unacceptable.” Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 1 (March 2007): 6–17.
      Grundy’s address to the Johnsonians in Sept. 2006, on his fondness for raising shocking or uncomfortable topics in conversation.
1647. Grundy, Isobel. “What Is It About Johnson?” In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, 168–80. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0014.
1648. Grundy, Isobel. “Women.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 408–24. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: Johnson’s views of women have been much contested. In throwaway remarks recorded by Boswell he sounds misogynist, but his actions and his writings argue the contrary. He seldom forgot that half the human race is female: he mentored younger and beginning writers and invented moral examples without regard to gender except for recognizing and trying to enter into the particular dilemma of belonging to the second sex.
1649. Gruner, Peter. “Flocking to the Shrine of Dr Johnson, the Great Debunker.” Evening Standard, November 20, 1992.
1650. Guardian. Review of Boswell’s Enlightenment, by Robert Zaretsky. June 15, 2015.
1651. Guardian. “Johnson’s Brexit Dictionary by Harry Eyres and George Myerson Review — a Satirical A to Z; What Would the Great Lexicographer Samuel Johnson Have Made of Britain’s ‘deep and Special Partnership’ with the EU? A Squib of a Lexicon Offers the Answer.” 2018.
1652. Guasp, Joan. “Diario de un viaje a las Hébridas con Samuel Johnson.” El Ciervo 66, no. 762 (2017): 47.
1653. Guerra, Lia. “Biografi, metabiografi, pettegolezzi ‘di genere.’” Il Confronto Letterario: Quaderni di Letterature Straniere Moderne e Comparate dell’Università di Pavia 20, no. 40 (2003): 223–37.
1654. Guerra, Lia. “Unexpected Symmetries: Samuel Johnson and Mary Wollstonecraft on the Northern Road.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 18, no. 1 (2005): 93–106.
1655. Guilhamet, Leon. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 421–25.
1656. Guillory, John. “The English Common Place: Lineages of the Topographical Genre.” Critical Quarterly 33, no. 4 (December 1991): 3–27. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8705.1991.tb00975.x.
      On Johnson and Denham’s Coopers Hill.
1657. Gulya, Jason John. “Johnson on Milton’s Allegorical Persons: Understanding Eighteenth-Century Attitudes toward Allegory.” Literary Imagination 18, no. 1 (2016): 1–16.
1658. Gunn, Daniel P. “The Lexicographer’s Task: Language, Reason, and Idealism in Johnson’s Dictionary Preface.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 11 (2000): 105–24.
1659. Gunzenhauser, Bonnie J. “Re-Viewing Romantic Writers and Readers: Using Samuel Johnson to Contextualize Romantic Ideology.” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 2 (September 2004): 15–18.
1660. Guthrie, John T. “Research: An Uncloistered Curriculum.” Journal of Reading 24, no. 2 (1980): 188–89.
      On using Boswell’s Life in the reading classroom.
1661. Hackney, Jeffrey. Review of A Course of Lectures on the English Law: Delivered at the University of Oxford 1767–1773, by Thomas M. Curley. Review of English Studies 39 (November 1988): 561–62.
1662. Haddon, John. “Language Notes.” The Use of English 62, no. 3 (June 2011): 228–37.
1663. Hagerup, Henning. “King Sam: Om Samuel Johnson som kritiker.” Vagant 2 (2000): 35–44.
1664. Haggerty, George E. “Boswell’s Symptoms: The Hypochondriack in and out of Context.” In James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, edited by Donald J. Newman, 111–26. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
1665. Hagstrum, Jean H. “Samuel Johnson among the Deconstructionists.” Georgia Review 39, no. 3 (1985): 537–47.
1666. Hagstrum, Jean H. “Samuel Johnson among the Deconstructionists.” In Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, edited by Nalini Jain, 112–24. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991.
1667. Hagstrum, Jean Howard. “The Sermons of Samuel Johnson.” PhD thesis, Yale University, 1992.
1668. Hailey, R. Carter. “Hidden Quarto Editions of Johnson’s Dictionary.” In Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott, 228–39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
1669. Hailey, R. Carter. “‘This Instance Will Not Do’: George Steevens, Shakespeare, and the Revision(s) of Johnson’s Dictionary.” Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 54 (2001): 243–64.
1670. Hain, Bonnie, and Carole McAllister. “James Boswell’s Ms. Perceptions and Samuel Johnson’s Ms. Placed Friends.” South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 9, no. 4 (December 1992): 59–70. https://doi.org/10.2307/3189481.
1671. Halewood, William H. “The Majesty of The Vanity of Human Wishes.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 256–68. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
1672. Halkyard, Stella. “Pictures from the Rylands Library: Samuel Johnson, Francis Barber and the Power of Condolence.” PN Review 48, no. 2 (November 2021): 81.
1673. Hall, Dennis. “On Idleness: Dr. Johnson on Millennial Malaise.” Kentucky Philological Review 15 (2001): 28–32.
1674. Hall, Dennis R. “Signs of Life in the Eighteenth-Century: Dr. Johnson and the Invention of Popular Culture.” Kentucky Philological Review 19 (2005): 12–16.
1675. Hall, M. L. Review of Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. Philosophy and Literature 17, no. 1 (April 1993): 130–32.
1676. Hallen, Cynthia L., and Tracy B. Spackman. “Biblical Citations as a Stylistic Standard in Johnson’s and Webster’s Dictionaries.” Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology 5 (2010).
1677. Hallowell, Edward M. M.D. “The Example of Samuel Johnson.” In Worry: Controlling It and Using It Wisely, 216–35. New York: Pantheon Books, 1997.
1678. Hamilton, Alan. “Dr Johnson’s City of Philosophers Still Satisfies the Inquisitive Walker.” The Times, August 5, 1995.
1679. Hamilton, Ian. Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography. Pimlico, 1994.
1680. Hamilton, Patricia. “‘The Only Excellence of Falsehood’: Rethinking Samuel Johnson’s Role in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote.” Eighteenth-Century Novel 9 (2012): 75–108.
1681. Hammond, Brean. “London and Poetry to 1750.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London, edited by Lawrence Manley, 67–84. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521897525.005.
1682. Hammons, Deborah. “How Spelling Came to Be.” Christian Science Monitor, May 26, 1998.
1683. Hancher, Michael. “Bailey and After: Illustrating Meaning.” Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 8, no. 1 (1992): 1–20.
1684. Hand, Sally N. “The ‘Finest Bit of Blue’: Samuel Johnson and the Bluestocking Assemblies.” New Rambler D:8, no. 8 (1992): 6–18.
1685. Hanks, Patrick. “Johnson and Modern Lexicography.” International Journal of Lexicography 18, no. 2 (June 2005): 243–66. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/eci024.
1686. Hanley, Brian. “An Examination of Samuel Johnson’s Book Reviews, 1742–1764.” MLitt thesis, University of Oxford, 1998.
1687. Hanley, Brian. “Colonel Gimbel and the Literary Anvil; or, Why Dr Johnson’s Letters Belong to the U.S. Airforce Academy’s Aeronautical Collection.” New Rambler D:9, no. 9 (1993): 83–87.
1688. Hanley, Brian. “Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, and the Reception of Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote in the Popular Press.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 13, no. 3 (June 2000): 27–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/08957690009598110.
1689. Hanley, Brian. “Johnson’s Contemporary Reputation.” New Rambler D:11, no. 11 (1995): 56–62.
1690. Hanley, Brian. “Modernity’s ‘Mr. Rambler’: Tobias Wolff’s Exploration of Vanity and Self-Deception in The Night in Question.” Papers on Language and Literature 39, no. 2 (March 2003): 144–61.
1691. Hanley, Brian. Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer: A Duty to Examine the Labors of the Learned. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001. Reviews:
      • Forster, Antonia. Review of Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer: A Duty to Examine the Labors of the Learned, by Brian Hanley. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 413–15.
      • Hanley, Brian. Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer: A Duty to Examine the Labors of the Learned. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001.
      • Nicholls, Graham. Review of Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer: A Duty to Examine the Labors of the Learned, by Brian Hanley. New Rambler E:5 (2001): 69–70.
1692. Hanley, Brian. Review of “Steel for the Mind”: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant. New Rambler D:10, no. 10 (1994): 70–71.
1693. Hanley, Brian. “The Prevailing Moral Tone of Johnson’s Military Commentary.” New Rambler D:12, no. 12 (1996): 39–45.
1694. Hanley, Brian Joseph. “Samuel Johnson’s Military Writings.” MA thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992.
1695. Hanley, Ryan. Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock. Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 54–57.
1696. Hanlon, Aaron R. “From Writing Lives to Scaling Lives in Joseph Priestley’s Chart of Biography.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 62, no. 3–4 (2021): 279–93.
      Abstract: Joseph Priestley is often credited with the invention of the timeline for representing past lives and events, mainly in the Chart of Biography (1765) and Chart of History (1769). These efforts place Priestley squarely within the history of data visualization. This article argues that we should also consider Priestley’s Chart of Biography as part of the history of biography or life writing, particularly because Priestley’s A Description of a Chart of Biography, a written account of the Chart ‘s purpose and methodology, accompanied the Chart itself. Toward that end, this article tracks the similarities between the epistemological and methodological aims of biographers such as Samuel Johnson and those of Priestley in his effort to represent lives “without the intervention of words,” as he put it. In so doing, this article also identifies Priestley’s contributions to the long history of the concept of data, from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century usages of the term to the formation of the modern “data subject,” the representation of a person as an aggregation of available data about them.
1697. Hapgood, Robert. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. TLS, August 25, 1989, 927–28.
1698. Harada, Noriyuki. “Dokushosuru keimōshugi.” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 148, no. 2 (May 2002): 74–77.
1699. Harada, Noriyuki. “Facts, Methods, and Literary Creativity in Samuel Johnson’s Life of Savage.” Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies 68 (2007): 75–98.
      On the theory and practice of Johnsonian biography, set in the context of the history of biographical writing. “Life of Savage leaves a memorable trace in the history of biography as well as in the progress of Johnson’s own literary achievement.” Describes Johnson’s techniques of research and his fondness for dichotomies. In a special issue on “Tradition and Transition: Literature and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain.”
1700. Harada, Noriyuki. “From Verse to Prose: Samuel Johnson’s Failure in Irene Reconsidered.” Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies 53 (2000): 39–64.
1701. Harada, Noriyuki. “Individuality in Johnson’s Shakespeare Criticism.” In Japanese Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, edited by Yoshiko Kawachi, 197–212. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998.
1702. Harada, Noriyuki. “Johnson, Biography, and Modern Japan.” In Johnson in Japan, edited by Kimiyo Ogawa, Mika Suzuki, and Greg Clingham, 27–40. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
1703. Harada, Noriyuki. “Jonson no jisho no tanoshimi.” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 152, no. 1 (April 2006): 28–29.
1704. Harada, Noriyuki. “Literature, London, and Lives of the English Poets.” In London and Literature, 1603–1901, edited by Barnaby Ralph, Angela Kikue Davenport, and Yui Nakatsuma, 65–77. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
1705. Harada, Noriyuki. “Regeneration from Vanity: Johnson’s Satiric Mode in The Vanity of Human Wishes.” Studies in English Literature (Tokyo) 73, no. 2 (1997): 265–78.
1706. Harada, Noriyuki. “Sakusha, dokusha, shuppansha: Samyueru Jonson no Raseras saiko̶ [Author, reader, publisher: rereading Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas].” In Jʉhasse̵ki igirisu bungaku kenkyʉ: bungaku to shakai no shoso̶ [Studies of eighteenth-century British literature: aspects of literature and society], 270–87. Tokyo: Kaitakusha, 2002.
1707. Harada, Noriyuki. “Shakespeare’s ‘Scenes of Enchantment’ and Johnson’s Criticism.” Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies 84 (2015): 77.
1708. Harada, Noriyuki. “Tanjun na hanashi (12): Jonson.” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 147, no. 12 (March 2002): 742.
1709. Harada, Noriyuki. “Why Was Helen Burns Reading Rasselas?: Jane Eyre and Searchers for Happiness from Samuel Johnson to Charlotte Brontë.” Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society 6, no. 6 (2020): 15–27. https://doi.org/10.57383/brontesocietyjapan.6.6_15.
1710. Hardie, William. “Portraits of Dr. Johnson in Their Georgian Context.” Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies 68 (2007): 99–116.
      On portraits of Johnson by Reynolds and Opie, with a discussion of contemporary portraits by other major artists. In a special issue on “Tradition and Transition: Literature and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Includes small black-and-white images.
1711. Hardiman, Edward. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 47, no. 3 (2024): 336–37.
1712. Hardy, John. “Johnson and the Truth, Revisited: The David Fleeman Memorial Lecture, 2002.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 7 (2005): 9–20.
1713. Hardy, John. “Line 361 of The Vanity of Human Wishes.” Notes and Queries 39 [237], no. 4 (December 1992): 480–81.
1714. Hardy, John. “Samuel Johnson.” In Dryden to Johnson, edited by Roger Lonsdale, 279–311. Bedrick, 1987.
1715. Hardy, John. “Samuel Johnson’s Literary Criticism.” Essays and Studies 39 (1986): 62–77.
1716. Harley, David. “Johnson and Neo-Hippocratic Medicine.” New Rambler D:12, no. 12 (1996): 32–39.
1717. Harman, Claire. Review of Fopdoodle and Salmagundi: Words and Meanings from Dr Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary” That Time Forgot, by Edward Allhusen. The Telegraph, October 4, 2007.
1718. Harmsworth, Thomas. “Tired of London? Then Read On.” History Today 53, no. 3 (March 2003): 62–63.
1719. Harp, Richard L., ed. Dr. Johnson’s Critical Vocabulary: A Selection from His “Dictionary.” Lanham: University Press of America, 1986.
      “The purpose of this book . . . is to put into general circulation those portions of the Dictionary that persons interested in literature and writing would find of greatest value.”
      Reviews:
      • Basney, Lionel. Review of Dr. Johnson’s Critical Vocabulary: A Selection from His “Dictionary,” by Richard L. Harp. Eighteenth-Century Studies 21 (1987): 113–17.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of Dr. Johnson’s Critical Vocabulary: A Selection from His “Dictionary,” by Richard L. Harp. Johnsonian News Letter 49, no. 3–50, 2 (June 1989): 22–23.
      • Rettig, James. Review of Dr. Johnson’s Critical Vocabulary: A Selection from His “Dictionary,” by Richard L. Harp. American Reference Books Annual 19 (1988): 1074.
1720. Harries, Richard. “Johnson and Unbelief.” New Rambler E:3 (1999): 11–21.
1721. Harries, Richard. “Sermon Preached in Lichfield Cathedral Sunday, 24th September, 1989.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1989, 16–18.
1722. Harriman-Smith, James. “Twin Stars: Shakespeare and the Idea of the Theatre in the Eighteenth Century.” PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 2016.
      Abstract: This thesis draws the line of a rise and a fall, an ironic pattern whereby the English stage of the long eighteenth century, in its relation to Shakespeare in particular, first acquired powerful influence, and then, through the very effects of that power, lost it. It also shows what contemporary literary criticism might learn from the activities that constitute this arc of evolution. My first chapter interrogates the relationship between text and performance in vernacular writings about acting and editing from the death of Betterton in 1710 to the rise of Garrick in the middle decades of the century. From the status of a distinct tradition, performance comes to rely on text as a basis for the intimate, personal engagement with Shakespeare believed necessary to the work of the sentimental actor. Such a reliance grants the performer new potential as a literary critic, but also prepares a fall. The performer becomes another kind of reader, and so is open to accusations of reading badly. My second chapter analyses the evolving definition of Shakespeare as a dramatic author from Samuel Johnson onwards. An untheatrical definition of the dramatic (Johnson’s) is answered by one which recognises the power and vitality of the stage, especially in its representation of sympathetic character (Montagu and Kenrick). Yet that very recognition leads to a set of altered critical priorities in which the theatre is, once more, relegated (Morgann and Richardson). My third and fourth chapters consider the practices and critical implications of theatrical performance of Shakespeare during Garrick’s career. I focus on the acting of emotion, the portrayal of what Aaron Hill called ‘the very Instant of the changing Passion’, and show that performance of this time, attentive to the striking moment and the transitions that power it, required from the actor both attention to the text and preternatural control over his own emotions. In return, it allowed Garrick and others to claim a special affinity with Shakespeare and to capture the public’s attention, both in the theatre and outside it. Yet this situation, that of ‘twin stars’, does not last. French and German responses to English acting, the concern of my last chapter, show its decline particularly well. They also, however, show the power that existed in such a union between page and stage, and equal weight is given in both my third and my fourth chapter to how the theatrical-literary insights of eighteenth-century critical culture might also illuminate modern approaches.
1723. Harriman-Smith, James. “What James Boswell Tells Us about 18th-Century Acting Theory.” Literature Compass 17, no. 10 (2020): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12600.
1724. Harris, Jocelyn. “Jane Austen, Samuel Johnson, and the Academy.” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 30 (2008): 27–37.
1725. Harris, Jocelyn. “Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, and the Dial-Plate.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 9, no. 2 (September 1986): 157–63. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.1986.tb00518.x.
1726. Harrison, Joseph. “Dr. Johnson Rolls down a Hill.” New Criterion 31, no. 9 (May 2013): 1–3.
      Abstract: Even a man of voluminous gravity, The monumental lexicographer Who labored in inconvenience and distraction, In sorrow, sickness, and slovenly poverty Unaided by the learned or the great, A man of girth and passionate appetite Who relished with dispatch and enormous zest Huge stacks of pancakes, bottomless pots of tea, Along with whatever conversational thrust Kept the mind nimble and the spirit light, Delaying the final, agonizing hour When he lumbered offto bed, always alone, To self-recrimination in pitch dark, Contains in his heart of hearts a little boy Who played and played all day, without a thought Of duty or expectation or penury Or wasted years diminishing all the time. Barely alive at birth, too weak to cry, Infected in infancy by tubercular milk, Rendered half blind, half deaf, with an open wound Stitched in his little arm for his first six years (An issue, with so much else, he learned to ignore), Scarred by the scrofula, and further scarred By being cut sans anesthesia, He wasn’t a pretty sight, but bore it all, The constant pain, the perpetual awkwardness, The fretting of parents, and the feckless taunts Of boys who could play ball and ridicule The rawboned, driveling prodigy in their midst, And grew to be a man of great physical strength Despite his pitiful incapacities. Against the objections of the company He divests himself of pencil, keys, and purse, Lies down at the edge, and, after a turn Or two, is offand tumbling and picking up speed Flattening the flora in his path While sending up puffs of chalk dust, now he’s chuckling As his weight propels him and his heaviness Precipitating his new view revolves As sky and earth wheel round in blue-brown circles And happiness is merely being alive, As if the good life really were this easy, As if the nightmare of his coming breakdown Had no more substance than a child’s bad dream.
1727. Harrow, Sharon. “Empire.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 182–90. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
1728. Hart, Jeffrey. “Samuel Johnson as Hero.” Modern Age 42, no. 2 (2000): 185–91.
1729. Hart, Jeffrey Peter. “Does the University Have a Future?” National Review, April 1, 1988.
      Imagined conversation between Samuel Johnson and William James.
1730. Hart, Kevin. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 416–20.
1731. Hart, Kevin. “Economic Acts: Johnson in Scotland.” Eighteenth-Century Life 16, no. 1 (February 1992): 94–110.
1732. Hart, Kevin. How to Read a Page of Boswell: The David Fleeman Memorial Lecture, 1999. Melbourne: Johnson Society of Australia, 2000. Reviews:
      • Lamb, Jonathan. Review of How to Read a Page of Boswell, by Kevin Hart. AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, no. 98 (November 2002): 127–29.
1733. Hart, Kevin. “Johnson as Monument.” Critical Review 34 (1994): 33–49.
1734. Hart, Kevin. Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
      Abstract: Hart traces the vast literary legacy and reputation of Samuel Johnson. Through detailed analyses of the biographers and critics who carefully crafted and preserved Johnson’s life for posterity, Hart explores the emergence of “The Age of Johnson.” Hart argues that James Boswell turned his friend into a monument, a piece of public property. Through subtle analyses of copyright, forgery and heritage in eighteenth-century life Kevin Hart demonstrates how Johnson came to occupy a place at the heart of the English literary canon.
      Reviews:
      • Berglund, Lisa. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. Albion 33, no. 2 (2001): 316.
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 437–43.
      • Lamb, Jonathan. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, no. 98 (November 2002): 127–29.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. Notes and Queries 47 [245], no. 4 (December 2000): 522–23.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. Choice 37, no. 10 (June 2000): 5522.
      • McKenzie, Alan T. “Making the Wisdom Figure [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking; Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo; Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt; Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart; and The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay].” Eighteenth-Century Studies 34, no. 3 (Spring 2001): 466–70.
      • Rounce, Adam. “Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 24, no. 2 (2001): 229–32.
      • Scanlan, John. “Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property.” JEGP 101, no. 2 (2002): 269–72.
      • Scherwatzky, Steven D. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 24, no. 2 (2001): 474–77.
      • Schmidgen, Wolfram. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. Romanticism 7, no. 2 (2001): 214–16.
      • Smallwood, Philip. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. New Rambler E:3 (1999): 50–52.
      • Turner, Katherine. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. Review of English Studies 204 (November 2000): 655–57.
      • Warner, William B. “Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 40 (2000): 572–73.
      • Wilcox, Lance E. “Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property.” The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 25 (2003): 446–47.
      • Wiltshire, John. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. English Language Notes 39, no. 3 (March 2002): 92–100.
1735. Hart, Kevin. “‘Words Fail Us’: Beckett, Leacock, Johnson.” Irish Studies Review 4 (November 2018): 510–30.
1736. Harvey, Philip. “The Effect of Judgement: Samuel Johnson and His Lives of the Poets.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 4 (2000): 5–10.
1737. Hattori, Noriyuki. “Abyssinian Johnson.” In Johnson in Japan, edited by Kimiyo Ogawa, Mika Suzuki, and Greg Clingham, 105–15. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
1738. Hatzberger, William F. “Boswell’s London Journal, Lord Eglinton, and the Politics of Preferment.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 10 (2004): 173–88.
1739. Hausmann, Franz Josef. “Samuel Johnson (1709–1784): Bicentenaire de sa mort.” Lexicographica: International Annual for Lexicography/Revue Internationale de Lexicographie/Internationales Jahrbuch für Lexikographie 1 (1985): 239–42.
1740. Havard, John Owen. Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760–1830. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833130.001.0001.
      Abstract: Disaffected Parties reveals how alienation from politics effected crucial changes to the shape and status of literary form. Recovering the earliest expressions of grumbling, irritability, and cynicism towards politics, this study asks how unsettled partisan legacies converged with more recent discontents to forge a seminal period in the making of English literature — and thereby poses wide-ranging questions about the lines between politics and aesthetics. Reading works including Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, James Boswell’s Life of Johnson, the novels of Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen, and the satirical poetry of Lord Byron in tandem with print culture and partisan activity, this book shows how these writings remained animated by disaffected impulses and recalcitrant energies at odds with available party positions and emerging governmental norms — even as they sought to imagine perspectives that looked beyond the divided political world altogether. ‘No one can be more sick of — or indifferent to politics than I am,’ Lord Byron wrote in 1820. Between the later eighteenth century and the Romantic age, disaffected political attitudes acquired increasingly familiar shapes. Yet this was also a period of ferment in which unrest associated with the global age of revolutions (including a dynamic transatlantic opposition movement) collided with often inchoate assemblages of parties and constituencies. As writers adopted increasingly emphatic removes from the political arena and cultivated familiar stances of cynicism, detachment, and retreat, their estrangement also promised to loop back into political engagement — and to make their works ‘parties’ all their own.
1741. Havard, John Owen. “Literary Leviathans: Johnson, Boswell, and the 1790s.” In Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760–1830, 123–55. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
1742. Havard, John Owen. “Literature and the Party System in Britain, 1760–1830.” PhD thesis, University of Chicago, 2013.
1743. Haverty, Anne. “The Tragic Story of Unspoken Passion [Review of According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge].” Irish Times, August 18, 2001.
1744. Hawari, Emma. “Johnson and Lessing: A Study of Johnson’s Critical Theory and Practice.” Index to Theses 43, no. 2 (1994): 442.
1745. Hawari, Emma. Johnson’s and Lessing’s Dramatic Critical Theories and Practice with a Consideration of Lessing’s Affinities with Johnson. Bern: Peter Lang, 1991.
      Abstract: Lessing displays a remarkable familiarity with the English literary scene and shows himself especially aware of Samuel Johnson’s literary output and his dramatic critical achievement in neo-classical England. The study traces and examines affinities of Lessing’s ideas with those of Johnson and a certain impact of Johnson on Lessing’s ideas in the field of dramatic critical theory and practice. The investigation centres on Johnson’s Rambler, his Dictionary, and his edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare and on Lessing’s Laokoon and the Hamburgische Dramaturgie. Plays studied are Irene, Miss Sara Sampson, Emilia Galotti and Minna von Barnhelm.
      Reviews:
      • Parker, G. F. Review of Johnson’s and Lessing’s Dramatic Critical Theories and Practice with a Consideration of Lessing’s Affinities with Johnson, by Emma Hawari. Cambridge Quarterly 19, no. 3 (1990): 243–54.
1746. Hawari, Emma. “Samuel Johnson and Lessing’s Lexicographical Work.” New German Studies 13, no. 3 (1985): 185–95.
1747. Hawes, Clement. “Johnson and Imperialism.” In The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 114–26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.009.
1748. Hawes, Clement. “Johnson’s Cosmopolitan Nationalism.” In Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, edited by Philip Smallwood, 37–63. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001.
1749. Hawes, Clement. “Johnson’s Immanent Critique of Imperial Nationalism,” 169–200. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
1750. Hawes, Clement. “Johnson’s Politics.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 121–34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
1751. Hawes, Clement. “Nationalism.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 278–85. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
1752. Hawes, Clement. “Periodizing Johnson: Anticolonial Modernity as Crux and Critique.” In After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation, edited by Antoinette Burton, 217–29. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.
1753. Hawes, Clement. “Samuel Johnson’s Politics of Contingency.” In Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, edited by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood, 73–94. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
1754. Hawes, Clement. “The Antinomies of Progress: Johnson, Conrad, Joyce.” In Samuel Johnson among the Modernists, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 85–114. Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2019.
1755. Hawkins, John. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Edited by O M Brack Jr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009.
      Abstract: This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years. Published in 1787, some four years before James Boswell’s biography of Johnson, Hawkins’s Life complements, clarifies, and often corrects numerous aspects of Boswell’s Life. Samuel Johnson (1709–84) is the most significant English writer of the second half of the eighteenth century; indeed, this period is widely known as the Age of Johnson. Hawkins was Johnson’s friend and legal adviser and the chief executor of his will. He knew Johnson longer and in many respects better than other biographers, including Boswell, who made unacknowledged use of Hawkins’s Life and helped orchestrate the critical attacks that consigned the book to obscurity. Sir John Hawkins had special insight into Johnson’s mental states at various points in his life, his early days in London, his association with the Gentleman’s Magazine, and his political views and writings. Hawkins’s use of historical and cultural details, an uncommon literary device at the time, produced one of the earliest “life and times” biographies in our language. The Introduction by O M Brack, Jr., covers the history of the composition, publication, and reception of the Life and provides a context in which it should be read. Annotations address historical, literary, and linguistic uncertainties, and a full textual apparatus documents how Brack arrived at this definitive text of Hawkins’s Life.
      The first scholarly edition of Hawkins’s Life, first published in 1787. Brack’s annotations are extensive.
      Reviews:
      • Caudle, James J. “Justice for Sir John; or, The Blind Man and His Elephant [Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by John Hawkins].” New Rambler E:12 (2008–9).
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by John Hawkins. Choice 47, no. 6 (February 2010): 3021.
      • Walker, Robert G. Review of The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by John Hawkins. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 33, no. 2 (Spring 2010): 397–400.
1756. Hawtree, Christopher. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language, by Samuel Johnson. Times Educational Supplement 3895 (February 22, 1991): 35.
1757. Hawtree, Christopher. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. The Independent, November 6, 2000.
1758. Hawtree, Christopher. “How to Frighten a Crocodile [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” The Independent on Sunday, April 17, 2005.
1759. Hay, William Anthony. “Reason, Truth, and Community in Samuel Johnson’s Later Work.” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe: Selected Papers 4 (1997): 53–60.
1760. Hayakawa, Isamu. Jisho hensan no dainamizumu: Jonson, Uebusuta to nihon (“The Dynamism of Lexicography: Johnson, Webster and Japan.” Tokyo: Jiyusha, 2001.
1761. Hayakawa, Isamu. Jonson to “Kokugo” Jiten No Tanjō: Jūhasseiki Kyojin No Meigen, Kingen. Shohan. Aichi Daigaku Bungakkai Sōsho 19. Yokohama-shi: Shunpūsha, 2014.
1762. Hayes, Kevin J. “New Additions to Melville’s Reading.” Notes and Queries 64 (262), no. 1 (March 3, 2017): 110–12.
1763. Hazanova, Olga E. “Style of the Language Systems as Reflected in A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson (1755) and A Dictionary of the Russian Academy (‘Slovar’ Akademii Rossiyskoy,’ 1789–1794).” Rhema 4 (January 2019): 86–107. https://doi.org/10.31862/2500-2953-2019-4-86-107.
      Abstract: The article considers some stylistic aspects of the Russian and English language systems based on A Dictionary of the English Language… by Samuel Johnson, and A Dictionary of the Russian Academy (‘Slovar Academii Rossiyskoy’), 18th c., that laid a foundation of the British and Russian national lexicography. A comparison of major literary sources of the dictionaries and approaches applied in these lexicographic traditions reveals significant differences between the styles of the two language systems, which has an impact on the national mentalities, ways of perception of a mother tongue and а foreign language, as well as methods of teaching the two languages.
1764. Headland, Garry. “Arthur Murphy and Samuel Johnson: A Case of Intellectual Affinity.” New Rambler E:12 (2008–9): 36–46.
1765. Heberden, Ernest. “Dr. Heberden and Dr. Johnson.” New Rambler D:3, no. 3 (1987): 9–21.
1766. Hedrick, Elizabeth. Review of Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 51–55.
1767. Hedrick, Elizabeth. “Fixing the Language: Johnson, Chesterfield, and The Plan of a Dictionary.” ELH: English Literary History 55, no. 2 (June 1988): 421–42. https://doi.org/10.2307/2873211.
1768. Hedrick, Elizabeth. “Locke’s Theory of Language and Johnson’s Dictionary.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 20, no. 4 (June 1987): 422–44. https://doi.org/10.2307/2738774.
1769. Hedrick, Elizabeth. “Reading Johnson’s Dictionary [Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria, Jr.].” Annals of Scholarship 7 (1990): 91–101.
1770. Hedrick, Elizabeth. Review of Textus: English Studies in Italy, by Giovanni Iamartino and Robert DeMaria Jr. Johnsonian News Letter 59, no. 1 (March 2008): 55–58.
1771. Hedrick, Elizabeth. “The Duties of a Scholar: Samuel Johnson in Piozzi’s Anecdotes.” In Mentoring in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 211–24. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.
1772. Hedrick, Elizabeth. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Johnsonian News Letter 50, no. 3–51, 3 (September 1990): 5–6.
1773. Heiland, Donna. “Remembering the Hero in Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” In New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” edited by Greg Clingham, 194–206. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511597589.014.
1774. Heiland, Donna. “Swan Songs: The Correspondence of Anna Seward and James Boswell.” Modern Philology 90, no. 3 (1993): 381–91. https://doi.org/10.1086/392085.
      Abstract: A series of letters written between Anna Seward and James Boswell in the spring and early summer of 1784 are analyzed. The correspondence has particular interest for the light it sheds on the Boswell–Seward relationship, and larger interest as a seemingly straightforward drama of sensibility that quickly becomes a discussion of the nature of sensibility itself.
1775. Heilman, Robert B. “Greene’s Euphuism and Some Congeneric Styles.” In Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance, edited by George M. Logan and Gordon Teskey, 49–73. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.
1776. Heitman, Danny. “Masterpiece: ‘Boswell’s London Journal’ by James Boswell; Love Letter to London.” Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2012.
1777. Helms, Alan. “Gargantuan: A Man of Outsize Intelligence, Energy, and Infirmities, Samuel Johnson Comes into Closer Focus in Two New Works [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” Boston Globe, November 30, 2008.
1778. Hemming, Sarah. “Dr Johnson, I Presume: Theatre [Review of Resurrection, by Maureen Lawrence].” Financial Times, May 18, 1996.
1779. Henke, Christoph. “Life Spirals and Commonsense Aporias: Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas Revisited.” Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 9 (2009): 67–84.
1780. Henke, Christoph. “Pernicious Reason and Good Sense: Ethics and Common Sense in Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees and Samuel Johnson’s Writings.” In Anglistentag 2008 Tübingen, edited by Lars Eckstein and Christoph Reinfandt. Trier, Germany: Erscheinungsdatum, 2009.
1781. Hensher, Philip. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. The Spectator, November 4, 2000.
1782. Henson, Eithne. “Johnson and the Condition of Women.” In The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 67–84. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.006.
1783. Henson, Eithne. “Lost for Words.” The Independent, June 27, 1999.
      Brief letter to the Editor, challenging A. N. Wilson’s claim that Johnson dismissed monastic retirement.
1784. Henson, Eithne. "The Fictions of Romantick Chivalry”: Samuel Johnson and Romance. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1992. Reviews:
      • Dean, Paul. Review of “The Fictions of Romantick Chivalry”: Samuel Johnson and Romance, by Eithne Henson. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 74, no. 6 (December 1993): 549–58.
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of “The Fictions of Romantick Chivalry”: Samuel Johnson and Romance, by Eithne Henson. New Rambler D:8 (1992): 48–51.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of “The Fictions of Romantick Chivalry”: Samuel Johnson and Romance, by Eithne Henson. Notes and Queries 41 [239], no. 3 (September 1994): 396–97.
      • Patey, Douglas L. Review of “The Fictions of Romantick Chivalry”: Samuel Johnson and Romance, by Eithne Henson. Choice 30, no. 6 (February 1993): 960.
1785. The Herald (Glasgow). “Letters: I Am at a Loss to Understand Why Anyone Would Want to Celebrate the Charmless James Boswell.” June 14, 2021.
1786. The Herald (Glasgow). “Museum and Festival Will Honour James Boswell.” 2011.
1787. The Herald (Glasgow). “We’re All Fascinated by the Lives of Others from James Boswell to the Kardashians.” May 10, 2022.
1788. The Herald (Glasgow). “Why James Boswell, Inventor of the Biography, Still Matters Today.” May 13, 2013.
1789. Hershinow, Stephanie Insley. “The Best of Intentions.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 47 (2018): 213–16.
1790. Hertz, Neil. “Dr. Johnson’s Forgetfulness, Descartes’ Piece of Wax.” Eighteenth-Century Life 16, no. 3 (November 1992): 167–81.
1791. Hessell, Nikki. “Samuel Johnson: Beyond Lilliput.” In Literary Authors, Parliamentary Reporters: Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Dickens, 17–60. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
1792. Hewitt, Rachel, and Nick Savage. An Immortal Friend: Dr Johnson and the Royal Academy. [London]: Royal Academy of Arts, 2009.
      Exhibition catalogue.
1793. Hewitt, Regina. “Time in Rasselas: Johnson’s Use of Locke’s Concept.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 19 (1989): 267–76.
1794. Hickey, Alison. “‘Extensive Views’ in Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 32, no. 3 (June 1992): 537–53. https://doi.org/10.2307/450920.
1795. Hickman, Bronwen. “The Women in Johnson’s World.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 2 (1997): 7–15.
1796. Hilger, Stephanie M. “Strategies of Response: Ellis Cornelia Knight’s Sequel to Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas.” Intertexts 10, no. 1 (March 2006): 65–86.
1797. Hill, T. H. Howard. Review of Sale Catalogues of the Libraries of Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale (Mrs. Piozzi) and James Boswell, by Donald D. Eddy. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 88, no. 1 (March 1994): 113–14.
1798. Hill, T. Howard. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript, by David L. Vander Meulen and G. Thomas Tanselle. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 88 (1994): 244–45.
1799. Hilton, Nelson. “Restless Wrestling: Johnson’s Rasselas.” In Lexis Complexes, 38–55. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.
1800. Hiltscher, Michael. Review of A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson, by Edward Tomarken. Shakespeare Jahrbuch 131 (1995): 263–65.
1801. Hinds, Elizabeth Jane Wall. “Sari, Sorry, and the Vortex of History: Calendar Reform, Anachronism, and Language Change in Mason & Dixon.” American Literary History 12, no. 1–2 (March 2000): 187–215. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/12.1-2.187.
1802. Hinnant, Charles H. “‘An Uniform and Tractable Vice’: Samuel Johnson and the Transformation of the Passions into Interests.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 8 (2003): 61–75.
1803. Hinnant, Charles H. “Johnson and the Limits of Biography: Teaching the Life of Savage.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 107–13. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
1804. Hinnant, Charles H. Samuel Johnson: An Analysis. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.
      Abstract: The author re-examines Samuel Johnson’s major texts, focusing on his famous review of Soame Jenyns’s A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil as a principal source of insight and innovation. He offers a lucid exposition of its ideas and methods, defining for the first time its relation to an important strand in eighteenth-century intellectual history, and assessing its implications for Johnson’s moral vision.
      Reviews:
      • Basney, Lionel. Review of Samuel Johnson: An Analysis, by Charles H. Hinnant. English Language Notes 27, no. 4 (1990): 74–76.
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of Samuel Johnson: An Analysis, by Charles H. Hinnant. New Rambler D:4, no. 4 (1988): 62–63.
      • Lipking, Lawrence. Review of Samuel Johnson: An Analysis, by Charles H. Hinnant. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 12 (1989): 251–53.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of Samuel Johnson: An Analysis, by Charles H. Hinnant. Johnsonian News Letter 48, no. 1–2 (March 1988): 2.
      • Review of Samuel Johnson: An Analysis, by Charles H. Hinnant. Year’s Work in English Studies 75 (1997): 363.
      • Wagoner, M. S. Review of Samuel Johnson: An Analysis, by Charles H. Hinnant. Choice 26, no. 1 (September 1988): 135.
      • Wharton, T. F. Review of Samuel Johnson: An Analysis, by Charles H. Hinnant. South Atlantic Review 55, no. 1 (January 1990): 142–44.
1805. Hinnant, Charles H. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Critical Opinions: A Reexamination, by Arthur Sherbo. JEGP 96, no. 2 (April 1997): 279–80.
1806. Hinnant, Charles H., ed. “Special Issue: Johnson and Gender.” South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 9, no. 4 (1992). Reviews:
      • McAllister, Marie E. Review of Johnson and Gender: Special Issue of South Central Review, by Charles H. Hinnant. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1994): 394–404.
1807. Hinnant, Charles H. “Steel for the Mind”: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1994.
      Abstract: This book is an attempt to reexamine Samuel Johnson’s literary criticism in the context of current critical debates. Through juxtapositions of Johnson with such movements as poststructuralism, reader response criticism, and the New Historicism, Charles H. Hinnant seeks to create a justification for reexamining our conventional assumptions about Johnson’s writings. More ambitiously, he intends to demonstrate the importance that Johnson’s work might possibly hold for anyone concerned with issues in present-day literary criticism. The argument of this book is thus more closely related to the earlier investigations of William R. Keast, Jean H. Hagstrum, and Walter Jackson Bate than to the works of Paul Fussell and Leopold Damrosch, Jr. It holds that Johnson’s unique combination of moral and critical analysis cannot be disengaged from theoretical assumptions and that a focus upon practical judgments invariably carries with it a conviction that the critical values behind those judgments are irrelevant. Thus Hinnant examines the contention that Johnson was a dogmatic critic, seeking to demonstrate that Johnson’s claim to interpretive authority does not rest upon either theoretical demonstration or common sense perception but is rather located within an intermediate area of dialogue and debate. He also tries to show that the apparent simplicity with which Johnson views the classical relation between author, text, and audience is deceptive. These terms were given wide currency in Meyer Abrams’s The Mirror and the Lamp, but the underlying relation Abrams posits takes for granted the unity and identity of the authorial and reading subjects. What is actually presented in Johnson’s criticism, Hinnant contends, is a subject that is neither unified nor identical to itself. Later, Hinnant focuses on the relation for Johnson between the text and the external world. In contrast to the views of many eighteenth-century critics from Addison to Lord Kames, Johnson maintains that mimesis necessarily implies the absence of what it purports to represent and thus can never achieve what Kames calls “ideal presence.” Hinnant devotes special attention to Johnson’s interpretation of the classical doctrine that language is the dress of thought — to be amplified or compressed at the poet’s will. That “words, being arbitrary, must owe their power to association, and have the influence, and that only, which custom has given them” is a notion that Johnson accepts as an article of faith. Yet it is precisely because of this notion that it sometimes becomes difficult, in Johnson’s reasoning, to disentangle sense from sign, since the two may be bound up in such a way that prohibits any easy distinction between them. Thus if Johnson shows a pre-modern concern with language as the dress of thought, it is because he sees language as the ground of thought, not because he sees thought as the ground and determining origin of language.
      Reviews:
      • Basney, Lionel. “Johnson’s Theories and Ours [Review of ‘Steel for the Mind’: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant].” Sewanee Review 105, no. 2 (1997): 66–67.
      • Bogel, Fredric V. Review of “Steel for the Mind”: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 20 (2001): 507–8.
      • Brack, O M, Jr. Review of “Steel for the Mind”: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (1995): 169–74.
      • Clingham, Greg. Review of “Steel for the Mind”: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 7 (1996): 480–85.
      • Hanley, Brian. Review of “Steel for the Mind”: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant. New Rambler D:10, no. 10 (1994): 70–71.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of “Steel for the Mind”: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant. Choice 31, no. 10 (June 1994): 1578.
      • Tomarken, Edward. “The Method of Theory: Samuel Johnson and Critical Integrity [Review of ‘Steel for the Mind’: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant].” Papers on Language and Literature 32, no. 2 (March 1996): 217–23.
      • Woodman, Thomas M. Review of “Steel for the Mind”: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 19, no. 1 (1996): 113–14.
1808. Hirschmann, J. V., M.D. “Samuel Johnson’s Medical Ailments.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 25 (2025): 3–33.
1809. Hirst, Christopher, and Genevieve Roberts. “The A–Z of Johnson’s Dictionary: Samuel Johnson Defined Both Language and Life in 18th-Century England.” The Independent, March 31, 2005.
1810. Hitchens, Christopher. “Samuel Johnson: Demons and Dictionaries [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” The Atlantic Monthly, March 9, 2009.
1811. Hitchens, Christopher. “Samuel Johnson: Demons and Dictionaries [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” In Arguably: Essays. New York: Twelve, 2011.
1812. Hitchens, Dan. “Johnson & Johnson: How Samuel Shaped Boris.” The Spectator 340, no. 9961 (2019): 15.
1813. Hitchens, Dan. “Saint Samuel of Fleet Street [Review of Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists, by Anthony W. Lee].” The Lamp, March 15, 2022.
      Abstract: Both Samuel Johnson and Virginia Woolf excelled in several genres—fiction, essay-writing, journals and diaries, biography, and criticism—and both held common attitudes toward a number of important topics. Furthermore, Woolf’s writings betray an admiration for and attraction to Johnson, as is suggested in the title of the chapter, “‘Saint Samuel of Fleet Street’: Johnson and Woolf,” which contrasts and compares a number of topics linking the two. The chapter then looks more closely at two particular genres, literary criticism and biography, and concludes with a meditation upon Johnson and Woolf’s intertextual engagements.
1814. Hitchens, Daniel. “Samuel Johnson and the Vocation of the Author.” DPhil thesis, Oxford University, 2016.
      Abstract: Much has been written about Samuel Johnson as a Christian, and much about him as an author; this study is about where the two meet, in the idea of the literary vocation. Though Johnson only uses the word ‘vocation’ a handful of times, it holds both the quotidian sense of a job and the more exalted notion of a divine call, a tension which informs Johnson’s thinking. I begin with Johnson’s development as a religious writer, influenced by William Law’s contention that any form of life can be devout and holy, and by Bernard Mandeville’s unsentimental candour. Johnson’s writing bears the marks of both. He revised Irene, for instance, to make it less overtly Christian: a reminder that Johnson’s religious convictions bring an invisible pressure to bear on apparently secular works. In his early years on the Gentleman’s Magazine Johnson develops the principle that authorship, being a public act, carries great responsibilities. It is, in fact, a vocation, and unpacking this concept takes up Chapter 2. Johnson sees writing as a potential form of public service, adding that a solitary writer ‘naturally sinks from omission to forgetfulness of social duties’. Too few commentators have grasped that Johnson sees morality in social terms — as a matter of answering the needs of others, according to one’s place in an order overseen by divine providence. But again and again he refers to the human need ‘to seek from one another assistance and support’ (Rambler 104). Instances of mutual help ‘by frequent reciprocations of beneficence unite mankind in society and friendship’. Johnson’s well-known emphasis on friendship is only one expression of this deeper sense that society is held together by trust; and therefore, by the truth. Writers’ communication of truth defines their own social duties. While Johnson can sound close to Shaftesbury when he writes of mankind’s sociability, there is really a significant gap between them, because Johnson’s view of human nature is more jaded. He expects people to hurt each other for the same reasons they help each other; and he recognises a strong tendency towards pride and superiority — especially among writers, who are tempted to cut themselves off from society. Chapter 3 deals in more depth with a writer’s social role, which is simply expressed as the ability to put the truth memorably. Borrowing from a tradition which stretches back to Seneca at least, Johnson believes that a writer becomes a ‘benefactor of mankind’ by putting the useful, but readily forgotten, principles of the good life into memorable forms. Drawing on Locke’s account of the memory, and deviating from Locke’s account of moral action, he suggests that literature has a power to move the reason and the passions at once — hence his demand that poetry be both true and pleasurable. While this resembles the Horatian formula of dulce et utile, Johnson added to it a sense of writers’ and readers’ experience of the text: how ‘impressions’ are transferred from the world, via the writer, to the text, and so to the reader. Learning how to persuade the audience, however, necessitates first-hand acquaintance with the world. Hence the subjects of Chapters 4 and 5, which are pride and humility respectively. Pride separates the author from the social world, making them ineffectual and unable to communicate truth. The ‘Lives’ of Swift and Milton establish this partly through their ridicule of the two subjects: though Johnson did not think ridicule established truth, it did restore a balance upset by an author’s singularity. “Singularity’ is the word Johnson uses to encapsulate Swift’s faults: he was ‘fond of singularity, and desirous to make a mode of happiness for himself, different from the general course of things and order of Providence’. Milton, too, is condemned for his arrogance — but even more in order to correct the idolatry of his admirers. Johnson believes that Milton is being written about with absurd reverence, and so puts him back in his place — as just another member of society, with a role to fulfil. Accepting that place involves a measure of humility. The question of the ‘dignity of literature’, a contested point during the nineteenth century, was alive in Johnson’s time, and through his associations with what he himself called ‘Grub Street’, he lived and worked among many writers who might be thought undignified. Yet in the obscurity of the hacks Johnson found something to praise — an industrious, humble service opposed to the ‘letter’d arrogance’ of self-satisfied authors. ‘[T]he humble author of journals and gazettes must be considered as a liberal dispenser of beneficial knowledge’ (Rambler 145). By stooping to be merely useful, journalists become great. Particularly in the Journey to the Western Islands, Johnson divests himself of authorial dignity, drawing attention to his own mistakes and omissions. Such a humdrum view of the writer’s role, which placed the emphasis on the reader, put Johnson at odds with most of the prominent Romantics — and the scale of their revulsion from Johnson needs two chapters to be dealt with. Chapter 6 argues that their critique, especially that of Hazlitt and Coleridge, was above all about the question of the writer’s vocation: and for that reason, Shakespeare was the most contested ground — for Coleridge, Johnson’s Shakespeare criticism was impertinent ‘filth’ aimed at ‘the greatest man that ever put on and put off mortality’. But that was exactly the kind of idolatrous view of authorship — what Hazlitt called approvingly ‘overstrained enthusiasm’ — which Johnson wanted to challenge. However, many of the Romantics’ criticisms misrepresented Johnson; he was a more flexible thinker than they realised. In a final chapter, I look at the aftermath of the Romantics: how their accusation that Johnson was too narrow and bigoted to understand Shakespeare is echoed in Macaulay, and even in sympathetic readers like Matthew Arnold, and has dogged Johnson all the way to the present day. And I point out that the Romantic exaltation of the author has faced its own backlash, in ways that suggest Johnson might have seen more clearly than the Romantics thought.
1815. Hitchings, Henry. “Alphabet Coup: Samuel Johnson Was Motivated by What He Called ‘the Exuberance of Signification’ in His Mission to Compile the First Comprehensive English Dictionary.” Financial Times Weekend Magazine, April 2, 2005.
1816. Hitchings, Henry. “Capital Chap: Samuel Johnson Is Best Remembered Not as a Grouch, but as an Enlightened Londoner Whose Views on Life Are Still Relevant Today.” Evening Standard, 2018.
1817. Hitchings, Henry. Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World. London: John Murray, 2005.
      A popular overview of the composition of the Dictionary, contextualized in SJ’s life and the history of lexicography.
      Reviews:
      • Aberdeen Press and Journal. “It’s Only Words [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” April 7, 2005.
      • Bagnall, Nicholas. “More than Words [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Literary Review, April 2005.
      • Bantick, Christopher. “Word Wizard’s Wonder [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Hobart Mercury (Australia), July 9, 2005.
      • Berglund, Lisa. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 27 (2006): 184–85.
      • Burton, Sarah. “A Treasure House of Words and More [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” The Spectator, April 9, 2005.
      • Carey, John. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. The Sunday Times, March 27, 2005.
      • Chisholm, Kate. “Dr Johnson’s Way with Words [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Sunday Telegraph, April 3, 2005.
      • Cribb, Tim. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. South China Morning Post, April 17, 2005.
      • Davis, Jodie. “Words of Wisdom [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” The Herald Sun, July 9, 2005.
      • De la Bédoyère, Quentin. “Setting the Standard [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch, and Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Catholic Herald, June 3, 2005.
      • Dean, Kitty Chen. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Library Journal Reviews, September 15, 2005, 66.
      • Dyer, Daniel. “Defining Story Explores Making of First Solid English Dictionary [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 16, 2005.
      • Elson, Peter. “Defining the Man Who Gave Us the Modern Dictionary: Johnson Could Be Irritable and Rude to His Equals [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Daily Post (Liverpool), June 6, 2005.
      • Fallon, Brian. “The Life of a Landmark [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World by Henry Hitchings].” Irish Times, May 7, 2005.
      • Fisher, Barbara. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Boston Globe, October 2, 2005.
      • Goring, Rosemary. “Great Broth of Words: Dr Johnson’s Dictionary Defined the World [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” The Herald (Glasgow), April 2, 2005.
      • Grimes, William. “Making a World of Sense, the Long and the Short of It [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” New York Times, November 12, 2005.
      • Groves, Paul. “Discovering Dictionary Delights the Johnson Way [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Birmingham Post, April 9, 2005.
      • Hawtree, Christopher. “How to Frighten a Crocodile [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” The Independent on Sunday, April 17, 2005.
      • Howse, Christopher. “42,773 Entries, Including Dandiprat, Jobberknowl and Fart: Christopher Howse Celebrates the Life of a Lexicographer Whose Monumental Achievement Nearly Killed Him [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Daily Telegraph, April 9, 2005.
      • Jacobs, Alan. “Bran Flakes and Harmless Drudges [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Christianity Today, January 2006.
      • Jenkyns, Richard. “Peculiar Words [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Prospect, April 21, 2005.
      • Johnston, Freya. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 417–18.
      • Kanter, Peter. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 57–60.
      • Keymer, Thomas. “Meaning Exuberant [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” TLS, April 15, 2005, 10.
      • Lewis, Jeremy. “A Definitive Guide to Dr Johnson [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” The Mail on Sunday, April 3, 2005.
      • Lewis, Peter. “Meet the Word Doctor, from A to Z [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Daily Mail, April 29, 2005.
      • Lewis, Roger. “Tale of the Tome That Gave Us Real Meaning [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Express, April 1, 2005.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Washington Examiner, October 17, 2005.
      • Marchand, Philip. “Words, the Daughters of Earth [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Toronto Star, January 15, 2006.
      • McGrath, Charles. “A Man of Many Words: How Dr. Johnson and His Dictionary Helped Discipline an Unruly Language [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” New York Times Book Review, December 4, 2005.
      • Miller, Stephen. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Wall Street Journal, October 12, 2005.
      • Motion, Andrew. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Guardian, April 16, 2005.
      • Nokes, David. “The Last Word — Even If Not Adroit [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World by Henry Hitchings; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick; and Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott].” Times Higher Education Supplement 1739 (April 21, 2006): 22.
      • O’Hagan, Andrew. “Word Wizard [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” New York Review of Books 53, no. 7 (April 27, 2006): 12–13.
      • Publishers Weekly. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. July 18, 2005.
      • Read, Jemma. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. The Observer, April 24, 2005.
      • Reisz, Matthew J. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. The Independent, April 15, 2005.
      • Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 2005.
      • Self, David. “Colouring in the Words [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Times Educational Supplement, April 1, 2005.
      • Self, Will. “The First Literary Celebrity [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” New Statesman, May 16, 2005.
      • Sheidlower, Jesse. “Defining Moment: On Its Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, a Look Back at Doctor Johnson’s Exhaustive Dictionary [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch, and Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” BookForum: The Review for Art, Fiction, & Culture 12, no. 3 (October 2005): 5–7.
      • Simmons, Tracy Lee. “Johnson’s Canon: On The Trail of the Great Lexicographer [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Weekly Standard, May 29, 2006.
      • Smith, Ken. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Los Angeles Times, October 23, 2005.
      • Srodes, James. “The Gargantuan and Terrifying Lexicographer [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World by Henry Hitchings, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” Washington Times, January 25, 2006.
      • Tankard, Paul. “Let Me Introduce You to Johnson’s Dictionary [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Otago Daily Times, August 20, 2005.
      • The Sunday Mail (South Australia). Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. June 26, 2005.
      • Thomson, Ian. “Fopdoodles, Dandiprats, and Jibes and the Scots [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Evening Standard, April 18, 2005.
      • Time Out. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. June 1, 2005.
1818. Hitchings, Henry. Review of Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Johnson’s “Dear Mistress,” by Ian McIntyre. The Telegraph, November 17, 2008.
1819. Hitchings, Henry. Review of Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, by Philip Smallwood. TLS, January 25, 2002, 31.
1820. Hitchings, Henry. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. New Statesman 128, no. 4452 (1999): 55.
1821. Hitchings, Henry. “Samuel Johnson and Sir Thomas Browne.” PhD thesis, University of London, 2003.
1822. Hitchings, Henry. “Samuel Johnson and Sir Thomas Browne.” New Rambler E:8 (2004): 46–56.
1823. Hitchings, Henry. “Saved by Samuel Johnson: How Did a Jamaican Slave End up as the Chief Beneficiary of Samuel Johnson’s Will? This Biography Tells the Remarkable Story [Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock].” Guardian, 2015.
1824. Hitchings, Henry. The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters; or, Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life. London: Macmillan, 2018.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson was a critic, an essayist, a poet and a biographer. He was also, famously, the compiler of the first good English dictionary, published in 1755. A polymath and a great conversationalist, his intellectual and social curiosity were boundless. Yet he was a deeply melancholy man, haunted by dark thoughts, sickness and a diseased imagination. In his own life, both public and private, he sought to choose a virtuous and prudent path, negotiating everyday hazards and temptations. His writings and aphorisms illuminate what it means to lead a life of integrity, and his experience, abundantly documented by him and by others (such as James Boswell and Hester Thrale), is a lesson in the art of regulating the mind and the body.
      “Today Johnson is not an obvious role model. . . . Yet he has a lot to say to us. . . . I offer a chronological account of Johnson’s life . . . [and] I present him as an example of how to act or think; occasionally his role is the opposite, as an illustration of how not to; and often I draw attention to something he wrote or said that perfectly condenses and important truth.”
      Reviews:
      • Jack, Malcolm. Review of The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters; or, Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life, by Henry Hitchings. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 25 (2020): 278–80.
1825. Hitchings, Henry. “Words Count: Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary Was Published 250 Years Ago This Month: Henry Hitchings Reveals Johnson’s Technique: An A-Z of English (without the X.” Guardian, April 2, 2005.
      A brief notice of the 250th anniversary.
1826. Hjertholm, Peter. “Energy in Early English Lexicography.” In A History of the Cultural Travels of Energy, 243–61. London: Routledge, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003322184-14.
      Abstract: This chapter explores how energy has been defined and explained in early English-language dictionaries. Based on the cultural history of the term proposed in the preceding chapters, this chapter surveys the historical development of energy in the English language, as presented in the early English dictionaries and in Samuel Johnson’s famous dictionary. Examining both early bilingual Latin–English and French–English dictionaries and monolingual English dictionaries (from Cawdrey to Johnson), the chapter shows that the various senses recorded in early English lexicography were derived from the basic meaning of the activity-of-being, and that the specific contexts in which these senses were used tend to cohere with a deeper and shared context, in which energy was used to speak about the inherent nature of things. Thus, whereas the original meaning and senses of energy in the English language has long been thought to have travelled from context to context in an ad hoc manner, this chapter shows that usage of the term travelled within a common context that tied all senses together in a shared reference to inherent nature.
1827. Hoffert, Barbara. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Library Journal 127, no. 1 (2002): 52.
1828. Hoffert, Barbara. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return, by Martin Riker. Library Journal 143, no. 16 (2018): 25.
1829. Hogg, James. “Boswell’s Tipple.” The Spectator, The Spectator Ltd. (UK), 2005.
1830. Holder, R. W. “Samuel Johnson, 1709–1784: A Dictionary of the English Language.” In The Dictionary Men: Their Lives and Times, 1–40. Claverton Down, Bath: Bath University Press, 2004.
1831. Holland, Peter. “Editing for Performance: Dr. Johnson and the Stage.” Ilha Do Desterro: A Journal of Language and Literature/Revista de Língua e Literatura 49 (July 2005): 75–98.
1832. Holland, Peter. “Playing Johnson’s Shakespeare.” In Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson, edited by Eric Rasmussen and Aaron Santesso, 1–23. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
      “Performance is a recurrent issue in Johnson’s approach to Shakespeare. . . . Performance can also be for Johnson the testing-ground for emendation.”
1833. Holmes, Richard. Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.
      A popular joint biography of Johnson and Savage, focusing on SJ’s early years in London.
      Reviews:
      • Ackroyd, Peter. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Los Angeles Times, August 28, 1994.
      • Barbarese, J. T. “Samuel Johnson’s Odd Friendship [Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes].” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 4, 1994.
      • Barron, Janet. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. New Statesman and Society, October 22, 1993.
      • Barton, Anne. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Savage. New York Review of Books 42, no. 3 (February 16, 1995): 6–8.
      • Bayley, John. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. London Review of Books 15, no. 21 (1993): 7–8.
      • Brady, Charles A. “Retelling Samuel Johnson’s Devil of a Friendship [Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes].” Buffalo News, October 9, 1994.
      • Christianson, Gale E. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Albion 27, no. 1 (1995): 131–33.
      • Davis, Matthew M. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Modern Age 39, no. 1 (1997): 73–76.
      • Ellis, David. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Cambridge Quarterly 23, no. 4 (1994): 384–88.
      • Graeber, Laurel. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. New York Times, May 26, 1996.
      • Gray, James. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 7 (1996): 485–95.
      • Isaacson, David. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Jerusalem Post Magazine, February 10, 1996.
      • Johnson, Paul. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. The Spectator, October 30, 1993.
      • Keppler, Joseph F. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Seattle Times, October 23, 1994.
      • Koenig, Rhoda. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Vogue, August 1994.
      • Mahoney, John L. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Southern Humanities Review 30, no. 2 (1996): 181–83.
      • Nokes, David. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. TLS, October 29, 1993, 11–12.
      • Pettingell, Phoebe. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. New Leader 77, no. 10 (October 10, 1994): 14.
      • Publishers Weekly. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. August 1, 1994.
      • Quinn, Anthony. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. The Independent, January 15, 1994.
      • Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Booklist 90 (July 1994): 1916.
      • Rogers, Pat. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. New York Times Book Review, September 4, 1994.
      • Rollyson, Carl. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 25, no. 2 (2002): 363–68.
      • Schwendener, Peter. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. The American Scholar 64, no. 3 (1995): 467–70.
      • Taylor, Robert. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Boston Globe, September 11, 1994.
      • The Independent. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. October 3, 1993.
      • Theroux, Alexander. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1994.
      • Wheeler, Edward T. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Commonweal 121, no. 19 (November 4, 1994): 32.
      • Ellis, David. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Cambridge Quarterly 23, no. 4 (1994): 384–88.
1834. Holmes, Richard. “Dr Johnson’s First Cat.” In Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer, 405–10. London: HarperCollins, 2000.
1835. Holmes, Richard. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. New York Review of Books 48, no. 14 (2001): 28–32.
1836. Holmes, Richard. “Triumph of an Artist [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman, and A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin].” New York Review of Books 48, no. 14 (September 20, 2001): 28–32.
1837. Hone, Joseph, and James McLaverty. “The Progress of Johnson’s Shakespeare: Subscription, Text, and Printing.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 113, no. 2 (2019): 121–47.
      Abstract: Bibliographers have long puzzled over Samuel Johnson’s edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare, started in 1756 but repeatedly delayed until its eventual publication in 1765. Back in 1979 Brian Vickers wrote that, although “we do not yet have a full bibliographical study,” it was nonetheless “evident that Johnson’s Shakespeare had an erratic career in the printing-house.” More than twenty years earlier Arthur Sherbo had assembled a chronology of most of the known facts about the publication of the edition, though confessed there were “all too few references to particular volumes and plays” in his list and that evidence concerning the printing of the edition was scarce at best. The publication of David Fleeman’s seminal A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson in 2000 has since shed considerable light on some specific bibliographical problems. And yet, despite Fleeman’s advances, much still remains unknown about the printing and publication of this important literary edition. How was Johnson’s subscription planned? How successful was it? How much money did Johnson and his publishers make? What copy did the printer use? When were the various parts of the edition finished? Why was publication, promised for Christmas 1757, delayed for nearly eight years?
1838. Hoole, John. Five Letters and a Dream of Johnson. New York: Privately printed by Thames Printing Company for the Johnsonians, 2010.
1839. Hopkins, Anthea. “The Dangerous Distinction of Authorship.” New Rambler D:8, no. 8 (1992): 21–24.
1840. Hopkins, David. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Review of English Studies 42 (1991): 271–72.
1841. Hopkins, David. “The General and the Particular: Paradox and the Play of Contraries in the Criticism of Pope, Johnson, and Reynolds.” In A Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 22–38. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684483549-004.
1842. Hopkins, David, and Tom Mason. “Samuel Johnson and Chaucer: ‘The First of Our Versifyers Who Wrote Poetically.’” In Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century: The Father of English Poetry, 252–75. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862624.003.0009.
      Abstract: This chapter investigates the presence of Chaucer in Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary (1755, 2nd edn, 1773). There are considerable difficulties in reconciling remarks in Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, his plans for an edition of Chaucer, and his references to Chaucer in different parts of the Dictionary. Johnson presented Chaucer with difficulties of every kind, as a historian of the language, as a historian of the course of English poetry, and as a literary critic. His decision to confine his illustrative examples to works composed during and after the sixteenth century should have excluded Chaucer entirely. But Chaucer creeps in (often via Junius’s Etymologicon). Johnson cites lines that appear nowhere in Chaucer’s texts, and misquotes some that do. Some Chaucerian words and phrases (‘Mars armipotent’, ‘gladder’) are attributed to Dryden rather than to their source in Chaucer, and the reader of the Dictionary is offered a great many passages of Chaucer via Dryden. So frequent, indeed, is citation of Dryden’s Chaucerian versions, that some works (e.g. The Character of a Good Parson) appear piecemeal almost entire in the Dictionary.
1843. Horgan, A. D. Johnson on Language: An Introduction. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1994. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373440. Reviews:
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of Johnson on Language: An Introduction, by A. D. Horgan. Choice 32 (April 1995): 4345.
      • McDermott, Anne C. Review of Johnson on Language: An Introduction, by A. D. Horgan. Review of English Studies 47 (1997): 593–994.
      • Review of Johnson on Language: An Introduction, by A. D. Horgan. Year’s Work in English Studies 75 (1997): 362.
1844. Horne, William C. “Samuel Johnson Discovers the Arctic: A Reading of a ‘Greenland Tale’ as Arctic Literature.” In Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism, edited by Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace, 75–90. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001.
1845. Horovitz, James. “Debates in Parliament.” Eighteenth-Century Life 39, no. 3 (2015): 123–32.
1846. Horowitz, James. “Johnson’s Play Box.” Eighteenth-Century Life 39, no. 3 (September 2015): 123–32.
1847. Horrocks, Thomas A. A Monument More Durable than Brass: The Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson: An Exhibition. Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Library of Harvard University, 2009.
      Abstract: To commemorate the tercentenary of the birth of Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), whose influence on his time was as monumental as his legacy is enduring, Harvard University’s Houghton Library presents this exhibition catalogue of items drawn from the Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson, bequeathed to the library in 2004 by Mary Hyde Eccles. This copiously illustrated catalogue documents sixty years of assiduous and painstaking effort on the part of Lady Eccles, initially in collaboration with her first husband, Donald F. Hyde, and later with the encouragement and support of her second husband, David, Viscount Eccles, to assemble one of the world’s finest collections of eighteenth-century English literature. The catalogue, including essays on Johnson’s literary durability and on Donald and Mary Hyde’s life as collectors, pays tribute to a great literary icon and to a remarkably generous woman who devoted her life to collecting an astonishing array of books, manuscripts, prints, and other rare artifacts relating to his life and times.
1848. Horrocks, Thomas A., and Howard D. Weinbrot, eds. Johnson after Three Centuries: New Light on Texts and Contexts. Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library, 2011.
      Abstract: Johnson After Three Centuries: New Light on Texts and Contexts examines several aspects of Johnson’s career through fresh perspectives and original interpretations by some of the best-known and widely-respected scholars of our time. Included are essays by James Basker, James Engell, Nicholas Hudson, Jack Lynch, and Allen Reddick.
1849. Horrocks, Thomas A., and Howard D. Weinbrot. “Johnson after Three Centuries: New Light on Texts and Contexts [Special Issue].” Harvard Library Bulletin 20, no. 3–4 (September 2009).
1850. Horsley-Meacham, Gloria. “The Johnsonian Jest in ‘Benito Cereno.’” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 6, no. 1 (1993): 17–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.1993.10542793.
1851. Hothem, Thomas. “Johnson in the Composition Classroom.” Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 1 (March 2005): 12–15.
1852. Houlihan, Con. “I’ll Never Tire of Johnson: Great Man Led Band of Artists . . . with an Irish Genius at the Fore.” The Herald (Ireland), July 11, 2012.
      A short, impressionistic introduction to Johnson, Garrick, and Goldsmith.
1853. Howard, Harry. “Dr Samuel Johnson Letter to Girl, 12, Expected to £12,000.” Daily Mail, September 6, 2023.
1854. Howard, Philip. “Don’t Take the Low Road [Review of BBC2’s Tour of the Western Isles with Coltrane and Sessions].” The Times, October 23, 1993.
1855. Howard, Philip. “Dr. Johnson: The Perfect Professional Fleet Street Hack.” New Rambler D:8, no. 8 (1992): 18–21.
1856. Howard, Philip. “In the Great Linguistic Debate, Both Sides Claim Dr. Johnson, and Rightly So.” The Times, February 9, 1996.
1857. Howard-Hill, T. H. Review of Catalogue of the Papers of James Boswell at Yale University: For the Greater Part Formerly the Collection of Lieut.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, by Marion S. Pottle, Claude Colleer Abbott, and Frederick A. Pottle. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 87, no. 3 (1993): 390.
1858. Howarth, Jayne. “Discovering Dictionary Delights the Johnson Way [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch].” Birmingham Post, November 20, 2004.
1859. Howe, Sarah. “General and Invariable Ideas of Nature: Joshua Reynolds and His Critical Descendants.” English 54, no. 208 (2005): 1–13.
1860. Howe, Tony. Review of Johnson, Writing, and Memory, by Greg Clingham. Romanticism 13, no. 1 (2007): 86–88.
1861. Howse, Christopher. “42,773 Entries, Including Dandiprat, Jobberknowl and Fart: Christopher Howse Celebrates the Life of a Lexicographer Whose Monumental Achievement Nearly Killed Him [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Daily Telegraph, April 9, 2005.
1862. Howse, Christopher. “A Tortuous Tale of Drugs, Infatuation and Madness: After 300 Years, Samuel Johnson’s Story Remains Unmatched as a Life Lived to the Full.” Daily Telegraph, September 12, 2009.
      “Samuel Johnson’s books are unread but his life remains gripping. It’s a tale of sexual frustration, low life, spasmodic tics, drug addiction, fear of madness, disappointment in love, black depression and celebrity.”
1863. Howse, Christopher. “Money, Madness: And Melancholy.” Daily Telegraph, September 19, 2009.
1864. Howse, Christopher. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. The Spectator, November 20, 2004.
1865. Hoyle, Ben. “Dr Johnson Revival Shows That Old Jokes Really Are Best.” The Times, August 7, 2007.
      A review of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival premiere of Johnson and Boswell — Late but Live.
1866. Huch, Ronald K. Review of Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell, by Paul Tankard. The Historian 78, no. 3 (2016): 593–94. https://doi.org/10.1111/hisn.12311.
1867. Hudson, Edward. “Joshua Reynolds and the Infant Johnson: New Light on an Old Riddle.” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 1 (March 2022): 19–21.
1868. Hudson, Edward. “Samuel Johnson, as Remembered 6,000 Miles Away by a Gravedigger’s Son.” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 2 (September 2023): 49–52.
1869. Hudson, Nicholas. A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson. Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies 10. London & Brookfield, Vt.: Pickering & Chatto, 2013.
      Abstract: Johnson rose from obscure origins to become a major literary figure of the eighteenth century. Through a detailed survey of his major works and political journalism, Hudson constructs a complex picture of Johnson as a moralist forced to accept the realistic nature of politics during an era of revolutionary transition.
      Review:
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson, by Nicholas Hudson. Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 40–44.
      • Folkenflik, Robert. Review of A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson, by Nicholas Hudson. New Rambler F:18 (2014): 83–87.
      • Walker, Robert G. Review of A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson, by Nicholas Hudson. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 38, no. 3 (2015): 425–35. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2015.0040.
1870. Hudson, Nicholas. Review of Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot. CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 36, no. 1 (2006): 135–39, 152.
      Abstract: Johnson “asks us to be partners in creating the text and our own moral education” (142), a judgment that applies not only to The Vanity of Human Wishes but also to the Rambler essays (1750–52) and Rasselas (1759). Similarly, in “The Life of Pope” (1781), Johnson does not merely observe that “troubles at home cause us more grief than squabbles by the clergy” (151), an opinion that would keep him well within the bounds of homely companionability and political correctness.
1871. Hudson, Nicholas. Review of Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 431–37.
1872. Hudson, Nicholas. “Creating the ‘Classless’ Author: Authorship and the Social Hierarchy, 1660–1800.” Textual Practice 33, no. 9 (2019): 1577–96.
      Abstract: This essay addresses the following question: ‘What is the social class of the author?’ Previous scholarship on the rise of modern authorship in the eighteenth century has generally answered this question in two different ways. According to some scholars, the ‘author’ emerged during this period in order to articulate and propagate ‘bourgeois’ ideology. According to other scholars, however, capitalist society increasingly excluded the literary artist from its governing aims and values. In revisiting this issue, I trace the emergence of the modern author from the late seventeenth to the eighteenth century. Beginning with the first literary biographies or ‘lives of the poets’ after the restoration, I argue that the problem of defining the author’s social status became problematic during the debates over literary property in the eighteenth century. It was left to authors and critics of the late century to define a space for authorship separate from the emergent social hierarchy.
1873. Hudson, Nicholas. “Discourse of Transition: Johnson, the 1750s, and the Rise of the Middle Class.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 13 (2002): 31–51.
1874. Hudson, Nicholas. “Johnson and Empire [Letter to the Editor].” TLS 5377 (April 21, 2006).
1875. Hudson, Nicholas. “Johnson and Natural Philosophy.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 4 (2000): 11–16.
1876. Hudson, Nicholas. “Johnson and Physick.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 3 (1999): 1–13.
1877. Hudson, Nicholas. “Johnson and Political Correctness.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 2, no. 2 (1998): 1–7.
1878. Hudson, Nicholas. “Johnson and Revolution.” Harvard Library Bulletin 20, no. 3–4 (September 2009): 9–28.
1879. Hudson, Nicholas. “Johnson and the Animal World.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 5 (2001): 1–12.
1880. Hudson, Nicholas. Johnson and the Macquarie: An Investigation of 250 Years’ Progress in Language and Lexicography. Melbourne: Privately printed for the Johnson Society of Australia, 1999.
1881. Hudson, Nicholas. “Johnson in America.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 6 (2002): 14–19.
1882. Hudson, Nicholas. “Johnson, Race, and Slavery.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 108–20. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
1883. Hudson, Nicholas. “Johnson’s Dictionary and the Politics of ‘Standard English.’” Yearbook of English Studies 28 (1998): 77–93. https://doi.org/10.2307/3508757.
1884. Hudson, Nicholas. “Johnson’s Dictionary and the Politics of ‘Standard English.’” In Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers, Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century, edited by Anne C. McDermott, 159–75. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.
1885. Hudson, Nicholas. Review of Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660–1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description, by Robert J. Mayhew. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 2 (September 2005): 55–58.
1886. Hudson, Nicholas. “Mr Johnson Changes Trains.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 7 (2005): 65–79.
1887. Hudson, Nicholas. “‘Open’ and ‘Enclosed’ Readings of Rasselas.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 31, no. 1 (March 1990): 47–67.
1888. Hudson, Nicholas. “Reassessing the Political Context of the Dictionary: Johnson and the ‘Broad-Bottom’ Opposition.” In Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott, 61–76. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
1889. Hudson, Nicholas. Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
      Abstract: Although there are many books on Samuel Johnson’s moral and religious thought, none have managed to provide a complete analysis of his relationship to the ethics and theology of the eighteenth-century. This major new study examines the background to Johnson’s views on a wide range of issues that were debated by the philosophers and divines of the age, emphasizing the ambivalence and contradiction inherent in his orthodoxy, while challenging the assumption that his religious beliefs were unstable and filled with anxiety.
      Reviews:
      • Clark, J. C. D. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. History: The Journal of the Historical Association 74, no. 242 (October 1989): 535–36.
      • Cope, Kevin L. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. South Atlantic Review 55, no. 1 (January 1990): 136–39.
      • Gray, James. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 461–72.
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. Eighteenth-Century Studies 23 (Winter 1988): 238–39.
      • McGlynn, P. D. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. Choice 26, no. 5 (January 1989): 2589.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. Johnsonian News Letter 48, no. 3 (September 1988): 1.
      • Scholtz, Gregory. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. Philological Quarterly 69 (1990): 255–58.
      • Womersley, David. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. Review of English Studies 41, no. 162 (1990): 253–54.
1890. Hudson, Nicholas. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone. New Rambler F:18 (2014): 88–89.
1891. Hudson, Nicholas. “Samuel Johnson and the Literature of Common Life.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 11, no. 1 (March 1988): 39–50. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.1988.tb00488.x.
1892. Hudson, Nicholas. Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
      Hudson seeks “to reposition Johnson within the specific and transforming historical events of his lifetime, accepting all that might make him morally uncomfortable to us as well as admirable.” He rethinks many of the commonplaces on SJ’s thoughts on politics, gender, empire, and nationalism.
      Reviews:
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England, by Nicholas Hudson. Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 2 (September 2004): 60–63.
      • Dille, Catherine. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England, by Nicholas Hudson. New Rambler E:7 (2003): 78–79.
      • Folkenflik, Robert. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England, by Nicholas Hudson. TLS 5375 (April 7, 2006): 7–8.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England, by Nicholas Hudson. Notes and Queries 52 [250], no. 1 (March 2005): 128–29.
      • Monod, Paul. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England, by Nicholas Hudson. Albion 36, no. 4 (2005): 711–13.
      • Nokes, David. “A ‘Broad-Bottomed’ Man of Letters Reborn as a Thoroughly Modern Englishman [Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England by Nicholas Hudson].” Times Higher Education Supplement, January 28, 2005.
      • Reddick, Allen. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England, by Nicholas Hudson. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 16 (2005): 285–88.
      • Redford, Bruce. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England, by Nicholas Hudson. Review of English Studies 55, no. 222 (November 2004): 807–9.
1893. Hudson, Nicholas. “Samuel Johnson and the Science of Literary Criticism.” In The Poetic Enlightenment: Poetry and Human Science, 1650–1820, edited by Tom Jones and Rowan Boyson, 15–28. Pickering & Chatto, 2013.
1894. Hudson, Nicholas. “Samuel Johnson, Infrastructure, and the Spirit of Progress.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 58, no. 1 (2024): 101–16. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2024.a944065.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson advocated the building and maintenance of roads, bridges, canals and other infrastructure as the defining difference between “civilized” and “barbaric” or “feudal” societies. His promotion of infrastructure is most clearly shown in his Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) where he comments repeatedly on roads or their absence, implying that only improved means of transport and communication will bring the Highlands into the fold of modern civilization, exemplified by England. Johnson added something of his own in his promotion of what I call “literary infrastructure,” meaning his Dictionary and other works that he describes as roads to linguistic and scholarly progress.
1895. Hudson, Nicholas. “Samuel Johnson, Urban Culture, and the Geography of Postfire London.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 42, no. 3 (June 2002): 577–600. https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2002.0028.
1896. Hudson, Nicholas. “Shakespeare’s Ghost: Johnson, Shakespeare, Garrick, and Constructing the English Middle-Class.” In Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson, edited by Eric Rasmussen and Aaron Santesso, 47–69. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
      “The rise of Shakespeare coincided with the creation of a new social order, . . . what is sometimes, misleadingly, called ‘the rise of the middle class.’” Hudson considers the relationship between Shakespeare and class identity, focusing on Garrick’s performance style.
1897. Hudson, Nicholas. “Social Hierarchy.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 360–66. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
1898. Hudson, Nicholas. “Studies in the Moral and Religious Thought of Johnson.” DPhil thesis, University of Oxford, 1984.
1899. Hudson, Nicholas. “The Active Soul and Vis Inertiae: Change and Tension in Johnson’s Philosophy from The Rambler to The Idler.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 241–62. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
1900. Hudson, Nicholas. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Modern Philology 93, no. 2 (November 1995): 263–67.
1901. Hudson, Nicholas. Review of The Making of Dr. Johnson: Icon of Modern Culture, by John Wiltshire. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 20 (2010): 331–34.
1902. Hudson, Nicholas. “The Mystery of Aesthetic Response: Dryden and Johnson on Shakespeare.” In Lumen: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Travaux Choisis de La Société Canadienne d’étude Du Dix-Huitième Siècle, edited by Joël Castonguay-Bélanger and Claire Grogan, 30:21–31, 2011.
1903. Hudson, Nicholas. “The Nature of Johnson’s Conservatism.” ELH: English Literary History 64, no. 4 (December 1997): 925–43. https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.1997.0034.
1904. Hudson, Nicholas. Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 13 (2002): 509–15.
1905. Hudson, Nicholas. “Three Steps to Perfection: Rasselas and the Philosophy of Richard Hooker.” Eighteenth-Century Life 14, no. 3 (November 1990): 29–39.
1906. Hudson, Nicholas. “Two Bits of Drudgery: A Homage to Johnson, the Lexicographer.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 2 (1997): 11–15.
1907. Hudson, Nicholas. “Virtue.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 631–45. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: Although virtue is a preeminent concern in Johnson’s writings, his various remarks on this concept are rife with inconsistencies and even contradictions. As a secular moralist, he stressed that the distinction between virtue and vice, while clear in theory, was obscured by the challenges of daily life and overborn by the senses and worldly desires. This recognition of the difficulty of a virtuous life generally led him to adopt a highly forgiving attitude towards moral failure. As a Christian thinker, however, he was far less forgiving, at least on himself. In his religious writings, the term “virtue” is mostly eclipsed by the different concept of “sin.” “Sin” concerned not just virtuous behavior but private thoughts and inward piety, leading him to a stern and even despairing assessment of his own chances for salvation.
1908. Hudson, Nicholas. “Johnson and the Grammarians.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 12 (2010): 61–78.
1909. Hughes, Gay W. “The Estrangement of Hester Thrale and Samuel Johnson: A Revisionist View.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 145–91.
1910. Hughes, Kathryn. Review of Dr Johnson’s Women, by Norma Clarke. Daily Telegraph, January 13, 2001.
1911. Hughes, Kathryn. “The Definition of Brilliance [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Mail on Sunday, August 24, 2008.
1912. Hughes, Kathryn. “The Rambler Revisited: A New Biography of Johnson Paints the Great Man in Fresh Colours.” Guardian, October 3, 2009.
1913. Hüllen, Werner. Review of Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott. Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences/Revue Internationale pour l’Histoire des Sciences du Langage/Internationale Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften 33, no. 3 (2006): 426–30.
1914. Hume, Robert D. Review of Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, by David Wheeler. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 28, no. 3 (1988): 521–22.
1915. Hume, Robert D. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 28, no. 3 (1988): 521–22.
1916. Hume, Robert D. Review of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 28, no. 3 (1988): 521–22.
1917. Hundley, Patrick D. “Dr. Johnson’s Theory of Autobiography.” New Rambler C:24, no. 23 (1982): 11–16.
1918. Hunter, David. “Printing Technology: A Review Essay [Includes Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin Kernan].” Libraries & Culture: A Journal of Library History 23, no. 3 (June 1988): 374–80.
1919. Hunter, Katherine Montgomery. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Literature and Medicine 11, no. 2 (1992): 344–47.
1920. Hurst, Mary Jane. “Samuel Johnson’s Dying Words.” English Language Notes 23, no. 2 (December 1985): 45–53.
1921. Hutchings, Bill, and Bill Ruddick. “Johnson’s London and The Vanity of Human Wishes: Classical and Eighteenth-Century Contexts.” In Proceedings of the English Association North, 2:63–77, 1986.
1922. Hutchings, W. B. “Johnson and Juvenal.” New Rambler D:3, no. 3 (1987): 21–22.
1923. Hutchings, W. B. “Johnson’s Life of Pope: Morality and Judgment.” New Rambler D:10, no. 10 (1994): 3–14.
1924. Hutchings, William, and William Ruddick. “Samuel Johnson and Landscape.” In Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, edited by Nalini Jain, 67–81. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991.
1925. Hutchinson, Roger. “Biographer Who Stayed True to Life [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” The Scotsman, November 4, 2000.
1926. Hutchison, Roger. All the Sweets of Being: A Life of James Boswell. London: Mainstream Publishing, 1996. Reviews:
      • Groom, Nick. “Obsessions of a Drunken Philanderer [Review of All the Sweets of Being: A Life of James Boswell by Roger Hutchison].” Financial Times, August 5, 1995.
      • Newman, Donald J. Review of All the Sweets of Being: A Life of James Boswell, by Roger Hutchison. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 11 (1997): 19.
      • Review of All the Sweets of Being: A Life of James Boswell, by Roger Hutchinson. Publishers Weekly 242, no. 49 (1995): 50.
1927. Hutson, Lorna. “‘Quando?’ (When?) In Romeo and Juliet.” In Circumstantial Shakespeare, 36–69. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199657100.003.0002.
      Abstract: This chapter shows how belief in the autonomy and depth (or plenitude) of Shakespearean character has been inseparable from an assumption that Shakespeare’s plots are relatively informal, merely following the order of events as given in his source texts. The chapter shows how this belief has lasted from the eighteenth century (Samuel Johnson, Charlotte Lennox) to the present. It has survived the ‘unediting’ deconstruction of ‘Authentic Shakespeare’. The chapter analyses the plot of Romeo and Juliet, showing that Shakespeare does not merely follow his sources (Boaistuau and Arthur Brooke) but rather identifies a key circumstantial topic of argument—the question of Time, of whether the time is ripe for Juliet’s marriage—and goes on to build dialogue, scenes, and action around this question. A circumstantial question thus implies an offstage world and helps create our sense of Juliet’s ‘unconscious’ and of adolescent ‘sexuality’.
1928. Hyde, Mary. “Adam, Tinker, and Newton, 1909–48.” Modern Philology 85 (May 1988): 558–68.
1929. Iamartino, Giovanni. “‘A Hundred Visions and Revisions’: Malone’s Annotations to Johnson’s Dictionary.” In Historical Dictionaries in Their Paratextual Context, edited by Roderick McConchie and Jukka Tyrkkö, 115–48. Berlin: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2018.
1930. Iamartino, Giovanni. “At Table with Dr Johnson: Food for the Body, Nourishment for the Mind.” In Not Just Porridge: English Literati at Table, edited by Francesca Orestano and Michael Vickers, 17–34. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2017. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1pzk2f2.6.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson epitomises the spirit of the eighteenth century in England. His life (1709–1784) spans three quarters of the century; his literary and critical output both embodies and shapes the taste of the day, connecting himself and his readers to other great names of the English and European literary traditions. His famous Dictionary of the English Language (Johnson 1755) provides evidence of both the linguistic usage of his world and the literary and scientific culture which lay at the heart of that world. Extraordinary as a writer, therefore; but also unique as a man, both for his personality and the
1931. Iamartino, Giovanni. “Dyer’s and Burke’s Addenda and Corrigenda to Johnson’s Dictionary as Clues to Its Contemporary Reception.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 8, no. 2 (July 1995): 199–248.
1932. Iamartino, Giovanni. “English Flour and Italian Bran: Johnson’s Dictionary and the Reformation of Italian Lexicography in the Early Nineteenth Century.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 19, no. 1 (2006): 203–16.
1933. Iamartino, Giovanni. “Johnsoniana: The Economist, 30 January 2016.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 25–26.
1934. Iamartino, Giovanni. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone. Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 57–61.
1935. Iamartino, Giovanni. “What Johnson Means to Me.” Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 1 (March 2007): 18–21.
      On the author’s fascination with Johnson’s Dictionary and Barretti’s English–Italian dictionary.
1936. Iamartino, Giovanni, and Robert DeMaria Jr., eds. “Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary and the Eighteenth-Century World of Words [Special Section].” Textus: English Studies in Italy 19, no. 1 (June 2006): 5–261. Reviews:
      • Hedrick, Elizabeth. Review of Textus: English Studies in Italy, by Giovanni Iamartino and Robert DeMaria Jr. Johnsonian News Letter 59, no. 1 (March 2008): 55–58.
1937. Ibbetson, David. Review of A Course of Lectures on the English Law: Delivered at the University of Oxford 1767–1773, by Thomas M. Curley. Notes and Queries 35 [233] (1988): 540–41.
1938. The Independent. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. August 10, 2007.
1939. Ingledew, John. “Samuel Johnson’s Jamaican Connections.” Caribbean Quarterly 30, no. 2 (1984): 1–17.
1940. Ingram, Allan. “Boswell Reading Boswell: A Chapter in Autobiographical Misconstruction.” In Lire l’autre Dans l’Europe Des Lumières / Reading the Other in Enlightenment Europe, edited by Andréa Gagnoud and Thomas Bremer. Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2007. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pulm.1446.
      Abstract: James Boswell, like any contemporary Scottish or English gentleman, was a wide reader, schooled in the classics and, of course, in the greats of the vernacular, especially Shakespeare, Addison and, of his immediate contemporaries, Johnson. Boswell’s reading, however, was not at all systematic, or systematisable. Except in his legal practice, where he often records reading solidly and unenthusiastically for a particular case, he tended to read as the mood took him, and often altogether without solidity. But Boswell’s reading was in one respect distinctive, even thorough, and certainly directed towards understanding one thing as clearly as possible, even if filled with misreadings and misconstructions. He read his own journal, and the intention was to understand himself. My point is that Boswell made a conscious and sustained attempt with the Life of Johnson to edit himself into a less mockable, less amusing, less frivolous narrative figure for the purposes of public consumption, and thereby into a more consistent, less shaming, less volatile individual for his own consumption than in the journals that provided the fundamental reading material for the lives of Boswell and of Johnson.
1941. Ingram, Allan. “Boswell’s Big Adventures: London, Scotland, London.” In Adventure: An Eighteenth-Century Idiom: Essays on the Daring and the Bold as a Pre-Modern Medium, edited by Serge Soupel, Kevin L. Cope, Alexander Pettit, and Laura Thomason Wood, 3–22. New York: AMS Press, 2009.
1942. Ingram, Allan. “The Hypochondriack and Its Context: James Boswell, 1777–1783.” In Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, edited by Donald J. Newman, 108–27. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
1943. Ingram, Allan. “In Company and Out: The Public/Private Selves of Johnson and Boswell.” In British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century: Challenging the Anglo-French Connection, edited by Alain Kerhervé and Valérie Capdeville, 185–98. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787444904.015.
      Abstract: Sociable conversation, in all periods, but especially in the formal atmosphere and gender-restricted context of the eighteenth century, is the public face of the individual: that which is on display as against that which remains, more or less effectively, hidden from view. It represents the self that we wish to present to the world, even if that world is in the form of friends and family. The private self, certainly, can sometimes be observed through the cracks, and few performances are perfect, but to discover the extent and nature of that private self demands other sources, other more intimate means of inquiry, and other kinds of relationships. With writers like Johnson and Boswell we are unusually privileged, in that the opportunities are there for comparison between the self in performance and the self that can be read in their published and unpublished works. Thanks to Boswell, especially to his journal and his works on Johnson, we are afforded unique insights into both himself and his friend and idol Johnson, their inner selves as against their public and social personalities. In understanding these differences in perspective we can also read something of the nature of eighteenth-century society, of the weight given to social presence and performance and of the generally forbidden territory that was occupied by inner realities. This chapter explores some of those performances and some of that territory. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell valued sociability as amongst the very highest pleasures of living within a civilised society. The whole business of interchange of ideas, of pleasantries, even of insults — in short, of what had become known in the period as clubbability — are conspicuously present in all accounts of the ways they chose to spend their time, both when together, during Boswell’s usually annual visits to London, and in the course of their separate lives. Yet this straightforward truth also conceals personal complexities in each man’s case that make their respective attitudes towards company, conversation and sociability a good deal more paradoxical. Much as they genuinely enjoyed sociable companionability, different, and sometimes overlapping, facets of their personalities at times pulled against their clubbable capacities: competitiveness, self-indulgence, depression and world-weariness were all essentially anti-social tendencies that either were in danger of damaging the civilised within society or by their very nature made isolating and self-absorbing demands on each man.
1944. Ingram, Allan. “In Two Minds: Johnson, Boswell, and Representation of the Self.” In Writing and Constructing the Self in Great Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by John Baker, Marion Leclair, and Allan Ingram, 135–50. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.
1945. Ingram, Allan. “James Boswell.” Scottish Literary Review 1, no. 2 (2009): 86–87.
1946. Ingram, Allan. “James Boswell, Man of Mystery.” Études Ecossaises 9 (2003): 209–21.
1947. Ingram, Allan. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. Yearbook of English Studies 28 (1998): 319–20.
1948. Ingram, Allan. Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, by Pat Rogers. Yearbook of English Studies 25 (1995): 297–98.
1949. Ingram, Allan. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. Yearbook of English Studies 32, no. 1 (January 2002): 298–99.
1950. Ingram, Allan. “Mental Health.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 260–67. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
1951. Ingram, Allan. “Political Hypochondria: The Case of James Boswell.” Cycnos 16, no. 1 (1999): 1–17.
1952. Ingram, Allan. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791, by Freya Johnston. Modern Language Review 102, no. 2 (2007): 486.
1953. Ingram, Allan. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Modern Language Review 94, no. 3 (July 1999): 792–93.
1954. Ingram, Allan. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Modern Language Review 101, no. 3 (July 2006): 820.
1955. Ingram, Allan. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. New Rambler E:2 (1998): 71–73.
1956. Ingram, Allan. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Yearbook of English Studies 25 (1995): 296–97.
1957. Ingram, Allan. Review of The Mind’s Extensive View: Samuel Johnson on Poetic Language, by Nalini Jain. Modern Language Review 89 (April 1994): 451–52.
1958. Ingram, Allan. Review of The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets,” by Martin Maner. Modern Language Review 86, no. 2 (April 1991): 403–4.
1959. Ingram, Allan. “The Vision at Slains: Boswell’s Supernatural Encounters.” Etudes Ecossaises 7 (2001): 7–20.
1960. Ingram, Allan. Review of Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat, by Stephen Miller. Modern Language Review 98, no. 4 (2003): 967.
1961. Ingrams, Richard. “‘Old Dread Devil.’” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1989, 8–15.
1962. Ingram, Robert G., and William Gibson. “James Boswell and the Bi-Confessional State.” In Religious Identities in Britain, 1660–1832, 129–56. London: Routledge, 2005. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315244631-13.
      Abstract: The bi-confessional polity of Georgian Britain was fundamentally different from uni-confessional polities with which ancien regime studies lump it. In the political theory of a classic monist confessional realm, there juridically is (or ought to be) only one king, one faith, and one law. Transparently in Britain after 1689, and even after the Union of England and Scotland into Great Britain in 1707, that was not the case. In Great Britain 1707–1800, there was certainly one king, but juridically speaking there were two faiths, and two laws. Actually, in light of the refocus of attention on the survival of Jacobitism 1689–1789, we might as well claim two kings, two faiths, and two laws and complete the parallel.
1963. Ink and Incapability. Blackadder the Third, 1987.
      Written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis. The Prince Regent (Hugh Laurie) wants to become the patron of Johnson (Robbie Coltrane) for his Dictionary. After Baldrick (Tony Robinson) accidentally burns the sole manuscript, Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) has to recreate the entire thing from scratch. Also includes appearances by a roguish group of poets, including Coleridge (Jim Sweeney), Shelley (Lee Cornes), and Byron (Steve Steen).
1964. Insalaco, Danielle. “Thinking of Italy, Making History: Johnson and Historiography.” In Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, edited by Philip Smallwood, 99–113. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001.
1965. Ireland, Dale Katherine. “Samuel Johnson’s Uses of Peru: A Humanist-Nationalism.” MA thesis, California State University, 2005.
1966. “Isaac Watts’s Occasional Conformities.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 48/49, no. 2/1 (Spring-Autumn 2016): 100.
1967. Isaacson, David. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Jerusalem Post Magazine, February 10, 1996.
1968. Italia, Iona. “Johnson as Moralist in The Rambler.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 51–76.
      “In The Rambler, Johnson attempts to use the literary essay-periodical, which — unlike the essay tout court — was traditionally the vehicle of wit, primarily as a means of moral instruction. . . . The most important features of Johnson’s publication all shed light on Johnson’s moralism: The Rambler’s uniformity of tone; its adoption of a persona who is a representative figure, rather than an eccentric individual; its focus on the universals of human behavior rather than current affairs or the fashions and follies beloved of Richard Steele; together with its didactic tone.”
1969. Italia, Iona. “‘Writing like a Teacher’: Johnson as Moralist in The Rambler.” In The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century: Anxious Employment, 140–64. London: Routledge, 2005.
      Adapted from the article “Johnson as Moralist.”
1970. Ivanova, Eugenia V. “Жанр Биографии В Русской Литературе: Западноевропейские Влияния [Biography Genre in Russian literature: European and British Influences].” Studia litterarum 1, no. 3–4 (2016): 43–59. https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2016-1-3-4-43-59.
      Abstract: The article examines the development of the genre of biography and life writing that influenced Russian biographical tradition. This tradition stems from Plutarch’s Comparative Biographies that influenced English life writing represented by such names as James Boswell, Lytton Strachey, and others. Philosophical premises of the English biography genre are to be found in the treatise Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841) by Thomas Carlyle. French tradition represented by Gaston Tissandier’s book Science Martyrs pursued the opposite aim: to honor ordinary scientists and inventors, responsible for the technical advance of the modern civilization. Wilhelm Dilthey and Georg Simmel practiced a different approach to life writing in that they conceived biography as the history of the person’s spiritual development. This conception had direct influence on the theorists of biography genre in Russia, G. O. Vinokur, and A. G. Gabrichevsky.
1971. Iwata, Miki. “Johnson and Garrick on Hamlet.” In Johnson in Japan, edited by Kimiyo Ogawa, Mika Suzuki, and Greg Clingham, 88–104. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
1972. Izumitani, Yutaka. A Study of “Rasselas” in Japan. Hiroshima: Keisui, 2001.
1973. Izumitani, Yutaka. Johnson: His Life as a Born Fighter. Hiroshima: Keisui, 1992.
1974. Izzard, John. “Messing about in Dictionaries [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch].” Quadrant, June 2005.
1975. Jack, Ian. “Johnson and Autobiography.” New Rambler C:24, no. 23 (1982): 28–29.
1976. Jack, Malcolm. “Mandeville, Johnson, Morality and Bees.” In Mandeville and Augustan Ideas: New Essays, edited by Charles W. A. Prior, 85–96. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria Department of English, 2000.
1977. Jack, Malcolm. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 26 (2021): 266–69.
1978. Jack, Malcolm. Review of The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters; or, Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life, by Henry Hitchings. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 25 (2020): 278–80.
1979. Jackson, Crispin. “Samuel Johnson.” Book and Magazine Collector 117 (1993): 44–56.
1980. Jackson, Gabriele Bernhard. “From Essence to Accident: Locke and the Language of Poetry in the Eighteenth Century.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 29, no. 1 (December 1987): 27–66.
1981. Jackson, H. J. “A General Theory of Fame in the Lives of the Poets.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 19 (2009): 9–20.
      A consideration of literary fame and immortality. “Johnson’s concept of fame owes a great deal to classical tradition and a little to modern developments. Though for the most part he accepted and articulated the received wisdom of his time, at two or three points he took issue with it in interesting ways.”
1982. Jackson, H. J. “An Important Annotated Boswell.” Review of English Studies 49, no. 193 (February 1998): 9–22.
      Abstract: This article describes an annotated copy of the first edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson in the British Library. The annotator, previously unknown, can be identified on the basis of both internal and external evidence as Fulke Greville (1717–1806), who was a grandson of the fifth Baron Brooke, the patron of Charles Burney, an Envoy to Bavaria, a gentleman amateur author, and an acquaintance of many of Johnson’s circle, including Johnson himself. The notes were intended initially as a contribution to Boswell’s second edition, but they expanded to become an extensive commentary on the society and literature of the whole century.
      https://doi.org/10.1093/res/49.193.9.
1983. Jackson, H. J. “Big and Little Matters: Discrepancies in the Genius of Samuel Johnson [Review of Loving Dr. Johnson by Helen Deutsch; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’ by Allen Reddick; Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791 by Freya Johnston; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; and A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man by O M Brack, Jr.” TLS, November 11, 2005, 3–4.
1984. Jackson, H. J. “Biography.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 127–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
1985. Jackson, H. J. “By Perseverance [Review of Samuel Johnson, the ‘Ossian’ Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland, by Thomas M. Curley; Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood; and Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” TLS 5551–52 (August 21, 2009): 13–14.
1986. Jackson, H. J. Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria Jr. TLS, no. 5358 (December 9, 2005): 29.
1987. Jackson, H. J. “Johnson’s Milton and Coleridge’s Wordsworth.” Studies in Romanticism 28 (1989): 29–47.
1988. Jackson, H. J. “Lest We Lose a Thought [Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale].” TLS 5378 (April 28, 2006): 33.
1989. Jackson, H. J. “Object Lessons.” In Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, 101–48. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
      On Hester Thrale Piozzi’s annotated Rasselas and Fulke Greville’s annotated Life of Johnson.
1990. Jackson, H. J. “The Immoderation of Samuel Johnson.” University of Toronto Quarterly 59, no. 3 (March 1990): 382–98. https://doi.org/10.3138/utq.59.3.382.
1991. Jackson, H. J. “Two Profiles.” In Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, 149–78. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
      On annotations in Boswell’s Life.
1992. Jackson, Kevin. “Taking Liberties on the Low Road: John Byrne Directs Fellow Scots John Sessions and Robbie Coltrane in ‘Boswell and Johnson’s Tour of the Western Isles,’ His ‘Screenplay’ for BBC2.” The Independent, October 26, 1993.
1993. Jackson, Lorne. “A Man of Man [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Sunday Mercury, August 10, 2008.
1994. Jackson, Lorne. “Putdowns to Pick Up [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch].” Sunday Mercury, October 30, 2005.
1995. Jackson-Holzberg, Christine. “James Elphinston and Samuel Johnson: Contact, Irritations, and an ‘Argonautic’ Letter.” In Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 31–52. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684480265-004.
1996. Jacobs, Alan. “Bran Flakes and Harmless Drudges [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Christianity Today, January 2006.
1997. Jaeger, Ernest. Review of A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland [read by Patrick Tull and Alexander Spenser], by Samuel Johnson. Library Journal 114, no. 20 (December 1989): 200.
1998. Jain, Jasbir. “The Imperial Concept: Johnson and Burke.” Indian Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 1, no. 1 (June 1986): 17–28.
1999. Jain, Nalini. “Echoes of Milton in Johnson’s Irene.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 24, no. 9–10 (May 1986): 134–36.
2000. Jain, Nalini. “Ideas of the Origin of Language in the Eighteenth Century: Johnson versus the Philosophers.” In Aberdeen and the Enlightenment, edited by Jennifer J. Carter and Joan H. Pittock, 291–97. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987.
2001. Jain, Nalini. “Johnson as a Critic of Poetic Language.” DPhil thesis, University of Oxford, 1983.
2002. Jain, Nalini. “Johnson’s Irene: The First Draft.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 13, no. 2 (September 1990): 163–67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.1990.tb00126.x.
2003. Jain, Nalini. “Johnson’s Shakespeare: A Moral and Religious Quest.” In Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, edited by Nalini Jain, 82–101. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991.
2004. Jain, Nalini, ed. Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991. Reviews:
      • Berland, Kevin J. Review of Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, by Nalini Jain. East-Central Intelligencer 6, no. 1 (1992): 24–26.
      • Dix, R. Review of Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, by Nalini Jain. Durham University Journal 53, no. 2 (1992): 342–43.
2005. Jain, Nalini. “Samuel Johnson’s ‘China to Peru.’” Notes and Queries 45 [243], no. 4 (December 1998): 455–455. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/45.4.455-a.
2006. Jain, Nalini. “Samuel Johnson’s ‘China to Peru’ and Joseph Glanvill.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 6, no. 4 (October 1993): 207–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.1993.10542843.
2007. Jain, Nalini. The Mind’s Extensive View: Samuel Johnson on Poetic Language. Strathay, Perthshire: Clunie Press, 1991. Reviews:
      • Ingram, Allan. Review of The Mind’s Extensive View: Samuel Johnson on Poetic Language, by Nalini Jain. Modern Language Review 89 (April 1994): 451–52.
2008. Jain, Nalini. “The Vanity of Human Wishes.” Notes and Queries 41 [239], no. 2 (June 1994): 198–99. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/41-2-198.
2009. Jajdelska, Elspeth. “Who Was Johnson’s ‘Common Reader’?: Reconfiguring Rhetoric and Performance in the Eighteenth Century.” In Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600–1750: Studies in Social Rank and Communication, 177–95. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315610337-7.
      Abstract: Printed texts in the late seventeenth century could be realised in speech: preaching to a hierarchically organised congregation; exchanging recipes in the home. But when print norms detach from speech norms, then texts can detach from these spoken contexts. Without that context, meanings can be harder to pin down and readers may resort to model contexts to resolve ambiguity. In this I suggest that eighteenth-century readers and writers converged on an implicit model context for printed texts, a model founded on the seventeenth-century rhetorical landscape. In particular, eighteenth-century readers preserved the seventeenth-century understandings of: authorship as performative; authorial intention as the arbiter for texts” meanings; and authorial speech as the test for resolving textual ambiguities. They also developed the seventeenth-century idea of a “common reader,” nowadays associated with the criticism of Samuel Johnson. Johnson’s common reader, I will argue, combined positive features of “common” — that which is shared — with stigmatised features such as “unsophisticated” or “ignorant.” The seventeenth-century critic, with his right to pass judgement on performances, acquired a new role as the gentlemanly friend and protector of the common reader. In combination the common reader and the polite critic produced, I suggest, a model context for text comprehension, one in which authors were performers to a notional, “common,” reader, while an expert critic reader observed them.
2010. James Boswell. Andrew Marr’s Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation. London: BBC Worldwide, 2014.
      Abstract: The Scottish vote for independence in September 2014 led to a soul-searching, national debate about what it means to be Scottish and also what it means to be British. So how did we get to this point? Andrew Marr believes that if you really want to get to the heart of this great battle for Scottish identity in Britain, you have to turn to the greatest writers that came from north of the border: James Boswell, Sir Walter Scott and Hugh MacDiarmid. Across three turbulent centuries, these writers were to shape the way the world looked at Scotland — for good and for ill — and so Andrew looks at the lives of these men who were so pivotal in shaping Scotland’s character. Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation looks back at these creative geniuses to answer the crucial question — what image of Scotland will the nation choose for itself this time?
2011. “James Boswell: A Life of Johnson.” The Bookseller (London), no. 5205 (2005): 40.
2012. “James Boswell: A Sentimental Education.” History Today 61, no. 4 (2011).
2013. Jannetta, Mervyn. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. The Library 8, no. 3 (1986): 284–85.
2014. Janz, Heidi L. “Crip Writers/Written Crips: Constructions of Illness and Disability in Selected Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Poetry and Fiction.” PhD thesis, University of Alberta, 2003.
      See especially chapter 3, “Samuel Johnson: Written Writer, Unwritten Crip.”
2015. Jarman, Mark. “Comment: Letter from the Western Isles.” Hudson Review 67, no. 4 (Winter 2015): 533.
      Abstract: Jarman narrates his trip to Scotland aboard the Caledonian MacBrayne. He further cites the Scottish referendum on independence. Among other things, Jarman talks about Samuel Johnson’s A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, an account of the trip he took with James Boswell, which increases his desire to visit these places even more.
2016. Jarrett, Derek. “Guilt-Edged Insecurity.” New York Review of Books 37 (April 26, 1990): 11–13.
      A survey of the whole edition of Boswell’s journals.
2017. Jarrett, Derek. “The Doctor’s Prescription [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking, and Samuel Johnson, by Walter Jackson Bate].” New York Review of Books 46, no. 5 (March 18, 1999): 39–42.
2018. Jarvis, Simon. “Johnson’s Authorities: The Professional Scholar and English Texts in Lexicography and Textual Criticism.” In Scholars and Gentlemen: Shakespearian Textual Criticism and Representations of Scholarly Labour, 1725–1765, 129–58. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
2019. Jarvis, Simon. “Johnson’s Theory and Practice of Shakespearian Textual Criticism.” In Scholars and Gentlemen: Shakespearian Textual Criticism and Representations of Scholarly Labour, 1725–1765, 159–81. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
2020. Jayraj, S. Joseph Arul. “The Classicists’ Myopia and the Neo-Classicists’ Foresight in Perceiving the Superiority of Epic over Tragedy: A Critical Survey.” Language in India 17, no. 4 (2017): 63–80.
2021. Jefferson, D. W. Three Essays: Johnson, Wordsworth, Byron. Leeds: Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 1998.
2022. Jeffreys-Powell, Paul. “A Grammatical Error in Johnson’s Ode on the Isle of Skye (‘Ponti Profundis Clausa Recessibus’).” Notes and Queries 35 [233], no. 2 (June 1988): 190–91. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/35-2-190.
2023. Jemielity, Thomas. “‘A Keener Eye on Vacancy’: Boswell’s Second Thoughts about Second Sight.” Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism 11, no. 1 (May 1988): 24–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440358808586325.
2024. Jemielity, Thomas. “‘More Disagreeable for Him to Teach, or the Boys to Learn’? The Vanity of Human Wishes in the Classroom.” In Teaching Eighteenth-Century Poetry, edited by Christopher Fox, 291–302. New York: AMS Press, 1990.
2025. Jemielity, Thomas. “Prophetic Voices and Satiric Echoes.” Cithara 29, no. 1 (1989): 30–47.
2026. Jemielity, Thomas. “Samuel Johnson and the Ossianic Controversy.” Selected Papers on Medievalism 2 (1986): 43–51.
2027. Jemielity, Thomas. “Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes and Biographical Criticism.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 15 (1986): 227–39.
2028. Jemielity, Thomas. “Teaching A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by Johnson David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 99–106. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
2029. Jemielity, Thomas. “Thomas Pennant’s Scottish Tours and A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 312–27. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
2030. Jenkins, E. J. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Choice 41, no. 1 (September 2003): 0531.
2031. Jenkins, Elizabeth. “Dr. Johnson and David Garrick: A Friendship.” New Rambler C:24, no. 23 (1982): 20–21.
2032. Jenkins, H. J. K. “Night in the North Sea and the Feasibility of Samuel Johnson’s London.” In The Enlightenment by Night: Essays on After-Dark Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Serge Soupel, Kevin L. Cope, and Alexander Pettit, 197–215. New York: AMS Press, 2010.
2033. Jenkyns, Richard. “Peculiar Words [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Prospect, April 21, 2005.
2034. Jennings, Judith. “‘By No Means in a Liberal Style’: Mary Morris Knowles versus James Boswell.” In Women Editing/Editing Women: Early Modern Women Writers and the New Textualism, edited by Ann Hollinshead Hurley and Chanita Goodblatt, 227–55. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
2035. Jennings, Judith. “Defying James Boswell.” In Gender, Religion, and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The “Ingenious Quaker” and Her Connections. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
2036. Jennings, Judith. “Confronting Samuel Johnson.” In Gender, Religion, and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The “Ingenious Quaker” and Her Connections, 49–71. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
2037. Joeckel, Samuel. “Lewis and Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas: Hearing the Call of the Sehnsucht.” CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 27, no. 4 (February 1996): 1–6.
2038. Joeckel, Samuel T. “Narratives of Hope, Fictions of Happiness: Samuel Johnson and Enlightenment Experience.” Christianity and Literature 53, no. 1 (September 2003): 19–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/014833310305300102.
2039. Johannisson, Karin. “Medicin pa samhallsschenen [review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire].” Lychnos, 1993.
2040. John, Hugh. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. Times Educational Supplement 3895 (April 26, 1996).
2041. John, Vijaya. “Johnson’s Dictionary: Some Reflections.” In Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, edited by T. R. Sharma, 1–4. India: Shalabh, 1986.
2042. “Johnson and China: Culture, Commerce, and the Dream of the Orient in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 53, no. 1 (Autumn 2020): 17–19.
2043. “Johnson beyond Boswell [Review of Why Read Samuel Johnson?, By Stephen Miller].” Wilson Quarterly 23, no. 3 (1999): 119–20.
2044. Johnson, Boris. “Dr Johnson Was a Slobbering, Sexist Xenophobe Who Understood Human Nature.” The Telegraph, September 14, 2009.
      “Dr Johnson was a brilliant champion of the English language and the little guy. . . . He is a free-market, monarchy-loving advocate of the necessity of human inequality.”
2045. Johnson, Boswell, and Their Circle: Books and Manuscripts, Including New Acquisitions from a Private Collection. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1999.
2046. Johnson, Christopher D. “A Rhetoric of Truth and Instruction: Hawkins’s The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., and Eighteenth-Century Biographical Practice.” In Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Johnson, edited by Martine W. Brownley, 59–73. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2012.
2047. Johnson, Christopher D. Review of New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, by Anthony W. Lee. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 26 (2021): 259–62. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684483242-014.
2048. Johnson, Erik L. “‘Life beyond Life’: Reading Milton’s Areopagitica through Enlightenment Vitalism.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 49, no. 3 (2016): 353–70.
      Abstract: Scientific attempts to define life, familiarly linked to romanticism and to poetic form, had an earlier and broader impact on literary interpretation. John Milton’s Areopagitica, which metaphorically treats books as living things, rose to preeminence during the eighteenth century as readers paid increasing attention to its literary qualities. A free adaptation by Honoré de Mirabeau on the eve of the French Revolution minimized Milton’s republicanism and drew out the tendencies toward vitalism inherent in his figurative language. Together with British responses to Samuel Johnson’s critical 1779 Life of Milton, Mirabeau’s adaptation demonstrates a way of reading informed by Enlightenment vitalism.
2049. Johnson, Greg. “A Sympathetic Look at the Making of a Masterpiece [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, September 2, 2001.
2050. Johnson, Holly Catherine. “William Law, Samuel Johnson, and the Readers They Created.” MA thesis, University of Maryland at College Park, 1989.
2051. Johnson, Keith. “Ascertaining English: The Eighteenth Century.” In The History of Late Modern Englishes: An Activity-Based Approach, 1:11–31. London: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429243493-2.
      Abstract: This chapter focuses on English in Britain during the eighteenth century. It begins by looking at the complaints of authors like Jonathan Swift about the inadequacies of the language, together with the calls that he and others made for the language to be “improved.” A section looks at how prescription and proscription were introduced as means of ameliorating the language, as well as of developing a standard form for it. Various ways in which this was done are considered, beginning with “usage guides.” The work of William Lowth is particularly focused on. Attention then turns to the most influential eighteenth-century work related to the English language: Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary. This is described and discussed in some detail. A description of eighteenth-century British English then follows, looking in turn at graphology, grammar, and lexis. A final section argues that although prescription was a preoccupation of the century, many linguistic works of the time, including Johnson’s Dictionary, provided valuable descriptions of the language.
2052. Johnson, Keith. “Fixing the Language: Samuel Johnson and His Dictionary.” In Landmarks in the History of the English Language, 74–84. London: Routledge, 2024.
      Abstract: Landmarks in the History of the English Language identifies twelve key landmarks spread throughout the language’s history to provide a lively and interesting introduction to the history of English. Each landmark focuses on one individual associated with the key moment which helps to engage the reader and provide the history of the language with a ‘human face.’ The landmarks range from Alfred the Great and his attempts to further English through its use in education, to the spread of English worldwide and the work of the linguist Braj Kachru. The final chapter takes a look into the future through the writings of David Crystal. Whilst focusing on the specific events and people, the book includes a broad outline of the history of English so that the reader can locate each landmark within the language’s history. Written in a student-friendly style and with short activities available online, this book provides a brief introduction for those coming to the topic for the first time, as well a
2053. Johnson, Nancy. “Johnsoniana: Adam Gopnik.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 1 (March 2018): 64.
2054. Johnson, Nancy Newberry. “Theories of the Earth in A Dictionary of the English Language (1755): Samuel Johnson’s Engagement with Early Science.” PhD thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2001.
2055. Johnson, Paul. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. The Spectator, October 30, 1993.
2056. Johnson, Paul. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Insight on the News 16, no. 48 (2000): 26.
2057. Johnson, Paul. “Of Diaries and Drink.” Insight on the News 16, no. 48 (2000): 26.
2058. Johnson, Samuel. A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality; or, Essay on Man (A Translation from the French). Edited by O M Brack Jr. The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson 17. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Reviews:
      • Jackson, H. J. “Big and Little Matters: Discrepancies in the Genius of Samuel Johnson [Review of Loving Dr. Johnson by Helen Deutsch; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’ by Allen Reddick; Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791 by Freya Johnston; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; and A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man by O M Brack, Jr.” TLS, November 11, 2005, 3–4.
      • Johnston, Freya. Review of A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality; or, Essay on Man (A Translation from the French), by O M Brack Jr. New Rambler E:9 (2005): 83–87.
      • Lee, Anthony W. “Quo Vadis? Samuel Johnson in the New Millennium [Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757–1763, by David Hankins and James J. Caudle; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man: A Translation from the French, by O M Brack, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick; and Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot].” Modern Philology 104, no. 4 (May 2007): 529–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/519192.
      • Lock, F. P. Review of A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality; or, Essay on Man (A Translation from the French), by O M Brack Jr. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 2 (September 2005): 52–54.
      • Shankman, Steven. Review of A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality; or, Essay on Man (A Translation from the French), by O M Brack Jr. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 415–16.
      • Walker, Robert G. “A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality; or, Essay on Man (A Translation from the French).” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 39, no. 1 (2006): 56–58.
2059. Johnson, Samuel. A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality; or, Essay on Man (A Translation from the French). Edited by O M Brack Jr. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
2060. Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language. 2 vols. London: Longman, 1990. Reviews:
      • Enright, D. J. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language, by Samuel Johnson. The Independent, September 30, 1990.
      • Hawtree, Christopher. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language, by Samuel Johnson. Times Educational Supplement 3895 (February 22, 1991): 35.
      • Kolb, Gwin J., and Ruth Kolb. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language, by Samuel Johnson. Johnsonian News Letter 50, no. 3–51, 3 (September 1990): 6–8.
      • Rawson, Claude. “Samuel Johnson Goes Abroad [Review of Johnson’s Dictionary, Longman; Johnson’s Shakespeare by G. F. Parker; The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’ by Allen Reddick; A Voyage to Abyssinia by Joel J. Gold; Rasselas and Other Tales by Gwin J. Kolb].” London Review of Books 13, no. 15 (1991): 15–17.
2061. Johnson Samuel. “A Dictionary of the English Language” Jukyuseiki eigo jiten fukkoku shusei. Edited by Todd Henry John and Nagashima Daisuke. 4 vols. Tokyo: Yumanishobo, 2001.
2062. Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM. Edited by Anne McDermott. Cambridge: University of Birmingham Press, 1996. Reviews:
      • Ameghino, Jenni. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. Birmingham Evening Post, March 23, 1996.
      • Clark, J. C. D. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. History Today 46 (December 1996): 55.
      • Clark, J. C. D. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. History Today 46 (February 1997): 48.
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 2 (September 2005): 58–60.
      • Fraser, Michael. “Chaucer, Johnson, and Shakespeare on CD-ROM [Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott].” Computers & Texts 12 (July 1996): 21–25.
      • John, Hugh. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. Times Educational Supplement 3895 (April 26, 1996).
      • LaGuardia, C., and E. Tallent. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. Library Journal 122, no. 8 (May 1, 1997): 148.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne C. McDermott. Choice 34, no. 7 (March 1997): 1155.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 352–57.
      • McCue, Jim. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. The Times, June 21, 1996.
      • Naughton, John. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. The Observer, March 24, 1996.
      • Pigman, G. W. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. Huntington Library Quarterly 61, no. 1 (1998): 115–26.
      • Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. Indexer 20 (October 1996): 109.
      • Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. Book World 27 (October 5, 1997): 15.
      • Spencer, Charmaine. “A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM.” The Independent, May 20, 1996.
      • Suarez, Michael F. S.J. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne C. McDermott. Times Higher Education Supplement, July 12, 1996, 12.
2063. Johnson, Samuel. “A Dictionary of the English Language on DVD-ROM or 3 CD-ROM Set.” Octavo, 2005.
2064. Johnson, Samuel. “A Dissertation on the Amazons.” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 1 (March 2022): 7–17.
2065. Johnson, Samuel. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Edited by Peter Levi. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 1993.
      Abstract: The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson’s descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade, and agriculture of a society that was new to him. The account in Boswell’s diary, published after Johnson’s death as The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785), offers an intimate personal record of Johnson’s behavior and conversation during the trip.
2066. Johnson, Samuel. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland; James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Edited by Peter Levi. London: Folio Society, 1990.
2067. Johnson, Samuel. A New Preface by Samuel Johnson: Some Remarks on the Progress of Learning Since the Reformation, Especially with Regard to the Hebrew: Occasion’d by the Perusal of the Rev. Mr. Romaine’s Proposal for Reprinting the Dictionary and Concordance of F. Marius de Calasio: With Large Additions and Emendations: In an Address to the Publick by a Stranger to the Editor and a Friend to Learning. Edited by O M Brack Jr. and Robert DeMaria. Tempe: Almond Tree Press & Paper Mill, 2001.
2068. Johnson, Samuel. A Voyage to Abyssinia. Edited by Joel J. Gold. The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson 15. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Reviews:
      • Adams, Percy G. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 486–92.
      • Burke, John J., Jr. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 14 (1985): 346–49.
      • Crummey, Donald. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. International Journal of African Historical Studies 19, no. 2 (1986): 373–74.
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 10 (1987): 103–5.
      • Lamont, Claire. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. Review of English Studies 38, no. 149 (1987): 81–82.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. Notes and Queries 34 [232], no. 3 (September 1987): 398–99.
      • Pailler, Albert. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. Études Anglaises 39, no. 3 (July 1986): 346.
      • Rawson, Claude. “Samuel Johnson Goes Abroad [Review of Johnson’s Dictionary, Longman; Johnson’s Shakespeare by G. F. Parker; The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’ by Allen Reddick; A Voyage to Abyssinia by Joel J. Gold; Rasselas and Other Tales by Gwin J. Kolb].” London Review of Books 13, no. 15 (1991): 15–17.
      • Ullendorff, Edward. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. History Today 36 (January 1986): 58.
2069. Johnson, Samuel. An Illustrated Keepsake Edition of Gnothi Seauton in English Hexameter: Eighty-Five Copies Printed. Edited by Fred Lock. Ontario: Privately printed by Margaret Lock, 1992.
2070. Johnson, Samuel. Biographical Writings: Soldiers, Scholars, and Friends. Edited by O M Brack Jr. and Robert DeMaria Jr. The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson 19. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
      Abstract: Well before publishing the Lives of the Poets, Samuel Johnson was an accomplished biographer, having written the lives of numerous scholars, scientists, philosophers, critics, and theologians (including Peter Burnham, Sir Thomas Browne, and Confucius) as well as of select military and political leaders (such as Sir Francis Drake, Admiral Blake, and Frederick the Great). This volume contains these earlier biographies as well as epitaphs and obituaries for ordinary individuals with whom Johnson shared a personal connection. This collection of life writing displays Johnson performing in his favorite literary genre in the many years before he wrote his celebrated Lives of the Poets.
      Reviews:
      • Chisholm, Kate. “Not Too Much Information: Samuel Johnson’s Stern, Honest but Lazy Biographical Writings [Review of Biographical Writings: Soldiers, Scholars, and Friend, by O M Brack, Jr., and Robert DeMaria, Jr.].” TLS, no. 5932 (2016): 11.
2071. Johnson, Samuel. Daily Readings from the Prayers of Samuel Johnson. Edited by Elton Trueblood. Springfield, Ill.: Templegate Publishers, 1987.
2072. Johnson, Samuel. Debates in Parliament. Edited by Thomas Kaminski and Benjamin Beard Hoover. The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson 11–13. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
      Abstract: From July 1741 to March 1744, Samuel Johnson composed speeches based on the actual debates in Parliament for publication in the Gentleman’s Magazine. Because it was then illegal to print any account of parliamentary activities, the magazine published Johnson’s contributions as the rather thinly disguised “Debates in the Senate of Magna Lilliputia.” These three volumes present Johnson’s entire debate project with accompanying critical notes and, for the first time, retain his original Lilliputian terminology.
2073. Johnson, Samuel. Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: An Anthology. Edited by David Crystal. London: Penguin, 2005. Reviews:
      • Lezard, Nicholas. “Bring on the Buffleheaded [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: An Anthology, by David Crystal].” Guardian, December 16, 2006.
      • MacDonald, Calum. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: An Anthology, by David Crystal. The Herald (Glasgow), November 12, 2005.
      • Morrish, John. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: An Anthology, by David Crystal. The Independent on Sunday, November 13, 2005.
      • Swanson, Doug. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: An Anthology, by David Crystal. Edmondton Journal, February 5, 2006.
2074. Johnson, Samuel. “Dr. Samuel Johnson on the Gordon Riots, 1780.” In Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment, edited by Victor Bailey, 3:99–100. London: Routledge, 2022.
2075. Johnson, Samuel. Ensayos literarios: Shakespeare, Vidas de poetas y “The Rambler.” Edited by Gonzalo Torné. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2015.
2076. Johnson, Samuel. “Excerpt from His Edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765).” In Two Gentlemen of Verona: Critical Essays, edited by June Schlueter, 3–5. Routledge, 1996.
2077. Johnson, Samuel. Falkland-Malvinas: panfleto contra la guerra: Sobre las recientes negociaciones en torno a las Islas de Falkland (1771). Edited by iel Attala. Singladuras. Madrid: Fórcola, 2012.
2078. Johnson, Samuel. Five Latin Poems. Edited by Thomas Kaminski. Chicago: Privately printed for The Samuel Johnson Society of the Central Region, Loyola University, 1991.
2079. Johnson, Samuel. Histoire de Rasselas prince d’Abyssine. Edited by Alexandre Notré and Alain Montandon. Clermont-Ferrand: Editions Adosa, 1993.
2080. Johnson, Samuel. Histoire de Rasselas prince d’Abyssinie. Translated by Octavie Belot. Paris: Desjonquères, 1994.
2081. Johnson, Samuel. Historia de Rasselas, príncipe de Abisinia. Edited by Helena Establier Pérez. Translated by Inés Joyes y Blake. Colección Textos Recuperados 26. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2009.
2082. Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Edited by Paul Goring. Penguin Classics. New York: Penguin, 2007.
2083. Johnson, Samuel. Il Viandante. Edited by Daniele Savino. Biblioteca Aragno. Torino: Aragno, 2019.
2084. Johnson, Samuel. Johnson in Defense of Henry Thrale: The Aftermath of the Massacre in St. George’s Fields. Edited by Robert DeMaria Jr. and George Laws. Poughkeepsie: privately printed for The Johnsonians and The Samuel Johnson Society of the West, 2018.
2085. Johnson, Samuel. Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings. Edited by O M Brack Jr. and Robert DeMaria. The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson 20. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
      Abstract: The English critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson was among the most influential figures of the eighteenth century. This twentieth and final volume of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson presents the author’s occasional writings, including prefaces, proposals, dedications, introductions, book reviews, public letters, appeals, and school exercises. Notably, it includes the letters and addresses that Johnson wrote for the convicted clergyman William Dodd.
      Reviews:
      • Clingham, Greg. Review of Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings, by O M Brack Jr. and Robert DeMaria Jr. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 26 (2021): 243–51.
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings, by O M Brack Jr. and Robert DeMaria Jr. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 33, no. 1 (March 2019): 48–59.
      • Meyers, Jeffrey. Review of Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings, by O M Brack Jr. and Robert DeMaria Jr. Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 2 (September 2020): 54–57.
      • Tankard, Paul. Review of Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings, by O M Brack Jr. and Robert DeMaria Jr. Notes and Queries 67 [265], no. 4 (2020): 576.
2086. Johnson, Samuel. Johnson on the English Language. Edited by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria Jr. The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson 18. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Reviews:
      • Brack, O M, Jr. Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria Jr. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 2 (September 2006): 59–60.
      • Jackson, H. J. Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria Jr. TLS, no. 5358 (December 9, 2005): 29.
      • Kermode, Frank. “Lives of Dr. Johnson [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791, by Freya Johnston; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’, by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; and Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick].” New York Review of Books 53, no. 11 (June 22, 2006): 28–31.
      • Lee, Anthony W. “Quo Vadis? Samuel Johnson in the New Millennium [Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757–1763, by David Hankins and James J. Caudle; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man: A Translation from the French, by O M Brack, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick; and Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot].” Modern Philology 104, no. 4 (May 2007): 529–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/519192.
      • Lynch, Jack. “Dr. Johnson Speaks: On Language, English Words, and Life [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.].” Weekly Standard, 2007.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria Jr. Choice 43, no. 9 (May 2006): 5132.
      • Mugglestone, Lynda. Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria Jr. New Rambler E:9 (2005): 81–82.
      • Reddick, Allen. Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria Jr. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 18 (2007): 443–XVI.
      • Ricks, Christopher. “Dictionary Johnson [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.].” New Criterion 24, no. 1 (September 2005): 82–87.
      • Sheidlower, Jesse. “Defining Moment: On Its Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, a Look Back at Doctor Johnson’s Exhaustive Dictionary [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch, and Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” BookForum: The Review for Art, Fiction, & Culture 12, no. 3 (October 2005): 5–7.
      • Tankard, Paul. “Johnson on the English Language.” The Southern Johnsonian 16, no. 57 (March 2009): 2.
      • Wishna, Victor. “Words, Words, Words: Two-and-a-Half Centuries after the Publication of Samuel Johnson’s Landmark Dictionary, a New Critical Edition Illuminates His Best Intentions [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.].” Humanities 6 (October 2005): 26–29.
2087. Johnson, Samuel. Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare: A Facsimile of the 1778. Edited by Philip Smallwood. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1985.
2088. Johnson, Samuel. Journey to the Hebrides. Edited by Ian McGowan. Edinburgh: Canongate, 1996.
2089. Johnson, Samuel. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Edited by J. D. Fleeman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. Reviews:
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 10 (1987): 103–5.
      • Jannetta, Mervyn. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. The Library 8, no. 3 (1986): 284–85.
      • Lamont, Claire. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. Durham University Journal 79, no. 2 (1987): 389–90.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. Notes and Queries 34 [232], no. 3 (September 1987): 399–400.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. Johnsonian News Letter 46–47 (June 1986): 5–6.
      • Pailler, Albert. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. Études Anglaises 39, no. 4 (December 1986): 458–59.
      • Vander Meulen, David L. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 442–52.
      • Womersley, David. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. Review of English Studies 38, no. 149 (1987): 82–83.
2090. Johnson, Samuel. Journey to the Western Isles. Edited by Ronald Black. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2004.
2091. Johnson Samuel. Kuai le wang zi: Leisilesi. Translated by Cheng Ngai-lai. Beijing: Beijing da xue chu ban she, 2003.
2092. Johnson, Samuel. La historia de Rasselas, principe de Abisinia. Libro al viento 74. Bogotá: Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá, 2011.
2093. Johnson, Samuel. La historia de Rásselas, príncipe de Abisinia. Edited by Pollux Hernúñez. Viento abierto 51. La Coruña: Ediciones del Viento, 2017.
2094. Johnson, Samuel. “Lives of the Poets (Excerpts).” In Classic Writings on Poetry, edited by William Harmon, 243–68. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
2095. Johnson, Samuel. On the Character and Duty of an Academick. Edited by Robert DeMaria Jr. New York: privately printed for the Johnsonians, 2000.
2096. Johnson, Samuel. The Oxford Authors: Samuel JohnsonM. Edited by Donald J. Greene. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. Reviews:
      • D’Evelyn, Thomas. Review of The Oxford Authors: Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. Christian Science Monitor, December 5, 1984.
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of The Oxford Authors: Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. New Rambler C:25 (1985): 39–40.
      • Mezciems, Jenny. Review of The Oxford Authors: Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. Review of English Studies 39, no. 154 (1988): 297–99.
      • Pailler, Albert. Review of The Oxford Authors: Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. Études Anglaises 39, no. 2 (April 1986): 217–18.
      • Woods, Samuel H., Jr. Review of The Oxford Authors: Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. Yearbook of English Studies 18 (1988): 327–29.
2097. Johnson, Samuel. Pensamientos acerca de las últimas negociaciones relativas a las Islas Malvinas, y otros escritos, trans. Edited by Pablo Massa, Federico Horacio Lafuente, and Cristina Leone. Buenos Aires: Proyecto Editorial, 2003.
2098. Johnson, Samuel. Prefaci a les obres dramàtiques de William Shakespeare. Translated by John Stone and Enric Vidal. Barcelona: Publicacions i Edicions, 2002.
2099. Johnson, Samuel. “Rasselas.” In Modern British Utopias, 1700–1850, edited by Gregory Claeys, Vol. 3. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016.
2100. Johnson, Samuel. Rasselas and Other Tales. Edited by Gwin J. Kolb. Vol. 16. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. Reviews:
      • Alkon, Paul. Review of Rasselas and Other Tales, by Gwin J. Kolb. Johnsonian News Letter 50, no. 3–51, 3 (September 1990): 3–4.
      • Curley, Thomas M. Review of Rasselas and Other Tales, by Gwin J. Kolb. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 434–49.
      • Korshin, Paul J. Review of Rasselas and Other Tales, by Gwin J. Kolb. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 4, no. 2 (1992): 172–73.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Rasselas and Other Tales, by Gwin J. Kolb. Notes and Queries 39 [237] (June 1992): 230–31.
      • Pailler, Albert. Review of Rasselas and Other Tales, by Gwin J. Kolb. Études Anglaises 46, no. 1 (January 1993): 83–84.
      • Rawson, Claude. “Samuel Johnson Goes Abroad [Review of Johnson’s Dictionary, Longman; Johnson’s Shakespeare by G. F. Parker; The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’ by Allen Reddick; A Voyage to Abyssinia by Joel J. Gold; Rasselas and Other Tales by Gwin J. Kolb].” London Review of Books 13, no. 15 (1991): 15–17.
      • Womersley, David. Review of Rasselas and Other Tales, by Gwin J. Kolb. Review of English Studies 43, no. 172 (November 1992): 605.
      • Woudhuysen, H. R. Review of Rasselas and Other Tales, by Gwin J. Kolb. TLS, September 13, 1991, 24.
2101. Johnson Samuel. Rasselas hoàng tu’ xu’ Abyssinia. Translated by Hoàng Thanh Hoa. Hà Nội: Nhà xuá̂t bản Phụ Nữ, 2004.
2102. Johnson, Samuel. Rasselas, Prince d’Abyssinie. Paris: ThéoTeX Éditions, 2016.
2103. Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson. Edited by David Womersley. 21st-Century Oxford Authors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
      Abstract: This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Samuel Johnson (1709–1784). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, the edition enables students to study Johnson’s work in the order in which it was written, and, wherever possible, using the text of the first published version. The volume presents a selection of Johnson’s most important writings, drawn from all periods of his life. It reflects almost completely the range of literary forms in which Johnson wrote, including poetic translation, biographical sketches, literary criticism, and letters. It includes a broad selection from The Rambler (1750–1752) and The Idler (1758–1760), along with the travel narrative A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), and a selection from The Lives of the Poets (1781). David Womersley’s introduction explores how Johnson’s mastery of style enabled him to adopt various personae, sometimes simultaneously, in order to communicate through many different genres and registers. Johnson is shown to be an active participant in the philosophical and social currents of his time. This selection reveals an author driven by deeply held principles, concerned with how the ethical, political, and affective dimensions of language go beyond vocabulary and reach into the lives of its users. Explanatory notes and commentary are included to enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction to the Life of Johnson, and a Chronology.
      Reviews:
      • Johnston, Freya. “I’m Coming, My Tetsie! [Review of Samuel Johnson: 21st-Century Oxford Authors, by David Womersley].” London Review of Books 41, no. 9 (May 9, 2019): 17.
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of Samuel Johnson: 21st-Century Oxford Authors, by David Womersley. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 32, no. 2 (2018): 13–19.
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of Samuel Johnson: 21st-Century Oxford Authors, by David Womersley. Choice 56, no. 8 (April 2019): 1001.
      • Valiunas, Algis. “The Mind of the Moralist [Review of Samuel Johnson: 21st-Century Oxford Authors, by David Womersley].” Claremont Review of Books 20, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 87.
2104. Johnson, Samuel. “Samuel Johnson on Emigration and Resettlement” [Selection from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland].” Population and Development Review 47, no. 3 (September 2021): 851–54.
2105. Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare. Edited by H. R. Woudhuysen. London: Penguin, 1989.
2106. Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson on the Character and Duty of an Academick. Tempe: Gene Valentine, 1994.
2107. Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson: Selected Works. Edited by Robert DeMaria Jr., Stephen Fix, and Howard D. Weinbrot. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300258004.
      Abstract: A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain’s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain’s preeminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson’s essential works accessible to students and general readers, draws its texts from the definitive Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. In most cases, texts are included in full rather than excerpted. The anthology includes many essays from The Rambler and other periodicals; Rasselas; the prefaces to Johnson’s Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; the complete Lives of Cowley, Milton, Pope, Savage, and Gray, as well as generous selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Some parts are arranged thematically, allowing readers to focus on such topics as religion, marriage, war, and literature. The anthology includes a biographical introduction, and its ample annotation updates and enlarges the commentary in the Yale Edition.
      Reviews:
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of Samuel Johnson: Selected Works, by Robert DeMaria Jr., Stephen Fix, and Howard D. Weinbrot. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 35, no. 1 (March 2021): 27–29.
      • Walker, Robert G. Review of Samuel Johnson: Selected Works, by Robert DeMaria Jr., Stephen Fix, and Howard D. Weinbrot. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 54, no. 1–2 (2021): 166–69. https://doi.org/10.5325/scriblerian.54.1-2.0166.
2108. Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings. Edited by Peter Martin. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
      Abstract: Thanks to Boswell’s monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. He is more often quoted than read, his name invoked in party conversation on such diverse topics as marriage, sleep, deceit, mental concentration, and patriotism, to generally humorous effect. But in Johnson’s own day, he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer: a gifted writer possessed of great force of mind and wisdom. Writing a century after Johnson, Ruskin wrote of Johnson’s essays: He “taught me to measure life, and distrust fortune . . . he saved me forever from false thoughts and futile speculations.” Peter Martin here presents “the heart of Johnson,” a selection of some of Johnson’s best moral and critical essays. At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Also included are Johnson’s great moral fable, Rasselas; the Prefaces to the Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; and selections from Lives of the Poets. Together, these works — allied in their literary, social, and moral concerns — are the ones that continue to speak urgently to readers today.
      A collection of Johnson’s writings, especially selections from the periodical essays and the Lives.
2109. Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson, Sixteen Latin Poems. Florence, Ky.: Robert L. Barth, 1987.
2110. Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary of the English Language.” Edited by Alexander Chalmers. London: Studio Editions, 1994.
2111. Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language. Edited by Jack Lynch. Delray Beach, Fla.: Levenger Press, 2002. Reviews:
      • Billen, Andrew. “A Work of Harmless Drudgery [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language by Jack Lynch].” The Times, December 4, 2004.
      • Buffalo News. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. August 24, 2003.
      • Bundock, Michael. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. New Rambler E:5 (2001): 76–77.
      • Burke, Jeffrey. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. Wall Street Journal, October 10, 2003.
      • Carey, John. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. The Sunday Times, March 27, 2005.
      • Devan, Janadas. “Word Treat from the Dictionary [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language by Jack Lynch].” Straits Times (Singapore), June 6, 2004.
      • Freeman, Jan. “The Word Zoilist’s Delight [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch].” Boston Globe, December 7, 2003.
      • Garner, Bryan A. “Harmless Drudgery? [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch].” Essays in Criticism 1 (January 2007): 65–72.
      • Howarth, Jayne. “Discovering Dictionary Delights the Johnson Way [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch].” Birmingham Post, November 20, 2004.
      • Howse, Christopher. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. The Spectator, November 20, 2004.
      • Izzard, John. “Messing about in Dictionaries [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch].” Quadrant, June 2005.
      • Kilpatrick, James J. “Hail the Good Dr. Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language by Jack Lynch].” Chicago Sun-Times, July 21, 2002.
      • Mead, Harry. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. Northern Echo, March 1, 2005.
      • Pearce, Edward. “Leave the Gillet, Here’s the Kicksey-Wicksey [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch].” The Herald (Glasgow), November 27, 2004.
      • Potemra, Michael. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. National Review, October 13, 2003.
      • Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 73–74.
      • Sale, Jonathan. “Abba and Dr. Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language by Jack Lynch].” Financial Times Weekend Magazine, November 20, 2004.
      • Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. The Southern Johnsonian 11, no. 4 (April 2004): 2.
      • Self, David. “Defining Moments in Time [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language by Jack Lynch].” Times Educational Supplement, October 29, 2004, 17.
      • Sheidlower, Jesse. “Defining Moment: On Its Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, a Look Back at Doctor Johnson’s Exhaustive Dictionary [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch, and Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” BookForum: The Review for Art, Fiction, & Culture 12, no. 3 (October 2005): 5–7.
      • Svitavsky, W. L. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. Choice 41, no. 3 (December 2003): 1888.
      • Tankard, Paul. “Chapter and Verse [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch].” The Age (Melbourne, Australia), September 28, 2002, sec. Saturday Extra.
      • The Sunday Herald. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. October 24, 2004.
      • Ulin, David L. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. Los Angeles Times, September 9, 2003.
2112. Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson’s Private Interview with George III: The Strahan Minute. Tempe: Privately printed for the Friends of the Arizona State University Library, 1993.
2113. Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson’s Taxation No Tyranny: A Fragment of Proof Copy: To Commemorate Dr. Johnson’s 281st Birthday at the Grolier Club in New York. New York: Grolier Club, 1990.
2114. Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript. Edited by David L. Vander Meulen and G. Thomas Tanselle. Charlottesville: The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1993. Reviews:
      • Fleeman, J. D. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript, by b1 Vander Meulen and G. Thomas Tanselle. The Library 16, no. 2 (June 1994): 155–56.
      • Hill, T. Howard. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript, by David L. Vander Meulen and G. Thomas Tanselle. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 88 (1994): 244–45.
      • May, James E. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript, by David L. Vander Meulen and G. Thomas Tanselle. East-Central Intelligencer 9, no. 1–2 (1995): 37–38.
      • McDermott, Anne. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript, by David L. Vander Meulen and G. Thomas Tanselle. Review of English Studies 46 (May 1995): 312.
      • Ross, John C. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript, by David L. Vander Meulen and G. Thomas Tanselle. Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 7 (1993): 252–53.
      • Tankard, Paul. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript, by J. D. Vander Meulen and G. Thomas Tanselle. Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 19, no. 2 (1995): 123–25.
2115. Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the “Dictionary of the English Language”: A Facsimile Edition. Edited by Allen Reddick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Reviews:
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the “Dictionary of the English Language”: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen H. Reddick. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 60–62.
      • Jackson, H. J. “Big and Little Matters: Discrepancies in the Genius of Samuel Johnson [Review of Loving Dr. Johnson by Helen Deutsch; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’ by Allen Reddick; Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791 by Freya Johnston; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; and A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man by O M Brack, Jr.” TLS, November 11, 2005, 3–4.
      • Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the “Dictionary of the English Language”: A Facsimile Edition. Edited by Allen Reddick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
      • Kermode, Frank. “Lives of Dr. Johnson [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791, by Freya Johnston; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’, by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; and Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick].” New York Review of Books 53, no. 11 (June 22, 2006): 28–31.
      • Lee, Anthony W. “Quo Vadis? Samuel Johnson in the New Millennium [Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757–1763, by David Hankins and James J. Caudle; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man: A Translation from the French, by O M Brack, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick; and Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot].” Modern Philology 104, no. 4 (May 2007): 529–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/519192.
      • McLaverty, James. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the “Dictionary of the English Language”: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick. New Rambler E:8 (2004): 13–21.
      • Mugglestone, Lynda. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the “Dictionary of the English Language”: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick. Notes and Queries 53 [251], no. 4 (December 2006): 560–63.
      • Nokes, David. “The Last Word — Even If Not Adroit [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World by Henry Hitchings; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick; and Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott].” Times Higher Education Supplement 1739 (April 21, 2006): 22.
      • Rogers, Shef. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 101, no. 2 (June 2007): 247–48.
2116. Johnson, Samuel. Savage: Biografi över en mördare och poet i 1700-talets England. Translated by Leif Jäger. Stockholm: CKM Media, 2004.The Life of Savage in Swedish.
2117. Johnson, Samuel. Selected Essays. Edited by David Womersley. London: Penguin, 2003. Reviews:
      • Davis, Matthew M. Review of Selected Essays, by David Womersley. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 1 (March 2005): 38–42.
2118. Johnson, Samuel. Selected Latin Poems. Edited by Robert L. Barth. Edgewood, Ky.: Privately printed by Robert L. Barth, 1995.
2119. Johnson, Samuel. The Complete Poems of Samuel Johnson. Edited by Robert Brown Jr. D. and Robert DeMaria Jr. Longman Annotated English Poets. London: Routledge, 2024.
      Abstract: This definitive edition, the first since 1974, presents all the poetry of Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), including his play, Irene, with detailed wide-ranging commentary. It has been expertly edited with attention to the extant manuscripts and all relevant printings. The volume includes the entirety of Johnson’s verse in all its generic diversity: including satire, ode, elegy, verse drama, and verse prayer. The poems are presented in their original spelling and punctuation with extensive commentary on their literary background — biblical, classical, and modern — as well as careful explanation of unusual words, allusions to historical figures, and references to contemporary events that appear in the poems. Proceeding chronologically, this edition also situates Johnson’s verse in the context of his life from his early days in Lichfield to his career as an author in London. Unlike all earlier editions, the present offering provides full translations of all the Latin and Greek poems on which Johnson based so much of his English verse. Correspondingly, it provides the English poems which some of his Latin verse translates. Neither in the presentation of the verse nor in the commentary does this edition assume a command of foreign languages: it aims to be useful for all students of Samuel Johnson’s poetry.
      Reviews:
      • Venturo, David F. Review of The Complete Poems of Samuel Johnson, by Robert D. Brown and Robert DeMaria Jr. Johnsonian News Letter 76, no. 1 (March 2025): 75–79.
2120. Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. Edited by J. P. Hardy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
2121. Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. Edited by Jessica Anne Richard. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2008.
      Abstract: In Samuel Johnson’s classic philosophical tale, the prince and princess of Abissinia escape their confinement in the Happy Valley and conduct an ultimately unsuccessful search for a choice of life that leads to happiness. Johnson uses the conventions of the Oriental tale to depict a universal restlessness of desire. The excesses of Orientalism — its superfluous splendours, its despotic tyrannies, its riotous pleasures — cannot satisfy us. His tale challenges us by showing the problem of finding happiness to be insoluble while still dignifying our quest for fulfillment. The appendices to this Broadview edition include reviews and biographies, selections from the sequel Dinarbas (1790), and the complete text of Elizabeth Pope Whately’s The Second Part of the History of Rasselas (1835). Selections from Johnson’s translation of the travel narrative A Voyage to Abyssinia, as well as his Oriental tales in the Rambler, are also included, along with another popular tale, Joseph Addison’s “The Vision of Mirzah,” and selections from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters.
      A Broadview Edition, containing the full text of Rasselas along with selections from Johnson’s other writings (Lobo’s Voyage, Vanity, and Ramblers 4, 204, and 205), contemporary responses, and other examples of eighteenth-century Orientalism.
2122. Johnson, Samuel. The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson: Text, Translation, and Commentary. Edited by Barry Baldwin. London: Duckworth, 1995. Reviews:
      • Binns, J. W. Review of The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson: Text, Translation, and Commentary, by Barry Baldwin. Review of English Studies 47, no. 188 (November 1996): 592–93.
      • Gray, James. Review of The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson: Text, Translation, and Commentary, by Barry Baldwin. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 323–37.
      • Lelievre, Frank. Review of The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson: Text, Translation, and Commentary, by Barry Baldwin. New Rambler D:12, no. 12 (1996): 53–55.
      • McLaverty, James. Review of The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson: Text, Translation, and Commentary, by Barry Baldwin. Notes and Queries 43 [241], no. 2 (June 1996): 222–24.
      • Ryan, Lawrence V. Review of The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson: Text, Translation, and Commentary, by Barry Baldwin. Seventeenth-Century News 53, no. 3–4 (1995): 78–79.
2123. Johnson, Samuel. The Latin Poems. Edited by Niall Rudd. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2005. Reviews:
      • Brown, Robert. Review of The Latin Poems, by Niall Rudd. Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 1 (March 2007): 46–49.
2124. Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Edited by Bruce Redford. Hyde Edition. 5 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992–94. Reviews:
      • Ackroyd, Peter. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. The Times, February 22, 1992.
      • Briggs, Asa. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Washington Times, February 16, 1992.
      • Burke, John J., Jr. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. South Atlantic Review 60, no. 2 (May 1995): 153–60.
      • Clingham, Greg. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Essays in Criticism 43 (1993): 253–57.
      • Craddock, Patricia B. “Epistolick Art [Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford].” Johnsonian News Letter 51, no. 4 (March 1991): 2–4.
      • Curtis, Anthony. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Financial Times, March 21, 1992.
      • Dille, Catherine. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. New Rambler D:10 (1995 1994): 66–68.
      • Doody, Margaret Anne. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. London Review of Books 14, no. 21 (1992): 10–11.
      • The Economist. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. May 9, 1992.
      • Fruman, N. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Choice 29, no. 11–12 (1992): 1677.
      • Gray, James. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Dalhousie Review 73 (1993): 113–16, 420–23.
      • Gross, John. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Sunday Telegraph, March 13, 1994.
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Eighteenth-Century Studies 27 (1993): 170–74.
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 415–20.
      • McDermott, Anne. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Review of English Studies 45 (August 1994): 426–29.
      • McIntosh, Carey. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 421–33.
      • Nakanishi, Wendy Jones. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 77 (1996): 592–94.
      • Nokes, David. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. TLS, May 15, 1992, 24.
      • O’Brian, Patrick. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Daily Telegraph, April 22, 1992.
      • Powell, J. Enoch. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. The Sunday Times, March 1, 1992.
      • Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Wilson Quarterly 15 (1992): 118.
      • Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Bloomsbury Review 13 (1993).
      • Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Year’s Work in English Studies 75 (1997): 360.
      • Ricks, Christopher. “Samuel Johnson in His Letters [Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford].” New Criterion 11, no. 1 (September 1992): 38–41.
      • Rosenblum, Joseph. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Library Journal 116, no. 18 (November 1991): 99.
      • Seidel, Michael. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Newsday, March 6, 1994.
      • Smith, Giles. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Independent, February 23, 1992.
      • The Spectator. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. September 24, 1994.
      • Village Voice Literary Supplement. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. February 1995.
      • Wiltshire, John. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Cambridge Quarterly 23, no. 4 (1994): 358–68.
      • Woodman, Thomas M. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 19, no. 1 (1996): 113–14.
      • Yerkes, David. “Putting Out, Adding, and Correcting [Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford].” Text: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies 7 (1994): 478–87.
      • Ziegler, Robert. “Recent Books on Johnson and Boswell [Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of ‘The Life of Johnson,’ by Greg Clingham; The Politics of Samuel Johnson, 2nd Ed., by Donald Greene; Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan; A Dr. Johnson Chronology, by Norman Page; Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker; The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick; The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford; and Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire].” Papers on Language and Literature 28, no. 4 (September 1992): 457–75.
2125. Johnson, Samuel. The Life of Mr Richard Savage. Edited by Richard Holmes. London: HarperCollins, 2005. Reviews:
      • Parker, Peter. “Naked Portraits: The Lives of Their Times: How the Art of Biography Evolved [Review of Johnson on Savage: The Life of Mr Richard Savage by Samuel Johnson by Richard Holmes].” TLS 5379 (May 5, 2006): 3–4.
2126. Johnson, Samuel. The Life of Mr Richard Savage. Edited by Lance E. Wilcox and Nicholas Seager. Broadview Editions. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2016. Reviews:
      • Lines, Joe. Review of The Life of Mr Richard Savage, by Nicholas Seager and Lance E. Wilcox. Modern Language Review 113, no. 1 (2018): 229–30.
      • Rivero, Albert. “Noble Savage [Review of The Life of Mr Richard Savage, by Lance E. Wicox and Nicholas Seager].” TLS, no. 5957 (June 2, 2017): 31.
      • Rivero, Albert. Review of The Life of Mr Richard Savage, by Nicholas Seager and Lance E. Wilcox. TLS, no. 5957 (June 2, 2017): 31.
      • Weinbrot, Howard D. Review of The Life of Mr Richard Savage, by Helen Wilcox and Nicholas Seager. Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 58–61.
2127. Johnson, Samuel. The Life of Mr. Richard Savage (1727). Edited by Timothy Erwin. Augustan Reprint Society 247. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1988.
2128. Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works. Edited by Roger Lonsdale. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006.
      Abstract: Johnson himself wrote in 1782: “I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets.” Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson’s last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Johnson’s fifty-two biographies constitute a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to his own time, with extended discussions of Cowley, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior, Swift, Pope, and Gray. The Lives also include Johnson’s memorable biography of the enigmatic Richard Savage (1744), the friend of his own early years in London. Roger Lonsdale’s Introduction describes the origins, composition, and textual history of the Lives, and assesses Johnson’s assumptions and aims as biographer and critic. The commentary provides a detailed literary and historical context, investigating Johnson’s sources, relating the Lives to his own earlier writings and conversation, and to the critical opinions of his contemporaries, as well as illustrating their early reception. This is the first scholarly edition since George Birkbeck Hill’s three-volume Oxford edition (1905).
      Reviews:
      • Brack, O M, Jr. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 21, no. 2 (September 2007): 27–33.
      • Clingham, Greg. “Samuel Johnson, Another and the Same [Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale].” Essays in Criticism 57, no. 2 (April 2007): 186–94.
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 1 (March 2007): 41–45.
      • Fenton, James. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. Guardian, April 1, 2006.
      • Folkenflik, Robert. “‘Little Lives, and Little Prefaces’? Lonsdale’s Edition of Johnson’s Lives of the Poets [Review Essay of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale].” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 19 (2009): 273–83.
      • Jackson, H. J. “Lest We Lose a Thought [Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale].” TLS 5378 (April 28, 2006): 33.
      • Kermode, Frank. “Lives of Dr. Johnson [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791, by Freya Johnston; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’, by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; and Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick].” New York Review of Books 53, no. 11 (June 22, 2006): 28–31.
      • Lee, Anthony W. “Quo Vadis? Samuel Johnson in the New Millennium [Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757–1763, by David Hankins and James J. Caudle; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man: A Translation from the French, by O M Brack, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick; and Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot].” Modern Philology 104, no. 4 (May 2007): 529–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/519192.
      • Lynch, Deidre. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 47, no. 3 (2007): 756–57.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. Choice 44, no. 3 (November 2006): 1390.
      • Lynn, Steven. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. Year’s Work in English Studies 87 (2008): 3–4, 40–41.
      • McLaverty, James. “The Rewards of Age [Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale].” Cambridge Quarterly 35, no. 4 (2006): 383–87.
      • Pritchard, William H. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. Hudson Review 60, no. 1 (2007): 25–35.
      • Rawson, Claude. “Lives and Dislikes: Johnson’s Lives of the Poets [Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale].” Eighteenth-Century Studies 40, no. 1 (2006): 109–15.
      • Reddick, Allen. “Living Lives: The Return of Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets [Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale].” Huntington Library Quarterly 71, no. 3 (2008): 539–52.
      • Smallwood, Philip. “Annotated Immortality: Lonsdale’s Johnson [Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale].” Eighteenth-Century Life 31, no. 3 (September 2007): 76–84. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2007-004.
      • Woudhuysen, H. R. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. New Rambler E:9 (2005): 69–78.
2129. Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Edited by John H. Middendorf. The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson 21–23. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
      Abstract: The Lives of the Poets was the crowning achievement of Samuel Johnson’s rich and varied literary life. Initially planned as a series of rapid-fire prefaces introducing separate volumes on English poets, Johnson’s project evolved into a comprehensive biographical and critical survey of English poetry from the time of Cowley to the time of Gray. Giving free rein to his tastes, interests, likes, and dislikes, Johnson produced both a review of his life of reading in English poetry and an extended discursive statement of his immensely influential literary values. This carefully researched three-volume edition of Lives presents a definitive text reflecting Johnson’s final wishes for its wording, accompanied by notes of value both to general readers and specialists.
2130. Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets, a Selection. Edited by Roger Lonsdale and John Mullan. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
      Abstract: Lonsdale’s complete and definitive 2006 Oxford edition of Johnson’s Lives provides the text for the ten biographies Mr. Mullan includes in this student edition, which replaces that of J. P. Hardy (Oxford, 1971). Since Johnson was partially responsible for selecting the poets in his original work and since the formation of the canon of English poets is one of the most obvious issues brought up by such an edition, it is interesting to note that Cowley, Milton, Dryden, Pope, and Gray are included by both Hardy and Mr. Mullan. Quite good, his Introduction touches on most if not all the important topics raised by reading all Johnson’s Lives, including the replacement of private patrons by booksellers in the newly developing literary marketplace: “to annotate Johnson’s Lives is to realize how important patrons had been over the previous century. Mr. Mullan recognizes and attempts to mitigate here the distortion that can arise in an incomplete edition: “by omitting some of Johnson’s less significant lives in this selection, we perhaps sacrifice the accumulated sense of how the life of writing is shaped by the struggle for money, and how often the achievement of financial security is provisional or belated.”
      Reviews:
      • Walker, Robert G. Review of The Lives of the Poets, a Selection, by Roger Lonsdale and John Mullan. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 44/45, no. 2 (2012): 119–20.
2131. Johnson, Samuel. The Major Works. Edited by Donald J. Greene. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
2132. Johnson, Samuel. “The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language.” In Practical Lexicography: A Reader, edited by Jack Lynch and Thierry Fontenelle, 19–30. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
2133. Johnson, Samuel. The Supplicating Voice: Spiritual Writings of Samuel Johnson. Edited by John F. Thornton, Susan B. Varenne, and Owen Chadwick. New York: Vintage, 2005.
      Abstract: A unique one-volume selection of Samuel Johnson’s writings on spiritual and moral topics provides an unusually inspiring portrait of the man and his thought. Most readers know Dr. Johnson (1709–1784) as the formidable compiler of his famous Dictionary and as the witty conversationalist portrayed in Boswell’s Life. By contrast, this book — which draws on little-known unsigned sermons he wrote for hire for clergy friends, his private prayers and devotions, essays, poems, diaries, letters, and even key definitions from the Dictionary — offers a rare opportunity to discover Johnson’s rich insight and consoling spirituality gathered in one place. Boswell observed that “He was a sincere and zealous Christian. He was steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of religion and morality; both from a regard for the order of society, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order.” This Vintage Spiritual Classics Original opens a window on the moral universe of the leading English writer of the eighteenth century.
2134. Johnson, Samuel. The Vision of Theodore, Hermit of Teneriffe, Found in His Cell. New York: The Typophiles in collaboration with The Johnsonians, 2005.
      A fine press edition.
2135. Johnson, Samuel. The Vision of Theodore, the Hermit of Teneriffe: Found in His Cell. Edited by Roland A. Hoover, Herman W. Liebert, and Robert DeMaria Jr. New York: The Typophiles in collaboration with The Johnsonians, 2007.
2136. Johnson, Samuel. “To Drive the Night along”: A Manuscript of Samuel Johnson’s Latin Translation of a Greek Epigram. Edited by John W Byrne. Los Angeles: Samuel Johnson Society of the West, 2009.
2137. Johnson, Samuel. Two Letters from Samuel Johnson to Sir Robert Chambers, September 14, 1773 and October 4, 1783. Edited by Loren R. Rothschild. Pacific Palisades: Rasselas Press, 1986.
2138. Johnson, Samuel. Viaggio alle isole occidentali della Scozia: con una appendice di lettere e poesie. Translated by Daniele Savino. Biblioteca Aragno. Torino: Aragno, 2019.
      Abstract: Scritto da uno dei più importanti autori inglesi del Settecento, il Viaggio alle Isole Occidentali della Scozia è il resoconto del viaggio intrapreso da Samuel Johnson tra l’estate e l’autunno del 1773 nelle Highlands scozzesi e nelle Isole Ebridi in compagnia dell’amico James Boswell, biografo dell’autore. Esso si presenta come una alternativa al tradizionale Grand Tour nei luoghi e nelle città eredi del mondo classico e offre uno sguardo antropologico e naturalistico su un universo poco noto, intriso di miti e di leggende e, per certi versi, ancora immerso nelle brume di un Medioevo che la descrizione di Samuel Johnson, precisa e attenta al dato empirico, rievoca attraverso la ricchezza dei dettagli storici, sociali ed economici che vengono offerti al lettore. Le lettere e le poesie latine scritte nel corso del viaggio, presentate in Appendice, rappresentano inoltre una significativa testimonianza delle riflessioni personali e delle fantasie liriche che l’esperienza suscitò nell’autore.
2139. Johnson, Samuel. Viaje a las Islas Occidentales de Escocia. Translated by Agustín Coletes Blanco. Oviedo: KRK Ediciones, 2006.
      An attractive pocket-sized Spanish translation of A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, with a long original introduction in four parts: “El doctor Samuel Johnson (1709–1784): vida, obra y entorno literario”; “La Escocia que conoció Johnson y sus claves históricas: de Caledonia a Culloden”; “El Viaje a las Islas Occidentales de Escocia como libro de viajes: Género, estructuración y contenido”; and “Bibliografía comentada: fuentes primarias y secundarias: Esta edición y traducción.”
      Reviews:
      • Stone, John. Review of Viaje a las Islas Occidentales de Escocia, by Agustín Coletes Blanco. Johnsonian News Letter 59, no. 1 (March 2008): 47–53.
2140. Johnson, Samuel. Vies des poètes anglais. Edited by Denis Bonnecase and Pierre Morère. Brussels: Editions du Sandre, 2016.
      Abstract: Pour l’Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle, Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) est the Great Cham, le grand manitou des lettres. Suscitant en son temps l’attention et la crainte, il reste l’un des monuments de la critique littéraire anglaise, que discuteront encore Virginia Woolf ou T. S. Eliot. Ses Vies des poètes anglais remontent au XVIIe siècle (Cowley, Dryden ou Milton) pour suivre le fil qui les mène à Swift, à Pope, puis aux contemporains immédiats de Johnson, comme Shenstone, Gray ou Akenside. Couvrant une vaste période, l’oeuvre de Johnson témoigne du fait que les Lumières ne furent pas l’apanage des seuls philosophes et des romanciers, mais animèrent aussi une myriade de poètes, célèbres ou tombés dans l’oubli. Les Vies des poètes, dont il est ici donné une sélection inédite, ne sont pas uniquement des biographies: elles sont singulièrement attentives aux conditions historiques et sociales de la création poétique — notamment à la dépendance du poète à l’égard des mécènes — et constituent à ce titre un précieux document. Mais surtout elles révèlent une conception nouvelle de la lecture du poème: conservateur et nourri de culture ancienne, à la fois fidèle au classicisme et ouvert à l’originalité, Johnson invente une forme de critique aussi savante qu’empirique, une critique fondée sur les notions d’authenticité et de plaisir, dans laquelle la dimension humaine, voire humaniste, passe au premier plan.
      Reviews:
      • Weinbrot, Howard D. Review of Vies des poètes anglais, by Denis Bonnecase and Pierre Morère. XVII–XVIII: Revue de la Société d’études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 73 (2016): 309–12. https://doi.org/10.4000/1718.787.
      • Weinbrot, Howard D. Review of Vies des poètes anglais, by Denis Bonnecase and Pierre Morère. Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 58–61.
2141. Johnson, Samuel. Vorwort zum Werk Shakespeares. Translated by Herbert Mainusch. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1987.
2142. Johnson, Samuel. へそ曲がりジョンソン博士の人生パズル: 十八世紀巨人のことば / Juhachiseiki kyojin no kotoba. [Tokyo]: Amazon, 2023.
2143. Johnson Samuel. 传记奇葩: 萨维奇评传和考利评传 / Zhuan ji qi pa: Sa wei qi ping chuan he kao li ping chuan = Biographical Wonders: Savage and Cowley. Translated by Cai Tianming. Beijing: 北京: 国际文化出版公司, 2013.
2144. Johnson Samuel. 幸福谷: 拉赛拉斯王子的故事 = The history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia. Translated by Cai Tianming. Di 1 ban. Beijing: 国际文化出版公司, 2006. Reviews:
      • Ruxin, Paul T. Review of 幸福谷: 拉赛拉斯王子的故事 = The history of Rasselas Prince of Abissinia, by Tian Ming Cai. Johnsonian News Letter 59, no. 2 (September 2008): 56–58.
2145. Johnson Samuel. 拉赛拉斯王子漫游记 = The history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia. Translated by Cai Tianming. Di 1 ban. Fu zhou: 海峡文艺出版社, 2020.
2146. Johnson Samuel. 追寻幸福: 拉赛拉斯王子漫游人生记 / Zhui xun xing fu: Lasailasi wang zi man you ren sheng ji [Rasselas]. Translated by Chen Xijun. Nanjing Shi: 南京市: 译林出版社: 第1版, 2012.
2147. Johnson, Samuel, and James Boswell. “A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland” and “A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson.” Edited by Celia Barnes and Jack Lynch. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
      Abstract: The text presents a lightly-edited version of both works, preserving the original orthography and corrected typographical errors to fit modern grammar standards. The introduction and notes provide clear and concise explanations on Johnson and Boswell’s respective careers, their friendship and grand biographical projects. It also examines the Scottish Enlightenment, the status of England and Scotland during the Reformation through to the Union of the Crowns, and the Jacobite.
      Reviews:
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of “A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland” and “A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson,” by Celia Barnes and Jack Lynch. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 29 (2024): 297–301.
2148. Johnson, Samuel, and James Boswell. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Edited by Allan Massie. New York: Knopf, 2002.
2149. Johnson, Samuel, and James Boswell. Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides. Edited by Pat Rogers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. Reviews:
      • Brack, O M, Jr. Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, by Pat Rogers. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (1995): 169–74.
      • Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, by Pat Rogers. Field 281, no. 7072 (1993): 99.
      • Fleeman, J. D. Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, by Pat Rogers. Notes and Queries 41 [239], no. 1 (March 1994): 106–9.
      • Ingram, Allan. Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, by Pat Rogers. Yearbook of English Studies 25 (1995): 297–98.
      • Merians, Linda. Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, by Pat Rogers. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 8 (1994): 23–24.
      • O’Brien, Karen. Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, by Pat Rogers. Review of English Studies 46 (November 1995): 590–91.
      • Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, by Pat Rogers. Virginia Quarterly Review 70, no. 2 (1994): 57.
      • Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, by Pat Rogers. Year’s Work in English Studies 75 (1997): 360–61.
2150. Johnson, Samuel, and James Boswell. To the Hebrides: Samuel Johnson’s “Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland” and James Boswell’s “Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides". Edited by Ronald Black. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2007.
      Combines and intermixes the complete texts of Johnson’s Journey to the western islands of Scotland, first published in 1775 and Boswell’s Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, first published in 1785. Includes Rowlandson’s illustrations.
2151. Johnson, Samuel, and James Boswell. To the Hebrides: Samuel Johnson’s “Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland” and James Boswell’s “Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides". Edited by Ronald Black. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2011.
2152. Johnson, Samuel, and Cornelia Knight. “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia” / “Dinarbas, a Tale.” Edited by Lynne Meloccaro. London: Dent, 1994.
2153. Johnson, Samuel, and Hester Lynch Piozzi. Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale’s Tour in North Wales 1774. Edited by Adrian Bristow. Wrexham: Bridge Books, 1995.
      Contains Johnson’s Journey into North Wales in the Year 1774 and Hester Thrale’s Journal of a Tour in Wales with Dr. Johnson. With illustrations and maps.
2154. Johnson, Samuel, and Peter Wickham. The History of Rasselas. Audible Audiobook. Naxos AudioBooks, 2023.
2155. Johnson, Steve. “Pass the Bons Mots: U. of C. Becomes the Nerve Center of 200-Year-Old Wit That Never Ages.” Chicago Tribune, February 20, 1991.
2156. “Johnson’s Bestiary.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1997, 24–29.
      Humorous piece on Dictionary definitions on animals.
2157. “Johnson’s Unacknowledged Debt to Thomas Edwards in the 1765 Edition of Shakespeare.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 1 (Autumn 2019): 19–19.
2158. Johnsson, Melker. “Samuel Johnson Agonist.” Fenix 5, no. 1–2 (1987): 80–120.
2159. Johnston, F. “Samuel Johnson’s Diminutive Histories.” PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000.
2160. Johnston, Freya. Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge. New Rambler E:4 (2000): 88–91.
2161. Johnston, Freya. “Accumulation in Johnson’s Dictionary.” Essays in Criticism 57, no. 4 (October 2007): 301–24. https://doi.org/10.1093/escrit/cgm019.
2162. Johnston, Freya. Review of Beckett’s Eighteenth Century, by Frederik N. Smith. New Rambler E:5 (2001): 71–73.
2163. Johnston, Freya. “Byron’s Johnson.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 295–312. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
2164. Johnston, Freya. Review of A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality; or, Essay on Man (A Translation from the French), by O M Brack Jr. New Rambler E:9 (2005): 83–87.
2165. Johnston, Freya. “Correspondence.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 21–28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
2166. Johnston, Freya. “Diminutive Observations in Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 1–16.
      On Johnson’s interest in the “little.” Later developed into a chapter of Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking.
2167. Johnston, Freya. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 417–18.
2168. Johnston, Freya. “I’m Coming, My Tetsie! [Review of Samuel Johnson: 21st-Century Oxford Authors, by David Womersley].” London Review of Books 41, no. 9 (May 9, 2019): 17.
2169. Johnston, Freya. “Johnson and Fiction.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 82–93. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
2170. Johnston, Freya. “Johnson and Teachers.” New Rambler E:6 (2002): 49–50.
2171. Johnston, Freya. “Johnson Personified.” In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, 95–108. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0009.
2172. Johnston, Freya. “Making an Entrance: Frances Burney and Samuel Johnson.” In A Celebration of Frances Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Paula LaBeck Stepankowsky, and Peter Sabor, 184–95. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
2173. Johnston, Freya. “Samuel Johnson.” In Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Malone: Great Shakespeareans, Volume I, edited by Claude Rawson, 115–59. London: Continuum, 2010.
2174. Johnston, Freya. “Samuel Johnson and Robert Levet.” Modern Language Review 97, no. 1 (2002): 26–35. https://doi.org/10.2307/3735616.
2175. Johnston, Freya. Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
      A learned meditation on Johnson’s interest in “littleness.”
      Abstract: The traditional view of Samuel Johnson as hostile to particulars, trifles, and aesthetic mediocrity only half-explains his authorial character. Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791 argues that, in a period dominated by social and literary hierarchies, Johnson’s works reveal a defining interest in “little,” “mean,” or “low” topics and people. Freya Johnston moves away from a critical emphasis on what literature of this period excludes, to consider its modes of including recalcitrant material. Of necessity finite, any piece of writing is informed by the subject matter it omits or to which it indirectly alludes. How can we identify the peripheral topics or characters purportedly “excluded” from a text, unless it provides compelling inferences that oblige us to supply the omission? In which case, something subtler is at work than barefaced proscription. Rehearsing the comparative merits of great and little things, Johnson and his contemporaries tested the opposing claims of pagan and Christian authority. Ancient criticism, and its eighteenth-century adherents, held that each subject required an appropriate style: little matters call for the low, lofty ones for the high. Yet Gospel writers stressed Christ’s incarnation as a praiseworthy and imitable descent to the humanly little — one that is compatible with the most sublime style. Through a series of close readings, this book examines how Johnson conceived of his relationships to and with the margins of writing and of society. It proposes that his literary and critical practice is neither inclusive nor exclusive in its attitudes towards peripheral things.
      Reviews:
      • Ingram, Allan. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791, by Freya Johnston. Modern Language Review 102, no. 2 (2007): 486.
      • Jackson, H. J. “Big and Little Matters: Discrepancies in the Genius of Samuel Johnson [Review of Loving Dr. Johnson by Helen Deutsch; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’ by Allen Reddick; Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791 by Freya Johnston; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; and A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man by O M Brack, Jr.” TLS, November 11, 2005, 3–4.
      • Kermode, Frank. “Lives of Dr. Johnson [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791, by Freya Johnston; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’, by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; and Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick].” New York Review of Books 53, no. 11 (June 22, 2006): 28–31.
      • Shivel, G. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791, by Freya Johnston. Choice 43, no. 3 (November 2005): 1418.
      • Smallwood, Philip. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791, by Freya Johnston. New Rambler E:9 (2005): 79–80.
      • Venturo, David F. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791, by Freya Johnston. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 2 (September 2006): 50–52.
2176. Johnston, Freya. “Sick of Both [Review of Johnson and Boswell: A Biography of Friendship, by John B. Radner].” TLS 5755 (July 19, 2013): 25.
2177. Johnston, Freya, and Lynda Mugglestone, eds. Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
      Abstract: In 1819, William Hazlitt condemned Samuel Johnson’s prose style as ‘a species of rhyming’ in which ‘the close of the period follows as mechanically as the oscillation of a pendulum, the sense is balanced with the sound.’ Predictable, formulaic, and unresponsive, Hazlitt’s Johnson was a ‘complete balance-master,’ incapable of latitude and compromise, a mere automaton who rebounded from one position to its opposite extreme. Johnson, Hazlitt argued, ‘never encourages hope, but he counteracts it by fear; he never elicits a truth, but he suggests some objection in answer to it.’ This volume sets out to challenges Hazlitt’s influential reading of the Johnsonian pendulum in a variety of ways. Rather than being trapped within a set of oppositions, Johnson emerges from these chapters as a writer who engages imaginatively and vigorously with flux, dynamism, and inconclusiveness. Johnson’s life and writings embody the critical and creative play of ideas, a form of interaction with the world which is shaped by instability, contradiction, and combat. On the one hand, ‘Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed;’ on the other, ‘To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.’ Individual chapters present new perspectives on Johnson’s work, life, and reception, addressing questions of style, authority, language, lexicography, and biography across a range of writings from the early poetry to the late prose.
2178. Johnston, George Sim. “A Melancholy Man of Letters [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Wall Street Journal, September 18, 2008.
2179. Johnston, Shirley White. “Samuel Johnson’s Macbeth: ‘Fair Is Foul.’” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 189–230.
2180. Jones, A. E., Jr. Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769, by Richard Cargill Cole, Peter S. Baker, and Rachel McClellan. Choice 33, no. 6 (1996): 3158. https://doi.org/10.5860/CHOICE.33-3158a.
2181. Jones, A. E. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Choice 30, no. 9 (May 1993): 4836.
2182. Jones, A. E., Jr. Review of The Journals of James Boswell, 1762–1795, by John Wain. Choice 30, no. 5 (1993): 2504. https://doi.org/10.5860/CHOICE.30-2504.
2183. Jones, Brian. “Dr Johnson in Paris.” Quadrant 32, no. 1-2 [241] (1988): 98–100.
2184. Jones, Charles, and Raymond Hickey. “Nationality and Standardisation in Eighteenth-Century Scotland.” In Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change, 221–34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511781643.013.
      Abstract: The modern Scots visitor to Rome’s delightful little Piazza SS Apostoli must surely view the scene with a strong feeling of poignancy, for it was to apartments in a small pallazzo in that square (no. 49) that Charles Edward Stewart repaired for sanctuary after his disastrous defeat at the hands of a government army (largely composed of Scots) on the moor of Culloden in 1746. The effects of that debacle were, of course, wide-reaching in social, economic and political terms, but the defeat of the Jacobite armies also had enormous consequences for the languages of Scotland. Perhaps the most wide-ranging was the effect on the Gaelic language, henceforth subject to deliberate suppression, leading to its serious decline which has lasted to this day. But there was also a less immediate effect on the language spoken in non-Gaelic Scotland — the Lowlands with their large cities as well as the North Eastern counties with large population centres at Aberdeen and Dundee. This form of speech, usually described by contemporaries as Scotch or Scots, was itself also subject to pressures from a variety of sources throughout the eighteenth century, especially in its latter stages. Hostility to all things Scottish was a feature of post-1746 England.
2185. Jones, I. E. “Johnson’s Doctorate.” TLS, September 21, 1990, 1001.
      Reply to Greene.
2186. Jones, J. Emile. “An Index to the Johnsonian News Letter.” Johnsonian News Letter 75, no. 2 (September 2024): 14–64.
2187. Jones, Lewis. “Amorous to Zealous [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” Financial Times, January 10, 2009.
2188. Jones, Malcolm. “A Biography of the Biography.” Newsweek 159, no. 19 (November 9, 2009): 56.
2189. Jones, Nicolette. Review of Who Was . . . Sam Johnson: The Wonderful Word Doctor, by Andrew Billen. The Sunday Times, May 23, 2004.
2190. Jones, Philip. “Reading Dr Johnson: Reception and Representation (1750–1960).” PhD thesis, University of Birmingham, 2019.
      Abstract: The thesis examines the response of imaginative writers to Samuel Johnson; arguing that these authors’ refashioning of Johnson involved a profoundly creative process. Chapter 1 examines Johnson’s own self-accounting, revealing an instability of self-imaging, linked to the different textual forms employed by Johnson. Chapter 2 argues that James Boswell’s biography theatricalised the representation of Johnson, introducing Boswell into the drama of Johnson’s self-reflexivity. Chapter 3 focuses on the Romantics, arguing that William Hazlitt misread Johnson’s criticism as mechanical, while Lord Byron drew upon Johnson’s authority to challenge Romantic orthodoxies. Chapter 4 focuses on the Victorians, arguing that Thomas Carlyle focused on Johnson’s powers of self-creation, epitomised in action; while Matthew Arnold’s abridged version of The Lives of the English Poets, helped tutor a new reading public. George Birkbeck Hill’s edition of Boswell’s biography represented a turn to the encyclopaedic. Chapter 5 explores the Modern response to Johnson. T. S. Eliot’s critical revolution enlisted Johnson to support Eliot’s anti-Romantic animus. Beckett was interested in Johnson’s obsession with madness, death and numbers; themes which dominated his own writing. Jorge Luis Borges admired Rasselas, and was fascinated by Johnson’s friendship with Boswell, which mirrored his own relationship with the writer Adolfo Bioy Casares.
2191. Jones, Philip. Reading Samuel Johnson: Reception and Representation, 1750–1960. Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2023.
      Abstract: Reading Samuel Johnson examines how the eighteenth-century author, lexicographer, and wit, Samuel Johnson was later read and represented by writers between 1750 to 1970. The writers range from James Boswell and Jane Austen to Lord Byron and Samuel Beckett. The book focuses as much on these later writers as on Johnson himself. It also examines how Johnson sought to understand himself, and how later writers responded to or ignored Johnson’s own self-understanding. This is the first detailed historical analysis of the way that later writers engaged with Samuel Johnson over an extended timeframe (of over 200 years). The book sheds light on how writers bring their own unique creative energies, preoccupations and cultural affiliations to the reading experience. Writers find their own space, I argue, in part, through their responses to other authors. Reading Johnson has prompted writers, in turn, to write about him. Translating Johnson for contemporary audiences, authors have used very different means, including the writing of letters, essays, biographical representations, poetry, fiction and editorial practice. This has proved a dynamic process, both shedding new light on Johnson but also impacting writer’s own imaginative practice. Reading Dr Johnson has, therefore, always been a pre-eminently creative process.
2192. Jones, Robert C. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Library Journal 126, no. 11 (June 15, 2001): 82.
2193. Jones, Robert. “What Then Should Britons Feel? Anna Laetitia Barbauld and the Plight of the Corsicans.” Women’s Writing 9, no. 2 (2002): 285–303. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699080200200227.
2194. Jones, Wayne. My Sam Johnson: A Biography for General Readers. Ottawa: William & Park, 2023.
      Abstract: A biography of English writer Samuel Johnson, 1709–1784, . . . covering his entire life from his birth in Lichfield to his death in London.
2195. Jones, William R. “The Channel and English Writers: Johnson, Smollett, Fielding, and Falconer.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 292 (1991): 55–66.
2196. Jordan, Bob. “The Origins and Development of English Dictionaries 1: Early Days: Nathaniel Bailey and Samuel Johnson.” Modern English Teacher 10, no. 3 (2001): 15–19.
2197. Jordan, Sarah. “’Driving on the System of Life’: Samuel Johnson and Idleness.” In The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, 153–77. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2003.
2198. Jordan, Sarah. “Samuel Johnson and Idleness.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 11 (2000): 145–76.
2199. Jordan, Sarah Elizabeth. “The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture.” PhD thesis, Brandeis University, 1994.
2200. Joy, Neill R. “A Samuel Johnson Allusion in a Letter to Benjamin Franklin Explained and Amplified.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 8, no. 1 (December 1995): 13–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.1995.10545137.
2201. Joy, Neill R. “Politics and Culture: The Dr. Franklin–Dr. Johnson Connection, with an Analogue.” Prospects 23 (1998): 59–105.
2202. Jung, Sandro. “Idleness Censured and Morality Vindicated: Johnson’s ‘Lives’ of Shenstone and Gray.” Études Anglaises 60, no. 1 (2007): 80–91. https://doi.org/10.3917/etan.601.0080.
2203. Jung, Sandro. “‘In Quest of Mistaken Beauties’: Samuel Johnson’s Life of Collins Reconsidered.” Études Anglaises 57, no. 3 (July 2004): 284–96.
2204. Jung, Sandro. “Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of William Collins’s Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 19, no. 1 (2006): 69–86.
2205. Justice, George. “Imlac’s Pedagogy.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 13 (2002): 1–29.
      A reading of Rasselas against the background of eighteenth-century ideas about education.
2206. Justice, George. “Pope’s Epistle to Arbuthnot and Johnson’s Life of Savage.” In The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century England. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002.
2207. Justice, George. “Rasselas in ‘The Rise of the Novel.’” Eighteenth-Century Novel 4 (2004): 217–31.
2208. Justice, George. “Teaching the Age of Johnson through the Life of Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 12–13.
2209. Justice, Jack. “On Smells and Literature.” Kipling Journal 87, no. 352 (December 2013): 20–31.
2210. Kaartinen, Marjo. Review of James Boswell’s Urban Experience in Eighteenth-Century London, by Markku Kekäläinen. Sjuttonhundratal: Sällskapet för 1700-Talsstudier 10 (2013): 186. https://doi.org/10.7557/4.2633.
2211. Kahane, Henry, and Renée Kahane. “Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary: From Classical Learning to the National Language.” Lexicographia 41 (1992): 50–53.
2212. Kairoff, Claudia Thomas. “Samuel Johnson and Anna Seward: Solitude and Sensibility.” In Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 191–213. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019.
2213. Kalas, J. Ellsworth. “Samuel Johnson: A Man of His Word.” In Preaching about People: The Power of Biography. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2004.
2214. Kalter, Barrett. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Modern Philology 102, no. 2 (2004): 279–82.
2215. Kaminski, Thomas. “From Bigotry to Genius: The Treatment of Johnson’s Politics in Hawkins’s The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.” In Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Johnson, edited by Martine W. Brownley, 115–35. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2012.
2216. Kaminski, Thomas. “Johnson and Procopius.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 1 (March 2016): 48–50.
2217. Kaminski, Thomas. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. JEGP 90, no. 4 (October 1991): 559–61.
2218. Kaminski, Thomas. “Politics.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 349–66. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson was a Tory, but few nowadays know what that entailed. As a Tory Johnson believed that the king’s hereditary right to his crown superseded Parliament’s authority to alter the line of succession. As a result, for much of his adult life Johnson was a Jacobite, one who supported the claim of the exiled Stuart Pretender to the British throne. Johnson also admired the theological polemics of the Nonjuring clergy who defended the sacred character of the established Church. But with the death of the Old Pretender in 1766 and the long continuance of Hanoverian rule, Johnson accepted, with certain reservations, George III’s right to the crown. And during the 1770s, appalled by increasing political and social unrest, Johnson wrote a series of pamphlets defending Whig governments against the attacks of unruly mobs, unscrupulous politicians, and American revolutionaries.
2219. Kaminski, Thomas. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. Philological Quarterly 76, no. 1 (1997): 101–4.
2220. Kaminski, Thomas. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 11 (2000): 333–40.
2221. Kaminski, Thomas. “Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes.” In A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, 331–38. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
2222. Kaminski, Thomas. “Some Alien Qualities of Samuel Johnson’s Art.” In Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, edited by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill, 222–38. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
2223. Kaminski, Thomas. The Early Career of Samuel Johnson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
      Abstract: This book examines Samuel Johnson’s literary activity from his arrival in London in 1737 until his decision to attempt the Dictionary of the English Language in 1746. Focusing on his struggles as a writer for hire, The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, examines the many and varied projects he undertook — from the editorship of the Gentleman’s Magazine through a catalogue of the Harleian Library — and puts them in their historical and social perspective. By exploring such failed projects as the aborted translation of Sarpi’s History of the Council of Trent and the first attempt to edit Shakespeare, Kaminski reveals the young Johnson’s intentions and aspirations as well as his achievements. Johnson’s labors and earnings are discussed in the context of the other “hack writers” of the day, with some surprising insights into both his poverty and his productivity.
      The most thorough biographical account of Johnson’s early years in London.
      Reviews:
      • Barron, Janet.
      • Curley, Thomas M. Review of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 483–86.
      • Hume, Robert D. Review of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 28, no. 3 (1988): 521–22.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. Notes and Queries 36 [234], no. 1 (1989): 113–14.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. Johnsonian News Letter 46, no. 2 (June 1986): 2.
      • Pierce, Charles E. Review of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. Eighteenth-Century Studies 22 (1988): 102–5.
      • Review of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. Year’s Work in English Studies 68 (1990): 362.
      • Womersley, David. Review of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. Review of English Studies 40, no. 158 (1989): 274–75. of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. Times Higher Education, no. 770 (1987): 19.
2224. Kaminski, Thomas. “Three Contexts for Reading Johnson’s Parliamentary Debates.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 195–218. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
2225. Kaminski, Thomas. “‘To Pluck a Titled Poet’s Borrow’d Wing’: Richard Savage and Johnson’s ‘Thales’ — Again.” Notes and Queries 60 [258], no. 258 (March 2013): 85–87.
2226. Kaminsky-Jones, Rhys. “Floating in the Breath of the People: Ossianic Mist, Cultural Health, and the Creation of Celtic Atmosphere, 1760–1815.” Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture and Criticism 27, no. 2 (2021): 135–48.
      Abstract: This essay uses Samuel Johnson’s characterization of Gaelic culture as an essentially airborne phenomenon as the starting point for a wide-ranging consideration of the links between atmospheric and Celtic discourses during the Romantic era. This period has been deemed foundational to the literary ‘appearance’ of air and the conceptual formation of Celticity, but these two cultural phenomena have rarely been considered in tandem. Beginning with a discussion of the atmospheric ideas that underpin the Poems of Ossian’s infamous mists, the essay argues that critics have largely ignored the complexity of Macpherson’s medicalized ecologies of air. The essay then moves on to consider the development of comparable cloudy symbolism during the Welsh cultural revival of the 1790s, when overcast skies became an organising metaphor used to express the cultural benightedness of Wales. The often-unexamined cliché of ‘Celtic mistiness’ is revealed as a vital metaphor for the allure and imperfection o
2227. Kang, Moonsoon. “Satire as ‘A Sword in the Hands of a Mad Man’ and ‘That Art of Necessary Defence’: A Study of Madness and Satire in Swift and Johnson.” PhD thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2001.
2228. Kanter, Peter. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 66–69.
2229. Kanter, Peter. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 57–60.
2230. Kanter, Peter. “Johnsoniana: Worth.Com, December 2015-January 2016.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 28.
2231. Kanter, Peter. Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin. Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 1 (March 2009): 53–57.
2232. Kaplan, Carey, and Ellen Cronan Rose. “Dr. Johnson’s Canon and His Common Reader.” In The Canon and the Common Reader, 15–34. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.
2233. Karaduman, Alev. “The West versus the East: Samuel Johnson’s Cultural Solipsism in Rasselas (1759).” Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi/Hacettepe University Journal of Faculty of Letters 31, no. 2 (December 2014): 153–60.
2234. Karounos, Michael. “Rasselas and the Riddle of the Caves: Setting Eternity in the Hearts of Men.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 16 (2005): 39–58.
2235. Karounos, Michael. “Tropes of Time and Space in Johnson, Burney, Edgeworth, and Austen.” PhD thesis, Vanderbilt University, 2005.
      Abstract: This project is an attempt to articulate a new conception of time and space as determined by the internal evidence of the texts and not by social or economic theories. Toward this end it employs a methodology which defines time and space as separate ideological categories with specific cultural distinctives. Furthermore, this essay attempts to prove that the authors figure their fictional arguments as solutions to contemporary social problems. Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas (1759) defines time in the psychological terms of emotion. Hope and fear represent the future; sorrow and regret represent the past; and pleasure and pain represent the present. There are two modes of living: the “choice of life” and the “choice of eternity.” The choice the story posits is between living a material life in the present or a spiritual life in the future. Fanny Burney’s Cecilia (1782) likewise portrays the tension between choosing to live in space or to live in time.
2236. Kasraie, Mary Rose. “Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary (1755): Johnson’s Use of Quotations from the Works of Alexander Pope in Volume 1 of the Dictionary.” MA thesis, Georgia State University, 1990.
2237. Kass, Thomas. “Morbid Melancholy, the Imagination, and Samuel Johnson’s Sermons.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 8, no. 4 (September 2005): 47–63. https://doi.org/10.1353/log.2005.0037.
2238. Kass, Thomas G. “Holy Fear and Samuel Johnson’s Sermons.” English Language Notes 33, no. 2 (December 1995): 36–48.
2239. Kass, Thomas G. “Johnson’s Sermons: An Enlightened Response to Radical Evil.” Christianity and Literature 41, no. 4 (June 1992): 395–405.
2240. Kass, Thomas G. “Reading the ‘Religious’ Language of Samuel Johnson’s Sermons.” Renascence: Essays on Literature and Ethics, Spirituality, and Religion 51, no. 4 (June 1999): 240–51. https://doi.org/10.5840/renascence199951410.
2241. Kass, Thomas G. “The Mixed Blessings of the Imagination in Johnson’s Sermons.” Renascence: Essays on Literature and Ethics, Spirituality, and Religion 47, no. 2 (December 1995): 89–101. https://doi.org/10.5840/renascence199547212.
2242. Kass, Thomas George. “Samuel Johnson’s ‘Sermons’: Consolations for the Vacuity of Life.” PhD thesis, Loyola University of Chicago, 1988.
2243. Katritzky, Linde. “Johnson and the Earl of Shelburne’s Circle.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 101–18.
2244. Katritzky, Linde. Johnson and “The Letters of Junius”: New Perspectives on an Old Enigma. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. Reviews:
      • Review of Johnson and “The Letters of Junius”: New Perspectives on an Old Enigma, by Linde Katritzky. Year’s Work in English Studies 77 (1999): 404.
      • Yarrow, Bill. Review of Johnson and “The Letters of Junius”: New Perspectives on an Old Enigma, by Linde Katritzky. East-Central Intelligencer 12 (September 1998): 26–28.
2245. Katritzky, Linde. “Junius: An Orthodox Rebel.” In Orthodoxy and Heresy in Eighteenth-Century Society: Essays from the DeBartolo Conference, edited by Regina Hewitt and Pat Rogers, 134–53. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2002.
2246. Kavanagh, Colette Maria. “Samuel Johnson, Biographer.” MA thesis, Georgetown University, 1994.
2247. Kavanagh, P. J. A Book of Consolations. London: HarperCollins, 1992.
2248. Kavanagh, P. J. “Bywords (A Reflection on Samuel Johnson).” TLS, September 15, 2000, 16.
2249. Kay, Donald. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. South Atlantic Review 54, no. 1 (January 1989): 119–22.
2250. Keats, John. Wise and Otherwise: In Dialogue with Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1986.
      Limited edition of 50 copies.
2251. Keen, Paul. “On the Highways of Literature: Herbert Croft’s Unfinished Business.” Romanticism on the Net 50 (May 2008). https://doi.org/10.7202/018142ar.
2252. Keener, Frederick M. “Legacies Including Samuel Johnson’s.” In Implication, Readers’ Resources, and Thomas Gray’s Pindaric Odes. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
2253. Keener, Frederick M. The Chain of Becoming: The Philosophical Tale, the Novel, and Neglected Realism of the Enlightenment: Swift, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Johnson, and Austen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. Reviews:
      • Frank, Joseph. Review of The Chain of Becoming: The Philosophical Tale, the Novel, and Neglected Realism of the Enlightenment: Swift, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Johnson, and Austen, by Frederick M. Keener. Sewanee Review 94, no. 4 (1986): 650–57.
2254. Keener, Frederick M. “The Philosophical Tale, the Chain of Becoming, and the Novel.” In Lessing and the Enlightenment, edited by Alexej Ugrinsky, 35–42. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7763-8_23.
2255. Keener, Frederick M. Review of The Unknown Samuel Johnson, by John J. Burke Jr. and Donald Kay. Yearbook of English Studies 17 (1987): 299–300.
2256. Keese, Ian. “The Johnson of History or the Johnson of Boswell?” ISAA Review 19, no. 1 (2023): 67–75.
      Abstract: What most people know of Samuel Johnson, the famous lexicographer, literary critic and essayist, comes primarily through The Life of Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell.1 One of the great assets of this biography is the detailed reports of conversations that took place at dinners or clubs, when Johnson was meeting with some of the leading intellectual, cultural and political figures of the second half of the eighteenth century: the politicians John Wilkes and Edmund Burke; literary figures such as Elizabeth Montagu and Francis Burney; the artist Joshua Reynolds; or the music historian Charles Burney.
2257. Keevak, Michael. “Johnson’s Psalmanazar.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 97–120.
2258. Keevak, Michael. “The Jew Psalmanazar.” In The Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar’s Eighteenth-Century Formosan Hoax, 99–117. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004.
2259. Keilen, S. P. T. “Johnsonian Biography and the Swiftian Self.” Cambridge Quarterly 23, no. 4 (1994): 324–47.
2260. Keiser, Jess. “The Hypochondriac’s Watch: Boswell’s Case.” In Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience, 219. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15d81z0.10.
      Abstract: Throughout much of his life, James Boswell suffered from a disease he called “hypochondria.” In a series of voluminous journals and in a weekly essay for the London Magazine, fittingly entitled “The Hypochondriack,” Boswell obsessively detailed the symptoms of his disease and just as obsessively wondered over its causes and possible cures. Beset by anxiety, doubt, and gloom, Boswell’s essays on hypochondria catalog nearly everything known and thought about the disease over the course of the eighteenth century. Although at times Boswell, often dejected and even anhedonic, appears to suffer mainly from what we would today call melancholy or depression,
2261. Keizer, Garret. “One Resolution You Might Just Keep.” New York Times, December 29, 2022.
      On Johnson as the “patron saint” of resolution makers.
2262. Kekäläinen, Markku. “‘I Felt a Noble Shock’: James Boswell in German Princely Courts.” Sjuttonhundratal: Sällskapet för 1700-Talsstudier 10 (2013): 87. https://doi.org/10.7557/4.2622.
      Abstract: The article deals with James Boswell’s (1740–1795) attitudes towards the courtly milieu in the context of eighteenth-century British court discourse. The central argument is that, strongly contrary to the anti-court ethos of his intellectual and social milieu, Boswell had an affirmative and enthusiastic attitude towards the court. Moreover, the fact that he was neither an Addisonian moralist ‘spectator’ nor a cynical court aristocrat like Lord Chesterfield, but in many senses a highly affective ‘man of feeling’ of the age, did not diminish the uniqueness of his positive view of court culture. On the one hand, Boswell’s appreciation of the court was connected with his firm monarchism and belief in hereditary rank; on the other hand, he was aesthetically fascinated by the splendour and magnificence of the courtly milieu. His appraisal of the court did not include the common-sense moralism of the moral weeklies or the cynical observations of the aristocratic court discourse; rather his attitude was immediate, emotional, and enthusiastic in the spirit of the cult of sensibility.
2263. Kekäläinen, Markku. “James Boswell’s Urban Experience in Eighteenth-Century London.” PhD Thesis, University of Helsinki, 2012.
      Abstract: The doctoral dissertation “James Boswell’s Urban Experience in Eighteenth-Century London” aims to reconstruct Boswell’s urban experience according to five central themes. First, the distinction between country and city; secondly, the reception of the city as the imaginative reflection of multiplicities; thirdly, the city as a source of spectacular pleasure; fourthly, the metropolis as a scene of theatrical politeness; and finally, the metropolis as a locale of the libertine eroticism. The central argument of the thesis is that Boswell’s urban experience included two culturally distant elements: the romantic sensibility on the one hand and the early modern, strongly aristocratic set of values and predilections on the other. Boswell’s theory of politeness was possibly the most distinctive element of his urban experience. In the context of early-modern and eighteenth-century discussions about civility his conception of politeness had two seemingly inconsistent elements: its milieu was urban but its content was principally from the courtly code of politeness. Boswell was, like Joseph Addison or Samuel Johnson, a London gentleman of clubs and coffee-houses, but his principles of politeness had some typically courtly features and his ideal gentleman had obvious resemblances with the renaissance and baroque courtier. A significant detail in Boswell’s gentlemanly figure was his libertine sexuality which can be seen as a logical element of his aristocratic ideal. The crucial characteristics were focused on the question of authenticity and theatricality. For Boswell, the art of pleasing was fundamentally a theatrical display, and he recognized the public self as an aesthetic artifact, a work of art which was a result of active fashioning of the self.
      Reviews:
      • Kaartinen, Marjo. Review of James Boswell’s Urban Experience in Eighteenth-Century London, by Markku Kekäläinen. Sjuttonhundratal: Sällskapet För 1700-Talsstudier 10 (2013): 186. https://doi.org/10.7557/4.2633.
2264. Kelleher, Paul. “Johnson and Disability.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 204–17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
2265. Kelleher, Paul. “Men of Feeling: Sentimentalism, Sexuality, and the Conduct of Life in Eighteenth-Century British Literature.” PhD thesis, Princeton University, 2003.
      Abstract: Men of Feeling revises the history of sexuality via the literary history of eighteenth-century British sentimentalism. I take my cue theoretically from the striking overlap between Michel Foucault’s periodization of the advent of the regime of sexuality — chiefly, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — and the flourishing of a British culture of sensibility and sentiment in these very centuries. Readings of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas, Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey, Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling, and Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France describe how the alliances and divergences between sex and sentiment shaped eighteenth-century notions of reason, conversation, publicity, domesticity, and morality. In order to reconstitute the scope of sentimental culture, I read these authors with reference to their manifest, if sometimes oblique, relation to the various currents of British moral and ethical discourse, including the work of Hobbes, Shaftesbury, Mandeville, and Hume. Men of Feeling demonstrates how the literature and philosophy of eighteenth-century sentimentalism both informed and contended with emergent notions of “normal” and “perverse” desire and sexuality. Specifically, I describe how the “virtue” of heterosexual desire became necessity, how the culture of sensibility extensively embraced the proposition that life as such is strictly synonymous with the romance of heterosexual desire. But at the same time, I argue, sentimentalism offered a literary and philosophical discourse in which the social rituals of sexuality — such as courtship, marriage, reproduction, and inheritance — could be thought and rethought. A central question orients my reclamation of sentimentalism for critical thinking — indeed, as a form of critical thinking: Does “sexuality” absorb the sentiments, or do the sentiments preserve understandings of self, other, and community that exceed or countermand the order of “sexuality”? By tracing the figure of the “man of feeling” across a century of literary representation and ethical reflection, I argue that the sentiments are neither subsumed nor displaced by sexuality, but rather, sustain distinct — often radical or queer — notions of the self, its affections, and its social relations.
2266. Kelly, Lionel. “Beckett’s Human Wishes.” In The Ideal Core of the Onion: Reading Beckett Archives, edited by John Pilling and Mary Bryden, 21–44. Bristol: Beckett International Foundation, 1992.
2267. Kelly, Lionel. “Les Desirs humains de Beckett.” Translated by H. Fiamma. Europe: Revue litteraire mensuelle 71 (June 1993): 99–115.
2268. Kelly, Veronica. “Locke’s Eyes, Swift’s Spectacles.” In Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Veronica Kelly and Dorothea von Mücke, 66–85. Stanford University Press, 1994.
2269. Kemmerer, Kathleen Nulton. A Neutral Being between the Sexes: Samuel Johnson’s Sexual Politics. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1998. Reviews:
      • Basney, Lionel. “Dr. Johnson’s Wisdom [Review of ‘A Neutral Being between the Sexes’: Samuel Johnson’s Sexual Politics, by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer, and Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt].” Sewanee Review 107, no. 4 (1999): 110–12.
      • Dille, Catherine. Review of “A Neutral Being between the Sexes”: Samuel Johnson’s Sexual Politics, by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer. New Rambler E:1 (1997): 73–74.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of “A Neutral Being between the Sexes”: Samuel Johnson’s Sexual Politics, by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer. Choice 36, no. 6 (February 1999): 1065.
      • Rounce, Adam. Review of “A Neutral Being between the Sexes”: Samuel Johnson’s Sexual Politics, by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 22, no. 2 (1999): 228.
2270. Kemmerer, Kathleen Nulton. “Domestic Relations in Samuel Johnson’s Life of Milton.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 57–82.
2271. Kemmerer, Kathleen Nulton. “Samuel Johnson’s Androgyny and Sexual Politics.” PhD thesis, Fordham University, 1993.
2272. Kemmerer, Kathleen Nulton. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. East-Central Intelligencer 13, no. 2 (May 1999): 19–21.
2273. Kemp, Arnold. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Guardian, November 5, 2000.
2274. Kemp, Peter. “In Thrall to Mrs Thrale [Review of According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge].” The Sunday Times, September 2, 2001.
2275. Kemp, Robert. “Johnson and Boswell, Inverted.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 8 (2006): 57–60.
2276. Kennedy, Deborah. “Samuel Johnson and the Education of Women.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 29 (2024): 3–27.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson’s long-standing support of women’s education is a component of his well-known interest in the writing, the accomplishments, and the conversation of women. Women gravitated to Johnson, and, as Norma Clarke has pointed out, “the image of Johnson holding forth among ‘the ladies’ was so common and for different reasons had such currency that it has circulated as one of the many definitive images of Samuel Johnson. In its most sentimental version, Johnson is a grizzly bear and the ladies are tinkling visions of elegance.” At the core of these social vignettes stands Johnson’s respect for women’s capabilities.
2277. Kennedy, Kate, and Hermione Lee. Lives of Houses. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691201948.
      Abstract: A group of notable writers — including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow — celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past. What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we shape the buildings we live in, or are we formed by the places we call home? And why are we especially fascinated by the houses of the famous and often long-dead? In Lives of Houses, a group of notable biographers, historians, critics, and poets explores these questions and more through fascinating essays on the houses of great writers, artists, composers, and politicians of the past. Editors Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee are joined by wide-ranging contributors, including Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, David Cannadine, Roy Foster, Alexandra Harris, Daisy Hay, Margaret MacMillan, Alexander Masters, and Jenny Uglow. We encounter W. H. Auden, living in joyful squalor in New York’s St. Mark’s Place, and W. B. Yeats in his flood-prone tower in the windswept West of Ireland. We meet Benjamin Disraeli, struggling to keep up appearances, and track the lost houses of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen. We visit Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh, England, and Jean Sibelius at Ainola, Finland. But Lives of Houses also considers those who are unhoused, unwilling or unable to establish a home — from the bewildered poet John Clare wandering the byways of England to the exiled Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera living on the streets of London.With more than forty illustrations, Lives of Houses illuminates what houses mean to us and how we use them to connect to and think about the past. The result is a fresh and engaging look at house and home.
2278. Kennedy, Maev. “New Research Indicates Johnson Gave Up on His Dictionary: Leading Expert Claims That Dr Johnson Abandoned His Dictionary for Several Years — without Telling His Publishers.” Guardian, August 3, 2006.
      On Anne McDermott’s research.
2279. Kennedy, Richard. “Cum Notis Variorum: Johnson’s Shakespeare of 1765: A Comparison of the Two Editions of MND.” Shakespeare Newsletter 44, no. 4 [223] (December 1994): 73.
2280. Kennedy, Richard F. “Johnson’s Shakespeare of 1765: A Comparison of the Two Editions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” In Reading Readings: Essays on Shakespeare Editing in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Joanna Gondris, 323–29. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998.
2281. Kenning, D. W. “What’s in a Name? Earl Miner and the Travels of Bashō and Johnson [Review of Naming Properties: Nominal Reference in Travel Writings by Bashō and Sora, Johnson and Boswell, by Earl Miner].” Comparative Literature Studies 35, no. 2 (1998): 191–205.
2282. Kenny, Mary. “Just What the Good Doctor Ordered.” Sunday Telegraph, June 5, 1991.
2283. Keogh, Annette Maria. “Found in Translation: Foreign Travel and Linguistic Difference in the Eighteenth Century.” PhD thesis, Stanford University, 2002.
      See chapter 4, “British Translations: Foreign Languages and Translation in Johnson’s Dictionary.”
2284. Keppler, Joseph F. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Seattle Times, October 23, 1994.
2285. Kerestman, Katherine. “Breaking the Shackles of the Great Chain of Being and Liberating Compassion in the Eighteenth Century.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 3 (1997): 57–76.
2286. Kermode, Frank. “Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday.” New York Review of Books 56, no. 3 (February 26, 2009): 26–29.
      A review essay on Gordon Campbell and Thomas N. Corns’s John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought, Anna Beer’s Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot, and Nigel Smith’s Is Milton Better than Shakespeare? Kermode uses Johnson’s Life of Milton to structure his own piece.
2287. Kermode, Frank. “Lives of Dr. Johnson [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791, by Freya Johnston; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’, by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; and Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick].” New York Review of Books 53, no. 11 (June 22, 2006): 28–31.
2288. Kernan, Alvin. “Literacy Crises, Old and New Information Technologies and Cultural Change.” Language & Communication 9, no. 2–3 (1989): 159–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/0271-5309(89)90016-5.
2289. Kernan, Alvin B. “King George of England Meets Samuel Johnson the Great Cham of Literature: The End of Courtly Letters and the Beginning of Modern Literature.” In Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, edited by David G. Allen and Robert A. White, 251–64. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990.
2290. Kernan, Alvin B. Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
      Published in paperback in 1989 as Samuel Johnson & the impact of print.
      Reviews:
      • Alkon, Paul. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. English Language Notes 26 (September 1988): 73–75.
      • D’Evelyn, Thomas. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Christian Science Monitor, March 4, 1987.
      • Fix, Stephen. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Eighteenth-Century Studies 21 (1988): 521–26.
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 455–61.
      • Hunter, David. “Printing Technology: A Review Essay [Includes Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin Kernan].” Libraries & Culture: A Journal of Library History 23, no. 3 (June 1988): 374–80.
      • Kolb, Gwin J. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. JEGP 88 (April 1989): 241–46.
      • Korshin, Paul J. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 26 (1987): 194–97.
      • Kuist, James M. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 18 (1989): 210–12.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Johnsonian News Letter 46, no. 2–47, 2 (June 1986): 3–4.
      • Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Year’s Work in English Studies 68 (1990): 362.
      • Rose, Mark. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Poetics Today 8, no. 3–4 (1987): 714–17.
      • Sommerville, John. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. American Historical Review 94, no. 1 (February 1989): 133–34.
      • Winton, Calhoun. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 84 (June 1990): 182–85.
      • Womersley, David. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Review of English Studies 39 (November 1988): 559–60.
      • Ziegler, Robert. “Recent Books on Johnson and Boswell [Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of ‘The Life of Johnson,’ by Greg Clingham; The Politics of Samuel Johnson, 2nd Ed., by Donald Greene; Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan; A Dr. Johnson Chronology, by Norman Page; Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker; The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick; The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford; and Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire].” Papers on Language and Literature 28, no. 4 (September 1992): 457–75.
2291. Kernan, Alvin B. “The Social Construction of Literature.” Kenyon Review 7, no. 4 (Fall 1985): 31–46.
2292. Kersey, Mel. “‘The Wells of English Undefiled’: Samuel Johnson’s Romantic Resistance to Britishness.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 69–84.
2293. Kerslake, John. “Portraits of Johnson.” New Rambler C:25, no. 25 (1984): 32–34.
2294. Keymer, Thomas. “Johnson, Madness, and Smart.” In Christopher Smart and the Enlightenment, edited by Clement Hawes, 177–94. St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
2295. Keymer, Thomas. “Johnson’s Poetry of Repetition.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 71–88. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
2296. Keymer, Thomas. “Meaning Exuberant [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” TLS, April 15, 2005, 10.
2297. Keymer, Thomas. “To Enjoy or Endure: Samuel Johnson’s Message to America.” TLS, March 27, 2009, 14–15.
      A version of Keymer’s introduction to the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Rasselas. On the pursuit of happiness in Rasselas, with glances at similar concerns in early America.
2298. Keymer, Tom. “‘Letters about Nothing’: Johnson and Epistolary Writing.” In The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 224–39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.015.
2299. Keynes, Milton. “The Miserable Health of Dr Samuel Johnson.” Journal of Medical Biography 3, no. 3 (August 1, 1995): 161.
2300. Kezar, Dennis Dean, Jr. “Radical Letters and Male Genealogies in Johnson’s Dictionary.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 35, no. 3 (June 1995): 493–517. https://doi.org/10.2307/450894.
2301. Khan, Rusi. “Johnson on Life and Death.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 4 (2000): 1–4.
2302. Kickel, Katherine. “Aesthetics and Theology in Samuel Johnson’s Life of Isaac Watts and Prayers and Meditations (1785).” In Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism, edited by Melvyn New and Gerard Reedy, 147–61. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2012.
2303. Kickel, Katherine. Review of Critical Occasions: Dryden, Pope, Johnson, and the History of Criticism, by Philip Smallwood. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 46, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 157–59.
2304. Kickel, Katherine. “Dr. Johnson at Prayer: Conslation Philosophy in The Prayers and Meditations.” In New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 69–86. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.
2305. Kickel, Katherine. “‘Occasional’ Observance and the Quiet Mind: Meditative Theory and Practice in Samuel Johnson’s Prayers and Meditations (1785).” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 20 (2010): 35–60.
2306. Kidd, Colin. Review of James Boswell, 1740–1795: The Scottish Perspective, by Roger Craik. Scottish Historical Review 75, no. 199 (1996): 123–24.
2307. Kilfoyle, James Anthony. “The Social Production of the Man of Letters in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” PhD thesis, Brown University, 1994.
2308. Killey, Phoebe. “A Twentieth Century Journey to Scotland in the Footsteps of Johnson and Boswell.” New Rambler D:10, no. 10 (1994): 27–32.
2309. Kilpatrick, James J. “Hail the Good Dr. Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language by Jack Lynch].” Chicago Sun-Times, July 21, 2002.
      Syndicated column.
2310. Kim, Bun. “Jenoki e natanan Samuel Johnson eui munhakkwan.” English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 12 (1988): 47–63.
2311. Kim, Moon-Soo. “Johnson munhak e itseosuh eui botong saramdeul e daehan gwansim: Life of Savage reul choolbaljom euro bayeo.” English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 10 (1986): 51–67.
2312. King, James. “Cowper, Hayley, and Samuel Johnson’s ‘Republican’ Milton.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 17 (1987): 229–38.
2313. King, Rachael Scarborough. “Samuel Johnson and Spectral Media.” ELH: English Literary History 87, no. 1 (2020): 65–90.
2314. King, Thomas. “How (Not) to Queer Boswell.” In Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700–1800, edited by Chris Mounsey and Caroline Gonda, 114–58. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007.
2315. Kingsbury, Pam. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers. Library Journal, November 15, 2008, 72.
2316. Kingscott, Geoffrey. “The Quest for Alexander Fraser Tytler.” Language International: The Business Resource for a Multilingual Age 3, no. 2 (April 1991): 16–19.
2317. Kinkade, John Steven. “Samuel Johnson’s Rambler and the Invention of Self-Help Literature.” PhD thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
2318. Kinkead-Weekes, Mark. “Defoe and Richardson: Novelists of the City.” In Dryden to Johnson, edited by Roger Lonsdale. New York: Bedrick, 1987.
2319. Kinney, Arthur F. Review of The Birth of Shakespeare Studies: Commentators from Rowe (1709) to Boswell–Malone (1821), by Arthur Sherbo. Philological Quarterly 68 (1989): 443–64.
2320. Kinsella, Thomas E. Review of Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, by Irma S. Lustig. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 434–38.
2321. Kinsella, Thomas E. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 452–56.
2322. Kinsella, Thomas E. “The Conventions of Authenticity: Boswell’s Revision of Dialogue in the Life of Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1993): 237–63.
2323. Kinsella, Thomas E. “The Pride of Literature: Arthur Murphy’s Essay on Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 16 (2005): 129–56.
2324. Kinsley, Bill. “Johnsoniana: Richard Wilbur, ‘Epistemology.’” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 2 (September 2018): 56.
2325. Kinsley, Bill. “Johnsoniana: The Montreal Gazette, Tuesday, 24 January 2017.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 2 (September 2018): 56.
2326. Kinsley, William. “Johnsoniana: Michael Innes, Appleby Talks Again; Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 2 (September 2015): 36.
2327. Kirk, Russell. “Three Pillars of Modern Order: Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, Adam Smith.” Modern Age 25, no. 3 (1981): 226–33.
2328. Kirk, Russell. “Three Pillars of Modern Order: Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, Adam Smith.” In Redeeming the Time, 254–70. Wilmington: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1996.
2329. Kirkley, Harriet. A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson’s Notes for the “Life of Pope.” Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2002.
      Abstract: This book is the first complete transcription of hitherto unpublished notes by Johnson for the ‘Life of Pope’ (British Library Add. MS. 5994). Kirkley provides Johnson scholars with a scrupulous study of Johnson’s editing system as well as a critical study of how these notes mediate the processes of reading and composing, providing critical insight into Johnson’s modes of textual production.
      Reviews:
      • Clarke, Norma. Review of A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson’s Notes for the “Life of Pope,” by Harriet Kirkley. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 27, no. 3 (2004): 611–13.
      • Craddock, Patricia. Review of A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson’s Notes for the “Life of Pope,” by Harriet Kirkley. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 39, no. 2 (2007): 190–91.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson’s Notes for the “Life of Pope,” by Harriet Kirkley. Notes and Queries 51 [249], no. 1 (March 2004): 91–93.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson’s Notes for the “Life of Pope,” by Harriet Kirkley. Choice 40, no. 6 (February 2003): 3262.
      • Review of A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson’s Notes for the “Life of Pope,” by Harriet Kirkley. Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 70–71.
      • Tankard, Paul. Review of A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson’s Notes for the “Life of Pope,” by Harriet Kirkley. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 381–86.
2330. Kirkley, Harriet. “John Nichols, Johnson’s Prefaces, and the History of Letters.” Review of English Studies 49, no. 195 (August 1998): 282–305. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/49.195.282.
      Abstract: This article explores questions raised by the evolution of Samuel Johnson’s Prefaces Biographical and Critical into the four-volume large octavo The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781, revised 1783). Examining the texts as printed and placing the work in the context of Nichols’s print shop, it argues that, had the prefaces appeared as Johnson conceived and wrote them, they would have constituted a “modern” history of letters as described by Francis Bacon in De augmentis et dignitatis scientiarum. To that end, the article examines evidence for the collaborative role of John Nichols, the possible effects of John Bell’s rival edition on the booksellers’ decision to publish with Johnson’s work less than half complete, and how that decision affected prefaces written in 1780–1, as well as the kinds of changes required to produce the “freestanding” four-volume edition of 1781.
2331. Kirkley, Harriet. Review of The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets,” by Martin Maner. South Atlantic Review 3 (September 1990): 106–9.
2332. Kirsch, Adam. “The Biographer’s Tale [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” Newsday, August 26, 2001, 9.
2333. Kirsch, Adam. “The Hack as Genius: Dr. Samuel Johnson Arrives at Harvard.” Harvard Magazine 2 (December 2004): 46–51.
      On the Hyde Collection of Viscountess Eccles going to the Houghton Library.
2334. Kirsop, Wallace. “The Elocutionist and the Lexicographer: Benjamin Suggitt Nayler Reads Samuel Johnson.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 11 (2009): 59–74.
2335. Kirsop, Wallace. “A Note on Johnson’s Dictionary in Nineteenth-Century Australia and New Zealand.” In An Index of Civilisation: Studies of Printing and Publishing History in Honour of Keith Maslen, edited by Ross Harvey, Wallace Kirsop, and B. J. McMullin, 172–74. Victoria, Australia: Center for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, 1993.
2336. Kirsop, Wallace. Samuel Johnson in Paris in 1775: The David Fleeman Memorial Lecture, 1995. Melbourne: Johnson Society of Australia, 1995.
2337. Kistanova, Anastasia. “The Horatian Tradition in Odes on Spring by English and Russian Poets.” In Ways of Being in Literary and Cultural Spaces, edited by Leo Loveday and Emilia Parpală, 157–69. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
2338. Klaeger, Florian. “Thalesian Lessons: Mad Astronomers in British Fiction of the Long Eighteenth Century.” In Reading Swift: Papers from the Seventh Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, edited by Janika Bischof, Kirsten Juhas, and Hermann J. Real, 283–310. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2019.
2339. Klehr, Alan, and Winsoar Churchill. “Samuel Johnson & James Boswell: Tour the Western Isles.” British Heritage 22, no. 3 (April 2001): 52–58.
2340. Kliman, Bernice. “Cum Notis Variorum: Thomas Davies, Eighteenth-Century Commentator on Shakespeare: Marginalia and Published Notes.” Shakespeare Newsletter 51, no. 4 [250] (2001): 83.
2341. Kliman, Bernice W. “Samuel Johnson, 1745 Annotator? Eighteenth-Century Editors, Anonymity, and the Shakespeare Wars.” Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 6, no. 3–4 (1992): 185–207.
2342. Kliman, Bernice W. “Samuel Johnson and Tonson’s 1745 Shakespeare: Warburton, Anonymity, and the Shakespeare Wars.” In Reading Readings: Essays on Shakespeare Editing in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Joanna Gondris, 299–317. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998.
2343. Kliman, Bernice W. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England 18 (2005): 220–22.
2344. Klinkenborg, Verlyn. “Appreciations: Johnson’s Dictionary.” New York Times, April 17, 2005.
2345. Klinkenborg, Verlyn. “Johnson and the Analogy of Judicial Authority.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 28, no. 1 (December 1987): 47–61.
2346. Knabe, Peter-Eckhard. “‘… Ut Operaretur Eum’: Warum es gilt, unseren Garten zu bestellen, und wie Candide und Rasselas zu dieser Überzeugung gelangen.” In Aufklärung als praktische Philosophie, edited by Frank Grunert and Friedrich Vollhardt, 377–82. Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1998.
2347. Knies, Michael, Jason Thorne, and Edward R. Leahy. “Scarce Books & Elegant Editions”: Samuel Johnson & James Boswell: Selections from the Edward R. Leahy Collection, Heritage Room, Weinberg Memorial Library, The University of Scranton, September 18, 2009–December 11, 2009. Scranton: University of Scranton Library, 2009.
      Catalogue of an exhibition held at the University of Scranton Library.
2348. Knight, Charles A. Review of In Mind of Johnson: A Study of Johnson the Rambler, by Philip Davis. JEGP 90, no. 2 (1991): 243–45.
2349. Kocan, Peter. “Johnson and Garrick Leave Lichfield” and “Levet.” In Standing with Friends, 15, 17. Port Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1992.
      Two poems.
2350. Koenig, Andrew. “The ‘New Rooms’ of Johnson’s Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language.” Johnsonian News Letter 75, no. 1 (March 2024): 25–35.
2351. Koenig, Rhoda. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Vogue, August 1994.
2352. Koepp, Robert Charles. “Johnsonian and Boswellian Strains in Early Nineteenth-Century English Biography.” PhD thesis, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1982.
2353. Kohn, Mark. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. The Independent, March 31, 1996.
2354. Kolb, Gwin J. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. JEGP 88, no. 2 (April 1989): 241–43.
2355. Kolb, Gwin J., ed. Johnson’s Dictionary: Catalogue of a Notable Collection of One Hundred Different Editions of Dr. Johnson’s “Dictionary of the English Language,” Some of Them Exceedingly Scarce, and All Collected with Great Skill and Industry, Offered for Sale as a Collection. Dorking: C. C. Kohler, 1986.
2356. Kolb, Gwin J. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. JEGP 88 (April 1989): 241–46.
2357. Kolb, Gwin J. Samuel Johnson and His Circle: Along with Other Literature, British and American. St. Paul, Minnesota: Rulon-Miller Books, 2004.
2358. Kolb, Gwin J. “Scholarly and Critical Responses.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 8–15. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
2359. Kolb, Gwin J. “Sir Walter Scott, ‘Editor’ of Rasselas.” Modern Philology 89, no. 4 (May 1992): 515–18.
2360. Kolb, Gwin J. “Studies of Johnson’s Dictionary.” Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 2 (1990): 113–26.
      Includes commentary on Congleton, DeMaria, Nagashima, and Reddick.
2361. Kolb, Gwin J. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Modern Philology 98, no. 4 (May 2001): 679–82.
2362. Kolb, Gwin J., and Robert DeMaria Jr. “Dr. Johnson’s Etymology of Gibberish.” Notes and Queries 45 [243], no. 1 (March 1998): 72–74. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/45.1.72.
2363. Kolb, Gwin J., and Robert DeMaria Jr. “Thomas Warton’s Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser, Samuel Johnson’s ‘History of the English Language,’ and Warton’s History of English Poetry: Reciprocal Indebtedness?” Philological Quarterly 74, no. 3 (June 1995): 327–35.
      Abstract: Literary scholars Thomas Warton and Samuel Johnson may have referred extensively to each other’s works when they wrote separate treatises on the English language and the history of English literature. Warton’s Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser contains a historical note on early English authors, and these authors received the same treatment in Johnson’s preface to his Dictionary of the English Language. A few decades after, Warton quoted and borrowed from the dictionary for his History of English Poetry.
2364. Kolb, Gwin J., and Ruth Kolb. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language, by Samuel Johnson. Johnsonian News Letter 50, no. 3–51, 3 (September 1990): 6–8.
2365. Korshin, Paul J. “Afterword.” ELH: English Literary History 64, no. 4 (1997): 1091–1100.
      A response to essays by Clark, Griffin, Hudson, Lipking, Reddick, Weinbrot, and others in the same issue.
2366. Korshin, Paul J., Jack Lynch, and J. T. Scanlan, eds. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual. 25 vols. New York: AMS Press, 1987. Reviews:
      • Adams, Percy G. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. South Atlantic Review 54, no. 1 (January 1989): 85–90.
      • Bigold, Melanie. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Review of English Studies 55, no. 222 (November 2004): 805–7.
      • Bigold, Melanie. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Review of English Studies 56, no. 226 (November 2005): 677–79.
      • Dille, Catherine. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Review of English Studies 51, no. 202 (May 2000): 305–6.
      • Erwin, Timothy. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Johnsonian News Letter 52, no. 2–53, 2 (June 1992): 28–31.
      • Ingram, Allan. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Modern Language Review 101, no. 3 (July 2006): 820.
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 1 (March 2007): 56–61.
      • Lee, Anthony W. “Quo Vadis? Samuel Johnson in the New Millennium [Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757–1763, by David Hankins and James J. Caudle; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man: A Translation from the French, by O M Brack, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick; and Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot].” Modern Philology 104, no. 4 (May 2007): 529–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/519192.
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Jack Lynch and J. T. Scanlan. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 56, no. 1/2 (July 2023): 19.
      • Li, Pang, and Steven Lynn. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Year’s Work in English Studies 2006 (2008): 4–5.
      • Lynn, Steven. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Jack Lynch. Year’s Work in English Studies 87 (2008): 3–4, 40–41.
      • McGlynn, P. D. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Choice 27, no. 1 (September 1989): 612.
      • McKeon, Michael. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 45, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 707–71.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Johnsonian News Letter 48, no. 1–2 (March 1988): 10–11.
      • Redford, Bruce. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Review of English Studies 49, no. 196 (November 1998): 518–19.
      • Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Year’s Work in English Studies 68, no. 1 (1990): 363.
      • Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Year’s Work in English Studies 75 (1997): 361–62.
      • Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Year’s Work in English Studies 77 (1999): 403–4.
      • Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Year’s Work in English Studies 78 (2000): 448–50.
      • Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Year’s Work in English Studies 79 (2001): 399–406.
      • Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Jack Lynch. Year’s Work in English Studies 87 (2008): 4–5.
      • Rounce, Adam. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 23, no. 1 (2000): 117–19.
      • Rounce, Adam. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 24, no. 2 (2001): 229–32.
      • Smallwood, Philip. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 21, no. 1 (1998): 91–92.
      • Vance, John A. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 20 (2001): 437–39.
      • Wild, Min. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Review of English Studies 53, no. 210 (May 2002): 268–69.
      • Womersley, David. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Review of English Studies 45, no. 180 (November 1994): 577–78.
      • Woudhuysen, H. R. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. TLS, June 22, 1990, 677.
2367. Korshin, Paul J. “Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Johnson: A Literary Relationship.” In Benjamin Franklin: An American Genius, edited by Gianfranca Balestra and Luigi Sampietro, 33–48. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 1993.
2368. Korshin, Paul J. Review of Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, by David Wheeler. Eighteenth-Century Studies 22 (1988): 105–8.
2369. Korshin, Paul J. “‘Extensive View’: Johnson and Boswell as Travelers and Observers.” In All Before Them: Attitudes to Abroad in English Literature, 1660–1780, edited by John McVeagh, 233–45. London: Ashfield, 1990.
2370. Korshin, Paul J., ed. Johnson after Two Hundred Years. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. Reviews:
      • Baron, Janet. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. Times Higher Education Supplement, no. 770 (1987): 19.
      • Bonnell, Thomas F. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. Modern Philology 86, no. 4 (1989): 427–30.
      • Kay, Donald. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. South Atlantic Review 54, no. 1 (January 1989): 119–22.
      • Kolb, Gwin J. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. JEGP 88, no. 2 (April 1989): 241–43.
      • Lehnert, Martin. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 37, no. 3 (1989): 268–70.
      • Pittock, Murray G. H. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 12 (1989): 111–12.
      • Womersley, David. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. Review of English Studies 40 (1989): 274–75.
      • Woodruff, James F. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. University of Toronto Quarterly 58, no. 3 (1989): 419–20.
2371. Korshin, Paul J. “Johnson and the Renaissance Dictionary.” In Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers, Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century, edited by Anne C. McDermott, 91–103. Ashgate, 2012.
2372. Korshin, Paul J. “Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784).” In International Encyclopedia of Communications, edited by George Gerbner, 1:371–72. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
2373. Korshin, Paul J. “Johnson, the Essay, and The Rambler.” In The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 51–66. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.005.
      Korshin considers The Rambler as an example of the essay genre.
2374. Korshin, Paul J. “Johnson’s Conversation in Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” In New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” edited by Greg Clingham, 174–93. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
2375. Korshin, Paul J. “Johnson’s Last Days: Some Facts and Problems.” In Johnson after Two Hundred Years, edited by Paul J. Korshin, 55–76. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
2376. Korshin, Paul J. “Johnson’s Rambler and Its Audiences.” In Essays on the Essay: Redefining the Genre, edited by Alexander J. Butrym, 92–105. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.
2377. Korshin, Paul J. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 26 (1987): 194–97.
2378. Korshin, Paul J. Review of Rasselas and Other Tales, by Gwin J. Kolb. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 4, no. 2 (1992): 172–73.
2379. Korshin, Paul J. “Reconfiguring the Past: The Eighteenth Century Confronts Oral Culture.” Yearbook of English Studies 28 (1998): 235–49.
2380. Korshin, Paul J. “Samuel Johnson’s Life Experience with Poverty.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 11 (2000): 3–20.
      A revisionist consideration of Johnson’s poverty.
2381. Korshin, Paul J. “The Founding of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual.” East-Central Intelligencer 8, no. 3 (September 1994): 6–7.
      A brief narrative of the early days of the journal.
2382. Korshin, Paul J. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 4 (1991): 417–24.
2383. Korshin, Paul J. “The Mythology of Johnson’s Dictionary.” In Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott, 10–23. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
      Korshin demolishes many of the myths and legends that have grown up around the writing of the Dictionary.
2384. Kosykh, T. A. “Discussion about Patriots and Patriotism in Britain in the 1760s–1770s.” Izvestiâ Uralʹskogo Federalʹnogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2, Gumanitarnye Nauki 18, no. 3 (154) (2016): 241–49. https://doi.org/10.15826/izv2.2016.18.3.057.
      Abstract: The article studies the history of the notions of “patriot” and “patriotism” in the political and social life of 18th-century Britain. The methodology of research is based on the approach of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought, consisting in the analysis of certain notions in the context of the epoch. The material of the paper is pamphlets of John Wilkes, and his main opponent Samuel Johnson as well as some anonymous journalistic essays. The paper focuses on the problem of interpretation of “patriot” and “patriotism” as notions by followers of different political views. John Wilkes acted as a “patriot,” supposing that it implied opposition to power until the “natural” rights and liberties of Englishmen were restored. Another understan-ding is reflected in Doctor Johnson’s and his supporters’ pamphlets. According to them, a patriot is “he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country.” The author comes to the conclusion about Samuel Johnson’s victory in the discussion, because he took the notion of “patriot” beyond the limits of political space. Moreover, the discussion about “false” and “true” patriotism indicated the formation of the public sphere and civil society in England of the 1760s–1770s.
2385. Kosykh, T. A. Сэмюэл Джонсон и его эпоха: Британия и мир глазами английского интеллектуала XVIII в.: монография / Sėmi︠u︡ėl Dzhonson i ego ėpokha: Britanii︠a︡ i mir glazami angliĭskogo intellektuala XVIII v.: monografii︠a︡ = Samuel Johnson and his Era: Britain and the World through the eyes of an 18th-century English intellectual. Ekaterinburg: Izdatelʹstvo Uralʹskogo universiteta, 2022. Reviews:
      • Eremin, V. S. “The Many Faces of Doctor Johnson [review of Kosykh, Сэмюэл Джонсон и его эпоха: Британия и мир глазами английского интеллектуала XVIII в. = Samuel Johnson and his Era: Britain and the World through the eyes of an 18th-century English intellectual].” Гуманитарные и юридические исследования 10, no. 4 (2024): 731–36. https://doi.org/10.37493/2409-1030.2023.4.24.
2386. Kosykh, T. A. “The Highlands and Their Inhabitants through the Eyes of 18th Century Englishmen: On Stereotypes in Intercultural Communication.” Izvestiâ Uralʹskogo Federalʹnogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2, Gumanitarnye Nauki 19, no. 2 (163) (2017): 180–89. https://doi.org/10.15826/izv2.2017.19.2.034.
      Abstract: This article deals with the formation of the image of the Highlands in the English intellectual space of the 18th century. The research methodology is based on the concept of the image of the “Other,” implying a concrete historical analysis of different peoples’ collective ideas about each other. More particularly, the article focuses on the study of stable ethnic and cultural stereotypes as solidified images. Referring to Samuel Johnson’s A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) the author describes the crucial English stereotypes about the inhabitants of the Highlands. Like many of his contemporaries, Dr. Johnson was convinced of the superiority of the English over the inhabitants of the Highlands. At the same time, his travel notes demonstrate his desire to scrupulously describe the life and customs of the Highlanders, show the peculiar features of mountaineers’ lifestyles, so different from those of Englishmen. The author comes to the conclusion about the predominance in English society of notions about the Highlands as an internal colony of Britain in need of being introduced to civilisation by means of Anglicisation. Dr. Johnson’s A Journey… is a valuable source for the study of stereotypes of English intellectual culture in the process of intercultural communication in Britain in the 18th century.
2387. Kowaleski-Wallace, Beth. “Tea, Gender, and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century England.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 23 (1994): 131–45.
2388. Kraft, Elizabeth. Review of Samuel Johnson among the Modernists, by Anthony W. Lee. Choice 57, no. 8 (April 2020): 863.
2389. Kraft, Elizabeth. “Samuel Johnson at Prayer.” Religion in the Age of Enlightenment 2 (2010): 1–17.
2390. Kraft, Elizabeth. Review of The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought, by Philip Smallwood. Choice 61, no. 11 (2024): 1149.
2391. Kraft, Elizabeth, Patrick Fadeley, Brian Lake, Scott Dudley, Bo Franklin, Sarah Fish, Angela Fralish, Corey Goergen, and Jeremiah Wood. “Teaching Samuel Johnson: Teaching Johnson in a Time of War.” Johnsonian News Letter 59, no. 1 (March 2008): 6–10.
      On teaching the Seven Years’ War against the background of modern wars. Includes a discussion of a board game called Friedrich.
2392. Kramnick, Jonathan Brody. “Reading Shakespeare’s Novels: Literary History and Cultural Politics in the Lennox–Johnson Debate.” Modern Language Quarterly 55, no. 4 (December 1994): 429–53. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-55-4-429.
2393. Kramnick, Jonathan Brody. “Reading Shakespeare’s Novels: Literary History and Cultural Politics in the Lennox–Johnson Debate.” In Eighteenth-Century Literary History: An MLQ Reader, edited by Marshall Brown, 43–67. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
2394. Kraus, H. C. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Historische Zeitschrift 263, no. 1 (August 1996): 233–34.
2395. Krelenko, Natalia S. “The Place of Samuel Johnson in the Spiritual Life of British Society in the Second Half of the 18th Century.” Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия. Серия: История. Международные отношения 24, no. 1 (2024): 135–38. https://doi.org/10.18500/1819-4907-2024-24-1-135-138.
      Abstract: The review is devoted to the analysis of the monograph, which examines the place and role of the educator S. Johnson in the spiritual life of British society in the second half of the 18th century. The reviewer shows that the author of the monograph was able to convincingly prove that the intellectual heritage of the compiler of the “Dictionary of the English Language,” a moralist and literary critic, most fully reflected the trend towards self-identification that dominated contemporary English culture. The reviewer’s attention is focused on considering how this problem was solved.
2396. Krishnan, R. S. “Double Discourse: Narrative Artifice in Johnson’s Life of Savage.” Lamar Journal of the Humanities 24, no. 2 (September 1999): 13–23.
2397. Krishnan, R. S. “‘Imagination Out upon the Wing’: Lockean Epistemology and the Case of the Astronomer in Johnson’s Rasselas.” Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 11, no. 3–4 (August 1990): 332–40.
2398. Krishnan, R. S. “‘The Shortness of Our Present State’: Locke’s ‘Time’ and Johnson’s ‘Eternity’ in Rasselas.” Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 19, no. 1–2 (March 1998): 2–9.
2399. Krist, Gary. “A Doctor in the House [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” Washington Post, August 19, 2001.
2400. Kroll, Richard W. F. “Revelation of the Heart through Entrapment and Trial.” In The English Novel, Vol. I: 1700 to Fielding, 259–82. London: Routledge, 1998. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315844817-20.
2401. Kubota, Yoshikatsu. “Encountering the Highlands: Boswell’s Journal-Writing and His Divided Scottish Self.” Shiron 34 (June 1995): 1–20.
2402. Kuczynski, Ingrid. “A Discourse of Patriots: The Penetration of the Scottish Highlands.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures 4, no. 1/2 (1997): 73–93.
2403. Kuczynski, Ingrid. “Ewiger Kreislauf und Fortschritt: Die Aneignung historischer wirklichkeit in Samuel Johnsons ‘A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.’” Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg: Gesellschafts- und Sprachwissenschaftliche Reihe 31, no. 6 (1982): 73–80.
2404. Kugler, Emily Meri Nitta. “Representations of Race and Romance in Eighteenth-Century English Novels.” PhD thesis, University of California, San Diego, 2007.
      Abstract: My dissertation analyzes how eighteenth-century novels were still invested in the continuation of the romance and need to be read in the historical context of English interactions with other cultures, in particular those of the Ottoman Empire. Chapter One sets up the racial model of romance and demonstrates how it fit into English politics by contrasting the reinterpretations of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688) throughout the eighteenth century as the protagonist’s cultural affiliations shifts from Islamic to “pagan” African as the prose narrative’s use of romance tropes to support Behn’s royalist politics is replaced, eventually leading to the narrative’s association with the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Chapter Two shifts to the establishment of the “Arabick Interest” in Restoration and early eighteenth-century England by examining the contesting reactions to the influence of Islam on English identity through its analysis of England’s translations between 1671 and 1708 of the philosophical romance Muhammad Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan as well as the anxieties causes by a Protestant-Islamic connection in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719). The second half of this dissertation adds the discussion of women as another “third term” like romance and Islamic influence. Chapter Three’s discussion of Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas (1759) and Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote (1752) both use romance elements to reference an older form of history writing, one in which the boundaries between romance and fact are porous, to critique English concepts of difference, especially those of gender or culture, in favor of a more universalized view of the world. Their works responded to a mid eighteenth-century shift as England began to emerge as a global power. Chapter Four combines the elements of race, religion and gender from the preceding chapters in its reading of Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya (1806), of which I argue that even though she does not explicitly argue for increased legal rights or social freedoms for women, Dacre’s presentations of the dangers to society through its enforcement of feminine passivity implicitly demonstrates a need to create a society where women are educated to be free subjects and independent of patriarchal control.
2405. Kuist, James M. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 18 (1989): 210–12.
2406. Kukkonen, Karin. “Johnson’s Rasselas and the Best Possible Storyworld.” In A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics: Neoclassicism and the Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190634766.003.0008.
      Abstract: This chapter discusses the role of the unities in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas. As the unities constrain the coherence of the fictional world, the imagination extends it. This tension is related to the brain’s “default mode network,” related to the general state of mind-wandering when thinking is not concentrated on a particular object. It is shown how the structure of Rasselas relates the wandering of the imagination (which is necessary to fiction) to the unities’ coherence of the fictional world. In Rasselas, this tension does not develop into a stringent trajectory of narrative events, but the continuation to Johnson’s narrative, Ellis Cornelia Knight’s Dinarbas, changes the situational logic of the unities in such a way that a narrative trajectory and closure are achieved. Knight not only presents an alternative in situational logic but also connects it to the ways in which Western and oriental modes of narrative were imagined in the eighteenth century.
2407. Kullman, Colby H. “Appreciating Gall: Boswell’s Frank Wit.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 1 (1994): 369–80.
2408. Kullman, Colby H. “‘Are You a Mimic, Mr. Genius?’: Boswell and Johnson on the Art of Mimicry.” Transactions of the Northwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Scotland 19 (1994): 24–29.
2409. Kullman, Colby H. Review of Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, by Irma S. Lustig. Albion 28, no. 4 (1996): 698–700.
2410. Kullman, Colby H. “Boswell Interviews Rousseau: A Theatrical Production.” South Carolina Review 21, no. 2 (March 1989): 30–45.
2411. Kullman, Colby H. “Boswell’s First Meeting with the Infamous Margaret Caroline Rudd: A Study in Dramatic Technique.” University of Mississippi Studies in English 7 (1989): 76–84.
2412. Kullman, Colby H. Review of Boswell’s “Life of Johnson”: New Questions, New Answers, by John A. Vance. South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 4, no. 2 (1987): 104–6. https://doi.org/10.2307/3189169.
2413. Kullman, Colby H. “James Boswell and the Art of Conversation.” In Compendious Conversations: The Method of Dialogue in the Early Enlightenment, edited by Kevin L. Cope, 80–89. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1992.
2414. Kullman, Colby H. “James Boswell and the Interpretation of Dreams.” In In Memory of Richard B. Klein: Essays in Contemporary Philology, edited by Felice A. Coles, 227–38. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
2415. Kullman, Colby H. “James Boswell, Master of Disguise.” Mississippi Folklore Register 22, no. 1–2 (March 1988): 19–26.
2416. Kullman, Colby H. “James Boswell, Would-Be Art Connoisseur.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 265 (1989): 1437–39.
2417. Kumar, Arun. “Dr. Johnson on Milton.” In Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, edited by T. R. Sharma, 63–74. India: Shalabh, 1986.
2418. Kupersmith, William. “Imitations of Roman Satire in the Later 1730s.” In English Versions of Roman Satire in the Earlier Eighteenth Century, 136–68. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007.
      Includes substantial sections on London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, placing them in the context of other classical imitations of the eighteenth century.
2419. Kupersmith, William. “Johnson’s London in Context: Imitations of Roman Satire in the Later 1730s.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 10 (1999): 1–34.
      Kupersmith places London in the context of other contemporary imitations of classical satire.
2420. Kupersmith, William. “Style and Values: Imitating Samuel Johnson.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 42–48. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
2421. Kupersmith, William. “The Imitation from 1740 to 1750.” In English Versions of Roman Satire in the Earlier Eighteenth Century, 169–211. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007.
2422. Kurtz, J. Roger. Review of Abyssinia’s Samuel Johnson: Ethiopian Thought in the Making of an English Author, by Wendy Laura Belcher. Research in African Literatures 46, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 239–41.
2423. Kurzer, Frederick. “Chemistry in the Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson.” Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 29, no. 2 (2004): 65–88.
      Includes appendices: “List of Johnson’s Books on Chemistry and Cognate Subjects,” “List of Books on Chemistry and Cognate Subjects in the Thrales’ Library at Streatham,” and “List of Chemical Terms Quoted in Johnson’s Dictionary.”
2424. Kyff, Rob. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch. Hartford Courant, June 22, 2004.
2425. Labbie, Erin F. “Identification and Identity in James Boswell’s Journals: A Psycholinguistic Reflection.” In James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, edited by Donald J. Newman, 51–70. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
2426. Lacey, Paul A. “Like a Dog Walking on Its Hind Legs: Samuel Johnson and Quakers.” Quaker Studies 6, no. 2 (March 2002): 159–74.
2427. Lacey, Robert. Great Tales from English History: Captain Cook, Samuel Johnson, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin, Edward the Abdicator, and More. New York: Little, Brown, 2006.
      Abstract: The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England’s past, highlighting the spread of the English language, the rejection of both a religion and a traditional view of kingly authority, and an unstoppable movement toward intellectual and political freedom from 1387 to 1689.
2428. LaChance, Charles. “‘The Sinking Land’: Pessimism in Johnson’s London.” Papers on Language and Literature 31, no. 1 (December 1995): 61–77.
2429. Lacy, Margriet Bruyn. “Belle van Zuylen and James Boswell: Friends or Foes?” Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies 39 (December 1989): 82–87. https://doi.org/10.1080/03096564.1989.11783925.
2430. LaGuardia, C., and E. Tallent. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. Library Journal 122, no. 8 (May 1, 1997): 148.
2431. LaGuardia, Cheryl. Review of Major Authors on CD-ROM: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, by Leopold Damrosch. Library Journal 123, no. 20 (December 1998): 168.
2432. Laing, Allan. “Boswell Wanted to Be Virgil to Johnson’s Dante.” The Herald (Glasgow), August 26, 1993.
      On BBC2’s Tour of the Western Isles with Coltrane and Sessions.
2433. Lamb, Jonathan. “Anthropology.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 109–17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
2434. Lamb, Jonathan. “Blocked Observation: Tautology and Paradox in The Vanity of Human Wishes.” In Cutting Edges: Postmodern Critical Essays on Eighteenth-Century Satire, edited by James E. Gill, 335–46. University of Tennessee Press, 1995.
2435. Lamb, Jonathan. “Dancing and Romancing: The Obstacle of the Beach and the Threshold of the Past.” In Thinking on Thresholds: The Poetics of Transitive Spaces, edited by Subha Mukherji, 113–27. London: Anthem, 2011.
2436. Lamb, Jonathan. “Dancing and Romancing: The Obstacle of the Beach and the Threshold of the Past.” International Journal of Scottish Literature 9 (September 2013): 99–112.
2437. Lamb, Jonathan. Review of How to Read a Page of Boswell, by Kevin Hart. AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, no. 98 (November 2002): 127–29.
2438. Lamb, Jonathan. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, no. 98 (November 2002): 127–29.
2439. Lamb, Julian. Rules of Use: Language and Instruction in Early Modern England. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
      Abstract: We take it for granted that we can use words properly — appropriately, meaningfully, even decorously. And yet it is very difficult to justify or explain what makes a particular use “proper.” Given that properness is determined by the unpredictable vagaries of unrepeatable contexts, it is impossible to formulate an absolute rule which tells what is proper in every situation. In its four case studies of texts by Ascham, Puttenham, Mulcaster, and the first English dictionary writers, Rules of Use shows the way in which early modern pedagogues attempted to articulate such a rule whilst being mindful that proper use can neither be determined by any single rule, nor definitively described in examples. Using the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Stanley Cavell’s influential reading of it, Rules of Use argues that early modern pedagogues became entangled in a sceptical problem: aspiring to formulate a definitive rule of proper use, their own instruction begins to appear uncertain and lacking in assurance when they find such a rule cannot be expressed.
2440. Lambert, Elizabeth. “Boswell’s Burke: The Literary Consequences of Ambivalence.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 201–35.
2441. Lambert, Elizabeth. “Johnson, Burke, Boswell, and the Slavery Debate.” In Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 167–90. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019.
2442. Lambert, Elizabeth. “Samuel Johnson’s Relationship with Edmund Burke.” New Rambler D:10, no. 10 (1994): 32–39.
2443. Lambert, Elizabeth. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 33, no. 1 (March 2019): 39–45.
2444. Lambert, Elizabeth R. “Johnson on Friendship: The Example of Burke.” In Johnson after Two Hundred Years, edited by Paul J. Korshin, 111–23. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
2445. Lamoine, G. Review of Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd, by Thomas Reinert. Études Anglaises 50, no. 4 (October 1997): 473–74.
2446. Lamoine, G. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. Études Anglaises 49, no. 1 (January 1996): 90–91.
2447. Lamont, Claire. Review of James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795, by Frank Brady. Review of English Studies 37, no. 147 (1986): 422–24.
2448. Lamont, Claire. “Dr Johnson, the Scottish Highlander, and the Scottish Enlightenment.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 12, no. 1 (March 1989): 47–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.1989.tb00044.x.
2449. Lamont, Claire. “Dr Johnson’s Influence on Jane Austen.” New Rambler D:11, no. 11 (1995): 38–47.
2450. Lamont, Claire. “‘The Final Sentence, and Unalterable Allotment’: Johnson and Death.” New Rambler D:9, no. 9 (1993): 21–33.
2451. Lamont, Claire. “Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Images of Scotland.” New Rambler D:7, no. 7 (1991): 9–23.
2452. Lamont, Claire. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. Durham University Journal 79, no. 2 (1987): 389–90.
2453. Lamont, Claire. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. Review of English Studies 38, no. 149 (1987): 81–82.
2454. Lamont, Craig Ronald. “Georgian Glasgow: The City Remembered through Literature, Objects, and Cultural Memory Theory.” PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015.
      Abstract: The core argument under discussion in this thesis is that Georgian Glasgow (1714–1837) has been largely overshadowed by the city’s unprecedented growth in the following centuries when it became a symbol of the industrial age. In this sense much of the work being done here is a form of cultural excavation: unearthing neglected histories from the past that tell us more than is presently known about the development of Glasgow. The thesis will engage with literature, history, and memory studies: a collective approach that allows for both general discussion of ideas as well as specific engagement with literature and objects. The larger issues to which these converging disciplines will be applied include the Scottish Enlightenment, religion, cultural identity, slavery, and diaspora. The thesis is developed chronologically through the Georgian period with contextual discussions of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries at each stage. This results in a more rounded analysis of each theme while making the argument that Georgian Glasgow remains underrepresented in the public realm. The main historical figures that help this argument are: Robert and Andrew Foulis; Tobias Smollett; Adam Smith and James Boswell; and John Galt. Each of these main figures represent distinct themes that define the case studies of the argument. They are: print culture and religion; science and medicine; slavery; and transatlantic migration and colonisation. There are crossovers, for instance the points made about religion in chapter one may be utilised again in chapters two and four; while the very broad theme of the Scottish Enlightenment is discussed to varying degrees in every chapter. The methodology strives to discuss literary, historical, and theoretical memory studies together. In the latter field, the theories of the pre-eminent scholars underpin the case studies of people, places, and objects. Given the connection of this thesis to the major Glasgow Life exhibition, How Glasgow Flourished: 1714–1837 (2014), this interdisciplinary approach is able to reflect the public response to ‘Georgian Glasgow.’ The majority of these findings are revealed in the conclusion chapter, although the experience of working collaboratively with Glasgow Museums informed the thesis as a whole. While this thesis primarily aims to recover and engage with the forgotten aspects of Glasgow’s past, it is also shaped as a methodological template transferrable to other places and time periods. By engaging with the specialisms of academia and taking them into the public realm via other institutions, this thesis strives to remember Georgian Glasgow while outlining a practical process for cultural engagement elsewhere.
2455. Lancashire, Ian. “Dictionaries and Power from Palsgrave to Johnson.” In Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott, 24–41. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
2456. Lancashire, Ian. “Johnson and Seventeenth-Century English Glossographers.” International Journal of Lexicography 18, no. 2 (June 2005): 157–71. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/eci018.
2457. Landau, Sidney I. “Johnson’s Influence on Webster and Worcester in Early American Lexicography.” International Journal of Lexicography 18, no. 2 (June 2005): 217–29. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/eci022.
2458. Landreth, Sara. “Action at a Distance: Motion and Literature in Enlightenment Britain.” PhD thesis, New York University, 2009.
2459. Landreth, Sara. “Breaking the Laws of Motion: Pneumatology and Belles Lettres in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” New Literary History 43, no. 2 (2012): 281–308.
2460. Landreth, Sara. “Teaching Samuel Johnson: Teaching Rasselas as Newtonianism: An Experiment in Virtual Conversation.” Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 2 (September 2007): 10–14.
      Rasselas offers students in a survey course “an entry into the fraught relationship between particularity and generality in the Enlightenment. . . . Drawing parallels between Newton and Johnson . . . can make Rasselas relevant to both majors and non-majors alike.”
2461. Lang, M. C. “A Material Tic: Paligraphia in the Letters of Samuel Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 25 (2025): 34–41.
2462. Langan, Michael D. “Portrait of an Author, Not the Man [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking].” Buffalo News, November 22, 1998.
2463. Laporte, Destyn M. “The Progress of the Soul.” MA thesis, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1996.
2464. Larsen, Lyle. “Dr. Johnson’s Friend, the Elegant Topham Beauclerk.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 221–37.
2465. Larsen, Lyle. “Dr. Johnson’s Friend, the Worthy Bennet Langton.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 20 (2010): 145–72.
2466. Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1985. Reviews:
      • Fleeman, J. D. Review of Dr. Johnson’s Household, by Lyle Larsen. New Rambler C:26 (1985): 39–40.
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of Dr. Johnson’s Household, by Lyle Larsen. Notes and Queries 34 [232], no. 4 (1987): 547–48.
2467. Larsen, Lyle. James Boswell: As His Contemporaries Saw Him. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008.
      Abstract: This book draws upon letters, diaries, memoirs, book reviews, and newspaper articles to present a picture of James Boswell from the vantage point of those who knew him best. We hear what family, friends, rivals, critics, and satirists thought of the man who produced such notable works as An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, and The Life of Samuel Johnson. Few major authors have generated such wildly fluctuating estimates over the years as Boswell. Both as a writer and as a man, he has stirred debate for more than two centuries. Scholars and critics have long differed, for instance, as to whether his Life of Johnson, published in 1791, is the finest biography in English or just “a pretty book” of questionable accuracy. One commentator recently maintained that his published journals are ‘the greatest English autobiographical epic,’ while another has dismissed them as the ‘diary of a nobody.’ Boswell has been acclaimed the greatest of modern biographers, but also attacked as a mere sycophant and fool. James Boswell: As His Contemporaries Saw Him reveals how contemporaries responded to the mans multifaceted talents and personality, and it reveals how estimates of James Boswell fluctuated just as wildly in his day as in ours.
      Hundreds of short snippets on Boswell, from the 1760s until after his death, from contemporary writings. Inevitably includes many little-known comments on Johnson from periodicals, diaries, and letters.
      Reviews:
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of James Boswell: As His Contemporaries Saw Him, by Lyle Larsen. Choice 46, no. 2 (2008): 0745. https://doi.org/10.5860/CHOICE.46-0745.
      • Review of James Boswell: As His Contemporaries Saw Him, by Lyle Larsen. Reference and Research Book News 23, no. 3 (2008).
2468. Larsen, Lyle. “Joseph Baretti’s Feud with Hester Thrale.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 16 (2005): 111–27.
2469. Larsen, Lyle. The Johnson Circle: A Group Portrait. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson, from early boyhood, lived with the knowledge that his homely face, large and ungainly body, loud voice, and odd mannerisms put people off. He later confessed that he had never made an effort to please others until past thirty, “considering the matter as hopeless.” Yet he managed to gather about him as friends, especially during the last quarter of his life, some of the most fascinating and accomplished people of the day. These friendships were not always smooth, and some did not last, but Johnson valued the individuals nonetheless. Actor, painter, playwright, novelist, Greek scholar, miscellaneous writer, biographer, leading bluestocking, wealthy man-of-fashion: they represented a wide range of talents and personalities. Johnson brought them together as a group, and all testified that in knowing him they became far better persons than they otherwise would have been. This book focuses on ten key figures, aside from Johnson himself, of the so-called Johnson circle. It explores their characters, their contributions to society, their relationships with one another, and their indebtedness to Samuel Johnson.
      Reviews:
      • Bander, Elaine. Review of The Johnson Circle: A Group Portrait, by Lyle Larsen. Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 1 (March 2019): 60–64.
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Johnson Circle: A Group Portrait, by Lyle Larsen. Choice 55, no. 9 (2018): 1078.
      • Walker, Robert G. Review of The Johnson Circle: A Group Portrait, by Lyle Larsen. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 32, no. 2 (2018): 9–11.
2470. Lascelles, Mary. “Walter Raleigh: Six Essays on Johnson.” In Essays on Sir Walter Raleigh 1988, edited by Asloob Ahmad Ansari, 60–65. Aligarh: Aligarh Muslim University, 1988.
2471. Latshaw-Foti, Elizabeth Anne. “Social Agendas in Eighteenth-Century Travel Narratives.” PhD thesis, University of South Florida, 2000.
2472. Laurence, P. Review of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Johnson: Common Readers, by Beth Carole Rosenberg. English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 39, no. 3 (1996): 380–83.
2473. Law, Peter J. “Samuel Johnson on Consumer Demand, Status, and Positional Goods.” European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 11, no. 2 (June 2004): 183–208.
2474. Lawless, Jill. “Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary Still a Page-Turner after 250 Years.” Associated Press, April 21, 2005.
2475. Lawrence, Maureen. “Resurrection.” Unpublished play, 1996. Reviews:
      • Cooper, Neil. Review of Resurrection, by Maureen Lawrence. The Herald (Glasgow), April 18, 1996.
      • Curtis, Nick. “A Grave Look into the Past [Review of Resurrection, by Maureen Lawrence].” Evening Standard, May 15, 1996.
      • Gardner, Lyn. Review of Resurrection, by Maureen Lawrence. Guardian, May 13, 1996.
      • Hemming, Sarah. “Dr Johnson, I Presume: Theatre [Review of Resurrection, by Maureen Lawrence].” Financial Times, May 18, 1996.
      • Nightingale, Benedict. “Blame It on the Doctor [Review of Resurrection by Maureen Lawrence].” The Times, May 14, 1996.
      • Spencer, Charles. “Samuel Johnson’s Life in Black and White [Review of Resurrection, by Maureen Lawrence].” Daily Telegraph, May 13, 1996.
      • Taylor, Paul. Review of Resurrection, by Maureen Lawrence. The Independent, May 14, 1996.
      • Whitebrook, Peter. Review of Resurrection, by Maureen Lawrence. The Scotsman, April 18, 1996.
2476. Lawson, Tom O. “Pope’s An Essay on Man and Samuel Johnson’s Duplicitous Reaction to It.” Journal of the English Language and Literature (Seoul) 32, no. 3 (1986): 431–44.
2477. Lazar, Mary. “Sam Johnson on Grub Street, Early Science Fiction Pulps, and Vonnegut.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 32, no. 3 (September 1991): 235–55. https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.1991.32.3.235.
2478. Leach, Stephen D. The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers. New York: Routledge, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315385945.
      Abstract: The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers reveals how great philosophers of the past sought to answer the question of the meaning of life. This edited collection includes thirty-five chapters which each focus on a major philosophical figure, from Confucius to Rorty, and that imaginatively engage with the topic from their perspective. This volume also contains a Postscript on the historical origins and original significance of the phrase ‘the meaning of life’. Written by leading experts in the field, such as A. C. Grayling, Thaddeus Metz and John Cottingham, this unique and engaging book explores the relevance of the history of philosophy to contemporary debates. It will prove essential reading for students and scholars studying the history of philosophy, philosophy of religion, ethics, metaphysics or comparative philosophy.
2479. Leak, Adrian. “How Dr Johnson’s Faith Defined His Life and Work.” Church Times, December 12, 2003.
2480. Leask, Nigel, Mary-Ann Constantine, and Elizabeth Edwards. Curious Travellers: Dr Johnson and Thomas Pennant on Tour: An Exhibition at Dr Johnson’s House, London, October 2018–January 2019. Aberystwyth: University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2018.
      Abstract: This beautifully illustrated booklet accompanies an exhibition held at Dr Johnson’s House, London (October 2018–January 2019), exploring the eighteenth-century spirit of ‘curiosity’ through the Scottish and Welsh tours of Thomas Pennant and Samuel Johnson. It stages a close encounter between two profoundly engaging writers, comparing their responses to the cultures, languages, landscapes and histories of these two Celtic nations. Other voices are present here too, including Johnson’s travelling companion James Boswell, and Hester Thrale Piozzi, the mutual friend of both Johnson and Pennant. Contemporary illustrations by Moses Griffith bring the journeys vividly to life.
2481. Lee, Anthony W. Review of An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, by James T. Boulton and T. O. McLoughlin. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 18 (2007): 449.
2482. Lee, Anthony W. Review of “A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland” and “A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson,” by Celia Barnes and Jack Lynch. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 29 (2024): 297–301.
2483. Lee, Anthony W. “A New Johnson Self-Quotation in the Dictionary.” Notes and Queries 65 [263], no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 247–50. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjy023.
      Abstract: In 1948, William and Margaret Wimsatt added sixteen examples of Samuel Johnson quoting from his own works in the Dictionary to the thirty-three previously identified. Less than a decade later, William Keast supplied three more entries, bringing to a total fifty-two self-quotations of this kind. Recently, while searching the Dictionary for quite different purposes, I detected another one, one that enlarges the list to fifty-three items.
      Noted by Steven Scherwatzky in The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52
2484. Lee, Anthony W. “Allegories of Mentoring: Johnson and Frances Burney’s Cecilia.” Eighteenth-Century Novel 5 (2006): 249–76.
2485. Lee, Anthony W. “An Intertextual Node: Johnson’s Life of Dryden, Rambler 31, and A Letter from a Gentleman to the Honourable Ed. Howard, Esq.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 19 (2009): 21–28.
      Lee highlights several previously unnoticed connections between Rambler 31 and the Life of Dryden, tracing both back to an anonymous seventeenth-century satire.
2486. Lee, Anthony W. Review of Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” by Jack Lynch and Anne C. McDermott. Choice 43, no. 7 (March 2006): 3876.
2487. Lee, Anthony W. “Annotating The Rambler / The Annotated Rambler.” In Notes on Footnotes: Annotating Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Melvyn New and Anthony W. Lee, 171–84. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023.
2488. Lee, Anthony W. Review of Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, by Donald J. Newman. Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 1 (March 2022): 48–52.
2489. Lee, Anthony W. “Celsus, Mrs. Thrale, Dr. Johnson, and the Other Doctor: An Intertextually Reconstructed Medical Case History.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016).
2490. Lee, Anthony W., ed. Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019.
      Abstract: Due in no small part to his aversion to solitude, Samuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships — and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explores relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries — including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, and Thomas Warton — and analyzes some of the literary productions emanating from the pressures within those relationships. In their detailed and careful examination of particular works situated within complex social and personal contexts, the essays in this volume offer a “thick” and illuminating description of Johnson’s world that also engages with larger cultural and aesthetic issues, such as intertextuality, literary celebrity, narrative, the nature of criticism, race, slavery, and sensibility. These essays are thoroughly researched and written in a lively and intelligent way; Anthony Lee’s Introduction offers a coherent account of the importance of community and solitude in Johnson’s intellectual world. The reader will find that world presented by Community and Solitude in engaging, new ways. Contributors: Christopher Catanese, James Caudle, Marilyn Francus, Christine Jackson-Holzberg, Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Elizabeth Lambert, Anthony W. Lee, James E. May, John Radner, and Lance Wilcox.
      Reviews:
      • Boyd, Bradford Q. Review of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, by Anthony W. Lee. Eighteenth-Century Life 47, no. 1 (2023): 102–25.
      • Burke, John J., Jr. Review of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, by Anthony W. Lee. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 26 (2021): 252–58.
      • Reddick, Allen. Review of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, by Anthony W. Lee. Eighteenth-Century Studies 54, no. 4 (2021): 1056–58.
      • Saxton, Teresa. Review of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, by Anthony W. Lee. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 34, no. 1 (2021): 110–13.
      • Walker, Robert G. Review of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, by Anthony W. Lee. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 34, no. 2 (October 2020): 22–28.
2491. Lee, Anthony W. “‘Con Amore’: Hester Piozzi’s Annotations upon Johnson’s Early Poetry.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 24 (2021): 63–77.
2492. Lee, Anthony W. Dead Masters: Mentoring and Intertextuality in Samuel Johnson. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2011.
      Abstract: Dead Masters: Mentoring and Intertextuality in Samuel Johnson examines the dual issues of mentoring and intertextuality as an integrated phenomenon. Through a series of fresh and novel readings of Johnsonian and Boswellian texts, the book offers insight not only into these two issues, but further advances our awareness of the formal complexities of Johnson’s writings and the psychological substratum from which they issue. Lee utilizes a variety of critical perspectives — for example, the tools of Bloomean anxiety of influence, post-colonial and deconstructive criticism, and explicative analysis — under the generalized and flexible rubric of mentoring to explore the processes of textual influence, mentoring relationships, and cultural authority within Johnson’s work. The goals of this book include the consolidation of mentoring as a fruitful critical perspective from which to understand Johnson; the establishment of an intertextual framework for understanding Johnson; and the effort to offer a series of readings of Johnson that more fully divulge the power and complexity of his writing. The book further seeks to effect, via the mediation of a series of pragmatic readings, a rapprochement between the theoretical divide separating psychological interpretations of Johnson (interpersonal mentoring encounters) and linguistic and formal interpretations (especially intertextuality).
2493. Lee, Anthony W. “Dryden, Pope, and Milton in Gay’s Rural Sports and Johnson’s Dictionary.” Notes and Queries 65 [263], no. 2 (2018): 241–43.
2494. Lee, Anthony W. “Editing, Editions, Essays, and Lives: Johnson, Boswell, and Other Usual/Unusual Suspects, 2014.” Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 29, no. 1 (2015): 43–50.
2495. Lee, Anthony W. Review of Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell, by Paul Tankard. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 29, no. 1 (2015): 43–50.
2496. Lee, Anthony W. “‘Gaping Heirs’: Line Forty-Eight of Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes.” Explicator 75, no. 3 (2017): 160–65.
2497. Lee, Anthony W. “Hearne, Roper, More, and Rambler 71.” Notes and Queries 67 [265], no. 3 (2020): 422–26.
2498. Lee, Anthony W. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 27 (2022): 280–83.
2499. Lee, Anthony W. “John Moir and His Brief Encounters with Samuel Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 2 (September 2018): 12–28.
2500. Lee, Anthony W. “Johnson and Cleveland: A Relationship Recuperated: Part One.” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 2 (September 2022): 17–21.
2501. Lee, Anthony W. “Johnson and Cleveland: A Relationship Recuperated: Part Two.” Johnsonian News Letter 75, no. 2 (March 2024): 16–24.
2502. Lee, Anthony W. “Johnson and Gibbon: An Intertextual Influence?” Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 25, no. 1–2 (March 2011): 19–27.
2503. Lee, Anthony W. “Johnson and Renaissance Humanism.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 41–54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
2504. Lee, Anthony W. “Johnson, Bèze, and Idler 41.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 2 (March 2018): 42–48.
2505. Lee, Anthony W. “Johnson, Dodd, and the Concentrated Sententia.” In Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment, 139–64. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2024.
2506. Lee, Anthony W. Review of Johnson in Japan, by Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 36, no. 2 (2022): 64–67.
2507. Lee, Anthony W. “Johnson, Machiavelli, and Rambler 156.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 1 (March 2019): 53–56.
2508. Lee, Anthony W. “Johnson, Newton, and the ‘Equal Motion’ of Politeness.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 23 (2015): 83–88.
      Abstract: Perceiving beings such as ourselves, inhabiting a larger body in motion — say, for instance, a car, the planet earth, or even the solar system moving within the larger universal expansion-do not feel motion maintained at a constant, uniform, or “equal” velocity, because no force is required to maintain motion. [. . .]we do not perceive “equal motion”; it “escapes perception.” [. . .]the intertextual evidence derived from Johnson’s greatest poem and his supreme scholarly accomplishment suggests that the word “equal” embedded within the phrase “equal mind” supplements and reinforces the scientific allusion and analogy in Rambler 98. Whether by way of scientific, philosophical, or literary analogies, the notion of “equal motion” enlarges to a metaphor applied to polite social “conversation” (in both senses of the word available to Johnson) in the Rambler 98 passage. In the eighteenth century, Newton would have been revered as a philosopher as well as a “scientist” (or “natural philosopher”); hence, the melding of scientific and philosophic notions found in the intertextual correlation noted above possess evidentiary solidity. In 1739 his friend Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806) translated a popularization of Newtonian philosophy, Francesco Algarotti’s (1712–64) Newtonianismo per le dame (“Newton for the Ladies,” 1737); it is possible that he assisted her in this effort, given the close relationship between the two authors in the late 1730s. Finally, at least four Newtonian books were found in Johnson’s library after his death, including the revised second edition of the Principia in 1713 and an English translation by Andrew Motte in 1729. Given Johnson’s frequent allusions to and hearty approbation of Newton, as well as his demonstrated propensity to translate philosophic words into moral discourse, it should not be at all surprising to find in his apparently obscure phrase, “equal motion,” a scientific allusion pressed into figurative application.
2509. Lee, Anthony W. Review of Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings, by O M Brack Jr. and Robert DeMaria Jr. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 33, no. 1 (March 2019): 48–59.
2510. Lee, Anthony W. “Johnson, Statius, and the Classical Motto.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 2 (March 2018): 16–23.
2511. Lee, Anthony W. “Johnson’s ‘French Authors’: Rambler 5 and 87.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 34, no. 2 (2021): 121–28.
2512. Lee, Anthony W. “Johnson’s Symbolic Mentors: Addison, Dryden, and Rambler 86.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 16 (2005): 59–79.
2513. Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Journals in Scotland, England and Ireland, 1766–1769, by Hugh M. Milne. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 57, no. 1 (2024): 57–63.
2514. Lee, Anthony W. “‘Look, My Lord, It Comes’: Ghostly Silences in the Boswell/Johnson Archive.” Notes and Queries 64 (262), no. 3 (September 2017): 493–97.
2515. Lee, Anthony W. Review of Making Boswell’s “Life of Johnson”: An Author-Publisher and His Support Network, Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections, by Richard B. Sher. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 57, no. 1 (2024): 57–63.
2516. Lee, Anthony W. “Mentoring and Mimicry in Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 51, no. 1–2 (March 2010): 67–85. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecy.2010.0012.
      Abstract: “Mimicry and Mentoring in Boswell’s Life of Johnson,” seeks to consider the Johnson–Boswell mentoring relationship beyond the interpersonal, psychologically-grounded perspective most often associated with mentoring by interrogating the textual traces of their exchange. Noting that Boswell falls into the eighteenth-century tradition of gestural and physical mimicking, practiced by actors such as Garrick, Foote, and Murphy, this paper examines instances of textual mimicry in Boswell’s Life of Johnson, arguing that this practice simultaneously endeavors to biographically preserve Johnson’s presence for posterity as well as appropriate Johnson’s voice in a bid for mastery over Johnson as part of the dynamic of the protégé’s attempt to challenge, and ultimately usurp, the authority of the mentor.
2517. Lee, Anthony W. Mentoring Relationships in the Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson: A Study in the Dynamics of Eighteenth-Century Literary Mentoring. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.
      Abstract: Explores the phenomenon of literary mentoring and the role that it played in Samuel Johnson’s literary and personal life. Synthesizing this model with Levinsonian psychosocial theories of adult development, it explores Johnson’s relationships with Cornelius Ford, Richard Savage, Oliver Goldsmith, Hester Thrale, Frances Burney, and James Boswell, tracing how each relationship interweaves with stages in Johnson’s psychological development. It also examines mentoring themes in Johnson’s early poetry.
      Reviews:
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Mentoring Relationships in the Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson: A Study in the Dynamics of Eighteenth-Century Literary Mentoring, by Anthony W. Lee. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 62–63.
      • Scanlan, J. T. Review of Mentoring Relationships in the Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson: A Study in the Dynamics of Eighteenth-Century Literary Mentoring, by Anthony W. Lee. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 19 (2009): 307–12.
2518. Lee, Anthony W. “Meteors and Mist: Identity Elements in Johnson’s Style.” Explicator 74, no. 1 (2016): 19–23.
2519. Lee, Anthony W. “Murphy and Johnson: Prolegomenon to a New Edition.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 25 (2020): 86–104.
2520. Lee, Anthony W. “Neæra’s Tangled Hair: Johnson, Hammond, and Milton’s Lycidas.” Notes and Queries 66 [264], no. 4 (2019): 584–487.
2521. Lee, Anthony W., ed. New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.
      Abstract: New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation is a collection of essays by various hands that examines its point of focus, the inexhaustible English author Samuel Johnson, from a variety of different critical perspectives. The book also simultaneously interrogates particular texts (such as the Dictionary, the Lives of the Poets) alongside general themes (such as Johnson and intertextuality, Johnson and autobiography). The word “revaluation” from the title connotes both the deployment of specifically au courant approaches — viewing, for example, Johnson in relation to climate change, or Johnson and the notion of “osmology” — as well as more general reflections upon Johnson’s importance to our present cultural and temporal moment.
      Reviews:
      • Boyd, Bradford Q. Review of New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, by Anthony W. Lee. Eighteenth-Century Life 47, no. 1 (2023): 102–25.
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, by Anthony W. Lee. Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 1 (March 2020): 54–57.
      • Johnson, Christopher D. Review of New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, by Anthony W. Lee. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 26 (2021): 259–62. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684483242-014.
      • Review of New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, by Anthony W. Lee. Notes and Queries 66 [264], no. 4 (2019): 603.
      • Sider Jost, Jacob. Review of New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, by Anthony W. Lee. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 34, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 47–49.
2522. Lee, Anthony W. “Nicholas Rowe Quotations in the Dictionary.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 2 (September 2018): 50–55.
2523. Lee, Anthony W. “Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson, and Rambler 140.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 51, no. 1 (2018): 41–45.
2524. Lee, Anthony W. “No Poem and Island: Intertextuality in London, a Poem.” In New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 25–46. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.
2525. Lee, Anthony W. “Quintus Curtius Rufus, Plutarch, Cicero, and Johnson’s First Sermon.” Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 2 (September 2020): 33–42.
2526. Lee, Anthony W. “Quo Vadis? Samuel Johnson in the New Millennium [Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757–1763, by David Hankins and James J. Caudle; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man: A Translation from the French, by O M Brack, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick; and Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot].” Modern Philology 104, no. 4 (May 2007): 529–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/519192.
2527. Lee, Anthony W. “Ramazzini, Johnson, and Rambler 85: A New Attribution.” Notes and Queries 60 [258], no. 4 (December 2013): 577–79. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjt180.
2528. Lee, Anthony W. “Rambler 2 and Johnson’s Dictionary: Paratextual and Intertextual Entanglements with Pope, Statius, Dryden, Gay, and Milton.” Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 32, no. 1 (2018): 9–18.
2529. Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Choice 57, no. 1 (September 2019): 49.
2530. Lee, Anthony W. “‘Saint Samuel of Fleet Street’: Johnson and Woolf.” In Samuel Johnson among the Modernists, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 41–68. Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2019.
2531. Lee, Anthony W. Review of Samuel Johnson: 21st-Century Oxford Authors, by David Womersley. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 32, no. 2 (2018): 13–19.
2532. Lee, Anthony W. Review of Samuel Johnson: 21st-Century Oxford Authors, by David Womersley. Choice 56, no. 8 (April 2019): 1001.
2533. Lee, Anthony W., ed. Samuel Johnson among the Modernists. Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2019.
      Abstract: The essays collected in Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists frame this major writer in an unfamiliar milieu and company: high modernism and its aftermath. By bringing Johnson to bear on the various authors and topics gathered here, the book foregrounds some aspects of modernism and its practitioners that would otherwise remain hidden and elusive, even as it sheds new light on Johnson. Writers discussed include T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, and Vladimir Nabokov. Chapter contributors include major scholars in their field, including Melvyn New, Jack Lynch, Thomas M. Curley, Greg Clingham and Clement Hawes. These ground-breaking essays offer a vital and exciting interrogation of Modernism from a wholly fresh perspective. The traditional view of Samuel Johnson has been that of a reactionary conservative. Although many have worked to undermine this stereotype, perhaps enough remains to claim Johnson as a representative of modernity. This book aims to demonstrate that Johnson is a figure of modernity, one with an appeal many modernist writers found irresistible.
      Reviews:
      • Hitchens, Dan. “Saint Samuel of Fleet Street [Review of Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists, by Anthony W. Lee].” The Lamp, March 15, 2022.
      • Kraft, Elizabeth. Review of Samuel Johnson among the Modernists, by Anthony W. Lee. Choice 57, no. 8 (April 2020): 863.
      • Sitter, John. Review of Samuel Johnson among the Modernists, by Anthony W. Lee. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 26 (2021): 263–65. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684483242-017.
      • Wilcox, Lance E. Review of Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists, by Anthony W. Lee. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 53, no. 2 (2021): 234–37.
2534. Lee, Anthony W. “Samuel Johnson and Milton’s ‘Mighty Bone.’” Notes and Queries 65 [263], no. 2 (2018): 250–52.
      Noted by Steven Scherwatzky in The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 1 (Autumn 2019): 21.
2535. Lee, Anthony W. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone. Choice 53, no. 12 (August 2016): 1780.
2536. Lee, Anthony W. “Samuel Johnson as Intertextual Critic.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 52, no. 2 (June 2010): 129–56. https://doi.org/10.1353/tsl.0.0053.
2537. Lee, Anthony W. “Samuel Johnson, Chesterfield, and Rambler 153.” Notes and Queries 66 [264], no. 1 (2019): 111–14.
2538. Lee, Anthony W. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 29, no. 1 (2015): 43–50.
2539. Lee, Anthony W. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Choice 52, no. 5 (January 2015): 804.
2540. Lee, Anthony W. “Samuel Johnson, Richard Glover, and ‘Hosier’s Ghost.’” Notes and Queries 65 [263], no. 2 (2018): 244–47.
      Noted by Steven Scherwatzky in The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52.
2541. Lee, Anthony W. Review of Samuel Johnson: Selected Works, by Robert DeMaria Jr., Stephen Fix, and Howard D. Weinbrot. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 35, no. 1 (March 2021): 27–29.
2542. Lee, Anthony W. “‘Sudden Glories’: Johnson, Hobbes, and Thoughts on Falkland’s Islands.” Notes and Queries 63 [261], no. 4 (2016): 612–15.
2543. Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 1 (March 2007): 56–61.
2544. Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Jack Lynch and J. T. Scanlan. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 56, no. 1/2 (July 2023): 19.
2545. Lee, Anthony W. “‘The Caliban of Literature’: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Johnson’s Intertextual Scholarship.” In A Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 39–53. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684483549-005.
2546. Lee, Anthony W. “The ‘Clangor of a Trumpet’: John Locke and Rambler 94.” Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 2 (September 2020): 21–33.
2547. Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 53, no. 2 (2021): 88.
2548. Lee, Anthony W. “‘The Dreams of Avarice’: Samuel Johnson and Edward Moore.” Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 31, no. 1 (March 3, 2017): 22–32.
2549. Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock. Choice 52, no. 12 (2015): 2088.
2550. Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Johnson Circle: A Group Portrait, by Lyle Larsen. Choice 55, no. 9 (2018): 1078.
2551. Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought, by Philip Smallwood. New Rambler G:5 (2022): 64–82.
2552. Lee, Anthony W. “‘Through the Spectacles of Books’: Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, and a Johnsonian Intertextual Topos.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 21 (2011): 43–75.
2553. Lee, Anthony W. “Travel.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 244–59. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: This chapter examines Samuel Johnson’s relationship with travel, both his physical journeys and the textual records of such journeys, or travelogues. It begins by consulting entries on travel in Johnson’s Dictionary and his theoretical discussion in Idler 97, finding that for Johnson, travel and travel writing possessed profound moral and aesthetic dimensions. The chapter then looks at three major journeys that Johnson undertook to France and Wales with Hester Thrale, and Scotland with James Boswell. All three left textual records of these excursions, and the article describes and analyzes Johnson’s writings in light of the Thrale’s and Boswell’s—especially with respect to Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands, which is one of his literary masterpieces and a major contribution to the travelogue genre. The article concludes with a consideration of the Journey’s considerable aesthetic dimensions.
2554. Lee, Anthony W. “Two Allusions in Samuel Johnson’s The False Alarm.” Notes and Queries 64 [262], no. 3 (2017): 491–93.
2555. Lee, Anthony W. “Two New Allusions: Samuel Johnson and the Book of Common Prayer, Boswell, and Apollonius of Rhodes.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 32, no. 3 (2019): 144–48.
      Abstract: Both Samuel Johnson and his disciple James Boswell were masters of deploying intertextual allusions to impart greater freight to their meaning. In Rambler 8 Johnson covertly alludes to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, while in the Tour to the Hebrides Boswell alludes to Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica. In both cases, these allusions offer considerable insight into characteristic aspects of the art and minds of the two authors. They share a dedication to intertextuality as an important literary technique. However, the two examples reveal important differences: Johnson emerges as a traditional public Christian humanist, while Boswell reveals himself as a private, proto-Romantic confessionalist.
2556. Lee, Anthony W. “‘Under the Shade of Exalted Merit’: Arthur Murphy’s A Poetical Epistle to Mr. Samuel Johnson, A.M.” In Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 153–66. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684480265-009.
2557. Lee, Anthony W. “Who’s Mentoring Whom? Mentorship, Alliance, and Rivalry in the Carter-Johnson Relationship.” In Mentoring in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 191–210. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.
2558. Lee, Anthony Wayne. “Fathers, Mothers and Mentors: Mentoring Relationships in the Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson.” PhD thesis, University of Arkansas, 2002.
2559. Lee, B. S. “Johnson’s Poetry: A Bicentenary Tribute.” English Studies in Africa 28, no. 2 (1985): 81–98.
2560. Lee, Inkyu. “A Reading of Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas.” British and American Fiction 8, no. 2 (December 2001): 91–115.
2561. Lee, Stewart. “Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live.” Unpublished play, 2007. Reviews:
      • Bennett, Steve. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. Chortle, August 8, 2007.
      • Chadwick, Alan. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. Metro (London), August 15, 2007.
      • Cooper, Neil. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. The Herald (Glasgow), August 11, 2007.
      • Craven, Shona. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. On Stage Scotland, August 8, 2007.
      • Devlin, Vivien. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. Edinburgh Guide, August 10, 2007.
      • Dibdin, Thom. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. The Stage, March 28, 2008.
      • Gardner, Lyn. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. Guardian, August 9, 2007.
      • The Independent. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. August 10, 2007.
      • Lee, Veronica. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. Daily Telegraph, August 10, 2007.
      • The List. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. August 1, 2007.
      • Mansfield, Susan. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. The Scotsman, July 27, 2007.
      • Scott, Robert Dawson. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. The Times, August 15, 2007.
      • Thomson, R. J. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. Fest Magazine, August 11, 2007.
      • Whitham, Caroline. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. Edfest Magazine, August 8, 2007.
2562. Lee, Veronica. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. Daily Telegraph, August 10, 2007.
2563. Leff, Amanda M. “Johnson’s Chaucer: Searching for the Medieval in A Dictionary of the English Language.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 21 (2011): 1–20.
2564. Leggatt, Alexander. “Canada, Negative Capability, and Cymbeline.” In Shakespeare in Canada: “A World Elsewhere”?, edited by Diana Brydon, Irena R. Makaryk, and Jessica Schagerl, 274–91. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
2565. Leggatt, Alexander. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Shakespeare Quarterly 42, no. 1 (1991): 107–9.
2566. Lehnert, Martin. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 37, no. 3 (1989): 268–70.
2567. Leicester, J. H. “James Boswell — A Personal Appreciation.” New Rambler D:7, no. 7 (1991): 5–9.
2568. Leicester, J. H. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays, by Isobel Grundy. New Rambler C:25 (1984): 55–57.
2569. Leicester, J. H., Mrs A. G. Dowdeswell, and Miss Stella Pigrome. “Sixty-Five Years in the Company of Dr Johnson and His Friends.” New Rambler D:9, no. 9 (1993): 13–14.
2570. Leicester Mercury. “A New Word on City’s Most Famous Son [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” August 19, 2008.
      Reprinted from the Lichfield Mercury.
2571. Leicester Mercury. “An Original ‘Fame’ School.” June 16, 1998.
      Brief profile of the Dixie Grammar School in Market Bosworth.
2572. Leigh, Joanna. “My Impossible Task?: Writing an Ethical Biopic of Samuel Johnson.” Practice-based PhD thesis, Royal College of Art, 2009.
      Abstract: This practice-based PhD comprises an original screenplay for a biopic of eighteenth-century lexicographer and writer Samuel Johnson, entitled “Sam J,” and a thesis which reflects upon the process of writing that film. The research question asks whether it is possible to write a biopic which operates within the conventions of classic Hollywood screenwriting (following the paradigm of the three act structure to create a film that is both emotionally engaging and entertaining to a mass audience) and yet is also an “ethical biopic,” that is, one that gives a truthful portrayal of the subject and his life. The thesis proposes a framework which may be of help to the writers of ethical biopics, and puts that framework to the test through the process of writing the film. Chapter 1, “Truth,” identifies different types of truth in the biopic, which often conflict with each other, and concludes that the best way to incorporate them into a single vision is by means of the “interpretative approach.” The writer’s own interpretation of Samuel Johnson is then explained. Chapter 2 “structure,” explores the ethical issues which arose during the process of adapting the story of Johnson’s life into a three-act screenplay. Chapter 3 “Character,” explores the ethical issues which arose during the process of turning historical people into characters in the film. The ethical framework is modified in the light of the research process, and a revised framework is presented in the conclusion.
2573. Leiman, Jessica Leah. “A Want of Manly Vigor: Impotence and Authorial Identity in Eighteenth-Century Narrative.” PhD Thesis, Yale University, 2004.
      Abstract: As literary historians have noted, writers in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England were seemingly obsessed with male sexual impotence. Contemporary stage comedy, verse, prose fiction, bawdy tales, medical texts, sexual advice manuals, legal proceedings, and political lampoons reflect a persistent and pervasive concern with the “Decay of that true old English Vigour.” Although most scholarly assessments of this phenomenon suggest, either explicitly or implicitly, that the national fascination with impotence subsided after the Restoration, the central premise of this dissertation is that it did not abate at the turn of the century so much as it expressed itself in new, more complex ways. Specifically, I examine the distinctive way in which the eighteenth century’s manifest concerns with male sexual dysfunction intersect with broader concerns about male narrative authority. I focus on a strange, recurrent phenomenon in works by Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, and James Boswell: male narrators of fictional and nonfictional personal histories who repeatedly — and perplexingly — announce their own sexual inadequacies. That they do so in texts that are centrally concerned with male literary authority, as well as deeply invested in conventional figurations of writing as a sexually generative act of male potency, makes the confessions of incapacity all the more intriguing. In considering what such admissions reveal about sexual and authorial power in these texts, I explore how the impotent author-narrators work to consolidate their masculine power even as they appear to relinquish it. Their admissions of incapacity work paradoxically and often covertly to bolster male literary authority, as the impotent narrator parlays his weakness into currency in the transaction between writer and reader. Such works thus challenge traditional assumptions about male sexual potency and literary authority: complicating simple equations of creative and phallic power, they substantially reconfigure the eroticized relationships among author, text, and audience.
2574. Lelievre, Frank. Review of The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson: Text, Translation, and Commentary, by Barry Baldwin. New Rambler D:12, no. 12 (1996): 53–55.
2575. Leonard-Roy, Thomas. “Boswell’s Self-Hatred.” Review of English Studies 73, no. 312 (November 2022): 919–33. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgac027.
      Abstract: While scholars often mention the influence of James Boswell’s strict Presbyterian upbringing on his emotional life, his voluminous journals are typically approached in secular psychological terms This essay puts the journals in conversation with Calvinist-Christian theology and reads Boswell’s feelings, specifically his self-directed hateful ones, as religious in nature. Beginning with the vexed issue of hatred in Calvin and later seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious writers, who exhort the believer to hate his sin while acknowledging the dangers posed by hatred, the essay then turns to Boswell’s religious attitudes and feelings. Boswell’s melancholy, shame after a night of drunkenness or prostitution, and statements such as ‘I despised myself’ or ‘my wretched existence’ demonstrate a mode of self-hatred that is distinctly Calvinist. ‘Correct’ Calvinist self-hatred — hating your sin and inclination to sinfulness — should provoke love of God, yet Boswell struggles to find any consolation in his hateful feelings. The journals prove to be powerful examples of the Calvinist degradation of the self, as well as important texts in the culture of the ‘long Reformation’.
2576. Leonard-Roy, Thomas. “Hatred and the Eighteenth-Century Writer in Britain.” PhD Thesis, Harvard University, 2022.
2577. Leonard-Roy, Thomas. “Samuel Johnson and Good Hating.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 44, no. 1 (2021): 41–57.
      Abstract: This article proposes a definition of Johnson’s popular term, the ‘good hater,’ in order to explore his ideas about malicious conversation and criticism. Good hating was a conversational and critical ideal for Johnson, in contrast to ‘bad hating’ — hatred motivated by malice or malignity — which threatened civil discourse. Johnson’s own malice and ‘roughness’ are a vexed question in biographies by James Boswell, John Hawkins and Hester Lynch Piozzi. In spite of the efforts of Boswell, who has largely influenced the popular image of Johnson, I argue that Johnson fails to meet his own standards of good hating.
2578. Lerer, Seth. “A Harmless Drudge: Samuel Johnson and the Making of the Dictionary.” In Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, 167–80. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
      An overview of the Dictionary in Lerer’s account of the history of the language. Includes comments on Johnson’s use of Locke and Milton, and the tensions he felt between prescriptive and descriptive linguistics.
2579. Lerer, Seth. “A Harmless Drudge: Samuel Johnson and the Making of the Dictionary.” In Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, Rev. and Expanded ed., 167–80. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
2580. Lettis, Richard. “Coming from Him.” New York Times Book Review, September 23, 2001.
      Brief letter to the editor on Charles McGrath’s review of Sisman’s Boswell’s Presumptuous Task interpreting “I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.”
2581. Levine, William. “A ‘Bracing’ Moment: Reynolds’ Response to Boswell and Burke on the Aesthetics and Ethics of Public Executions.” In Staging Pain, 1580–1800: Violence and Trauma in British Theater, edited by James Robert Allard and Mathew R. Martin, 69–84. London: Routledge, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315242491-13.
      Abstract: On July 6, 1785 Sir Joshua Reynolds’ conspicuous attendance at a public hanging of Peter Shaw, a former servant of Edmund Burke, was highly controversial and a “rare social gaffe” that the artist committed. Privately defending his decision to attend in a letter to James Boswell, his companion at the execution, Reynolds remarked on the cathartic, masculinist, bracing effects that an execution has on a properly civilized spectator, who responds to the hanged man as if watching a carefully staged dramatic performance. Had he attempted, like Boswell, to make a broad public appeal for the aesthetic pleasure and humane grounds of witnessing a public hanging, Reynolds would have faced greater difficulty. Emergent sectors of society viewed such open forms of capital punishment otherwise. This was, after all, a time when the discourses of penology, religion, and politics were rallying against theatrical public executions.1 In addition, both Johnson, the leader of The Club to which Reynolds and Boswell belonged, and, more recently, Burke, another of its most formidable intellects, had written against the abuse of this practice.
2582. Levine, William. “The Genealogy of Romantic Literary History: Refigurations of Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets in the Criticism of Coleridge and Wordsworth.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 34 (1992): 349–78.
2583. Levinson, Harry Norman. “Another Look at Johnson’s Appraisal of Swift.” Études Anglaises 39, no. 4 (1986): 438–43.
2584. Levis, R. B. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Church History 66, no. 4 (December 1997): 845–46.
2585. Levy, David. “S. T. Coleridge Replies to Adam Smith’s ‘Pernicious Opinion’: A Study in Hermetic Social Engineering.” Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 14, no. 1 (1986): 89–114.
2586. David Levy, “S. T. “Coleridge Replies to Adam Smith’s ‘Pernicious Opinion’: A Study in Hermetic Social Engineering.” Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 14, no. 1 (January 1986): 89–114.
2587. Lévy, Maurice. “Boswell, Rousseau et Voltaire.” Interfaces: Image Texte Language 4 (1993): 51–66.
2588. Lévy, Maurice. Boswell, un libertin mélancolique: Sa vie, ses voyages, ses amours et ses opinions. Grenoble: ELLUG (Editions Litteraires et Linguistiques de l’Universite de Grenoble III), 2001. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.ugaeditions.7569.
2589. Lévy, Maurice. Boswell, un libertin mélancolique: Sa vie, ses voyages, ses amours et ses opinions. Grenoble: UGA Éditions, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.ugaeditions.7569.
      Abstract: Boswell (1740–1795), auteur réputé d’une imposante ,Vie de Samuel Johnson, mérite à bien d’autres titres d’être célébré. Ses volumineux «papiers», depuis peu accessibles, permettent de dresser le portrait d’un homme franchement étonnant, dont l’exorbitance des comportements fascine et captive. Quel avocat voulut-il jamais, comme lui — faute de pouvoir établir son innocence — ressusciter après pendaison un client malheureux? Né en Écosse, il parcourut l’Europe, fréquenta Voltaire et Rousseau, coucha avec Thérèse, rendit visite à Paoli au moment où s’organisait la résistance corse à la France. Ardent défenseur de ceux qui, dans les «provinces», menaient leur guerre d’indépendance, il dénonça avec une paradoxale énergie les «barbares horreurs» de la Révolution française. Sa rencontre avec Johnson fit de lui un biographe. Mais son Journal est plus que la Vie: y sont consignées les humeurs changeantes d’un grand mélancolique et les affriolantes confessions qui font de lui un Casanova écossais, un Don Juan venu du froid; mais un Don Juan à scrupules: l’hypocondrie, ou la rançon du plaisir. Époux infidèle, père imprévoyant, ivrogne impénitent, ardent jouisseur sous l’œil improbateur de Calvin ... Boswell — franchement insupportable et tout à fait attachant — vaut la rencontre.
2590. Lewis, C. S. Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
2591. Lewis, C. S. “The Life of Samuel Johnson [Review of Bertram Davis’s Edition of Hawkins’s Life].” In Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews, 2013.
2592. Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth. “Hamilton’s ‘Abdication,’ Boswell’s Jacobitism and the Myth of Mary Queen of Scots.” ELH: English Literary History 64, no. 4 (December 1997): 1069–90. https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.1997.0036.
2593. Lewis, Jayne. “Reflections: Dialectic of Bewilderment.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 31, no. 3 (2019): 575–95.
      Abstract: This essay reflects on the inherently disconcerting labour of producing a literary anthology. It does so by way of the Enlightenment view of bewilderment as a legitimate epistemological position. In that view, propounded by figures as various as Bernard Mandeville, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, and Sarah Fielding, bewilderment stands distinct from such possible cognates as confusion or nescience and arises from the experience of immersion in a proliferation of media forms. Such an experience obviously links the print-saturated eighteenth century to our own digitizing times; anthologies are autoimmune responses to media ecologies of this nature. Enlightenment conceptualizations of bewilderment, thus, both articulate and potentially resolve the frustrations entailed in an anthology’s making.
2594. Lewis, Jeremy. “A Definitive Guide to Dr Johnson [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” The Mail on Sunday, April 3, 2005.
2595. Lewis, Peter. “Dr Johnson: No Sex and Much Sorrow [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Daily Mail, August 8, 2008.
2596. Lewis, Peter. “Meet the Word Doctor, from A to Z [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Daily Mail, April 29, 2005.
2597. Lewis, Roger. “Tale of the Tome That Gave Us Real Meaning [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Express, April 1, 2005.
2598. Ley, James. “A Degree of Insanity: On Samuel Johnson.” HEAT 21 (2009): 195–220.
2599. Ley, James. “A Degree of Insanity: Samuel Johnson (1709–1784).” In The Critic in the Modern World: Public Criticism from Samuel Johnson to James Wood, 9–34. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
2600. Ley, James. “Going for the Doctor [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” The Australian, December 3, 2008.
2601. Ley, James. The Critic in the Modern World: Public Criticism from Samuel Johnson to James Wood. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
      Abstract: The Critic in the Modern World explores the work of six influential literary critics — Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Matthew Arnold, T. S. Eliot, Lionel Trilling and James Wood — each of whom occupies a distinct historical moment. It considers how these representative critics have constructed their public personae, the kinds of arguments they have used, and their core principles and philosophies. Spanning three hundred years of cultural history, The Critic in the Modern World considers the various ways in which literary critics have positioned themselves in relation to the modern tradition of descriptive criticism. In providing a lucid account of each critic’s core principles and philosophies, it considers the role of the literary critic as a public figure, interpreting him as someone who is compelled to address the wider issues of individualism and the social implications of the democratising, secularising, liberalising forces of modernity” — “Explores the work of six influential literary critics, across three centuries, in order to consider the role of the literary critic as a public figure.”
2602. Lezard, Nicholas. “Bring on the Buffleheaded [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: An Anthology, by David Crystal].” Guardian, December 16, 2006.
2603. Lezard, Nicholas. “Grub Street Lives.” Guardian, December 17, 2005.
2604. Lezard, Nicholas. “The Most Likeable of All.” Evening Standard, September 17, 2009.
2605. Li, Pang, and Steven Lynn. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Year’s Work in English Studies 2006 (2008): 4–5.
2606. Li Weifang. “Liang Shiqiu Sha ping de ren xing lun te zheng ji qi yi yi.” Foreign Literature Studies/Wai Guo Wen Xue Yan Jiu 33, no. 2 [148] (April 2011): 144–49.
2607. Libergant, Aleksandr. “Krestomatiĭnyĭ Dzhonson.” Voprosy literatury 2 (February 1991): 223–36.
2608. Lichfield Mercury. “A New Word on City’s Most Famous Son [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” August 14, 2008.
2609. Lim, C. S. “Dr Johnson’s Quotation from Macbeth.” Notes and Queries 33 [231], no. 4 (December 1986): 518–518.
2610. Lim, C. S. “Emendation of Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of Johnson.” Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance Studies 33 (April 1988): 23–30. https://doi.org/10.1177/018476788803300106.
2611. Lim, C. S. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Notes and Queries 37 [235], no. 4 (December 1990): 475–76.
2612. Lindsey, Victor. “Dr. Johnson and Dr. Gardner on Nickel Mountain.” In Proceedings of the First Annual John Gardner Conference, edited by Jim Fessenden and Charley Boyd, 10–16. Privately printed, 1999.
2613. Lines, Joe. Review of The Life of Mr Richard Savage, by Nicholas Seager and Lance E. Wilcox. Modern Language Review 113, no. 1 (2018): 229–30.
2614. Linhardt, Alex. “The Imaginary Encyclopedia: The Novel and the Reference Work in the Age of Reason.” PhD Thesis, Harvard University, 2016.
      Abstract: The Imaginary Encyclopedia explores the relationship between aesthetics and epistemology in the eighteenth century by positing a formal analogy between the early novel and the reference work (e.g., Johnson’s Dictionary, Diderot’s Encyclopédie). The dissertation considers that analogy from two reciprocal vantages: first, by conceptualizing the early novel as a particularly elastic type of reference work and, second, by studying the reference work as a cohesive, imagined literary world. The book frames that mirror effect between two theoretical axes: on one hand, Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things, which describes the rational structuration that occurs within all imaginative or creative thought and, on the other hand, Theodor W. Adorno’s work on the influence of folklore and ritual on the development of Enlightenment rationality. The project therefore uses the dynamic between the novel and the reference work as a symbolic gateway to this question: what if we took the processes of imaginative writing to be structurally similar or identical to the processes of rational or scientific inquiry? In answering that troublesome question, The Imaginary Encyclopedia surveys four eighteenth-century writers who experimented with aesthetic form for the purpose of conveying abnormally dense amounts of information. First, it looks at Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year as a narrative that embraces encyclopedism, using scientific or referential description to position itself as a contribution to the nascent social sciences. It then moves on to two novelists — Jonathan Swift and Laurence Sterne — who are expressly skeptical of the utility of the reference work but unable to escape its powerful allure as an organizational framework for their fiction. Finally, it concludes with a chapter on James Boswell’s journals, which give contemporary readers a vivid sense of how the interaction between literary writing and encyclopedic writing inhered in the everyday consciousness of eighteenth-century authors. These four readings suggest that the early English novel’s form revolutionized the organization of Enlightenment information, providing an aesthetic medium for syncretic compilation and the means to index subjective experience as though it were a scientific object. In other words, the novel was not merely capable of encyclopedism — as Edward Mendleson famously argued in defending various “epic novels” — but encyclopedic in its very structure.
2615. Linklater, Andro. “On the Road with Johnson & Boswell & Co.” The Telegraph Magazine, September 11, 1993.
2616. Linklater, Magnus. “What If the Hoax of Ossian Is True After All? Samuel Johnson Denounced Ancient Tales of the Gaelic Bard as Fake but It Is Time to Look Again.” The Times, August 30, 2021.
2617. Lipking, Lawrence. “Contemporary Johnson.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 55, no. 2 (2014): 291–94.
      Abstract: Lipking explores how writers draw Sameul Johnson’s wisdom. Johnson’s devotees take pride in the currency of his thoughts, and many become life-long Johnsonians, toasting his continuing presence. He says what Johnson represents can never be stable. Whenever writers read him or read about him, they help to remake him.
2618. Lipking, Lawrence. “Inventing the Common Reader: Samuel Johnson and the Canon.” In Interpretation and Cultural History, edited by Joan H. Pittock and A. Wear, 153–74. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
2619. Lipking, Lawrence. “The Jacobite Plot.” ELH: English Literary History 64, no. 4 (1997): 843–55.
2620. Lipking, Lawrence. “Johnson and Genius.” In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, 83–94. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0008.
2621. Lipking, Lawrence. “Johnson’s Beginnings.” In Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, edited by David Wheeler, 13–25. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
2622. Lipking, Lawrence. “Learning to Read Johnson: The Vision of Theodore and The Vanity of Human Wishes.” In Modern Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Leopold Damrosch Jr., 335–54. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
2623. Lipking, Lawrence. “M. Johnson and Mr. Rousseau.” Common Knowledge 3, no. 3 (December 1994): 109–26.
2624. Lipking, Lawrence. “New Light on Johnson’s Duck.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 149–58.
      A facetious take on Johnson’s Jacobite sympathies, using “Here Lies Good Master Duck” as evidence.
2625. Lipking, Lawrence. Review of Samuel Johnson: An Analysis, by Charles H. Hinnant. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 12 (1989): 251–53.
2626. Lipking, Lawrence. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. Eighteenth-Century Studies 21 (1987): 109–13.
2627. Lipking, Lawrence. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays, by Isobel Grundy. Eighteenth-Century Studies 21 (1987): 109–13.
2628. Lipking, Lawrence. Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.
      Abstract: He was a servant to the public, a writer for hire. He was a hero, an author adding to the glory of his nation. But can a writer be both hack and hero? The career of Samuel Johnson, recounted here by Lawrence Lipking, proves that the two can be one. And it further proves, in its enduring interest for readers, that academic fashions today may be a bit hasty in pronouncing the “death of the author.” A book about the life of an author, about how an author is made, not born, Lipking’s Samuel Johnson is the story of the man as he lived — and lives — in his work. Tracing Johnson’s rocky climb from anonymity to fame, in the course of which he came to stand for both the greatness of English literature and the good sense of the common reader, the book shows how this life transformed the very nature of authorship. Beginning with the defiant letter to Chesterfield that made Johnson a celebrity, Samuel Johnson offers fresh readings of all the writer’s major works, viewed through the lens of two ongoing preoccupations: the urge to do great deeds — and the sense that bold expectations are doomed to disappointment. Johnson steers between the twin perils of ambition and despondency. Mounting a challenge to the emerging industry that glorified and capitalized on Shakespeare, he stresses instead the playwright’s power to cure the illusions of everyday life. All Johnson’s works reveal his extraordinary sympathy with ordinary people. In his groundbreaking Dictionary, in his poems and essays, and in The Lives of the English Poets, we see Johnson becoming the key figure in the culture of literacy that reaches from his day to our own.
      Reviews:
      • Alkon, Paul. “Déjà Vu All Over Again: Three More Books on Samuel Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking; Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo; and Samuel Johnson’s “General Nature”: Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse, by Scott D. Evans].” Review 23 (2001): 175–86.
      • Bundock, Michael. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. New Rambler E:1 (1997): 75–76.
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Modern Philology 98, no. 3 (February 2001): 495–99.
      • Fix, Stephen. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 22, no. 4 (1999): 614–18.
      • Jarrett, Derek. “The Doctor’s Prescription [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking, and Samuel Johnson, by Walter Jackson Bate].” New York Review of Books 46, no. 5 (March 18, 1999): 39–42.
      • Kaminski, Thomas. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 11 (2000): 333–40.
      • Langan, Michael D. “Portrait of an Author, Not the Man [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking].” Buffalo News, November 22, 1998.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Notes and Queries 47 [245], no. 1 (March 2000): 131–32.
      • McKenzie, Alan T. “Making the Wisdom Figure [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking; Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo; Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt; Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart; and The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay].” Eighteenth-Century Studies 34, no. 3 (Spring 2001): 466–70.
      • Mullan, John. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 22, no. 3 (1999): 442.
      • Mullan, John. “The Rise of Mr Nobody: Dr Johnson Had No Trouble Defining the Word Failure [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking].” Guardian, March 6, 1999.
      • Murphy, Rex. “The Real Dr. J Gets Stuffed: The Master of English Prose Is Stopped Cold by a Foul-Prone Biographer [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking].” Globe and Mail (Toronto), December 12, 1998.
      • O’Hagan, Andrew. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. London Review of Books 22, no. 19 (2000): 8.
      • Pritchard, William H. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Hudson Review 52, no. 1 (1999): 133–40.
      • Rawson, Claude. “A Working Life [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking].” New Criterion 17, no. 10 (June 1999): 74–78.
      • Redford, Bruce. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Review of English Studies 201 (February 2000): 137–38.
      • Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Year’s Work in English Studies 79 (2001): 399–406.
      • Ricks, Christopher. “The Definitive Dr. Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking].” Boston Globe, November 8, 1998.
      • Schwartz, Richard B. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Albion 31, no. 3 (1999): 490–91.
      • Shinagel, Michael. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Harvard Review 16 (1999): 165–66.
      • Strauss, Gerald H. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Magill’s Literary Annual, n.d., 2:2459-62.
      • Suarez, Michael F. S.J. “Another Tiny Boswell [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author by Lawrence Lipking].” TLS, August 6, 1999, 8.
2629. Lipking, Lawrence. “Teaching the Lives of the Poets.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 114–20. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
2630. Lipking, Lawrence. “The Death and Life of Johnson.” In Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, edited by Nalini Jain, 102–11. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991.
2631. Lipking, Lawrence. “What Was It Like to Be Johnson?” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 1 (1987): 35–57.
2632. The List. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. August 1, 2007.
2633. Lister, Michael. Review of An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, by James T. Boulton and T. O. McLoughlin. TLS 5381 (May 19, 2006): 33.
2634. Litt, Veronica. “Rousseau’s British Readers and the Eloisa Effect.” Book History 27, no. 2 (September 2024): 233–59.
2635. Livergant, A. “Edin vo mnogikh litsakh: Ėsse, stat’i, ocherki i pis’ma.” Voprosy literatury 2 (March 2003): 186–235.
2636. Livergant, A. “Zhizn’ Sėmiuėlia Dzhonsona.” Voprosy literatury 5 (September 1997): 225–75.
2637. Livingston, Chella C. “Johnson and the Independent Woman: A Reading of Irene.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 219–34.
2638. Livingston, Chella Courington. “Samuel Johnson’s Literary Treatment of Women.” PhD thesis, University of South Carolina, 1985.
2639. Livingston, Felix R. “Human Action: Pursuing Happiness Inside and Outside the Happy Valley.” In Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature: Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays, edited by Edward W. Younkins, 95–111. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016.
2640. Lloyd, Bernard C. “The Discovery of Scott as ‘Editor’ and ‘Author of the Advertisement’ in the Illustrated Edition of Rasselas.” Scott Newsletter 23–24 (December 1993): 9–13.
2641. Loar, Christopher F. “Nostalgic Correspondence and James Boswell’s Scottish Malady.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 44, no. 3 (Summer 2004): 595–615.
      Abstract: The essay examines James Boswell’s correspondence with his friend, John Johnston of Grange, most of which dates from the 1760s; the essay emphasizes the correspondence that transmitted Boswell’s London Journal. The essay argues that these letters invoke a form of social melancholy that surrounds a mythical and absent Scottish past, and that this mythos is closely connected to midcentury rhetorics of spontaneity and sentiment. The mythos of Scotland involves a particular sort of masculinity- spontaneous, sentimental, and unproduced-which Boswell and Grange understand to be no longer available in eighteenth-century Britain, where hegemonic forms of masculinity are understood to be polished, refined, and calculated.
2642. Lobdell, Jared C. “C. S. Lewis’s Ransom Stories and Their Eighteenth-Century Ancestry.” In Word and Story in C. S. Lewis, edited by Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar, 213–31. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991.
2643. Lock, F. P. Review of A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality; or, Essay on Man (A Translation from the French), by O M Brack Jr. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 2 (September 2005): 52–54.
2644. Lock, F. P. Review of Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 2 (September 2006): 46–49.
2645. Lock, F. P. Review of Designing the “Life of Johnson”: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2, by Bruce Redford. Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 66–69.
2646. Lock, F. P. “Samuel Johnson’s View of History.” CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 45, no. 2 (2016): 159–80.
2647. Lock, F. P. “The Topicality of Samuel Johnson’s ‘Life’ of Francis Cheynell.” Review of English Studies 65, no. 272 (November 2014): 853–65. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgu005.
2648. Lock, F. P. “‘To Preserve Order and Support Monarchy’: Johnson’s Political Writings.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 175–94. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
2649. Lock, Frederick P. “Samuel Johnson, Gregory Sharpe, and the Authorship of Some Remarks on the Progress of Learning (1746).” Review of English Studies 73, no. 310 (2022): 506–20.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson wrote far more than he acknowledged or than his contemporaries could identify. Modern scholars have proposed many additions to the canon. Among the most recent of these is Some Remarks on the Progress of Learning (1746), a pamphlet ostensibly written to promote a new edition of Mario di Calasio’s concordance to the Hebrew Bible, then in preparation by William Romaine. The evidence adduced for Johnson’s authorship is partly circumstantial (his connections with the book trade) and partly internal (phrases and features of style that sound Johnsonian). No external evidence connects Johnson with the pamphlet. This article questions the attribution, arguing that neither the circumstantial nor the internal evidence is convincing. Further, the substance of the pamphlet itself, its politics, its religion (especially its view of the Reformation), and most of all its enthusiastic promotion of the study of Hebrew, are quite un-Johnsonian, and indeed contradict his known views.
2650. Lockwood, Allison. “Samuel Johnson.” British Heritage 5, no. 4 (1984): 62–73.
2651. Loe, T. Review of In a Fast Coach with a Pretty Woman: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson, by Gloria Sybil Gross. Choice 40, no. 4 (December 2002): 2022.
2652. Löffler, Arno. “Die wahnsinnige Heldin: Charlotte Lennox’ The Female Quixote.” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 11, no. 1 (1986): 63–81.
2653. London, April. “Johnson’s Lives and the Genealogy of Late Eighteenth-Century Literary History.” In Critical Pasts: Writing Criticism, Writing History, edited by Philip Smallwood, 95–113. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2004.
2654. Long, Joanne. “Putting a Bounce in London’s Step.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 27.
2655. Long, Luke. “James Boswell and Corsica, 1728–1768: The Development of British Opinion During the Corsican Revolt.” History of European Ideas 45, no. 6 (September 2019): 817–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2019.1592937.
      Abstract: James Boswell (1740–1795) is most famous for writing the masterly biography of his friend and mentor The Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791, only a few years before his own death. However, during Boswell’s own lifetime he was far more famous for his other major work, the Account of Corsica (1768). The Account of Corsica has been rather neglected by modern scholarship. This article will attempt show its importance in the context of the mid eighteenth century. Boswell’s Account was in fact the latest in a series of British publications concerning the island of Corsica during the eighteenth century. This article will attempt to trace the evolution of the ideas of Corsica that developed in Britain; beginning with the outbreak of the Corsican revolt in 1728, and culminating with the publication of Boswell’s Account of Corsica in 1768. Corsica became an important case study for British self-reflection, concerning the type of Empire they would become. The main question raised by the case study of Corsica was whether Britain should be an empire that protects liberty across the globe, or a metropolitan commercial state?
2656. Looney, Barbara A. “The Suppressed Agenda of Boswell’s ‘Tour.’” PhD thesis, University of South Florida, 1992.
2657. Loos, William H. “Robert Borthwick Adam II.” In American Book Collectors and Bibliographers, Second Series, edited by Joseph Rosenblum, 3–11. Thomson Gale, 1998.
2658. Loptson, Peter. “Hellenism, Freedom, and Morality in Hume and Johnson.” Hume Studies 27, no. 1 (April 1, 2001): 161–72.
2659. Losos, Joseph. “Biography of Samuel Johnson Revisits Familiar Subject [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 4, 2009.
2660. Lounsberry, Barbara. Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries & the Diaries She Read. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813049915.001.0001.
      Abstract: Encompassing thirty-eight handwritten volumes, Virginia Woolf’s diary is her lengthiest and longest-sustained work, and last work to reach the public. In the only full-length work to explore deeply this luminous and boundary-stretching masterpiece, Barbara Lounsberry traces Woolf’s development as a writer through her first twelve diaries — a fascinating experimental stage, where the earliest hints of Woolf’s pioneering modernist style can be seen. Starting with fourteen-year-old Woolf’s first palm-sized leather diary, Becoming Virginia Woolf illuminates how her private and public writing was shaped by the diaries of other writers including Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, the French Goncourt brothers, Mary Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Woolf’s diary parents — Sir Walter Scott and Fanny Burney. These key literary connections open a new and indispensable window onto the story of one of literature’s most renowned modernists.
2661. Lounsberry, Barbara. “Choosing the Outsider Role: Virginia Woolf’s 1903 Diary; James Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.” In Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries & the Diaries She Read, 54–60. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014.
2662. Lounsberry, Barbara. “James Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to Corsica.” In Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Path: Her Middle Diaries & the Diaries She Read. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2016.
      Abstract: In this second volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf’s diaries, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer’s life through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to 1929 — what is often considered Woolf’s modernist “golden age.” During these interwar years, Woolf penned many of her most famous works, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and A Room of One’s Own. Lounsberry shows how Woolf’s writing at this time was influenced by other diarists — Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, Jonathan Swift, and Stendhal among them — and how she continued to use her diaries as a way to experiment with form and as a practice ground for her evolving modernist style. Through close readings of Woolf’s journaling style and an examination of the diaries she read, Lounsberry tracks Woolf’s development as a writer and unearths new connections between her professional writing, personal writing, and the diaries she was reading at the time. Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Path offers a new approach to Woolf’s biography: her life as she marked it in her diary from ages 36 to 46.
2663. Lounsberry, Barbara. “James Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.” In Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries & the Diaries She Read, 67–74. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014.
      Abstract: This book explores the first twelve books of the 38 handwritten volumes of Virginia Woolf’s diary, the early experimental stage before her diary writing evolved to a more mature, modernist style. This is the first full-length treatment of Woolf’s diaries and shows how heavily her public prose was influenced not only by her own early diary writing, but also by other diarists such as Samuel Pepys and Fanny Burney.
2664. Loveridge, Mark. “Rasselas: The Enigma and the ‘Agile Music.’” Studies in Philology 121, no. 2 (Spring 2024): 298–325.
2665. Löwe, N. F. “Sam’s Love for Sam: Samuel Beckett, Dr. Johnson and Human Wishes.” Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui: A Bilingual Review/Revue Bilingue 8 (1999): 189–203.
2666. Luca, A. D. “Candide, Rasselas and the Genre of the Philosophical Tale in English and French Literature of the Eighteenth Century.” PhD thesis, University of Kent, 1996.
2667. Luca, Adolfo. “Philosophical Travels in the Eighteenth Century: Some Considerations on Candide and Rasselas.” In Viaggi in Utopia, edited by Raffaella Baccolini, Vita Fortunati, and Nadi Minerva, 131–42. Ravenna: Longo, 1996.
2668. Lucas, John. “Travel: Defining Image of Wit and Wisdom.” Daily Telegraph, July 16, 1994.
2669. Luebering, J. E., ed. “James Boswell.” In Authors of the Enlightenment, 1660 to 1800. Chicago: Rosen Publishing Group, 2013.
2670. Lujan, Nestor. “Samuel Johnson.” Historia y vida 17, no. 194 (1984): 88–95.
2671. Luna, Paul. “The Typographic Design of Johnson’s Dictionary.” In Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott, 175–97. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
2672. Luoni, F. “Recit, exemple, dialogue.” Edited by French. Poetique 74 (1988): 211–32.
2673. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, by James T. Boulton and T. O. McLoughlin. Notes and Queries 55, no. 1 (2008): 108–10. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjm260.
2674. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson’s Notes for the “Life of Pope,” by Harriet Kirkley. Notes and Queries 51 [249], no. 1 (March 2004): 91–93.
2675. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of A Dr. Johnson Chronology, by Norman Page. Notes and Queries 38 [236], no. 4 (1991): 546.
2676. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson, by Edward Tomarken. Notes and Queries 43 [241], no. 1 (March 1996): 92–93.
2677. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. Notes and Queries 34 [232], no. 3 (September 1987): 398–99.
2678. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb. Notes and Queries 42 [240], no. 3 (September 1995): 402–3.
2679. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Designing the “Life of Johnson”: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2, by Bruce Redford. Notes and Queries 51 [249], no. 1 (March 2004): 91–93.
2680. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Dr. Johnson: Interviews and Recollections, by Norman Page. Notes and Queries 36 [234], no. 1 (1989): 114.
2681. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. Notes and Queries 34 [232], no. 3 (September 1987): 399–400.
2682. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Rasselas and Other Tales, by Gwin J. Kolb. Notes and Queries 39 [237] (June 1992): 230–31.
2683. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neale Parke. Review of English Studies 45 (August 1994): 424–25.
2684. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. Notes and Queries 47 [245], no. 4 (December 2000): 522–23.
2685. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England, by Nicholas Hudson. Notes and Queries 52 [250], no. 1 (March 2005): 128–29.
2686. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Samuel Johnson: Commemorative Lectures: Delivered at Pembroke College, Oxford, by Magdi Wahba. Notes and Queries 35 [233] (1988): 379–80.
2687. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Notes and Queries 47 [245], no. 1 (March 2000): 131–32.
2688. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Attitude to the Arts, by Morris R. Brownell. Notes and Queries 38, no. 1 (March 1, 1991): 113–15. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/38.1.113.
2689. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Critical Opinions: A Reexamination, by Arthur Sherbo. Notes and Queries 44 [242], no. 1 (March 1997): 123–24.
2690. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Notes and Queries 46 [244], no. 1 (March 1999): 135–36.
2691. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. Notes and Queries 36 [234], no. 1 (1989): 113–14.
2692. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of “The Fictions of Romantick Chivalry”: Samuel Johnson and Romance, by Eithne Henson. Notes and Queries 41 [239], no. 3 (September 1994): 396–97.
2693. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Notes and Queries 42 [240], no. 1 (March 1995): 98–99.
2694. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of The Politics of Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. Notes and Queries 38 [236], no. 4 (December 1991): 545–46.
2695. Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. Notes and Queries 43 [241], no. 2 (June 1996): 225.
2696. Lustig, Irma S. “Boswell and Zélide.” Eighteenth-Century Life 13, no. 1 (February 2, 1989): 10–15.
2697. Lustig, Irma S., ed. Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
      Abstract: These eleven original essays by well-known eighteenth-century scholars, five of them editors of James Boswell’s journal or letters, commemorate the bicentenary of Boswell’s death on May 19, 1795. The volume illuminates both the life and the work of one of the most important literary figures of the age and contributes significantly to the scholarship on this rich period. In the introduction, Irma S. Lustig sets the tone for the volume. She reveals that the essays examining Boswell as “Citizen of the World” are deliberately paired with those that analyze his artistic skills, to emphasize that “Boswell’s sophistication as a writer is inseparable from his cosmopolitanism.” The essays in Part I focus on the relationship of the Enlightenment, at home and abroad, to Boswell’s personal development. Marlies K. Danziger restores to significant life the continental philosophers and theologians Boswell consulted in his search for religious certainty. Peter Perreten examines Boswell’s enraptured study of Italian antiquity and his responses to the European landscape. Richard B. Sher and Perreten document the personal and aesthetic influence of Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish jurist and leading Enlightenment figure, on Boswell. Michael Fry discusses Boswell’s relationship with Henry Dundas, political manager for Scotland, and Thomas Crawford examines Boswell’s long-standing interest in the volatile political issues of the period, including the French Revolution, through his correspondence with William Johnson Temple. In evaluation Boswell’s performance as Laird of Auchinleck, John Strawhorn documents his efforts to improve the estate by use of new agricultural methods. The essays in Part II study aspects of Boswell’s artistry in Life of Johnson, the magnum opus that set a standard for biography. Carey McIntosh examines Boswell’s use of rhetoric, and William P. Yarrow offers a close scrutiny of metaphor. Isobel Grundy invokes Virginia Woolf in demonstrating Boswell’s acceptance of uncertainty as a biographer. John B. Radner reveals Boswell’s self-assertive strategies in his visit with Johnson at Ashbourne in September 1777, and, finally, Lustig examines as a “subplot” of the biography Johnson’s patient efforts to win the friendship of Margaret Montgomerie Boswell. An appendix by Hitoshi Suwabe serves scholars by providing the most exact account to date of Boswell’s meetings with Johnson.
      Reviews:
      • Kinsella, Thomas E. Review of Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, by Irma S. Lustig. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 434–38.
      • Kullman, Colby H. Review of Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, by Irma S. Lustig. Albion 28, no. 4 (1996): 698–700.
      • Zachs, William. Review of Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, by Irma S. Lustig. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 10 (1996): 16–18.
2698. Lustig, Irma S. “Boswell without Johnson: The Years After.” New Rambler D:1 (1985): 36–38.
2699. Lustig, Irma S. “Facts and Deductions: The Curious History of Reynold’s First Portrait of Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 1 (1987): 161–80.
2700. Lustig, Irma S. “James Boswell, Our Contemporary.” East-Central Intelligencer 10, no. 3 (September 1996): 3–8.
2701. Lustig, Irma S. “‘My Dear Enemy’: Margaret Montgomerie Boswell in the Life of Johnson.” In Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, edited by Irma S. Lustig, 228–45. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
2702. Lustig, Irma S. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 447–51.
2703. Lustig, Irma S. “On the Making of Boswell’s London Journal and Boswell for the Defence.” Eighteenth-Century Life 16, no. 2 (May 1992): 136–39.
2704. Lustig, Irma S. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Albion 31, no. 3 (1999): 493–94.
2705. Lustig, Irma S. “The Myth of Johnson’s Misogyny in the Life of Johnson: Another View.” In Boswell in Scotland and Beyond, edited by Thomas Crawford, 71–88. Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1997.
2706. Luzi, Christophe. Review of État de la Corse; suivi de Journal d’un voyage en Corse et mémoires de Pascal Paoli, by Jean Viviès. Viatica 7 (2020). https://doi.org/10.4000/viatica.1379.
2707. Luzi, Christophe. “L’insularité sous l’œil du pouvoir: Le Voyage en Corse au regard de la cartographie insulaire (1531–1634): Considérations autour du Dialogo nominato Corsica d’Agostino Giustiniani.” Astrolabe, no. 50 (2020).
      Abstract: La Corse en raison de sa situation géographique centrale en Méditerranée, demeure au cours des siècles le carrefour d’enjeux géo-stratégiques et commerciaux qui entretiennent la rivalité des peuples méditerranéens, désireux d’asseoir leurs places fortes, et d’implanter sur ses rivages, des comptoirs et des colonies. Victime du rôle qu’elle représente aux yeux des grandes puissances, l’île subit après la domination génoise (1567–1729) et durant les premiers temps encore troubles de son histoire moderne (1729–1769), le choc de modèles politiques et culturels concurrents qui coexistent même après la signature du traité de Versailles, le 15 mai 1768. A cet égard, il est intéressant de constater quelle place occupe la production cartographique et quels besoins (intimement liés au pouvoir) président à ses modalités de représentation, ne retenant que l’importance d’une vision d’ensemble de la Corse, liée à son contrôle direct, à sa possession, à sa mise en valeur agricole et démographique. La cartographie de cette période est le fait d’ingénieurs, de maîtres-architectes ou de «spécialistes» géographes, génois ou français, qui lui donnent indéniablement et malgré beaucoup d’approximations topographiques et toponymiques, une nature fondamentalement militaire ou administrative. En 1568, Leandro Alberti de Bologna fait paraître à Venise dans l’ouvrage Descrittione di tutta Italia, l’une des premières descriptions rigoureuses de la Corse, qui marque un progrès extraordinaire et sert de base aux cartes de Camocio (1570) et de Mercator (1590). Le Corsicae antiquae descriptio de l’allemand Philipp Clüver (1619), présente quelques années plus tard, une carte à la réelle dimension artistique. En plus de situer les lieux avec une précision remarquable, elle ouvre la voie à une série d’autres cartes aux relevés minutieux, harmonieusement illustrées (Magini, 1620; Sanson D’abbeville, 1656), qui se succèderont jusqu’au journal de voyage en Corse de James Boswell, An Account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island (carte réalisée par Thomas Phinn, 1769). A côté de cette première variété cartographique, qui rentre généralement dans un vaste programme de domination du territoire, existe une autre logique plus artisanale, essentiellement décorative, et qui ne paraît pas requérir d’objectif sinon celui de la découverte d’une île, peuplée de légendes purement pittoresques, fantaisistes, et même des fois curieuses. La carte de Munster (Cosmographie universelle, édition allemande de 1572) au tracé très grossier, s’accompagne de bateaux et de monstres marins. D’autres médiocres copies intercalent à côté de noms modernes, ceux de lieux hérités de Ptolémée, en les localisant avec plus ou moins de chance: l’Orthelius (1574) publiée dans le Theatrum orbis terrarum, la Manesson et Mallet (1683). Dans quel contexte prend place cette cartographie naissante de la Corse, et surtout qu’émerge-t-il au carrefour des pratiques d’expression narratives de la connaissance – les récits de voyage, les chroniques – et des pratiques d’expression picturales? C’est une question que l’on peut légitimement poser.Il n’apparaît pas que l’exercice d’écriture de la chronique se soit prêté à un travail de description cartographique de la Corse, ni en remontant au XVe siècle à Giovanni della Grossa, ni plus tard chez Monteggiani: leur écriture est généralement faite de notes entreprises au gré de leurs déplacements, de faits qui sont estimés dignes de mention par l’auteur, auxquels s’ajoutent des documents compilés qui présentent des sources d’importance. Les chroniqueurs soulèvent le défi de comprendre l’histoire très trouble de la Corse, pour en jeter sur le papier les événements historiques plus ou moins marquants, les traits de mœurs, les particularismes linguistiques, mais pas la rationalisation territoriale de chaque pieve, susceptible de mieux faire exploiter l’île. En revanche, l’un des textes fondateurs du récit de voyage en Corse intitulé le Dialogo nominato Corsica, en français le «Dialogue appelé Corse», est écrit par un Génois, l’évêque Agostino Giustiniani. Ce récit prend bien au contraire des précédentes chroniques, toute une dimension géographique voire géostratégique qui le situe de plain-pied dans le contexte de la présence de la République de Gênes sur l’île. Il sera d’ailleurs réécrit et remanié par deux chroniqueurs: Marc’Antonio Ceccaldi, dans son Historia di Corsica, laquelle sera elle-même augmentée et réutilisée par Anton Pietro Filippini, qui s’attribue la totalité des travaux de ses devanciers. On ne trouve pas dans les autres récits de voyage en Corse au XVIe siècle de considérations versées dans le domaine cartographique, ni chez le florentin Gabriello Simeoni dans ses Illustres Observations antiques (1558), ni chez le padouan Giulio Vertunno, auteur du Viaggio et possesso di Corsica (1560). Quant au premier récit de voyage en Corse écrit en français, il est assez tardif: Les voyages et observations du sieur de La Boullaye Le Gouz datent en effet de 1653.
2708. Lynch, Deidre. “‘Beating the Track of the Alphabet’: Samuel Johnson, Tourism, and the ABCs of Modern Authority.” ELH: English Literary History 57, no. 2 (June 1990): 357–405. https://doi.org/10.2307/2873076.
2709. Lynch, Deidre. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 47, no. 3 (2007): 756–57.
2710. Lynch, Jack. “A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1986–1997.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 10 (1999): 405–511.
      A preliminary version of the AMS publication, and the germ of this on-line resource.
2711. Lynch, Jack. A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1986–1998. New York: AMS Press, 2000. Reviews:
      • Bundock, Michael. Review of Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1986–1998, by Jack Lynch. New Rambler E:5 (2001): 76–77.
      • Review of A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1986–1998, by Jack Lynch. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 25 (2003): 106–7.
      • Stuhr, R. Review of A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1986–1998, by Jack Lynch. Choice 38, no. 8 (April 2001): 4208.
2712. Lynch, Jack. “A Bibliography of Paul J. Korshin’s Writings.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 18 (2007): 369–79.
2713. Lynch, Jack. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. Choice 38, no. 5 (January 2001): 2478.
2714. Lynch, Jack. Review of A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson’s Notes for the “Life of Pope,” by Harriet Kirkley. Choice 40, no. 6 (February 2003): 3262.
2715. Lynch, Jack. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne C. McDermott. Choice 34, no. 7 (March 1997): 1155.
2716. Lynch, Jack. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 352–57.
2717. Lynch, Jack. “‘A Disposition to Write’: Johnson as Correspondent.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 89–106. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
2718. Lynch, Jack. Review of “A Neutral Being between the Sexes”: Samuel Johnson’s Sexual Politics, by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer. Choice 36, no. 6 (February 1999): 1065.
2719. Lynch, Jack. Review of Academy dictionaries 1600–1800, by John Considine. Choice 52, no. 10 (June 2015): 1649.
2720. Lynch, Jack. “And We Ashamed of Him [Review of Johnson and Boswell: A Biography of Friendship, by John B. Radner].” Eighteenth-Century Scotland 27 (2013).
2721. Lynch, Jack. Review of Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt. Choice 36, no. 6 (February 1999): 1067.
2722. Lynch, Jack. “Betwixt Two Ages Cast: Milton, Johnson, and the English Renaissance.” Journal of the History of Ideas 61, no. 3 (July 2000): 397–413. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2000.0028.
      On the periodization of Milton’s major works, written in the Restoration but treated as Renaissance texts.
2723. Lynch, Jack. “Criticism.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 191–208. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
2724. Lynch, Jack. “Dr. Johnson Speaks: On Language, English Words, and Life [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.].” Weekly Standard, 2007.
2725. Lynch, Jack. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Washington Examiner, October 17, 2005.
2726. Lynch, Jack. “Dr. Johnson’s Revolution.” New York Times, July 2, 2005.
      An Op-Ed essay on the importance of SJ’s Dictionary in early America, including SJ’s principles of selection.
2727. Lynch, Jack. Review of Dr Johnson’s Women, by Norma Clarke. Choice 39, no. 10 (October 2001): 771.
2728. Lynch, Jack. “Enchaining Syllables, Lashing the Wind: Samuel Johnson Lays Down the Law.” In The Lexicographer’s Dilemma: The Evolution of “Proper” English, from Shakespeare to “South Park,” 71–93. New York: Walker & Co., 2009.
      On debates over descriptive and prescriptive lexicography, and Johnson’s debt to the tradition of the common law.
2729. Lynch, Jack. “Generous Liberal-Minded Men: Booksellers and Poetic Careers in Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.” Yearbook of English Studies 45 (2015): 93–108.
2730. Lynch, Jack. Review of James Boswell: As His Contemporaries Saw Him, by Lyle Larsen. Choice 46, no. 2 (2008): 0745. https://doi.org/10.5860/CHOICE.46-0745.
2731. Lynch, Jack. “Johnson and Hooker on Ecclesiastical and Civil Polity.” Review of English Studies 55, no. 218 (February 2004): 45–59. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/55.218.45.
      Abstract: Although Richard Hooker has long been acknowledged as an influence on both the prose style and the religious thought of Samuel Johnson, their relationship has never been examined in depth. Several previously unnoticed parallels between Hooker’s writings and Johnson’s writings (including his collaboration with Robert Chambers) provide a starting point for an investigation of Hooker’s influence on Johnson’s thought on questions of religious irenism and the relation of the civil and ecclesiastical states. The passages where Johnson follows Hooker most closely provide additional insights into Johnson’s political and religious conservatism.
      On SJ’s reading in Richard Hooker and his ideas on theology, church governance, and “things indifferent.”
2732. Lynch, Jack. “Johnson Goes to War.” In Samuel Johnson among the Modernists, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 115–32. Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2019.
2733. Lynch, Jack. Review of Johnson on Language: An Introduction, by A. D. Horgan. Choice 32 (April 1995): 4345.
2734. Lynch, Jack. Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria Jr. Choice 43, no. 9 (May 2006): 5132.
2735. Lynch, Jack. “Johnson, Politian, and Editorial Method.” Notes and Queries 45 [243], no. 1 (March 1998): 70–72. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/45.1.70.
      Johnson’s Shakespeare edition was the first to introduce some of Politian’s editorial methods into the editing of vernacular texts.
2736. Lynch, Jack. Review of Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, by Philip Smallwood. Choice 39, no. 7 (March 2002): 3831.
2737. Lynch, Jack. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. Choice 37, no. 5 (January 2000): 2667.
2738. Lynch, Jack. Review of Johnson, Writing, and Memory, by Greg Clingham. Choice 40, no. 8 (April 2003): 4460.
2739. Lynch, Jack. Review of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment, by Philip Smallwood. New Rambler E:7 (2003): 79–81.
2740. Lynch, Jack. “Johnson’s Dead Poets Society.” New Rambler F:18 (2014): 28–36.
2741. Lynch, Jack. “Johnson’s Dictionary and ‘the Lexicons of Ancient Tongues.’” LEA: Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente 13 (2024): 27–38. https://doi.org/10.36253/LEA-1824-484x-15825.
      Abstract: Though Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary (1755) is often compared with the major vernacular dictionaries of the 17th century, a better point of comparison is the early modern lexicons of the classical languages, which Johnson knew well, and which informed his practice in his own lexicography.
2742. Lynch, Jack. “Johnson’s Encyclopedia.” In Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott, 129–46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
      On the boundary between dictionaries, limited to lexical information, and encyclopedias, which are more expansive, and the ways in which SJ’s Dictionary often crosses the line.
2743. Lynch, Jack. “Johnson’s Lives.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 6–15.
2744. Lynch, Jack. “The Lexicographical Thesmothete.” The American Scholar 73, no. 2 (2004): 160.
      Abstract: Lynch presents how Samuel Johnson and his six assistants wrote the Dictionary of the English Language published in 1755. Johnson drew his words from the greatest writers in English, and included some 114,000 illustrative quotations. The dictionary contained 2,300 pages and 42,773 entries.
2745. Lynch, Jack. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Choice 38, no. 8 (2001): 4328. https://doi.org/10.5860/CHOICE.38-4328.
2746. Lynch, Jack. “Modes of Definition in Johnson and His Contemporaries.” Harvard Library Bulletin 20, no. 3–4 (September 2009): 72–87.
2747. Lynch, Jack. “Reading Johnson’s Unreadable Dictionary.” Book TV. C-SPAN2, January 31, 2004.
      A one-hour lecture on the attractions of the illustrative quotations in the Dictionary. Delivered at the Boston Athenæum, 15 January 2004, broadcast on C-SPAN2’s Book TV, 31 Jan. 2004, 8 Feb. 2004, and 22 Feb. 2004.
2748. Lynch, Jack. “Samuel Johnson.” In The Thoemmes Press Dictionary of British Classicists, 1500–1960, edited by Robert B. Todd. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2004.
      A brief encyclopedia entry, focusing on Johnson’s knowledge of the classics.
2749. Lynch, Jack. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. Choice 37, no. 10 (June 2000): 5522.
2750. Lynch, Jack. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Essay, by Robert D. Spector. Choice 35 (October 1997): 795.
2751. Lynch, Jack. “Samuel Johnson and the ‘First English Dictionary.’” In The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries, edited by Sarah Ogilvie, 142–53. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
2752. Lynch, Jack. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Choice 35, no. 3 (November 1997): 1365.
2753. Lynch, Jack. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by Burke Cannon John Ashton. Choice 33, no. 1 (September 1995): 110.
2754. Lynch, Jack, ed. Samuel Johnson in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
      Abstract: Few authors benefit from being set in their contemporary context more than Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson in Context is a guide to his world, offering readers a comprehensive account of eighteenth-century life and culture as it relates to his work. Short, lively and eminently readable chapters illuminate not only Johnson’s own life, writings and career, but the literary, critical, journalistic, social, political, scientific, artistic, medical and financial contexts in which his works came into being. Written by leading experts in Johnson and in eighteenth-century studies, these chapters offer both depth and range of information and suggestions for further study and research. Richly illustrated, with a chronology of Johnson’s life and works and an extensive bibliography, this book is a major new work of reference on eighteenth-century culture and the age of Johnson.
2755. Lynch, Jack. Review of Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill. Choice 39, no. 11 (July 2002): 6287.
2756. Lynch, Jack. “Samuel Johnson, Unbeliever.” Eighteenth-Century Life 29, no. 3 (September 2005): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-29-3-1.
      On Johnson’s engagement with philosophical skepticism, from Sextus Empiricus to Hume.
2757. Lynch, Jack. “Samuel Johnson: Words for a New Nation.” International Herald Tribune, July 5, 2005.
      A reprint of “Samuel Johnson: Words for a New Nation.” An Op-Ed essay on the importance of SJ’s Dictionary in early America, including SJ’s principles of selection.
2758. Lynch, Jack, ed. Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master. New York: Walker & Co., 2004.
      Abstract: Lackbrain, oysterwench, wantwit, clotpoll — Samuel Johnson’s famous dictionary of 1755 contained some of the ripest insults in the English language. In Samuel Johnson’s Insults, Jack Lynch has compiled more than 300 of the curmudgeonly lexicographer’s mightiest barbs, along with definitions only the master himself could elucidate. Word lovers will delight in flexing their linguistic muscles with devilishly descriptive vituperations that pack a wicked punch. Many of these zingers have long lain dormant. Some have even come close to extinction. Now they’re back in all their prickly glory, ready to be relished once more.
      An unscholarly collection of insults and put-downs, culled from both the Dictionary and Johnson’s conversation.
      Reviews:
      • Jackson, Lorne. “Putdowns to Pick Up [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch].” Sunday Mercury, October 30, 2005.
      • Kyff, Rob. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch. Hartford Courant, June 22, 2004.
      • Murali, D. “Elevate the Insult to an Art Form [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master by Jack Lynch].” Hindu Business Times, November 6, 2005.
      • Ott, Bill. “The Age of Insults [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch].” Booklist, April 1, 2004.
      • Pakenham, Michael. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch. Baltimore Sun, June 6, 2004.
      • Publishers Weekly. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch. January 26, 2004.
      • Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch. Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 2 (September 2004): 70.
      • Schappell, Elissa. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch. Vogue, June 1994.
      • Tankard, Paul. “Insulting Words in Johnson’s Dictionary [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch].” The Southern Johnsonian 13, no. 48 (Aug).
      • Western Daily Press (Bristol). Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch. December 24, 2005.
2759. Lynch, Jack. “Samuel Johnson’s ‘Love of Truth’ and Literary Fraud.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 42, no. 3 (June 2002): 601–18. https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2002.0029.
      On Johnson’s involvement with literary fakers, including Macpherson, Chatterton, Psalmanazar, and Dodd.
2760. Lynch, Jack. Review of Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson, by Fred Parker. Choice 42, no. 1 (September 1, 2004): 0169. https://doi.org/10.5860/CHOICE.42-0169.
2761. Lynch, Jack. Review of “Steel for the Mind”: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant. Choice 31, no. 10 (June 1994): 1578.
2762. Lynch, Jack. “Studied Barbarity: Johnson, Spenser, and the Idea of Progress.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 81–108.
      An examination of eighteenth-century conceptions of literary progress, exemplified by Johnson’s reading of Edmund Spenser. A version of this essay appeared as a chapter in Lynch, The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson.
2763. Lynch, Jack. “Studies of Johnson’s Dictionary, 1955–2009: A Bibliography.” Harvard Library Bulletin 20, no. 3–4 (September 2009): 88–131.
2764. Lynch, Jack. The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
      Abstract: Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put during the period. Scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists and literary critics of the period all defined themselves in relation to ‘the last age’ or ‘the age of Elizabeth.’ Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thinkers reworked older historical schemes to suit their own needs, turning to the ages of Petrarch and Poliziano, Erasmus and Scaliger, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Queen Elizabeth to define their culture in contrast to the preceding age. They derived a powerful sense of modernity from the comparison, which proved essential to the constitution of a national character. This interdisciplinary study will be of interest to cultural as well as literary historians of the eighteenth century.
      Examines 18th-c. British notions of what is now called the Renaissance, with SJ at the center.
      Reviews:
      • Brownley, Martine Watson. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Albion 36, no. 1 (2004): 140–41.
      • Budra, Paul. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Renaissance Quarterly 57, no. 2 (2004): 726–27.
      • Cummings, Brian. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. TLS 5237 (August 13, 2003): 23.
      • Freiburg, Rudolf. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 123, no. 4 (2005): 742–45.
      • Greenfield, Sayre N. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. East-Central Intelligencer 3 (September 2003): 50–52.
      • Jenkins, E. J. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Choice 41, no. 1 (September 2003): 0531.
      • Kalter, Barrett. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Modern Philology 102, no. 2 (2004): 279–82.
      • Kliman, Bernice W. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England 18 (2005): 220–22.
      • Olsen, Thomas G. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 58–72.
      • Rees, Christine. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. New Rambler E:6 (2002): 76–78.
      • Smith, Hannah. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Royal Stuart Review, 2006, 20–23.
      • Stock, R. D. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 393–97.
2765. Lynch, Jack. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Choice 35, no. 11–12 (July 1998): 6080.
2766. Lynch, Jack. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Essays in Criticism 49, no. 1 (January 1999): 75–81.
2767. Lynch, Jack. “The Dignity of an Ancient: Johnson Edits the Editors.” In Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson, edited by Eric Rasmussen and Aaron Santesso, 97–114. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
      On Johnson’s development of the variorum form in his edition of Shakespeare, with examples from his edition of Lear.
2768. Lynch, Jack. “‘The Ground-Work of Stile’: Johnson on the History of the Language.” Studies in Philology 97, no. 4 (September 2000): 454–72.
2769. Lynch, Jack. “The Life of Johnson, the Life of Johnson, the Lives of Johnson.” In Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, edited by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood, 131–44. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
      A consideration of Johnson’s influence on later biographers, and the kinds of events he found particularly important in the various Lives of the Poets.
2770. Lynch, Jack. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by John Hawkins. Choice 47, no. 6 (February 2010): 3021.
2771. Lynch, Jack. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. Choice 44, no. 3 (November 2006): 1390.
2772. Lynch, Jack. Review of The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Choice 60, no. 11 (2023): 1094.
2773. Lynch, Jack. Review of The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Eighteenth-Century Studies 57, no. 2 (2024): 276–77. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2024.a916860.
2774. Lynch, Jack, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: No major author worked in more genres than Samuel Johnson — essays, poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, scholarly editing, lexicography, translation, sermons, journalism. His works are more extensive than those of any other canonical English writer, and no earlier writer’s life was documented as thoroughly by contemporaries. Because it’s so difficult to know him thoroughly, people have made do with surrogates and simplifications. But Johnson was much more complicated than the popular image of “Dr. Johnson” suggests: socially conservative but also one of the most radical abolitionists of his age, a firm believer in social hierarchy but an outspoken supporter of women intellectuals, an uncompromising Christian moralist but also a penetrating critic of family structures. Labels fit him poorly. In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, an international team of thirty-six scholars offers the most comprehensive examination ever attempted of one of the most complex figures in English literature. The book’s first section examines Johnson’s life and the texts of his works; the second, organized by genre, explores all his major works and many of his minor ones; the third, organized by topic, covers the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, as a thinker, and as a moralist.
2775. Lynch, Jack. “The Revival of Learning: The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson.” PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1999.
      An early version of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson.
2776. Lynch, Jack. Review of The Selected Essays of Donald Greene, by Donald J. Greene. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 465–69.
2777. Lynch, Jack. You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf, from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
2778. Lynch, Jack, and Anne McDermott, eds. Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, the first great English dictionary and one of the most famous books in the English language, appeared in April 1755. To commemorate the 250th anniversary, this volume brings together fourteen original essays by international scholars representing several disciplines: literature, lexicology, linguistics and bibliography. The essays explore familiar and unfamiliar aspects of Johnson’s masterpiece, ranging from the history of patronage to the book’s typographical design, from the political background to the treatment of compound words. Challenging the myths surrounding the book and offering the most comprehensive and wide-ranging study of the Dictionary ever attempted, these essays present fresh scholarship on the Dictionary and open up novel perspectives and directions for future research.
      Fourteen original scholarly essays on previously neglected areas of the Dictionary.
      Reviews:
      • Contemporary Review. Review of Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” by Jack Lynch and Anne C. McDermott. October 2005.
      • Hedrick, Elizabeth. Review of Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 51–55.
      • Hüllen, Werner. Review of Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott. Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences/Revue Internationale pour l’Histoire des Sciences du Langage/Internationale Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften 33, no. 3 (2006): 426–30.
      • Jackson, H. J. “Big and Little Matters: Discrepancies in the Genius of Samuel Johnson [Review of Loving Dr. Johnson by Helen Deutsch; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’ by Allen Reddick; Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791 by Freya Johnston; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; and A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man by O M Brack, Jr.” TLS, November 11, 2005, 3–4.
      • Kermode, Frank. “Lives of Dr. Johnson [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791, by Freya Johnston; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’, by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; and Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick].” New York Review of Books 53, no. 11 (June 22, 2006): 28–31.
      • Lee, Anthony W. “Quo Vadis? Samuel Johnson in the New Millennium [Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757–1763, by David Hankins and James J. Caudle; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man: A Translation from the French, by O M Brack, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick; and Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot].” Modern Philology 104, no. 4 (May 2007): 529–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/519192.
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” by Jack Lynch and Anne C. McDermott. Choice 43, no. 7 (March 2006): 3876.
      • Mugglestone, Lynda. Review of Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” by Jack Lynch and Lynda Mugglestone. Notes and Queries 53 [251], no. 4 (December 2006): 560–63.
      • Nokes, David. “The Last Word — Even If Not Adroit [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World by Henry Hitchings; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick; and Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott].” Times Higher Education Supplement 1739 (April 21, 2006): 22.
      • Pearce, Chris P. “‘Gleaned as Industry Should Find, or Chance Should Offer It’: Johnson’s Dictionary after 250 Years [Review of Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s Dictionary by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott].” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 341–62.
2779. Lynn, Steven. “Johnson’s Critical Reception.” In The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 240–53. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.016.
2780. Lynn, Steven. “Johnson’s Rambler and Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 19 (1986): 461–79.
2781. Lynn, Steven. “Locke’s Eye, Adam’s Tongue, Johnson’s Word: Language, Marriage, and ‘the Choice of Life.’” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 35–61.
2782. Lynn, Steven. Review of Modern Critical Views: Dr. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, by Harold Bloom. South Atlantic Review 55, no. 2 (May 1990): 143–46.
2783. Lynn, Steven. Samuel Johnson after Deconstruction: Rhetoric and “The Rambler.” Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.
      Abstract: “My other works are wine and water,” said Samuel Johnson to Samuel Rogers, “but my Rambler is pure wine.” Some critics have disagreed, labeling the essays uneven and dismissing the bulk of them as hastily concocted hackwork by a writer taking a break from or earning money for a more important project — the Dictionary of the English Language. Yet, Steven Lynn, in the first book-length study of The Rambler, resoundingly contradicts such critics; combining deconstruction and other current methods with eighteenth-century rhetorical theories, Lynn refutes conventional critical wisdom among Johnsonians, asserting that the 208 Rambler essays form a coherent whole. Lynn argues that a controlling tenet in the series is that “we are each and every one ramblers, wandering and searching for some stable meaning and satisfaction, which will inevitably elude us in this world. By confronting this absence, Johnson (like a deconstructive theologian) leads us repeatedly to acknowledge the necessity of faith.” For Lynn, furthermore, the unifying thread running through the series is expressed in the prayer Johnson composed as he embarked on the journey of The Rambler: “Almighty God, ... without whose grace all wisdom is folly, grant, I beseech Thee, that in this my undertaking thy Holy Spirit may not be witheld from me, but that I may promote thy glory, and the Salvation both of myself and others.” As Lynn shows, though Johnson anticipates deconstruction, his controlling evangelistic aim differs profoundly and instructively from it.
      Reviews:
      • Basker, James G. Review of Samuel Johnson after Deconstruction: Rhetoric and “The Rambler,” by Steven Lynn. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 420–25.
      • Scholtz, Gregory. Review of Samuel Johnson after Deconstruction: Rhetoric and “The Rambler,” by Steven Lynn. Choice 30, no. 6 (February 1993): 962.
      • Tomarken, Edward. Review of Samuel Johnson after Deconstruction: Rhetoric and “The Rambler,” by Steven Lynn. South Atlantic Review 58, no. 3 (September 1993): 112–16.
2784. Lynn, Steven. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Theme of Hope, by T. F. Wharton. South Atlantic Review 51, no. 1 (January 1986): 128–31.
2785. Lynn, Steven. “Sexual Difference and Johnson’s Brain.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 123–49. Troy: Whitston, 1987. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-1-4832-2920-1.50076-7.
2786. Lynn, Steven. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Jack Lynch. Year’s Work in English Studies 87 (2008): 3–4, 40–41.
2787. Lynn, Steven. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. Year’s Work in English Studies 87 (2008): 3–4, 40–41.
2788. Lynn, Steven. Review of The Unknown Samuel Johnson, by John J. Burke Jr. and Donald Kay. South Atlantic Review 51, no. 1 (January 1986): 128–31.
2789. Mabbott, Alastair. Review of The Stone of Destiny, by Andrew Neil MacLeod. The Herald (Glasgow), November 19, 2022.
2790. MacDonald, Calum. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: An Anthology, by David Crystal. The Herald (Glasgow), November 12, 2005.
2791. Macdonald, D. L. “Eighteenth-Century Optimism as Metafiction in Pale Fire.” The Nabokovian 14 (1985): 26–32.
2792. Macdonald, Murdo. “The Torrent Shrieks.” Edinburgh Review 96 (1996): 99–108.
2793. MacDougall, Wallace. “Three Writers of Eighteenth-Century Lichfield: Johnson, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 9 (August 2007): 33–46.
2794. Mace, Nancy A. “What Was Johnson Paid for Rasselas?” Modern Philology 91, no. 4 (May 1994): 455–58.
2795. Macfadyen, Neil. “Johnson House, Gough Square, Renovations.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1989, 82–83.
2796. MacInery, John. “Johnson and the Art of Translation.” New Rambler C:24, no. 23 (1982): 19–20.
2797. Mack, Brian C. 1773 Scotland: An Illustrated Account of Johnson & Boswell’s Tour. Colorado: Loch Vale Fine Art, 2019.
      Abstract: In 1773, the Scottish James Boswell persuaded his English friend Samuel Johnson to accompany him on a tour through the Highlands of Scotland. Johnson was well known for his literary works and his dictionary. The two travelers set out from Edinburgh and skirted the eastern and northeastern coasts of Scotland. They proceeded into the Highlands and spent several weeks on various islands in the Hebrides. After a visit to Boswell’s Estate at Auchinleck, the two returned to Edinburgh. Johnson published his Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland in 1775. A separate travel journal, The Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson L.L.D., by Boswell was published in 1785. The two narratives are very different in approach — Johnson concentrated on Scotland, and Boswell focused on Johnson. This book contains excerpts form the original text and features historically re-created paintings of locations visited by the travelers. This illustrated book was completed in 2018 over 200 years after the original tour. It was the effort of a 20-year project beginning in 1998. Although the author and artist did not walk directly in the footsteps of Boswell and Johnson, their journey was retraced during multiple travels throughout Scotland. The project culminated in a stay at the restored familial home of Boswell — Auchinleck House. 1773 Scotland contains 65 illustrations that retrace Johnson & Boswell’s tour.
2798. Mack, Ruth. “The Historicity of Johnson’s Lexicographer.” Representations 76 (September 2001): 61–87. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2001.76.1.61.
2799. Mack, Ruth. “The Limits of the Senses in Johnson’s Scotland.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 54, no. 2 (June 2013): 279–94. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecy.2013.0016.
      Abstract: This essay focuses on scientific viewing in Samuel Johnson’s A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, particularly on Johnson’s account of that viewing as a means of accessing the “life and manners” of those around him. In Johnson’s inconsistent attempts at precision, and in his meditations on those attempts, we can see him probing a distinction between theory and practice at the heart of the seventeenth-century empiricism on which his basic practice of observing is based. Recovering this side of Johnson’s philosophical argument figures Johnson as an important early theorist of observational practices we now associate with the discipline of anthropology.
2800. Mack, Ruth. “Too Personal? Teaching the Preface.” Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 9–13.
2801. Mack, Ruth Ellen. “The Historicity of Johnson’s Lexicographer,” Chapter 2 of “Literary Historicity: Literary Form and Historical Thinking in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England.” PhD thesis, Johns Hopkins University, 2003.
2802. MacKenzie, Garry. “Writing Cross-Country: Landscapes, Palimpsests and the Problems of Scottish Literary Tourism.” Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 21, no. 3 (2017): 275–86.
2803. MacKenzie, Niall. “‘A Great Affinity in Many Things’: Further Evidence for the Jacobite Gloss on ‘Swedish Charles.’” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 255–72.
      MacKenzie considers the Jacobite readings of “Swedish Charles” in The Vanity of Human Wishes.
2804. MacKenzie, Niall. “A Jacobite Undertone in ‘While Ladies Interpose’?” In Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, edited by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill, 265–94. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
2805. MacKenzie, Niall. Review of Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Studia Neophilologica 79, no. 1 (2007): 96–100.
2806. Mackenzie, Niall. “Some British Writers and Gustavus Vasa.” Studia Neophilologica: A Journal of Germanic and Romance Languages and Literature 78, no. 1 (June 2006): 63–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/00393270600642031.
2807. Mackie, Erin. “The Perfect Gentleman.” Media History 14, no. 3 (2008): 353–72. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688800802472444.
      Abstract: Erin Mackie explores how Mr Spectator became one persona through which James Boswell represents himself in his London Journal (1762–63), providing an antitype of the ‘rake’ persona which Boswell derives in part from Macheath in The Beggar’s Opera. In this antithesis most attention falls on Macheath, but Mackie notes that in Tatler 27 Richard Steele creates a sentimental portrait of the rake as ‘the most agreeable of all Bad Characters’. Thus Boswell finds in the Tatler’s rake an image of himself which stands in relation to the disapproving Mr Spectator. With this in mind, Mackie notes that the Spectator papers which describe the Mohock riots of March–April 1712 also characterize such displays as innocuous theatrical expressions of youthful ebullience. Boswell, then, finds acceptable dress for his criminal masculinity by casting himself into a ‘mock-heroic impersonation’ whilst using the narrative position provided by Mr Spectator to give himself ‘spectatorial immunity.’
2808. Mackinnon, Lachlan. “Translating a Self.” Cambridge Review 112, no. 2313 (1991): 70–73.
2809. MacLeod, Andrew Neil. The Fall of the House of Thomas Weir. 1. Burning Chair, 2021.
      Abstract: Edinburgh, 1773. A storm is coming. A storm that will shake the Age of Reason to its very foundations.When rumours spread of ghouls haunting Edinburgh’s old town, there is only one person who can help. Dr Samuel Johnson: author, lexicographer . . . and a genius in the occult and supernatural.With his good friend and companion, James Boswell, Dr Johnson embarks on a quest to unravel the hellish mysteries plaguing the city. But what they uncover is darker and more deadly than they could have ever suspected, an evil conspiracy which threatens not just the people of Edinburgh, but the whole of mankind.For the tunnels under Edinburgh’s Old Town hide a terrible secret . . . Before Holmes & Watson, before Abraham van Helsing, there was Doctor Johnson & James Boswell: scourge of the hidden, supernatural world of the 18th century.
      Reviews:
      • Chisholm, Kate. Review of The Fall of the House of Thomas Weir, by Andrew Neil Macleod. Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 1 (March 2022): 52–54.
2810. MacLeod, Andrew Neil. The Stone of Destiny. Burning Chair, 2022.
      Abstract: What if the Coronation Stone at Westminster — the stolen relic on which the High Kings of Scotland had been crowned for over seven hundred years — was a fake? What if the true Stone of Destiny was still out there somewhere, hidden away by a Holy Order to protect it from English invaders? When Doctor Johnson turns up at his friend James Boswell’s door after an absence of almost seven years, he makes Boswell an enticing proposition: to join him on a quest to recover the true Stone of Destiny. What follows is a breathtaking journey through the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland, from Edinburgh up to the furthest reaches of the northern isles. Plunged into a dizzying world of secret societies, occult mysteries and supernatural phenomena, the two friends leave no Neolithic stone unturned in their search to uncover the truth. Can Johnson and Boswell keep one step ahead of those who would try to stop them? And will they be willing to sacrifice all so that they can get all that they desire? Eighteenth century Scotland has never been so magical — and terrifying.
      Reviews:
      • Mabbott, Alastair. Review of The Stone of Destiny, by Andrew Neil MacLeod. The Herald (Glasgow), November 19, 2022.
2811. MacMath, Fiona. “Dr Johnson, Strictly Speaking.” The Times, March 26, 1991.
      On Johnson’s religious torment.
2812. MacMath, Fiona, ed. The Faith of Samuel Johnson: An Anthology of His Spiritual and Moral Writings and Conversation. London: Mowbray, 1990.
2813. Mahoney, John L. “Contemporary Attitudes toward Biography and the Case of Walter Jackson Bate’s Samuel Johnson.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 6 (2001): 333–47.
2814. Mahoney, John L. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Southern Humanities Review 30, no. 2 (1996): 181–83.
2815. Mahoney, John L. “The True Story: Poetic Law and License in Johnson’s Criticism.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 6 (2001): 185–98.
2816. Makarova, Lyudmila Yur’evna. “The Theme of ‘Hermitage’ in Samuel Johnson’s Essay ‘The Vision of Theodore, the Hermit of Teneriffe, Found in His Cell.’” Filologičeskij Klass 27, no. 3 (2022): 115–24.
2817. Maley, Willy. “Where No Man Has Gone Before [Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone].” Times Higher Education, no. 2,222 (September 24, 2015): 42.
2818. Mallon, Thomas. “Dr. Johnson’s Maecenas [Review of According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge].” New York Times Book Review, August 12, 2001.
2819. Malone, Christopher J. “Philosophical and Biographical Hermeneutics: An Essay on History and Understanding.” MA thesis, Fordham University, 1994.
2820. Mander, W. J. “Berkeley and Johnson.” In The Volitional Theory of Causation: From Berkeley to the Twentieth Century, 20–45. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
      Abstract: This work traces the development of a philosophical theory about causality — the volitional theory of causation — which supposes the underlying nature of causation as something revealed to us in the experience of our own will. It offers both a history of philosophy and a chance to think about the complex puzzles of both causation and human will.
2821. Mander, W. J. The Volitional Theory of Causation: From Berkeley to the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
2822. Maner, Martin. “Johnson’s Redaction of Hawkesworth’s Swift.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 311–34.
2823. Maner, Martin. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neale Parke. South Atlantic Review 57, no. 3 (September 1992): 128–31.
2824. Maner, Martin. “Samuel Johnson, Scepticism, and Biography.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 12, no. 4 (September 1989): 302–19. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2010.0544.
      Abstract: Johnson’s sceptical approach to biography is a dialectic by which Johnson engages the reader in testing the limits of biographical inference. This biographical scepticism derives from the scientific epistemologies of Locke and Bacon, the writings of Pierre Bayle, and the “constructive scepticism” of the seventeenth-century Christian apologists.
2825. Maner, Martin. The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets.” Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988. Reviews:
      • Ingram, Allan. Review of The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets,” by Martin Maner. Modern Language Review 86, no. 2 (April 1991): 403–4.
      • Kirkley, Harriet. Review of The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets,” by Martin Maner. South Atlantic Review 3 (September 1990): 106–9.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets,” by Martin Maner. Johnsonian News Letter 49, no. 3 (Spring 1990): 20.
      • Pettit, Alexander. Review of The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets,” by Martin Maner. Eighteenth-Century Studies 26, no. 1 (1992): 121–24.
      • Scholtz, Gregory. Review of The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets,” by Martin Maner. Choice 27, no. 1 (September 1989): 167.
      • Simon, Irène. Review of The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets,” by Martin Maner. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 72, no. 3 (1991): 280–83.
2826. Maner, Martin. “The Probable and the Marvelous in Johnson’s ‘Life of Milton.’” Philological Quarterly 66, no. 3 (June 1987): 391–409.
2827. Manganelli, Giorgio. Vida de Samuel Johnson. Translated by Teresa Clavel. Barcelona: Gatopardo, 2017.
      Abstract: Vida de Samuel Johnson, habría logrado la obra de arte tan esperada. Giorgio Manganelli, tomándose las palabras de Schwob casi como un desafío, escribió este breve texto sobre la vida de Johnson, el intelectual inglés más importante del siglo XVIII. Escrita en 1961 para ser leída en el Terzo Programma de la Rai, la Vida de Samuel Johnson que aquí presentamos es el resultado de una cuidada labor de transcripción a partir del manuscrito de Manganelli. El escritor italiano no sólo cuenta la vida de Johnson desde el día en que, siendo muy joven, llegó a Londres procedente de Lichfield, sino que traza también un retrato colectivo a través de la visión de sus tres amigos, el escritor Richard Savage, el libertino Topham Beauclerk y su biógrafo James Boswell. Pese a que tanto Johnson como Manganelli pertenecen indudablemente a épocas distintas, constituyen sin embargo un fascinante caso de simbiosis. Manganeso sentía una gran afinidad por la obra y figura de Johnson, de quien dice que fue «el primer héroe de la sociedad de masas», de una sociedad capaz de inventarse mitos colectivos y desarrollarlos. Y no sólo eso: la melancolía, la hipocondría y la desventura de Johnson son también las de Manganelli. Autor y personaje mezclados en un texto extraordinario.
2828. Manganelli, Giorgio. Vita di Samuel Johnson. Edited by Viola Papetti. Biblioteca di studi inglesi 3. Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2002.
2829. Manganelli, Giorgio. Vita di Samuel Johnson. Edited by Salvatore S. Nigro. Milano: Adelphi, 2008.
2830. Mankin, R. “Memories and Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson.” Quinzaine Littéraire 907 (September 16, 2005): 17.
2831. Mann, Douglas. “The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir.” The Historian 80, no. 1 (2018): 143–44. https://doi.org/10.1111/hisn.12795.
2832. Mannheimer, Katherine. “Personhood, Poethood, and Pope: Johnson’s Life of Pope and the Search for the Man Behind the Author.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 40, no. 4 (June 2007): 631–49. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2007.0046.
      Abstract: In his biographical preface on Pope, Samuel Johnson attempts to distinguish between “man” and “writer”; but the distinction was one that Pope had preemptively blurred, in both what and how he published. A conflict thus arises in the two writers’ portrayals of author vis-à-vis work, art vis-à-vis life. Ultimately, the nature of this conflict is historically determined: Johnson’s biography of Pope points toward the origins of “the author” not just as legal and economic entity, but as Cultural Icon, marking a turning-point in the history not just of “the author,” but of “the life of the author.”
2833. Manning, Susan. “Boswell’s Pleasures, the Pleasures of Boswell.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 20, no. 1 (March 1997): 17–31. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.1997.tb00204.x.
2834. Manning, Susan. “‘This Philosophical Melancholy’: Style and Self in Boswell and Hume.” In New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” edited by Greg Clingham and David Daiches, 126–40. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
2835. Mansfield, Susan. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. The Scotsman, July 27, 2007.
2836. Marchand, Philip. “Words, the Daughters of Earth [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Toronto Star, January 15, 2006.
2837. Marco Borillo, Josep Manuel. “Traducir literatura de ideas: un modelo de análisis y su ilustración mediante un ensayo de Samuel Johnson.” Hermēneus, no. 19 (2017): 164–94.
      Abstract: El principal objetivo del presente artículo es proponer un modelo de análisis traductológico del ensayo. Para ello, en primer lugar se destacan los rasgos que definen el ensayo en tanto que género diferenciado de los otros tres grandes géneros literarios (narrativa, teatro y poesía) y se revisan las principales contribuciones teóricas el estudio de su traducción. Las cuestiones tratadas en la bibliografía se agrupan en cuatro bloques: el contenido, las voces que se oyen en el texto y su interacción, la linealidad del texto y la dimensión cultural. Estos cuatro bloques se corresponden, respectivamente, con las tres funciones del lenguaje identificadas por la lingüística funcional-sistémica (ideacional, interpersonal y textual) y con el contexto de cultura. Finalmente, se ilustra el modelo de análisis propuesto mediante su aplicación al ensayo de Samuel Johnson y su traducción al español.
2838. Marcus, David William. “Failed Laird, Successful Author: James Boswell of Auchinleck.” PhD Thesis, University of South Florida, 1997.
2839. Marcuse, Michael J. “Miltonoklastes: The Lauder Affair Reconsidered.” Eighteenth-Century Life 4 (1978): 86–91.
2840. Marcuse, Michael J. “The Gentleman’s Magazine and the Lauder/Milton Controversy.” Bulletin of Research in the Humanities 81 (1978): 179–209.
2841. Marcuse, Michael J. “The Pre-Publication History of William Lauder’s Essay on Milton’s Use and Imitation of the Moderns in His ‘Paradise Lost.’” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 72 (1978): 37–57.
2842. Marcuse, Michael J. “‘The Scourge of Impostors, the Terror of Quacks’: John Douglas and the Exposé of William Lauder.” Huntington Library Quarterly 42 (1978): 231–61.
2843. Markel, H. “The Death of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: A Clinicopathologic Conference.” American Journal of Medicine 62, no. 6 (June 1987): 1203–7.
2844. Markley, Robert. “‘Where the Climate Is Unkind, and the Ground Penurious’: Johnson and the Alien Ecologies of the Highlands.” Philological Quarterly 100, no. 3/4 (Summer/Fall 2021): 493–513.
      Abstract: In this essay, then, I argue that Johnson’s characteristic skepticism extends to eighteenth-century efforts to treat the world, as John Locke does, as a storehouse of endlessly exploitable value open to human labor and ingenuity. In his Second Treatise, Locke describes the Golden Age of abundance by invoking an image of a wilderness waiting to be exploited: “in the beginning, all the World was America.” In contrast, Johnson turns the “barrenness” of the Highlands into a metonymic extension of world that resists the interlocking ideologies of bucolic retreat, georgic improvement, and the visionary productivity that underwrite fictions of English national identity. Rather than treating “all the World” as “America,” Johnson strips the world of its stocks of exploitable resources by reimagining it in the images of “barren hills” and treeless islands. In this respect, his Journey bypasses the arguments of Scottish advocates for planting trees in the Highlands and focuses instead on a metropolitan skepticism of agricultural and arboricultural improvement.
2845. Marr, Andrew. “Johnson: The Novel [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” Daily Telegraph, August 25, 2001.
2846. Marsden, Jean I. “Affect and the Problem of Theater.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 58, no. 3 (September 2017): 297–307.
      Abstract: This article explores the relationship between theater and emotion, considering the problematic paradigm of theater as the most emotional of literary forms. It cannot exist without the actor who performs and the playgoer who responds and in this sense is a collaborative venture between the performer and the audience. These issues are embedded in the eighteenth century’s concept of sympathetic response — a spectator’s involuntary emotional reaction to what he or she sees upon the stage. Using James Boswell’s comments about the weakened emotional impact of a play performed in a half empty auditorium as a starting point, the article discusses the power of communal emotion within the theater audience. It considers the distinction between drama (the thing) and theater (the experience), and explores questions that arise from this distinction, such as: Is it possible to contemplate or assess theater (as opposed to drama) without exploring its emotional effect? How do we judge theater? What makes a good play? Does it lie in the words on the page or in the tears of the audience? These questions are essential to a reconsideration of the theater — and the drama — of the second half of the eighteenth century.
2847. Marsden, Jean I. “The Individual Reader and the Canonized Text: Shakespeare Criticism after Johnson.” Eighteenth-Century Life 17, no. 1 (February 1993): 62–80.
2848. Marshall, Anthony. “Getting to Know the Doctor: A Bookseller Sees the Light.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 5 (2001): 29–36.
2849. Martin, Andrew. “Body Hopping; a Dead Soul Migrates from Person to Person in This Inventive Novel [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return, by Martin Riker].” New York Times, November 11, 2018.
2850. Martin, Andrew. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return, by Martin Riker. New York Times Book Review 123, no. 45 (2018): 44.
2851. Martin, Claudia J. “Austen’s Assimilation of Lockean Ideals: The Appeal of Pursuing Happiness.” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 28, no. 2 (March 2008).
2852. Martin, Peter. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone, by George Morrow Kahrl, Peter S. Baker, Rachel McClellan, and James M. Osborn. Philological Quarterly 68, no. 1 (1989): 125.
2853. Martin, Peter. “Edmond Malone, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Dr. Johnson’s Monument in St. Paul’s Cathedral.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 331–51.
2854. Martin, Peter. A Life of James Boswell. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. Reviews:
      • Baruth, Philip. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Eighteenth-Century Studies 35, no. 2 (2002): 279–334.
      • Allen, Brooke. “Boswell’s Turn [Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin, and Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” Hudson Review 54, no. 3 (2001): 489–97.
      • Carpenter, Humphrey. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. The Sunday Times, August 15, 1999.
      • Derbyshire, John. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. New Criterion 19, no. 7 (2001): 61.
      • First Things. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. February 2001.
      • Fisher, Barbara. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Boston Globe, December 3, 2000.
      • Furbank, P. N. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. New Republic 224, no. 12 (2001): 44–45.
      • Gopnik, Adam. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. New Yorker, November 27, 2000.
      • The Herald (Glasgow). Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. August 11, 1999.
      • Hitchings, Henry. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. New Statesman 128, no. 4452 (1999): 55.
      • Holmes, Richard. “Triumph of an Artist [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman, and A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin].” New York Review of Books 48, no. 14 (September 20, 2001): 28–32.
      • Ingram, Allan. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. New Rambler E:2 (1998): 71–73.
      • Johnson, Paul. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Insight on the News 16, no. 48 (2000): 26.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Choice 38, no. 8 (2001): 4328. https://doi.org/10.5860/CHOICE.38-4328.
      • Marx, Paul. “The Biographer Had a Life, Too [Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin].” Houston Chronicle, March 4, 2001.
      • McIntyre, Ian. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. The Times, August 19, 1999.
      • McLynn, Frank. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. The Independent, August 14, 1999.
      • Miller, Karl. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 23, no. 2 (2000): 422.
      • Miller, Karl. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. TLS, November 12, 1999, 3–4.
      • New York Times Book Review. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. 2001.
      • Radner, John B. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 448–55.
      • Rawson, Claude. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. New York Times Book Review, January 7, 2001.
      • Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Kirkus Reviews, October 15, 2000.
      • Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Kirkus Reviews, October 15, 2000.
      • Ryan, Peter. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 23, no. 1 (2000): 268.
      • Schwartz, Richard B. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Albion 33, no. 4 (2001): 659–60. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0095139000068095.
      • Shaltiel, Eli. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Ha’Aretz, November 12, 1999.
      • Shinagel, Michael. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Harvard Review, no. 20 (2001): 161–63.
      • Stein, Jacob A. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Wilson Quarterly 24, no. 4 (2000): 130–130.
      • Wiltshire, John. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. English Language Notes 39, no. 3 (March 2002): 92–100.
2855. Martin, Peter. A Life of James Boswell. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
2856. Martin, Peter. Samuel Johnson: A Biography. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
      Abstract: Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled, rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigious memory and intellect, Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) was in his life a literary and social icon as no other age has produced. “Johnsonianissimus,” as Boswell called him, became in the hands of his first biographers the rationalist epitome and sage of Enlightenment. These clichés — though they contain elements of truth—distort the complexity of the public and private Johnson. Peter Martin portrays a Johnson wracked by recriminations, self-doubt, and depression — a man whose religious faith seems only to have deepened his fears. His essays, scholarship, biography, journalism, travel writing, sermons, fables, as well as other forms of prose and poetry in which he probed himself and the world around him, Martin shows, constituted rational triumphs against despair and depression. It is precisely the combination of enormous intelligence and frank personal weakness that makes Johnson’s writing so compelling. Benefiting from recent critical scholarship that has explored new attitudes toward Johnson, Martin’s biography gives us a human and sympathetic portrait of Dr. Johnson. Johnson’s criticism of colonial expansion, his advocacy for the abolition of slavery, his encouragement of women writers, his treatment of his female friends as equals, and his concern for the underprivileged and poor make him a very “modern” figure. The Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography, published for the tercentenary of Johnson’s birth, is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable, flawed, and sympathetic figure than has been previously known.
      A biography, written largely for a trade audience, based on wide reading in the published sources.
      Reviews:
      • Allen, Brooke. Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin. Wilson Quarterly 33, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 92–95.
      • Derbyshire, John. “The Emperor of Common Sense [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” National Review, November 17, 2008.
      • Fergusson, James. “Towering Ambitions [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography by Peter Martin].” The Sunday Times, August 17, 2008.
      • Helms, Alan. “Gargantuan: A Man of Outsize Intelligence, Energy, and Infirmities, Samuel Johnson Comes into Closer Focus in Two New Works [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” Boston Globe, November 30, 2008.
      • Hitchens, Christopher. “Samuel Johnson: Demons and Dictionaries [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” The Atlantic Monthly, March 9, 2009.
      • Hitchens, Christopher. “Samuel Johnson: Demons and Dictionaries [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” In Arguably: Essays. New York: Twelve, 2011.
      • Hughes, Kathryn. “The Definition of Brilliance [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Mail on Sunday, August 24, 2008.
      • Jackson, H. J. “By Perseverance [Review of Samuel Johnson, the ‘Ossian’ Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland, by Thomas M. Curley; Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood; and Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” TLS 5551–52 (August 21, 2009): 13–14.
      • Jackson, Lorne. “A Man of Man [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Sunday Mercury, August 10, 2008.
      • Johnston, George Sim. “A Melancholy Man of Letters [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Wall Street Journal, September 18, 2008.
      • Jones, Lewis. “Amorous to Zealous [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” Financial Times, January 10, 2009.
      • Kanter, Peter. Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin. Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 1 (March 2009): 53–57.
      • Leicester Mercury. “A New Word on City’s Most Famous Son [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” August 19, 2008.
      • Lewis, Peter. “Dr Johnson: No Sex and Much Sorrow [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Daily Mail, August 8, 2008.
      • Ley, James. “Going for the Doctor [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” The Australian, December 3, 2008.
      • Lichfield Mercury. “A New Word on City’s Most Famous Son [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” August 14, 2008.
      • O’Hagan, Andrew. “The Powers of Dr. Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” New York Review of Books 66, no. 15 (October 8, 2009): 6–8, 10.
      • Olson, Ray. Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin. Booklist 13, no. 2 (September 15, 2008): 13–14.
      • Publishers Weekly. Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin. July 21, 2008.
      • Rogers, Pat. “Cheerfulness Breaks In [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” New Criterion 27 (June 2009): 16–22.
      • Sandbrook, Dominic. “Beyond the Quips and Twitches: Dominic Sandbrook Hopes a Fine New Life Will Revive Interest in Johnson’s Works [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Daily Telegraph, August 9, 2008.
      • Sexton, David. “Boswell This Is Not: A New Biography of Samuel Johnson to Mark the Tercentenary of His Birth Adds Nothing to Our Knowledge and Suffers Badly in Comparison with Earlier Masterpieces [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Evening Standard, July 21, 2008.
      • Shilling, Jane. “Dr Johnson, a Very Fine Lost Literary Giant Indeed [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography by Peter Martin].” The Times, July 25, 2008.
      • Sims, Michael. “Dr. Johnson and His Many Maladies: Two New Biographies Testify to the Talents and Suffering of the 18th Century’s Most Celebrated Wit [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” Washington Post, December 21, 2008.
      • Srodes, James. Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin. Washington Times, January 25, 2009.
      • Sunday Business Post. Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin. September 14, 2008.
      • Sutherland, John. “Say It Again, Sam [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Guardian, August 10, 2008.
      • Tayler, Christopher. “Blame It on Boswell: A New Life of Johnson Fills in the Gaps of His First Biographer [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Guardian, August 9, 2008.
2857. Marvick, Louis Wirth. Mallarmé and the Sublime. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986.
      Abstract: In this groundbreaking study, Louis W. Marvick develops a literary criterion for the quality known as “the sublime,” considered as the expression of an attitude towards the ideal ― an attitude composed of irony and enthusiasm in varying proportions. The author examines the various theories of the sublime and traces the development of the concept from a rhetorical device to an experience of spiritual insight derived from the genius of the artist. The book covers all of the major discussions of the concept, from Longinus, Johnson, Dennis, Burke, and Kant, up to Mallarme. Kant’s structural model of the sublime moment is translated into terms suitable for literary analysis. This leads to a meticulous examination of Mallarme’s use of the word sublime in his prose writings and the ways in which Mallarme’s understanding of the term resembles and diverges from that of his predecessors. This comparative procedure affords an insight into the nature both of Mallarme’s literary achievement and of the sublime experience in general.
2858. Marx, Paul. “The Biographer Had a Life, Too [Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin].” Houston Chronicle, March 4, 2001.
2859. Masi, Silvia. “Lexicographic Material under Observation: From Johnson’s Dictionary to a Model for a Cognition-Based Dictionary of Lexical Patterns.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 19, no. 1 (2006): 237–58.
2860. Mason, Adam. “The ‘Political Knight Errant’ at Bath: Charles Lucas’s Attack on the Spa Medical Establishment in An Essay on Waters (1756).” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 36, no. 1 (March 2013): 67–83.
      Abstract: This article examines Charles Lucas’s Essay on Waters (1756) as a polemic that illuminates the Bath waters as a subject enmeshed as much in politics as in medicine. It shows how Lucas styled himself a “political knight errant” in his treatise to portray the local medical fraternity at the spa as a corrupt oligarchy intent on monopolising and stifling research into the famous mineral springs out of commercial self-interest and greed. It further considers the critical response to the treatise by Tobias Smollett and Samuel Johnson, who were both forced to address the author’s libertarian concerns.
2861. Mason, Bill. “Trailblazers in the World of Ideas: Sherlock Holmes and the Poets Laureate.” The Baker Street Journal: An Irregular Quarterly of Sherlockiana 60, no. 4 (December 2010): 29–34.
2862. Mason, Craig T. “Biographies of Samuel Johnson.” TLS, November 6, 2009, 6.
      A letter to the editor, responding to H. J. Jackson’s TLS review of Peter Martin’s biography of Johnson and identifying typographical, grammatical, and factual errors.
2863. Mason, Craig T. “Four Easy Pieces.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 28–29.
2864. Mason, Craig T. “Johnsoniana: The New Yorker, 16 November 2020.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 1 (March 2021): 47.
2865. Mason, Craig T. “Johnsoniana: The Times Literary Supplement, 31 July 2020.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 1 (March 2021): 46–47.
2866. Mason, Haydn. “Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography.” French Studies 44, no. 1 (January 1990): 68–69.
2867. Mason, Haydn. “Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot.” French Studies 44, no. 1 (January 1990): Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography.
2868. Mason, Jon-Kris. “French Language, and French Manners, in Eighteenth-Century British Literature.” PhD thesis, University of Sheffield, 2011.
      Abstract: Eighteenth-century social and political relationships between Britain and France have long enjoyed great scholarly interest, and the linguistic influence of French on English is being defined with increasing precision. Until now, however, there have been only brief stylistic considerations of the literary role played by French in eighteenth-century English prose literature. My thesis seeks to address that deficiency by investigating the literary usage and significance of French language in English literature. As the period is noted for the explosion of interest in language and its cultural ramifications; this study continuously considers the metonymical function of French usage as a signifier of broader social corollaries. This thesis attempts to forge a link between identifiable social attitudes and their incarnation in specific linguistic usage. I initially set out a context of opinion on French language and culture, and attitudes to borrowing and imitation, derived from journal, essay and treatise. Such a context demonstrates that France is unrivalled as the “other” against which British identities were forged. Rates of lexical borrowing from French reached an historical low in the eighteenth century, and the proliferation of grammars and dictionaries bespoke a desire to define, limit, and control language. Yet the language of the developing novel, I argue, was inflected with French idiom, an idiom that offered a uniquely rich and potent strain of evocation and association. Writers of the novel, from Richardson and Smollett, to Brooke, and Burney, deploy French flexibly but with precision; each author exercises great control in borrowing idiom for purposes ranging from plot development and characterisation, to satire and pathos. My research explores those constructs, and because I found that the question of literary French usage is gendered, much of my thesis is structured along lines of gender. The letters of Lord Chesterfield, Samuel Johnson, and William Shenstone, Fanny Boscawen, Hannah More, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, form counterpoints to the novel, and establish areas both of commonality and divergence between French usage in the fictional and familiar prose of men and women. In its final chapter, this study turns explicitly to the wider social concerns underlying preceding discussions, viz. the significance of French usage to English manners and morals in the novels ranging from John Cleland’s Fanny Hill to Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote. This thesis necessarily incorporates extensive but germane quotation, and embraces historical sociolinguistics, social history, stylistics, literary theory, and practical literary criticism. While this study cannot claim to be comprehensive, it seeks to open out a field of study hitherto neglected.
2869. Mason, Jon-Kris. “‘The Warrior Dwindled to a Beau’: The War on Adopting French Language and Manners in 18th-Century Britain.” In Enlightenment Liberties/Libertés Des Lumières: Actes Du Séminaire de La Société Internationale d’étude Du XVIIIe Siècle, edited by Raphaël Ehrsam, Yasmin Solomonescu, Guillaume Ansart, and Catriona Seth, 183–200. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2018.
2870. Mason, Tom. “Johnson’s Edition of Shakespeare.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 150–63. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
2871. Mason, Tom. “On (Not) Writing Literary and Critical History: Dryden’s Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern.” In Critical Pasts: Writing Criticism, Writing History, edited by Philip Smallwood, 51–74. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2004.
2872. Mason, Tom, and Adam Rounce. “‘Looking Before and After’?: Reflections on the Early Reception of Johnson’s Critical Judgments.” In Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, edited by Philip Smallwood, 134–66. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001.
2873. Masri, Heather. “Counsel for the Defense: Boswell Represents Johnson.” PhD thesis, New York University, 1998.
2874. Massey, Robert U. “Dr. Johnson and His Burden of Illness.” Connecticut Medicine 57, no. 8 (August 1993): 561.
2875. Masters, Jeremy. “Abraham Ilive and All-Alive and Merry.” Notes and Queries 64 [262], no. 3 (September 9, 2017): 483–85.
2876. Matheson, Ann. “Hugh Blair’s Sermons.” In The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion, 1707–1800, edited by Stephen W. Brown and Warren McDougall, 471–74. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
2877. Mathur, R. K. “Dr. Johnson and Modern American and British Criticism.” Indian Journal of American Studies 21, no. 2 (June 1991): 25–37.
2878. Matthews, Jack. “The Dictionary: The Poetry of Definitions.” Antioch Review 51, no. 2 (1993): 294–300.
2879. Matthews, Mimi. The Pug Who Bit Napoleon: Animal Tales of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Barnsley: Pen and Sword History, 2018.
      Abstract: From Victorian cat funerals to a Regency-era pony who took a ride in a hot air balloon, a collection of history’s quirkiest—and most poignant — animal tales. Meet Fortune, the Pug who bit Napoleon on his wedding night, and Looty, the Pekingese sleeve dog who was presented to Queen Victoria after the 1860 sacking of the Summer Palace in Peking. The four-legged friends of Lord Byron, Emily Brontë, and Prince Albert also make an appearance, as do the treasured pets of Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and Charles Dickens. Less famous, but no less fascinating, are the animals that were the subject of historical lawsuits, scandals, and public curiosity. There’s Tuppy, the purloined pet donkey; Biddy, the regimental chicken; and Barnaby and Burgho, the bloodhounds hired to hunt Jack the Ripper. Wild animals also get a mention in tales that encompass everything from field mice and foxes to alligators and sharks lurking in the Thames. Using research from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century books, letters, and newspapers, Mimi Matthews brings each animal’s unique history to vivid life. The details are sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking, but the stories are never anything less than fascinating reading for animal lovers of all ages.
2880. May, Gita. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. Comparative Literature 43 (1991): 195–96.
2881. May, James E. “Oliver Goldsmith’s Revisions to The Traveller.” In Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 79–107. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019.
2882. May, James E. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript, by David L. Vander Meulen and G. Thomas Tanselle. East-Central Intelligencer 9, no. 1–2 (1995): 37–38.
2883. Mayhew, Robert. Review of Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 25, no. 2 (May 2002): 278–79.
2884. Mayhew, Robert. “Samuel Johnson’s Intellectual Character as a Traveler: A Reassessment.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 10 (1999): 35–65.
2885. Mayhew, Robert J. Geography and Literature in Historical Context: Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century English Conceptions of Geography. Oxford: School of Geography, University of Oxford, 1997.
2886. Mayhew, Robert J. Landscape, Literature, and English Religious Culture, 1660–1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
      Abstract: Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660–1800 offers a powerful revisionist account of the intellectual significance of landscape descriptions during the ‘long’ eighteenth century. Landscape has long been a major arena for debate about the nature of Eighteenth-century English culture; this book surveys those debates and offers a provocative new account. Mayhew shows that describing landscape was a religiously contested practice, and that different theological positions led differing authors to different descriptive approaches. Landscape description, then, shows English intellectual life still in the grips of a Christian and classical mentality in the ‘long’ eighteenth century.
      https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504196. Reviews:
      • Butlin, Robin. Review of Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660–1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description, by Robert J. Mayhew. Progress in Human Geography 31, no. 3 (June 2007): 421–22.
      • Hudson, Nicholas. Review of Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660–1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description, by Robert J. Mayhew. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 2 (September 2005): 55–58.
2887. Mayhew, Robert J. “Nature and the Choice of Life in Rasselas.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 39, no. 3 (June 1999): 539–56. https://doi.org/10.2307/1556219.
2888. Mayhew, Robert J. “Samuel Johnson on Landscape, Natural Knowledge and Geography: A Contextual Approach.” PhD thesis, University of Oxford, 1996.
2889. Mayne, Catherine Ann. “Dr. Samuel Johnson: Between Hope and Insanity.” MA thesis, California State University, 1996.
2890. Mayo, Christopher. “‘A Lord among Wits’: Lord Chesterfield and His Reception of Johnson’s Celebrated Letter.” Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 2 (September 2005): 38–42.
2891. Mayo, James Oliver. “Images of Corsica in France: Travel Memoirs and 19th Century Writers.” PhD Thesis, Brigham Young University, 2009.
      Abstract: Considered an integral part of Metropolitan France, the island of Corsica is situated nonetheless on the very periphery of the modern state that claims it. Actually situated geographically closer to Italy than to any part of France, its culture and its people are likewise more closely related to their Italians neighbors than to the rest of what Corsicans term “Continental France.” Following the acquisition of Corsica, both government officials and bourgeois travelers would seek to visit the island, often recording their findings and publishing these memoirs for others to know of their travels. This concept of travel memoirs, specifically those regarding Corsica, had already been a fairly common practice among the British, as they had often placed interest in the island itself. From this group of French and British travel memoirs would come the writings of James Boswell, P. P. Pompéi, and the Baron de Beaumont, among others. Corsica becomes a place of unique setting for novels and short stories throughout the century, with tales of banditry, vendetta, and violence from the island. For those authors seeking to place their stories in Corsica, inspiration was drawn from the very travel memoirs they had read regarding the island, although often they chose to ignore them in favor of stereotypes. I have chosen three specific 19th century authors in relation to the images created by the travel memoirs of Corsica: Prosper Mérimée, Honoré de Balzac, and Guy de Maupassant. The purpose behind each author’s use of the images of Corsica was very different and shows different ways that these images were used. Mérimée directly used Corsica to question the triumph of the civilized over the uncivilized, Balzac used Corsica to represent France itself, and Maupassant used Corsica to show that “reality” is really nothing more than a personal illusion. Though when publishing their travel memoirs the authors might not have expected much to come of them, they have actually influence an entire century of writers, and possibly an entire nation, with their images of Corsica.
2892. Mazella, David. “‘Be Wary, Sir, When You Imitate Him’: The Perils of Didactism in Tristram Shandy.” Studies in the Novel 31, no. 2 (June 1999): 152–77.
2893. McAllister, Marie E. “Gender, Myth, and Recompense: Hester Thrale’s Journal of a Tour to Wales.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1993): 265–82.
2894. McAllister, Marie E. Review of Johnson and Gender: Special Issue of South Central Review, by Charles H. Hinnant. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1994): 394–404.
2895. McAlpin, Mary. Gender, Authenticity, and the Missive Letter in Eighteenth-Century France: Marie-Anne de La Tour, Rousseau’s Real-Life Julie. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006.
2896. McCaffery, Stephen. “Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics.” PhD thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1998.
      Includes a section on the theories of language implicit in the Dictionary.
2897. McCarthy, William. Hester Thrale Piozzi, Portrait of a Literary Woman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
      Abstract: Much has been written about Thrale, friend and hostess of Samuel Johnson, but this is the first study to focus on Piozzi as the writer. In his narrative of her life, McCarthy draws on a large body of published and unpublished sources to map Piozzi’s literary development, define her literary identity, and evaluate her achievement. In addition to reexamining her best-known works, he present the first serious treatment of her poetry, political works, and historical writings.
2898. McConchie, R. W. “Johnson’s Mr Maitland.” Notes and Queries 63 [261], no. 4 (2016): 603–5.
2899. McCord, Phyllis Frus. “‘A Specter Viewed by a Specter’: Autobiography in Biography.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 9, no. 3 (Summer 1986): 219–28. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2010.0553.
      Abstract: Mark Harris makes explicit the hidden relationship between biographer and subject in Saul Bellow: Drumlin Woodchuck by calling attention to the process of researching and writing a biography. Boswell and Johnson are in the background as Harris draws on conventions usually associated with autobiography (its dramatized narrator and self-accounting form) to suggest the possibilities for evoking a ‘life’ in the 20th century.
2900. McCoshan, Duncan. “Publication Day for Johnson’s Dictionary.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1997, 48.
2901. McCoshan, Duncan. “Publication Day for Johnson’s Dictionary.” New Statesman, August 1, 1997.
2902. McCracken, David. “The Drudgery of Defining: Johnson’s Debt to Bailey’s Dictionarium Britannicum.” In Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers, Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century, edited by Anne C. McDermott, 73–76. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.
2903. McCue, Jim. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. The Times, June 21, 1996.
2904. McDermott, A. C. “The Logic and the Epistemological Sanctions of Dr. Johnson’s Arguments.” PhD thesis, University of Manchester, 1988.
2905. McDermott, Anne. “A Corpus of Source Texts for Johnson’s Dictionary.” In Corpora Across the Centuries: Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on English Diachronic Corpora, edited by Merja Kytö, Matti Rissanen, and Susan Wright, 151–54. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1994.
2906. McDermott, Anne. Review of A Preliminary Handlist of Books to Which Dr. Samuel Johnson Subscribed, by D. D. Eddy and J. D. Fleeman. Review of English Studies 46, no. 181 (February 1995): 137.
2907. McDermott, Anne. “Creating an Electronic Edition of Johnson’s Dictionary: Developments of Solutions to Some Problems.” In Standards Und Methoden Der Volltextdigitalisierung, edited by Thomas Burch, Johannes Fournier, Kurt Grtner, and Andrea Rapp, 153–60. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, 2003.
2908. McDermott, Anne. Review of Johnson and His Age, by James Engell. Critical Quarterly 27, no. 4 (1985): 86–88.
2909. McDermott, Anne. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. Review of English Studies 52, no. 206 (May 2001): 262–64.
2910. McDermott, Anne. “Johnson the Prescriptivist? The Case for the Defense.” In Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott, 113–28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
2911. McDermott, Anne. “Johnson’s Definitions of Technical Terms and the Absence of Illustrations.” International Journal of Lexicography 18, no. 2 (June 2005): 173–87. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/eci019.
2912. McDermott, Anne. “Johnson’s Dictionary and the Canon: Authors and Authority.” Yearbook of English Studies 28 (1998): 44–65. https://doi.org/10.2307/3508755.
2913. McDermott, Anne. “Johnson’s Editing of Shakespeare in the Dictionary.” In Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson, edited by Eric Rasmussen and Aaron Santesso, 115–38. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
      “Lexicography and textual criticism were . . . reciprocal activities and both were part of a larger project to purify the English language, to set it on a par with the languages of France and Italy as exhibited in their great national lexicons, and by a parallel to present Shakespeare as a great national writer.”
2914. McDermott, Anne. “Johnson’s Use of Shakespeare in the Dictionary.” New Rambler D:5, no. 5 (1989): 7–16.
2915. McDermott, Anne. “Preparing the Dictionary for CD-ROM.” New Rambler D:12, no. 12 (1996): 17–25.
2916. McDermott, Anne. “Samuel Johnson, Dictionary.” In A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, 353–59. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
2917. McDermott, Anne. Review of Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 17, no. 2 (Autumn 1994): 219–20.
2918. McDermott, Anne. “Samuel Johnson, Rasselas.” In A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, 360–65. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
2919. McDermott, Anne. Review of Samuel Johnson’s “General Nature”: Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse, by Scott D. Evans. Review of English Studies 209 (February 2002): 145–47.
2920. McDermott, Anne. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript, by David L. Vander Meulen and G. Thomas Tanselle. Review of English Studies 46 (May 1995): 312.
2921. McDermott, Anne. “Textual Transformations: The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus in Johnson’s Dictionary.” Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 48 (1995): 133–48.
2922. McDermott, Anne. “The Compilation Methods of Johnson’s Dictionary.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 16 (2005): 1–20.
2923. McDermott, Anne. “The Compilation Methods of Johnson’s Dictionary.” In Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers, Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century, edited by Anne C. McDermott, 105–24. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.
2924. McDermott, Anne. “The Defining Language: Johnson’s Dictionary and Macbeth.” Review of English Studies 44, no. 176 (November 1993): 521–38. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/XLIV.176.521.
2925. McDermott, Anne. “The Intertextual Web of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Concept of Authorship.” In Early Dictionary Databases, edited by Ian Lancashire and T. Russon Wooldridge, 165–72. CCH Working Papers 4. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1994.
2926. McDermott, Anne. “The Intertextual Web of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Concept of Authorship.” Edited by Bernard Quemada. Publications de l’Institut National de La Langue Française: Dictionairique et Lexicographie 3 (1995): 165–72.
2927. McDermott, Anne. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Review of English Studies 45 (August 1994): 426–29.
2928. McDermott, Anne. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 17, no. 1 (1994): 74–79.
2929. McDermott, Anne. “The Making of Johnson’s Dictionary on CD-ROM.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1995, 29–37.
2930. McDermott, Anne. Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. Review of English Studies 52, no. 208 (November 2001): 590–92.
2931. McDermott, Anne. “The Reynolds Copy of Johnson’s Dictionary: A Re-Examination.” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 74, no. 1 (March 1992): 29–38.
2932. McDermott, Anne. Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. New Rambler E:1 (1997): 71–73.
2933. McDermott, Anne. “The ‘Wonderful Wonder of Wonders’: Gray’s Odes and Johnson’s Criticism.” In Thomas Gray: Contemporary Essays, edited by W. B. Hutchings, 188–204. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1993.
2934. McDermott, Anne. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 17, no. 2 (1994): 219–20.
2935. McDermott, Anne C. Review of Johnson on Language: An Introduction, by A. D. Horgan. Review of English Studies 47 (1997): 593–994.
2936. McDermott, Anne, and Rosamund Moon. “Johnson in Context.” International Journal of Lexicography 18, no. 2 (June 2005): 153–266. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/eci017.
2937. McDermott, Anne, and Marcus Walsh. “Editing Johnson’s Dictionary: Some Editorial and Textual Considerations.” In The Theory and Practices of Text-Editing: Essays in Honour of James T. Boulton, edited by Ian Small and Marcus Walsh, 35–61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
2938. McDowell, Nicholas. “Levelling Language: The Politics of Literacy in the English Radical Tradition, 1640–1830.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 46, no. 2 (2004): 39–62.
2939. McDowell, Paula. “Conjecturing Oral Societies: Global to Gaelic.” In The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 251–84. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226457017.003.0009.
      Abstract: Travel writings constituted a major branch of the book trade, and the dissemination of information about sophisticated global populations seemingly without writing generated interest in what we might now call oral societies. Texts by diplomats, missionaries, and others addressed oral tradition in societies from China to Peru. These texts influenced debates concerning Homeric illiteracy, and they generated new interest in the possibility of oral traditions within Britain. Meanwhile the Ossian debate inspired readers to imagine how tradition worked. The second half of this chapter reads Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland as a critique of conjectural history and a political argument pertaining to orality and literacy. Conjectural historians attempted to make sense of the diversity of human societies by placing these societies along a single evolutionary chain, but in so doing they arguably separated them further from one another. Departing from earlier interpretations, this chapter argues that the Journey exposes the implications of the elite idealization of oral tradition at a time when many Britons (including most Highlanders) could not read. Johnson’s distrust of his contemporaries’ valorization of oral tradition was tied to his sense that in the world of print, poverty and illiteracy would go together.
2940. McDowell, Paula. “Of Grubs and Other Insects: Constructing the Categories of ‘Ephemera’ and ‘Literature’ in Eighteenth-Century British Writing.” In Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print, edited by Kevin D. Murphy and Sally O’Driscoll, 31–53. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2013.
2941. McDowell, Paula. “Travel.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 375–84. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
2942. McEllhenney, John G. “John Wesley and Samuel Johnson: A Tale of Three Coincidences.” Methodist History 21, no. 3 (1983): 143–55.
2943. McEllhenney, John G. “Two Critiques of Wealth: John Wesley and Samuel Johnson Assess the Machinations of Mammon.” Methodist History 32, no. 3 (April 1994): 147.
2944. McEnroe, Natasha. “17 Gough Square.” New Rambler E:2 (1998): 32–37.
2945. McEnroe, Natasha. “Defining the English Language.” Language Magazine 2, no. 9 (May 2003): 24–25.
2946. McEnroe, Natasha. “Protection from the Tyranny of Treatment.” History Today 10 (October 2003): 5–6.
2947. McEnroe, Natasha. “Samuel Johnson and John Wesley.” New Rambler E:6 (2002): 34–39.
2948. McEnroe, Natasha, and Robin Simon, eds. The Tyranny of Treatment: Samuel Johnson, His Friends and Georgian Medicine. London: British Art Journal in association with Dr Johnson’s House Trust, 2003.
      Essays to accompany an exhibition at Dr. Johnson’s House.
2949. McEwan, Joanne, and Pamela Sharpe. “‘It Buys Me Freedom’: Genteel Lodging in Late-Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century London.” Parergon 24, no. 2 (2007): 139–61. https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2008.0009.
      Abstract: Lodging, or else taking in lodgers, was a common way of life for many seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Londoners, both rich and poor. While demographic historians have been attempting to gauge the extent of lodging in the metropolis for some time, the circumstance and experience of both lodgers and those who took them in has been subject to little detailed examination. Evidence drawn from sources such as diaries, newspaper advertisements, and court cases can give some specificity to our understanding of lodging arrangements. Concentrating on the middling orders and above, such sources highlight the importance of reputation and social credit for both those seeking lodgings and those offering rooms. It is apparent that for those who were not forced into lodging negotiations by financial necessity, other considerations linked with choice, such as networking and sociability, influenced decisions about when, where, and indeed whether to lodge.
2950. McFarlane, Duncan. “On the Doctor and the Clockmaker: The Satire of the Classical Epigraph through Samuel Johnson and T. C. Haliburton.” Translation and Literature 21, no. 1 (March 2012): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2012.0044.
      Abstract: The Clockmaker is the major opus of T. C. Haliburton’s satirical career. An analysis of the classical epigraphs it contains reveals his satire to be directly influenced and framed by Samuel Johnson’s, and hence indirectly by that of Juvenal and Horace. This is not a case of simple borrowing: Haliburton is advancing a critique of the conflict between the Horatian and Juvenalian species of satire in Johnson, and of the satiric use and abuse of the classical epigraph.
2951. McGlynn, P. D. Review of Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, by Prem Nath. Choice 25 (1988): 1554.
2952. McGlynn, P. D. Review of In Mind of Johnson: A Study of Johnson the Rambler, by Philip Davis. Choice 27, no. 2 (October 1989): 798.
2953. McGlynn, P. D. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Choice 29, no. 6 (February 1992): 3178.
2954. McGlynn, P. D. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. Choice 26, no. 5 (January 1989): 2589.
2955. McGlynn, P. D. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Attitude to the Arts, by Morris R. Brownell. Choice 27, no. 4 (December 1989): 1967.
2956. McGlynn, P. D. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Choice 27, no. 1 (September 1989): 612.
2957. McGowan, Ian. “Boswell at Work: The Revision and Publication of The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.” In Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro S.J. and James G. Basker, 127–43. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198182887.003.0008.
2958. McGrath, Charles. “A Man of Many Words: How Dr. Johnson and His Dictionary Helped Discipline an Unruly Language [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” New York Times Book Review, December 4, 2005.
2959. McGrath, Charles. “The First Real Biographer [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman].” New York Times Book Review, August 19, 2001.
2960. McGrath, Thomas Daniel. “From Tragedy to Hope: A Study of the Parallels in the Thought of Samuel Johnson and T. S. Eliot.” MA thesis, Eastern Illinois University, 1994.
2961. McGuffie, Helen-Louise. “The Harmful Drudge.” New Rambler D:2, no. 2 (1986): 17–19.
      On Johnson’s reputation.
2962. McGuill, R. J. “Prime Time for Dr. Johnson.” Advertising Age 55 (October 1, 1984): 20.
2963. McHenry, Lawrence C., Jr. “Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Head-Tilt — A Hitherto Unrecognized Example of IVth Cranial Nerve Palsy.” Neurology 33, no. 4 suppl. 2 (1983): 230.
2964. McInerney, Tim. “Travel Writing and Ideas of Race in Highland Scotland: James Macpherson’s Ossian Poems (1760–65) and Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775).” Études Anglaises 70, no. 2 (June 4, 2017): 222–37.
2965. McInnis, Raymond G. “Discursive Communities/Interpretive Communities: The New Logic, John Locke and Dictionary-Making, 1660–1760.” Social Epistemology 10, no. 1 (January 1987): 107–22.
2966. McIntosh, Carey. “Elementary Rhetorical Ideas and Eighteenth-Century English.” Language Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Forum 22, no. 3 (July 2000): 231–49.
2967. McIntosh, Carey. “Rhetoric and Runts: Boswell’s Artistry.” In Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, edited by Irma S. Lustig, 137–57. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
2968. McIntosh, Carey. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 421–33.
2969. McIntyre, Ian. Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr Johnson’s “Dear Mistress.” London: Constable & Robinson, 2008.
      Abstract: Hester Salusbury was a child prodigy. Later, as Hester Thrale, her wit, learning and vivacity would attract the greats of the day, Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney, Boswell, David Garrick, and, Edmund Burke to the household at Streatham Park. She published to great popularity and acclaim on Johnson, irritating the hell out of Boswell, and remains one of our most perceptive sources. One of our first female historians, a feminist without knowing it, she also broke new ground in politics and business. When her husband died, rumours flew that she'd wed Johnson. Instead, she ran off with an Italian music teacher. The scandal consumed London society — and her relationship with her daughters. But Hester was passionately in love (it was a love that nearly killed her). This is a brightly lit portrait of an exceptional woman whose life, loves and letters make a vivid and important contribution to our understanding of Georgian England.
      Reviews:
      • Dille, Catherine. Review of Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Johnson’s “Dear Mistress,” by Ian McIntyre. New Rambler E:10 (2006): 79–81.
      • Hitchings, Henry. Review of Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Johnson’s “Dear Mistress,” by Ian McIntyre. The Telegraph, November 17, 2008.
      • Wilson, Frances. Review of Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Johnson’s “Dear Mistress,” by Ian McIntyre. The Sunday Times, November 2, 2008.
2970. McIntyre, Ian. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. The Times, August 19, 1999.
2971. McKendry, Andrew. “The Haphazard Journey of a Mind: Experience and Reflection in Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 20 (2010): 11–34.
2972. McKenzie, Alan. “Johnson’s ‘Life of Foucault’: A Pastirody.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 10 (2004): 189–204.
2973. McKenzie, Alan T. “Making the Wisdom Figure [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking; Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo; Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt; Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart; and The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay].” Eighteenth-Century Studies 34, no. 3 (Spring 2001): 466–70.
2974. McKenzie, Alan T. “The Systematic Scrutiny of Passion in Johnson’s Rambler.” Certain, Lively Episodes: The Articulation of Passion in Eighteenth-Century Prose 20 (1986): 171–93.
2975. McKeon, Michael. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 45, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 707–71.
2976. McKitterick, David. “Thomas Osborne, Samuel Johnson and the Learned of Foreign Nations: A Forgotten Catalogue.” Book Collector 41, no. 1 (March 1992): 55–68.
2977. McLachlan, Cameron Martin John. “The Little Spark and the General Blaze: Speech, Narrative and Fact in James Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” PhD thesis, Australian National University, 2017.
      Abstract: The thesis performs an explorative reading of James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) in order to interrogate assumptions about the function, use and epistemological limits of direct speech in Boswell’s work, and the Eighteenth Century more generally. Rather than ignoring the problems posed by the competing and contradictory epistemological and ontological claims of the presentation of speech in text, the thesis reads Boswell as engaging with these problems at different scales. Each narrative scale carries with it different assumptions about facts and events, and different conventions with which to represent speech as a combination of both. The thesis aligns the problems of narration at different scales with different forms of narrative intervention and manipulation of the putatively raw materials of Johnson’s speech their transition into the text published in the Life. It does this by drawing on archival research investigating the many states of Johnson’s speech in Boswell’s records, drafts and the final version of the Life. Chapter One investigates Boswell’s attitude to the project as a whole, seeing in his ideal of Journal-keeping and personal affinity a vision of biography that draws on the non-narrative conventions of different genres. Chapter Two traces Boswell’s engagements with connected events and sustained scenes before investigating his own role as a nodal point constructing extended analogue conversations between Johnson and other figures over many years. In these chapters the print technologies of quotation marks and dashes are read as the mechanism that allows narrative connections at these different scales. Chapter Three investigates the workings of dialogue through Boswell’s use of parenthetical stage directions, reading them as a method of massaging his Journals into narratives. Chapter Four turns to Boswell’s writerly interventions on the surface of words, seeing in italicisation a blunt tool for marking conceptual and textual as well as aural differences in speech, and considers the stress this places on interpretation. Chapter Five considers Boswell’s interpretive interventions within the orthography of words themselves, investigating his attention to the potential of type to convey aberrant or historically particular sounds through the representation of laughter, accents and onomatopoeia. Each level of analysis reveals both the contingency of the whole enterprise and the inescapably preemptive interpretive choices made by Boswell in the course of his composition. Boswell emerges as a writer engaging constantly with the demands and contradictions of what remains an under-theorised yet crucial aspect of non-fiction narrative in a context of changing ideas about truth and narrative.
2978. McLaverty, James. Review of Designing the “Life of Johnson”: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2, by Bruce Redford. New Rambler E:5 (2001): 67–69.
2979. McLaverty, James. “Dr Fleeman’s Bibliography of Samuel Johnson.” New Rambler E:1 (1997): 3–12.
2980. McLaverty, James. “Fixity and Instability in the Text of Johnson’s Poems.” In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, 154–67. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0013.
2981. McLaverty, James. “From Definition to Explanation: Locke’s Influence on Johnson’s Dictionary.” Journal of the History of Ideas 47, no. 3 (July 1986): 377–94. https://doi.org/10.2307/2709659.
2982. McLaverty, James. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Notes and Queries 35 [233], no. 2 (1988): 239–41.
2983. McLaverty, James. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Essays in Criticism 40, no. 2 (April 1990): 164–70.
2984. McLaverty, James. “Reading David Fleeman’s Bibliography of Samuel Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 13 (2002): 373–435.
2985. McLaverty, James. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the “Dictionary of the English Language”: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick. New Rambler E:8 (2004): 13–21.
2986. McLaverty, James. Review of The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson: Text, Translation, and Commentary, by Barry Baldwin. Notes and Queries 43 [241], no. 2 (June 1996): 222–24.
2987. McLaverty, James. “The Rewards of Age [Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale].” Cambridge Quarterly 35, no. 4 (2006): 383–87.
2988. McLean, Mark. “‘Two Syllables Only’: Hailes, Mallet and Scottish Literary Anxiety in the Age of Enlightenment.” Scottish Literary Review 6, no. 2 (September 2014): 115–28.
2989. Mclelland, Nicola. “Adelung’s English-German Dictionary (1783, 1796): Its Achievements and Its Relationship to the Dictionaries of Samuel Johnson and Johannes Ebers.” Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences/Revue Internationale Pour l’Histoire Des Sciences Du Langage/Internationale Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften 50, no. 1 (2023): 62–93.
2990. McLoughlin, Timothy. “Boswell and Corsica: The Art of Puffing.” Bulletin de La Societé d’études Anglo-Americaines Des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles 55 (November 2002): 157–69. https://doi.org/10.3406/xvii.2002.1805.
2991. McLynn, Frank. “How the Real Boswell Stands Up [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” The Herald (Glasgow), November 4, 2000.
2992. McLynn, Frank. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. The Independent, August 14, 1999.
2993. McManis, Sam. “Attitude: What Samuel Johnson Had in Abundance.” News Tribune (Tacoma), May 8, 2005.
      A brief introduction to the Dictionary.
2994. McMullin, B. J. “J. D. Fleeman, A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, 50.3R/21, 26, 27 (The Rambler, Hodges’s Edition).” Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 30, no. 1 (2006): 42–44.
2995. McMurtry, Larry, and Lawrence Ladin. “What Would Dr. Johnson Think?” New York Review of Books 46, no. 11 (June 24, 1999): 81–82.
      Letter on Larry McMurtry’s “Chopping Down the Sacred Tree,” speculating on Johnson’s attitudes toward Native Americans. There is a reply by McMurtry.
2996. McNeil, Kenneth. “Native Tongue: Ossian, National Origins, and the Problem of Translation.” In Scotland, Britain, Empire: Writing the Highlands, 1760–1860, 25. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cbn46f.5.
2997. McNeil, Robert. “Boswell Johnson: Two Pals, One Scottish, One English, Separated by a Common Language.” The Herald (Glasgow), December 12, 2021.
2998. McNutt, Jennifer Powell. “Reformed Preaching in the Age of Enlightenment: A Comparison of Jonathan Erskine’s ‘Enlightened Evangelicalism’ with Geneva’s ‘Reasonable Calvinism.’” Intellectual History Review 26, no. 3 (2016): 371–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2015.1112136.
2999. McPherson, Heather. “Representing Johnson in Life and After.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 218–38. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
3000. McVeigh, Jane. “Concerns about Facts and Form in Literary Biography.” In A Companion to Literary Biography, edited by Richard Bradford, 143–58. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118896433.ch8.
      Abstract: Some literary biographies can be ‘literary’ without conforming to the standard conception of the genre. The way in which a biography has been written and its rhetorical features may be as significant as the details of the life or lives being told. In these instances, biography becomes a form of remembrance that portrays characteristics of both the fidelity and the adherence to the facts that were important to Samuel Johnson, as well as evocative storytelling. Twentieth-century questions about authenticity in non-fiction biography raised concerns about biography’s use of facts, what we can really know about creativity, and the move toward fiction by some writers. Some critics sought to apply theoretical approaches to encapsulate biography. In the twenty-first century, biography has embraced change, making a case for literary biography in a range of different forms in which the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction are fluid and group biographies as an antidote to single life portrayals flourish, reinforcing the social nature of the genre. The nature of fidelity in biography has become central to contemporary fiction and non-fiction forms as literary biography explores the dialogic and discursive nature of life and writing and can be understood as a type of parable.
3001. McWard, James Andrew. “Factual Ambiguity: Boswell and the Development of the Individual Life,” Chapter 4 of “Writing and Reading the Individual: The Development of Personal Narrative in the Works of Defoe, Richardson, and Boswell.” PhD thesis, University of Kansas, 2000.
3002. Mead, Harry. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. Northern Echo, March 1, 2005.
3003. Meckier, Jerome. “Dickens, Great Expectations, and the Dartmouth College Notes.” Papers on Language and Literature 28, no. 2 (March 1992): 111–32.
3004. Meeker, Robert Gardner. “A Descriptive Analysis of the Kinds of Essays in Johnson’s ‘Rambler.’” PhD thesis, Lehigh University, 1990.
3005. Meier, Thomas K. “Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: The Interplay of Prejudice and Patriotism.” In Time, Literature and the Arts: Essays in Honor of Samuel L. Macey, edited by Thomas R. Cleary, 100–113. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria Department of English, 1994.
3006. Mellers, Wilfrid. “Samuel Johnson.” TLS, August 30, 1991, 13.
3007. Mel’vil’, Iu K., and S. A. Sushko. “Argument Doktora Dzhonsona: Semiuel Dzhonson kak Kritik Berkli.” Voprosy filosofii, no. 3 (1981): 133–44.
      On Johnson’s critique of Berkeley. In Russian.
3008. Menely, Tobias. “Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759).” In Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Katrin Berndt and Alessa Johns, 279–93. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas (1759) is a story about self-deception and consolatory fictions, the human tendency to wish-away difficult realities. Though Rasselas adopts the form of a timeless moral fable, it can be read as a proto-novel in its staging of the transition from a closed feudal society to a dynamic cosmopolitan world, in its attention to historical and cultural variation, and in its skeptical refusal of inherited wisdom or generalizable precept. Though Johnson has a reputation as a conservative defender of the status quo, recent criticism has shown that Rasselas gives expression to Johnson’s critical perspective on European empire, his sympathy with North African culture, and his progressive attitude toward gender.
3009. Menninger, Roy W. “Johnsoniana: The Capital Journal, Topeka, Kansas, 25 April 2018.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 2 (September 2018): 56.
3010. Menninger, Roy W. “Masters of Memory.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 27.
3011. Menninger, Roy W. MD. “Johnson’s Psychic Turmoil and the Women in His Life.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 179–200.
3012. Merchant, Peter. “Spirited Away: Highland Touring, ‘Toctor Shonson’ and the Hauntings of Celticism.” In Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity, edited by Marion Gibson, Shelley Trower, and Garry Tregidga, 142–52. London: Routledge, 2013.
3013. Merians, Linda. Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, by Pat Rogers. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 8 (1994): 23–24.
3014. Merrell, James H. “Johnson and Boswell on National Public Radio.” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 2 (September 2004): 19–20.
      Two pieces from “Writer’s Almanack,” read by Garrison Keillor, on the anniversary of Boswell’s meeting with Johnson and the anniversary of the Dictionary’s publication.
3015. Merrell, James H. “Johnsoniana: David Owen, The New Yorker, 12 January 2023.” Johnsonian News Letter 75, no. 1 (March 2024): 53–54.
3016. Meulen, David Vander. “An Essay Towards Perfection [Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman].” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 13 (2002): 389–435.
3017. Meyer, Bernard C. “Notes on Flying and Dying.” Psychoanalytic Quarterly 52, no. 3 (July 1983): 327–52.
3018. Meyer, Bernard C., and D. Rose. “Remarks on the Etiology of Gilles de La Tourette’s Syndrome.” Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases 174, no. 7 (July 1986): 387–96.
3019. Meyer, Laure. “Reynolds: la fusion de l’histoire et de la realité.” L’Oeil (Lausanne), October 1985.
3020. Meyers, Jeffrey. “Edmund Burke and Samuel Johnson: A Volatile Friendship.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 2 (September 2018): 29–32.
3021. Meyers, Jeffrey. “Johnson and Thucydides.” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 2 (September 2009): 42–44.
      A note on Johnson’s knowledge of the Greek historian, especially as it appears in his Debates in Parliament.
3022. Meyers, Jeffrey. “Johnson, Boswell & the Biographer’s Quest.” New Criterion 21, no. 3 (November 2002): 35–40.
3023. Meyers, Jeffrey. “Johnson, Boswell and Modern Biography.” New Rambler E:5 (2001): 50–59.
3024. Meyers, Jeffrey. Review of Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings, by O M Brack Jr. and Robert DeMaria Jr. Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 2 (September 2020): 54–57.
3025. Meyers, Jeffrey. “Reconsiderations: Shade’s Shadow.” New Criterion 24, no. 9 (May 2006): 31–35.
      On Johnson’s influence on Nabokov’s Pale Fire.
3026. Meyers, Jeffrey. “Samuel Demands the Muse: Johnson’s Stamp on Imaginative Literature.” Antioch Review 65, no. 1 (December 2007): 39–49.
3027. Meyers, Jeffrey. “Samuel Johnson and George Orwell: Guilty Moralists.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 2 (September 2021): 19–26.
3028. Meyers, Jeffrey. “Samuel Johnson and Lord Byron.” Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 2 (September 2020): 16–20.
3029. Meyers, Jeffrey. “Samuel Johnson and Patrick O’Brian.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 42, no. 4 (September 2012): 8–10.
3030. Meyers, Jeffrey. “Samuel Johnson and the Poetry of David Ferry.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 1 (March 2021): 23–27.
3031. Meyers, Jeffrey. “Samuel Johnson and Walt Whitman.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 26, no. 4 (March 2009): 213–15. https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1876.
3032. Meyers, Jeffrey. Samuel Johnson: The Struggle. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
      Abstract: Hester Salusbury was a child prodigy. Later, as Hester Thrale, her wit, learning and vivacity would attract the greats of the day, Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney, Boswell, David Garrick, and, Edmund Burke to the household at Streatham Park. She published to great popularity and acclaim on Johnson, irritating the hell out of Boswell, and remains one of our most perceptive sources. One of our first female historians, a feminist without knowing it, she also broke new ground in politics and business. When her husband died, rumours flew that she’d wed Johnson. Instead, she ran off with an Italian music teacher. The scandal consumed London society — and her relationship with her daughters. But Hester was passionately in love (it was a love that nearly killed her). This is a brightly lit portrait of an exceptional woman whose life, loves and letters make a vivid and important contribution to our understanding of Georgian England. Ford Madox Ford declared Samuel Johnson “the most tragic of all our major literary figures.” Blessed with a formidable intellect and a burning passion for ideas, Johnson also struggled throughout his life with mental instability and numerous physical defects. One of the most illustrious figures of the English literary tradition, Johnson made his fame as poet, essayist, critic, dictionary-maker, conversationalist, and all-around larger-than-life personality. His success was all the greater for the adversity he had to overcome in achieving it. Drawing on a lifetime of study of Johnson and his era, as well as a wide array of new archival materials, noted biographer Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of one of the great geniuses of English letters. Johnson emerges in his portrait as a mass of contradictions: lazy and energetic, aggressive and tender, melancholy and witty, comforted yet tormented by religion. He was physically repulsive and slovenly in dress and habits, but his social ideas were progressive and humane — he strongly opposed slavery and the imperial exploitation of indigenous peoples. He gave generously to the poor and homeless, rescued prostitutes, and defended criminals who’d been condemned to hang. But these charitable acts could not dispel the darkness that clouded his world: overwhelming guilt and fear of eternal damnation.
      A substantial biography, focusing on Johnson’s struggles with adversity, including illnesses, psychological torment, and poverty.
      Reviews:
      • Allen, Brooke. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers. Wilson Quarterly 33, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 92–95.
      • Cart, Michael. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers. Booklist 14, no. 1 (November 15, 2008): 14.
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers. Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 1 (March 2009): 57–61.
      • Derbyshire, John. “The Emperor of Common Sense [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” National Review, November 17, 2008.
      • Folkenflik, Robert. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 20 (2010): 319–31.
      • Helms, Alan. “Gargantuan: A Man of Outsize Intelligence, Energy, and Infirmities, Samuel Johnson Comes into Closer Focus in Two New Works [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” Boston Globe, November 30, 2008.
      • Jones, Lewis. “Amorous to Zealous [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” Financial Times, January 10, 2009.
      • Kingsbury, Pam. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers. Library Journal, November 15, 2008, 72.
      • Losos, Joseph. “Biography of Samuel Johnson Revisits Familiar Subject [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 4, 2009.
      • Price, Leah. “Lives of Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” New York Times, February 1, 2009.
      • Publishers Weekly. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers. September 22, 2008.
      • Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers. Kirkus Reviews, October 2008.
      • Rogers, Pat. “Cheerfulness Breaks In [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” New Criterion 27 (June 2009): 16–22.
      • Rutten, Tim. “A Towering Man and a Grand Tome [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” Los Angeles Times, December 20, 2008.
      • Sims, Michael. “Dr. Johnson and His Many Maladies: Two New Biographies Testify to the Talents and Suffering of the 18th Century’s Most Celebrated Wit [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” Washington Post, December 21, 2008.
      • Srodes, James. “The Gargantuan and Terrifying Lexicographer [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World by Henry Hitchings, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” Washington Times, January 25, 2006.
3033. Meyers, Jeffrey. “Sometimes Counsel Take and Sometimes Tea: Samuel Johnson at Home.” In AfterWord: Conjuring the Literary Dead, edited by Dale Salwak and Laura Nagy, 25–36. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011.
3034. Meyers, Jeffrey. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Times Higher Education, no. 2404 (April 18, 2019).
3035. Mezciems, Jenny. Review of The Oxford Authors: Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. Review of English Studies 39, no. 154 (1988): 297–99.
3036. Michael, Timothy. “The Coleridge–Johnson Agon.” Coleridge Bulletin: The Journal of the Friends of Coleridge 36 (December 2010): 18–23.
3037. Michael, Timothy. “Wordsworth’s Boswellian Life-Writing.” Wordsworth Circle 44, no. 1 (December 2013): 37–40.
3038. Middendorf, John H. Review of A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1970–1985, by Donald J. Greene and John A. Vance. Johnsonian News Letter 47, no. 3–4 (September 1988): 1.
3039. Middendorf, John H. Review of A Course of Lectures on the English Law: Delivered at the University of Oxford 1767–1773, by Thomas M. Curley. Johnsonian News Letter 46, no. 2–47, 2 (June 1986): 1–2.
3040. Middendorf, John H. Review of A Dr. Johnson Chronology, by Norman Page. Johnsonian News Letter 49, no. 3 (June 1989): 21–22.
3041. Middendorf, John H. Review of Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, by David Wheeler. Johnsonian News Letter 48, no. 1–2 (March 1988): 2–3.
3042. Middendorf, John H. Review of Dr. Johnson’s Critical Vocabulary: A Selection from His “Dictionary,” by Richard L. Harp. Johnsonian News Letter 49, no. 3–50, 2 (June 1989): 22–23.
3043. Middendorf, John H. Review of In Mind of Johnson: A Study of Johnson the Rambler, by Philip Davis. Johnsonian News Letter 48, no. 3–49, 2 (June 1988): 21–22.
3044. Middendorf, John H. Review of Johnson the Philologist, by Daisuke Nagashima. Johnsonian News Letter 49, no. 3–50, 2 (June 1989): 23.
3045. Middendorf, John H. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Johnsonian News Letter 46, no. 2–47, 2 (June 1986): 3.
3046. Middendorf, John H. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. Johnsonian News Letter 46–47 (June 1986): 5–6.
3047. Middendorf, John H. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Johnsonian News Letter 46, no. 2–47, 2 (June 1986): 3–4.
3048. Middendorf, John H. Review of Samuel Johnson: An Analysis, by Charles H. Hinnant. Johnsonian News Letter 48, no. 1–2 (March 1988): 2.
3049. Middendorf, John H. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. Johnsonian News Letter 48, no. 3 (September 1988): 1.
3050. Middendorf, John H. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. Johnsonian News Letter 46–47 (June 1986): 2–3.
3051. Middendorf, John H. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. Johnsonian News Letter 48, no. 1–2 (March 1988): 2.
3052. Middendorf, John H. Review of Samuel Johnson: Commemorative Lectures: Delivered at Pembroke College, Oxford, by Magdi Wahba. Johnsonian News Letter 46, no. 2–47, 2 (June 1986): 4–5.
3053. Middendorf, John H. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Eighteenth-Century Studies 26 (1993): 517–21.
3054. Middendorf, John H. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Attitude to the Arts, by Morris R. Brownell. Johnsonian News Letter 49, no. 3 (Spring 1990): 20.
3055. Middendorf, John H. Review of Selections from Johnson on Shakespeare, by Bertrand H. Bronson and Jean M. O’Meara. Johnsonian News Letter 46, no. 2 (June 1986): 4.
3056. Middendorf, John H. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Johnsonian News Letter 48, no. 1–2 (March 1988): 10–11.
3057. Middendorf, John H. Review of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. Johnsonian News Letter 46, no. 2 (June 1986): 2.
3058. Middendorf, John H. Review of The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets,” by Martin Maner. Johnsonian News Letter 49, no. 3 (Spring 1990): 20.
3059. Middendorf, John H. Review of The Politics of Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. Johnsonian News Letter 49, no. 3 (September 1989): 21–22.
3060. Mihill, Chris. “Why Mozart Behaved So Badly.” Guardian, December 27, 1992.
      Speculation that Mozart and Johnson may have suffered from Tourette’s Syndrome.
3061. Miller, Chris. “The Pope and the Canon: Eliot, Johnson, Davie and The Movement.” PN Review 23, no. 6 (1997): 45–50.
3062. Miller, Karl. Review of Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789–1795, by Marlies K. Danziger and Frank Brady. London Review of Books 12, no. 2 (1990): 7.
3063. Miller, Karl. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 23, no. 2 (2000): 422.
3064. Miller, Karl. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. TLS, November 12, 1999, 3–4.
3065. Miller, Luree. “Literary Villages of London: In the Footsteps of Dr. Johnson, Thomas Carlyle, John Keats and Virginia Woolf.” Washington Post, December 3, 1989.
3066. Miller, Phil. “Scotland’s Literary Festival Inspired by the Works of James Boswell Unveils 2016 Programme.” The Herald (Glasgow), 20 2016.
3067. Miller, Roger K. “Boswell Gets His Due as Biographer of Samuel Johnson [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 26, 2001.
3068. Miller, Roger K. “The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel: Celebrating the One Inimitable Achievement of the Incorrigible Boswell [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” Boston Herald, September 2, 2001.
3069. Miller, Stephen. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Wall Street Journal, October 12, 2005.
3070. Miller, Stephen. “Samuel Johnson: A Conversational Triumph; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Conversation Lost.” In Conversation: History of a Declining Art, 119–49. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
3071. Miller, Stephen. “Samuel Johnson and George Washington.” Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 2 (September 2005): 35–36.
3072. Miller, Stephen. Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2000.
3073. Miller, Stephen. “A Talent for Passion, Guilt, Debt and Friendship.” Wall Street Journal, 2000, A24.
3074. Miller, Stephen. Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001. Reviews:
      • Ingram, Allan. Review of Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat, by Stephen Miller. Modern Language Review 98, no. 4 (2003): 967.
      • Potkay, Adam. Review of Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat, by Stephen Miller. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 1 (March 2005): 35–37.
      • Winton, Calhoun. “Living Skeptically and Dying Well [Review of Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, by Stephen Miller].” Sewanee Review 111, no. 4 (2003): R116–19.
3075. Miller, Stephen. “Varieties of Sunday Observance: Boswell and His Contemporaries.” In The Peculiar Life of Sundays, 109. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008.
3076. Miller, Stephen. “Why Read Samuel Johnson?” Sewanee Review 1 (Winter 1999): 44–60. Reviews:
      • “Johnson beyond Boswell [Review of Why Read Samuel Johnson?, By Stephen Miller].” Wilson Quarterly 23, no. 3 (1999): 119–20.
3077. Miller, Stephen. “Why Read Samuel Johnson?” New Rambler E:3 (1999): 38–46.
3078. Miller, W. “A Dictionary of the English Language on DVD-ROM.” Choice 43 (2005): 0657.
3079. Mills, Howard. Review of Selections from Johnson on Shakespeare, by Bertrand H. Bronson and Jean M. O’Meara. English 39, no. 163 (Spring 1990): 65–70.
3080. Milward, Peter. “Shakespeare’s ‘Fatal Cleopatra.’” Shakespeare Studies (Tokyo) 30 (1992): 57–63.
3081. Miner, Earl. Naming Properties: Nominal Reference in Travel Writings by Bashō and Sora, Johnson and Boswell. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
      Abstract: Travel is one of literature’s great metaphors for life; to investigate the properties of travel writing in different cultures affords a particular opportunity for intercultural comparison. In Naming Properties, Earl Miner examines closely four travel accounts: in Japanese, Basho’s great Narrow Road through the Provinces, and, as control, the nonliterary account of his friend Sora; in English, Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and Boswell’s manuscript version, his unbowdlerized Journal. The works were carefully chosen to provide a maximum of literary evidence. The focus of Miner’s comparison is on the practical and philosophical implications of naming. Because comparison can reveal parochialism, currently familiar and unexamined Western conceptions are put in question on such issues as identification (what is a name, what is identity in different cultures?); reference (why name a child or river if they do not exist?); intention (how can we refer without intending to?); and fact and fiction (do names differ in fiction and in fact? What of a factual or historical character in a fiction like the novel? or a legal fiction in daily life?). In addition to examining the travel accounts, Miner considers the philosophical issues of naming in a range of other texts, from the Bible, Plato, Thucydides, Confucius, and earliest Japanese writing to current Western philosophers such as Kripke, Donnellan, and Nelson. This book will interest scholars in eighteenth-century English and pre-modern Japanese literature; comparative literature; intercultural study; and naming (onomastics).
      https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.23241. Reviews:
      • Barnhill, D. L. Review of Naming Properties: Nominal Reference in Travel Writings by Bashō and Sora, Johnson and Boswell, by Earl Miner. Monumenta Nipponica 53, no. 1 (1990): 105–8.
      • Kenning, D. W. “What’s in a Name? Earl Miner and the Travels of Bashō and Johnson [Review of Naming Properties: Nominal Reference in Travel Writings by Bashō and Sora, Johnson and Boswell, by Earl Miner].” Comparative Literature Studies 35, no. 2 (1998): 191–205.
3082. Misenheimer, Carolyn. “Dr. Johnson and Charles and Mary Lamb: Intellectual Assumptions in the Art of Writing for Children.” New Rambler D:7, no. 7 (1991): 23–36.
3083. Misenheimer, James. “Dr Johnson and the Ascent to Immortality: An Aspect of His Legacy.” New Rambler D:9, no. 9 (1993): 51–65.
3084. Misenheimer, James B., Jr. “Dr. Johnson, Warren Cordell, and the Love of Books.” In Bibliographia, edited by John Horden, 87–103. Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 1992.
3085. Misenheimer, James B., Jr. “Johnson and Critical Expectation.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 13–30. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
3086. Misenheimer, James B., Jr. “Johnson and the Critic as Idealist: Some Reflections on Famous Passages from His Criticism.” New Rambler D:1, no. 26 (1985): 16–33.
3087. Misenheimer, James B., Jr. “Wisdom as Intellectual Decoration: Selected Passages from Dr. Johnson.” New Rambler E:6 (2002): 26–33.
3088. Misenheimer, James B., Jr., and Robert K. O’Neill. “The Cordell Collection of Dictionaries and Johnson’s Lexicographic Presence: The Love of Books in Two Centuries.” New Rambler C:24, no. 24 (1983): 33–47.
3089. Misenheimer, James B., Jr., and Veva Vonler. “Intellectual Eclecticism: A Ramble through The Rambler.” New Rambler D:6, no. 6 (1990): 16–28.
3090. Mitchell, David. “David Mitchell Interviews Samuel Johnson and James Boswell.” In Dead Interviews: Living Writers Meet Dead Icons, edited by Dan Crowe, 83–96. London: Granta, 2013.
      Abstract: These ingenious interviews will amuse, provoke and delight. Veering from the intensely serious to the wildly silly, Dead Interviews grants writers the chance to sit down with their heroes and flex their cerebral muscles, or simply indulge in some bookish gossip with a deceased icon. Pitch-perfect mimesis meets razor sharp literary criticism in the book that refuses to let dead writers lie. The contributors: Rick Moody on Jimi Hendrix, Cynthia Ozick on Henry James, Douglas Coupland on Andy Warhol, Sam Leith on John Berryman, Geoff Dyer on Friedrich Nietzsche, A. M. Homes on Richard Nixon, David Mitchell on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, John Burnside on Rachel Carson, ZZ Packer on Monsieur de Saint-George, Michel Faber on Marcel Duchamp, Rebecca Miller on the Marquis de Sade, Ian Rankin on Arthur Conan Doyle and Joyce Carol Oates on Robert Frost.
3091. Mitchell, Linda C. “Johnson among the Early Modern Grammarians.” International Journal of Lexicography 18, no. 2 (June 2005): 203–16. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/eci021.
3092. Mitchell, Sebastian. Review of A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson, by Edward Tomarken. English 47 (1998): 242–45.
3093. Mitsein, Rebekah. “Between the Inland Countries of Africk and the Ports of the Red Sea: African Impressions amid Fact and Fancy in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas.” In African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023.
      Abstract: In an article in a 1774 issue of the London Magazine about James Bruce’s travels in Abyssinia, James Boswell introduces his subject by noting that “Abyssinia has become an object of interest and pleasing attention in Europe, since the publication of Mr. Samuel Johnson’s tale, called Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia.” He goes on to describe the generic balance of Rasselas as “a work in which that eminent writer has displayed a rich fund of moral instruction, embellished with oriental imagery, and rendered interesting by a well conducted story, in the tissue of which several real facts concerning that country are
3094. Mitsunaga, Takeshi. “Miruton no tame no bengo: Kekkon ni tsuite no Bairon no shiku o megutte.” Kumamoto Daigaku Eigo Eibungaku/Kumamoto Studies in English Language and Literature 45 (2002): 33–42.
3095. Miyazaki, Toshizō. “Tanjun na hanashi (12): Jonson.” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 147, no. 12 (March 2002): 742–742.
3096. Miyoshi Kasujiro. “Priestley no eibunten to Johnson no eigojiten.” Journal of Okayama Women’s Junior College 10 (1987): 49–57.
      “Priestley’s Rudiments and Johnson’s Dictionary.”
3097. Miyoshi Kusujiro. “Johnson no jiten: Yourei no gogakushiteki igi.” Journal of Okayama Women’s Junior College 12 (1989): 125–33.
      “Johnson’s Dictionary: The Linguistic Significance of Its Citations.”
3098. Miyoshi, Kusujiro. Johnson’s and Webster’s Verbal Examples: With Special Reference to Exemplifying Usage in Dictionary Entries. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2007.
      Abstract: This book analyses Noah Webster’s and Samuel Johnson’s use of verbal examples in their dictionaries as a means of giving guidance on word usage. The author’s major interest lies in elucidating how uniquely Webster, who was originally a grammarian, made use of verbal examples. In order to achieve this purpose, the author provides chapters based on types of entry words in their functional contexts. Johnson’s selection of sources of citations and the frequency of his quoting citations tended to vary strongly according to the type of entry word; he also supplied invented examples rather than citations when he thought it especially necessary to clarify the use of a word. By contrast, with the exception of biblical ones, almost all of Webster’s citations were taken from Johnson’s»Dictionary«. However, Webster significantly made full use of such citations to express his view on word usage, which differs essentially from Johnson’s. Besides, Webster had a strong tendency to quote phrases and sentences from the Bible for the same purpose.
      An extensive comparative study of Johnson’s and Webster’s use of examples, with much of the evidence drawn from the letter L in both dictionaries.
3099. Miyoshi Kusujiro. “S. Johnson to tairiku no gengo academy: hin’yodoshi no koumoku wo chushin ni’.” Journal of Soka Women’s College 12 (1997): 63–77.
      “The Influence of Continental Language Academies on S. Johnson: His Treatment of Verbs of High Frequency.”
3100. Moe, Melina Karsten. “Public Intimacies: Literary and Sexual Reproduction in the Eighteenth Century.” PhD Thesis, Yale University, 2015.
3101. Moffett, Joe. “‘Intellectually ‘Fuori Del Monto’’: Pound’s Johnson.” In Samuel Johnson among the Modernists, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 69–84. Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2019.
3102. Money, David. “Samuel Johnson and the Neo-Latin Tradition.” In Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, edited by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill, 199–221. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
3103. Monod, Paul. “A Voyage out of Staffordshire; or, Samuel Johnson’s Jacobite Journey.” In Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, edited by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill, 11–43. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
3104. Monod, Paul. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England, by Nicholas Hudson. Albion 36, no. 4 (2005): 711–13.
3105. Monod, Paul. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. American Historical Review 102, no. 1 (February 1997): 103–4.
3106. Monod, Paul Kleber. “A Restoration? 25 Years of Jacobite Studies.” Literature Compass 10, no. 4 (April 2013): 311–30.
      Abstract: The past quarter-century has seen an efflorescence of studies of Jacobitism, within both political and cultural history. The scope and impact of these studies are considered in the present article, which ranges across the major fields of research that are now associated with Jacobite Studies. They include plots and conspiracies; rebellions and uprisings; Irish Jacobitism, particularly as it was embodied in poetic works; the Jacobite diaspora to the European continent; the Stuart courts in exile; and Jacobite culture, including literature. The significance of Jacobitism for English literary history is examined, and major controversies, including the debate over Samuel Johnson, are discussed.
3107. Montgomery, John Warwick. “The Religion of Dr. Johnson.” New Oxford Review 61, no. 7 (September 1994): 19.
3108. Moody, Ellen. Review of In a Fast Coach with a Pretty Woman: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson, by Gloria Sybil Gross. East-Central Intelligencer 3 (September 2004): 30–32.
3109. Moody, Ellen. “Johnson-and-Boswell Forever!” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 2 (September 2004): 22–26.
      On an Internet reading group approaching Boswell’s Life.
3110. Moonie, Martin. “Edinburgh v. the Advertiser: A Case Study.” In The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion, 1707–1800, edited by Stephen W. Brown and Warren McDougall, 369–71. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
3111. Moore, Dafydd. The International Companion to James Macpherson and “The Poems of Ossian.” International Companions to Scottish Literature. Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2017.
      Abstract: James Macpherson’s “Poems of Ossian,” first published from 1760 as Fragments of Ancient Poetry, were the literary sensation of the age. Attacked by Samuel Johnson and others as “forgeries,” nonetheless the poems enthralled readers around the world, attracting rapturous admiration from figures as diverse as Goethe, Diderot, Jefferson, Bonaparte and Mendelssohn. This International Companion examines the social, political and philosophical context of the poems, their disputed origins, their impact on world literature, and the various critical afterlives of Macpherson and of his literary works.
3112. Moore, Dafydd. “John Wolcot and ‘The Anecdotic Itch’: Peter Pindar, Biography, and Historiography in the 1780s.” Eighteenth-Century Life 40, no. 2 (April 2016): 88–118.
      Abstract: John Wolcot, under his nom de plume of Peter Pindar, was one of the most popular satirists of the late eighteenth century. Today his work is primarily known for his antiministerial satires during the 1790s and discussed in terms of its radical credentials in ways that have narrowed our understanding of his achievement and interests. This essay reads three of Wolcot’s key poems from the 1780s in terms of his focus on the use of anecdote in writing history and biography, and his self-conscious interest in writing about great men. In A Poetical and Congratulatory Epistle to James Boswell, Esq on his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with the celebrated Dr Johnson (1786) and Bozzy and Piozzi; or, The British Biographers, A Town Eclogue (1786), Peter critiques the tendency of Johnson’s biographers to represent him not through an account of his great work, but through trivial and undignified personal detail. In Instructions to a Celebrated Laureat; alias The Progress of Curiosity; alias A Birthday Ode; alias Mr Whitbread’s Brewhouse (1787), Peter diagnoses the opposite problem in Thomas Warton’s celebration of King George III, which treats an essential trivial figure as if he were a great one. In this way, Wolcot engages in significant cultural debates about the meaning and representation of greatness and significant achievement in the 1780s. Our appreciation of this engagement and the larger cultural debates into which it is keyed can broaden our sense of the questions it is possible to pose about Wolcot as a writer beyond those to do with his attitude to ministerial policy during the revolutionary period.
3113. Moore, Judith. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 20 (2001): 503.
3114. Moore, Peter. “Enlightenment: Nightclubbing [Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch].” History Today 69, no. 6 (June 6, 2019): 102.
3115. Moore, Peter. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776) with Benjamin Franklin — William Strahan — Samuel Johnson — John Wilkes — Catharine Macaulay — Thomas Paine. London: Chatto & Windus, 2023.
      Abstract: A history of the British thinkers who developed the Enlightenment-era ideas and ideals that drove the American Revolution"— Provided by publisher. “The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. “The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness” was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with “the preservation of.” In a statement as pithy — and contested — as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final, iconizing revision was the last in a long chain of revisions stretching across the Atlantic and back. The precise contours of these three rights have never been pinned down — and yet in making these words into rights, Jefferson reified the hopes (and debates) not only of a group of rebel-statesmen but also of an earlier generation of British thinkers who could barely imagine a country like the United States of America. Peter Moore’s Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness tells the true story of what may be the most successful import in US history: the “American dream.” Centered on the friendship between Benjamin Franklin and the British publisher William Strahan, and featuring figures including the cultural giant Samuel Johnson, the ground-breaking historian Catharine Macaulay, the firebrand politician John Wilkes, and revolutionary activist Thomas Paine, this book looks at the generation that preceded the Declaration in 1776. Everyone, it seemed, had “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” on their minds; Moore shows why, and reveals how these still-nascent ideals made their way across an ocean and started a revolution.
3116. Morais, Franklin Farias. “Wiliam Wordsworh e Samuel Johnson: Rastros da arte moderna.” Letras Escreve 4, no. 1 (2015): 45–52.
      Abstract: Através da comparação entre o Preface to a Shakespeare, do crítico inglês Samuel Johnson e as concepções balizadoras da modernidade na poesia promovidas pelo poeta Wiliam Wordsworth, no célebre prefácio ao Lyrical Ballads, se entrevê, no raiar do século XIX, uma curiosa coincidência: um e outro, embora por modos distintos, depõem o ruir das concepções clássicas e neoclássicas da feitura da arte poética. Através do instrumental teórico de M. H. Abrams, em O espelho e a lâmpada: teoria romântica e tradição crítica, este artigo pretende discutir as concepções de arte, literatura e poesia para Johnson e Wordsworth. O enfoque do presente texto, portanto, é a modificação de consciência que se deu entre o fim do século XVIII e início do XIX, na tentativa de compreensão da sensibilidade poética romântica, autônoma e avessa a quaisquer regras que não a do próprio sentimento do poeta, que irrompe sob as ruínas das práticas letradas seiscentistas e setecentistas.
3117. Morales Fernández, Isaac. “El prefacio a Shakespeare de Samuel Johnson.” Dramateatro Revista Digital 8 (September 2002).
3118. Morales Fernández, Isaac. “W. Shakespeare ante Samuel Jonson [Johnson].” Dramateatro Revista Digital 9 (2003).
3119. Morgan, Lee. “Dr. Johnson and ‘His Own Dear Master,’ Henry Thrale.” Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 15 (April 1989): 84–96.
3120. Morgan, Lee. Dr. Johnson’s “Own Dear Master”: The Life of Henry Thrale. Lanham: University Press of America, 1998. Reviews:
      • Thrale, Richard. Review of Dr. Johnson’s “Own Dear Master”: The Life of Henry Thrale, by Lee Morgan. New Rambler E:1 (1997): 74–75.
3121. Morin, Emilie. “Beckett, Samuel Johnson, and the ‘Vacuity of Life.’” Sofia Philosophical Review 5, no. 1 (2011): 228–50.
3122. Morrant, C. “The Melancholy of Dr. Samuel Johnson.” CMAJ 136, no. 2 (January 15, 1987): 201–3.
3123. Morris, Jerry. “Library Thing.” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 2 (September 2009): 18.
      On the inclusion of Johnson’s and Boswell’s libraries in the on-line service Library Thing.
3124. Morris, Matthew Charles Evans. “Parody in Pale Fire: A Re-Reading of Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” PhD thesis, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1996.
3125. Morrish, John. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: An Anthology, by David Crystal. The Independent on Sunday, November 13, 2005.
3126. Morrison, Richard. “A Man of Many Words (Including Jobbernowl).” The Times, April 15, 2005.
3127. Morrison, Sarah R. “Samuel Johnson, Mr. Rambler, and Women.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 23–50.
3128. Morrison, Sarah R. “Toil, Envy, Want, the Reader, and the Jail: Reader Entrapment in Johnson’s Life of Savage.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 145–64.
3129. Morrissey, Lee. “Journalism.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 216–24. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3130. Morton, Tom. Dr Johnson’s Dictionary of Modern Life: Survey, Definition & Justify’d Lampoonery of Divers Contemporary Phenomena, from Top Gear unto Twitter. London: Square Peg, 2010.
      Abstract: In this hilarious update of his original Dictionary, bewigged lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson takes a curmudgeonly look at modern life, from Celebrity Big Brother to dubstep In 2009 Dr Samuel Johnson made a surprise reemergence from 18th century retirement and began Twittering. It proved the perfect vehicle for his acerbic, aphoristic wit and he has quickly become the darling of the site. The Guardian calls him the “greatest” thing on Twitter and the Telegraph dubs him its “star.” Our gouty man of letters finds the modern world in a parlous state. It is peopled with fools like “Raisin-ey’d Tyrant Mister Nick GRIFFIN” and “BABOON-SLAYER, Fop, Macaroni, Dandy & Folderol, Mister AA Gill.” His attempts to negotiate a path through the vagaries of modern life do not fare well either — for instance, on a trip to “Mister LIBERTY’S blast’d Haberdashery,” upon finding “all else clad as Lumber-Jacks, I left thwart’d & alone … unwilling to dress as an unmanly Pastiche of Mister COBAIN.” From Top Gear and the Daily Mail to David Cameron and Celebrity Big Brother, nothing escapes his sardonic gaze.
3131. Morvan, Alain. “Nekayah, Pekuah et les autres: Aspects de la feminité dans Rasselas.” Bulletin de la societé d’études anglo-americaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 20 (June 1985): 139–52.
3132. Morvan, Alain. “Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot.” Revue de littérature comparée 64, no. 1 (January 1990): 142–44.
3133. Moss, Robert A. “In the Island of Uffa.” The Baker Street Journal: An Irregular Quarterly of Sherlockiana 63, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 15–19.
3134. Motion, Andrew. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Guardian, April 16, 2005.
3135. Motion, Andrew, Michael Holroyd, and Victoria Glendinning. “A Biographer Is a Novelist under Oath.” Guardian, May 16, 1998.
3136. Mott, Wesley T. “The Book of Common Prayer and Boswell’s Life of Johnson: Sources of a Defining Emersonian Phrase.” Notes and Queries 59 [257], no. 3 (September 2012): 345–47. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjs125.
3137. Mueller, Beverly Trescott. “The Depiction of Religion in Eighteenth-Century English Literature from Swift to Johnson.” PhD thesis, Marquette University, 1999.
      Chapter 10, “The Invincible Samuel Johnson.”
3138. Mugglestone, Lynda. “Conflicted Representations: Language, Lexicography, and Johnson’s ‘Langscape’ of War.” Eighteenth-Century Life 44, no. 3 (2020): 75–95. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8718666.
      Abstract: Books, as Samuel Johnson stated in 1754 in his Dictionary of the English Language neared completion, always exert “a secret influence on the understanding” so that the reader is informed in both overt and covert ways. Reference works, he stressed, were no exception. As this essay explores, Johnson’s precepts prove equally illuminating for his own work, and his representations of war and conflict. On one level, his Dictionary of 1755 is a source of formal exposition in which the meaning of war is anatomized across a range of entries. On another, those who consult its pages are presented with war as an ethical or socio-moral problem, freighted with meanings of a very different kind.
3139. Mugglestone, Lynda. “Departures and Returns: Writing the English Dictionary in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” In The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition, edited by Francis O’Gorman and Katherine Turner, 144–62. Ashgate, 2004.
3140. Mugglestone, Lynda. “Dictionaries.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 157–65. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3141. Mugglestone, Lynda. “Enchaining Syllables and Lashing the Wind: Samuel Johnson, Thomas Sheridan, and the Ascertainment of Spoken English.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 29, no. 3 (2016): 33–58.
3142. Mugglestone, Lynda. “Johnson and Language.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 55–68. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
3143. Mugglestone, Lynda. Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria Jr. New Rambler E:9 (2005): 81–82.
3144. Mugglestone, Lynda. “Language.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 298–314. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: This chapter provides a critical exploration of a number of aspects of received wisdom about Johnson and language, both in relation to Johnson’s own linguistic practice in speech and writing, as well as within his published works on language, including his celebrated Dictionary. It examines Johnson’s interest in, and presentation of variation, contact, and change, alongside his engagement with other languages, while directing close attention to Johnson’s documentary and evidential processes in terms of spelling, meaning, and use, and the discourses of power, reform, and authority that these reveal.
3145. Mugglestone, Lynda. Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
      Abstract: Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state of the language. Lynda Mugglestone looks at the range of Johnson’s writings on, and the complexity of his thinking about, language and lexicography. She shows how these reveal him probing problems not just of meaning and use but what he considered the related issues of control, obedience, and justice, as well as the difficulties of power when exerted over the “sea of words.” She examines his attitudes to language change, loan words, spelling, history, and authority, describing, too, the evolution of his ideas about the nature, purpose, and methods of lexicography, and shows how these reflect his own and others’ thinking about politics, culture, and society. The book offers a careful reassessment of Johnson’s prescriptive practice, examining in detail his commitment to evidence, and the uses to which this might be put.
      Reviews:
      • Beal, Joan C. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone. Journal of English Linguistics 45, no. 1 (2017): 95–98. https://doi.org/10.1177/0075424216685406.
      • Considine, John. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone. Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 38, no. 1 (2017): 123–31. https://doi.org/10.1353/dic.2017.0006.
      • Hudson, Nicholas. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone. New Rambler F:18 (2014): 88–89.
      • Iamartino, Giovanni. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone. Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 57–61.
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone. Choice 53, no. 12 (August 2016): 1780.
      • Maley, Willy. “Where No Man Has Gone Before [Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone].” Times Higher Education, no. 2,222 (September 24, 2015): 42.
      • Reddick, Allen. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone. Review of English Studies 67, no. 281 (2016): 807–9.
      • Reddick, Allen. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone. International Journal of Lexicography 30, no. 3 (2017): 382–87. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecw009.
      • Wild, Min. “No Cabbage [review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone].” TLS 5889 (February 12, 2016): 26.
3146. Mugglestone, Lynda. “Samuel Johnson and the ‘Shackles of Lexicography.’” In Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays for Allen Reddick, edited by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner, and Olga Timofeeva, 59–79. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2021.
3147. Mugglestone, Lynda. “Samuel Johnson and the Use of /h/.” Notes and Queries 36 [234], no. 4 (December 1989): 431–33. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/36.4.431.
      A response to Respess.
3148. Mugglestone, Lynda. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the “Dictionary of the English Language”: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick. Notes and Queries 53 [251], no. 4 (December 2006): 560–63.
3149. Mugglestone, Lynda. Review of Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” by Jack Lynch and Lynda Mugglestone. Notes and Queries 53 [251], no. 4 (December 2006): 560–63.
3150. Mugglestone, Lynda. “The Battle of the Word-Books: Competition, the ‘Common-Reader,’ and Johnson’s Dictionary.” In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, 140–53. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0012.
3151. Mugglestone, Lynda. “The End of Toleration? Language on the Margins in Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language.” In Standardising English: Norms and Margins in the History of the English Language, edited by Linda Pillière, Wilfrid Andrieu, Valérie Kerfelec, and Diana Lewis, 89–105. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108120470.
      Abstract: This path-breaking study of the standardisation of English goes well beyond the traditional prescriptivism versus descriptivism debate. It argues that the way norms are established and enforced is the result of a complex network of social factors and cannot be explained simply by appeals to power and hegemony. It brings together insights from leading researchers to re-centre the discussion on linguistic communities and language users. It examines the philosophy underlying the urge to standardise language, and takes a closer look at both well-known and lesser-known historical dictionaries, grammars and usage guides, demonstrating that they cannot be simply labelled as “prescriptivist.” Drawing on rich empirical data and case studies, it shows how the norm continues to function in society, influencing and affecting language users even today.
3152. Mugglestone, Lynda. “The Values of Annotation: Reading Johnson Reading Shakespeare.” In New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 3–23. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.
3153. Mugglestone, Lynda. “Writing the Dictionary of the English Language: Johnson’s Journey into Words.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 131–42. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
3154. Muirhead, John. “A Model for Johnson’s Polyphilus.” Notes and Queries 33 [231], no. 4 (December 1986): 514–17.
3155. Mukhergee, Tapan Kumar. “Intolerance and Restlessness.” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 2 (September 2022): 40–41.
3156. Mukhergee, Tapan Kumar. “Palgrave’s Golden Treasury.” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 2 (September 2022): 41–42.
3157. Mukherjee, Gurudas. “Johnson the Juggler with Three Balls: Fancy, Reason, and Faith.” In Modern Studies and Other Essays in Honour of Dr. R. K. Sinha, edited by Rāmacandra Prasāda and A. K. Sharma, 195–98. New Delhi: Vikas, 1987.
3158. Mukherjee, Tapan Kumar. “Alexander Main’s Life and Conversations of Dr. Samuel Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 1 (March 2022): 41–43.
3159. Mukherjee, Tapan Kumar. “Latin Epigraph on the Title Page to James Boswell’s Life of Johnson (1791).” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 1 (March 2023): 32–33.
3160. Mukherjee, Tapan Kumar. “Maurice Alderton Pink.” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 1 (March 2022): 43–45.
3161. Mukherjee, Tapan Kumar. “William Somerset Maugham on Johnsonian Prose Style.” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 1 (March 2023): 31–32.
3162. Mullan, John. “A biografia moderna foi inventada em 1791 [review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” Translated by José dos Santos. O Estado de S. Paolo, January 14, 2001.
3163. Mullan, John. “Dreaming Up the Doctor [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” Guardian, November 11, 2000.
3164. Mullan, John. “Fault Finding in Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.” In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, 72–82. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0007.
3165. Mullan, John. Review of Samuel Johnson, by Walter Jackson Bate. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 22, no. 3 (1999): 442.
3166. Mullan, John. Review of Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill. London Review of Books 26, no. 2 (January 22, 2004).
3167. Mullan, John. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 22, no. 3 (1999): 442.
3168. Mullan, John. “The Rise of Mr Nobody: Dr Johnson Had No Trouble Defining the Word Failure [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking].” Guardian, March 6, 1999.
3169. Mullan, John. “‘There Is a Community of Mind in It’: Quoting Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century.” XVII–XVIII: Revue de La Société d’études Anglo-Américaines Des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles 81 (2024): 1–12.
3170. Müllenbrock, Heinz-Joachim. “Pernicious Reason and Good Sense: Ethics and Common Sense in Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees and Samuel Johnson’s Writings.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 43, no. 2 (2011): 187.
3171. Müller, Patrick. “‘But Philosophy Can Tell No More’: Johnson’s Christian Moralism and the Genre of Rasselas.” In Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism, edited by Melvyn New and Gerard Reedy, 113–29. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2012.
3172. Munns, Jessica. “The Interested Heart and the Absent Mind: Samuel Johnson and Thomas Otway’s The Orphan.” ELH: English Literary History 60, no. 3 (September 1993): 611–23.
3173. Murali, D. “Elevate the Insult to an Art Form [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master by Jack Lynch].” Hindu Business Times, November 6, 2005.
3174. Murphy, Andrew. “The Birth of the Editor.” In A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text, edited by Andrew Murphy, 93–108. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
3175. Murphy, Rex. “The Real Dr. J Gets Stuffed: The Master of English Prose Is Stopped Cold by a Foul-Prone Biographer [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking].” Globe and Mail (Toronto), December 12, 1998.
3176. Murray, T. J. “Dr. James and Dr. Johnson.” New Rambler D:8, no. 8 (1992): 3–5.
3177. Murray, T. J. “Johnson’s Relationship with His Physicians.” New Rambler E:4 (2000): 58–67.
3178. Murray, T. J. “The Medical History of Doctor Samuel Johnson.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield) 3, no. 773 (1992): 26–34.
3179. Murray, T. Jock. “Medicine.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 251–59. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3180. Murray, T. Jock. “Samuel Johnson: His Ills, His Pills and His Physician Friends.” Clinical Medicine 4 (August 2003): 368–37.
3181. Myer, Valerie Grosvenor. “Dr Johnson, Fanny Burney and Jane Austen.” New Rambler D:9, no. 9 (1993): 66–78.
3182. Nachumi, Nora. “Theatre.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 367–74. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3183. Nadel, Alan. “‘My Mind Is Weak, but My Body Is Strong’: George Plimpton and the Boswellian Tradition.” Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought 30, no. 3 (March 1989): 372–86.
3184. Nagashima, Daisuke. “A Note on Dr. Johnson’s History of the English Language.” In Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries: In Honour of Jacek Fisiak on the Occasion of His Fiftieth Birthday, I: Linguistic Theory and Historical Linguistics; II: Descriptive, Contrastive and Applied Linguistics, edited by Dieter Kastovsky and Aleksander Szwedek, 525–31. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1986.
3185. Nagashima, Daisuke. Dokuta Jonson Meigenshu [Sayings of Dr. Johnson]. Tokyo: Taishukan, 1984.
3186. Nagashima, Daisuke. “Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: A Philological Survey.” Bulletin of Koshien University College of Humanities 4:C (2000): 1–22.
3187. Nagashima, Daisuke. “Dr Johnson’s House no koto.” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 139, no. 1 (April 1993): 20–21.
3188. Nagashima, Daisuke. “How Johnson Read Hale’s Origination for His Dictionary: A Linguistic View.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 7 (1996): 247–97.
3189. Nagashima, Daisuke. “Hyde Collection, The Johnsonians Nenkai sonota, I: 1988 nen Hôbei no Tabi kara.” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 134 (1988): 593–95.
3190. Nagashima, Daisuke. “Johnson in Japan: A Fragmentary Sketch.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1993, 14–19.
3191. Nagashima, Daisuke. Johnson the Philologist. Hirakata, Osaka: Intercultural Research Institute, Kansai University of Foreign Studies, 1988. Reviews:
      • Basker, James G. Review of Johnson the Philologist, by Daisuke Nagashima. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 4 (1991): 148–50.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of Johnson the Philologist, by Daisuke Nagashima. Johnsonian News Letter 49, no. 3–50, 2 (June 1989): 23.
3192. Nagashima, Daisuke. “Johnson’s Revisions of His Etymologies.” Yearbook of English Studies 28 (1998): 94–104. https://doi.org/10.2307/3508758.
3193. Nagashima, Daisuke. “Johnson’s Use of Skinner and Junius.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 283–98. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
3194. Nagashima, Daisuke. “Jonson Eigo jiten shin-kenkyū shōkai [review of The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick].” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 137, no. 3 (June 1991): 138–39.
3195. Nagashima, Daisuke. “On Johnson’s Handwriting.” Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 1 (March 2005): 31–34.
3196. Nagashima, Daisuke. “Progressive or Conservative? Two Trends in Johnson Studies.” New Rambler D:7, no. 7 (1991): 43–47.
3197. Nagashima, Daisuke. “Samuel Johnson: The Road to the Dictionary.” Studies in English Literature (Tokyo) 72 (1995): 63–75.
3198. Nagashima, Daisuke. “The Biblical Quotations in Johnson’s Dictionary.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 10 (1999): 89–126.
3199. Nagashima, Daisuke. “Two Pen-and-Ink Inscriptions on Copies of Johnson’s Dictionary in Japan.” Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 2 (September 2005): 36–38.
3200. Nakahara, Akio. “J. D. Furīman Samyueru Jonson shoshi o yomu.” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 147, no. 8 (November 2001): 482–84.
3201. Nakahara Akio. Jisho no Jonson no seiritsu: bozuueru nikki ka denki e. Edited by Japanese. Tokyo: Eihosha, 1999.
3202. Nakahara, Akio. “Jonsonden Ni Okeru Rondon Saikō.” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 137, no. 8 (November 11, 1991): 386–88.
3203. Nakahara Akio. ジョンソン伝の系譜 = Johnson den no keifu. Edited by Japanese. Tokyo: Kenkyushashuppan, 1991.
3204. Nakanishi, Wendy Jones. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756–1795, by Thomas Crawford. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 79, no. 6 (1998): 568.
3205. Nakanishi, Wendy Jones. Review of A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson, by Edward Tomarken. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 77, no. 3 (May 1996): 286–87.
3206. Nakanishi, Wendy Jones. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 77 (1996): 592–94.
3207. Narayan, Ridhima. “Christopher Nolan’s Gotham in View of Samuel Johnson’s London.” Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications 14, no. 8 (2021): 86–89. https://doi.org/10.21786/bbrc/14.8.21.
3208. Nash, Richard. “Walk Scotland and Carry a Big Stick.” In Wild Enlightenment: The Borders of Human Identity in the Eighteenth Century, 131–55. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003.
3209. Nassir, Ghazi Q. “A History and Criticism of Samuel Johnson’s Oriental Tales.” PhD thesis, Florida State University, 1989.
3210. Nassir, Ghazi Q. Samuel Johnson’s Attitude toward Islam: A Study of His Oriental Readings and Writings. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
      Abstract: This volume is the first to juxtapose pre-existing texts with Samuel Johnson’s portrayal of the Orient, particularly Islam and Arab culture. Nassir asserts that Johnson’s observations of Islam in both his writings and conversations prove that he did not look at it objectively and was highly biased against Islam and Arab culture in his assessment. The book seeks to furnish the students of eighteenth century English literature, Johnsonian scholars, and orientalists with useful observations of his orientalism as a whole in light of Johnson’s life, personality, and period in which he wrote.
3211. Nath, Prem, ed. Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism. Troy: Whitston, 1987. Reviews:
      • Fleeman, J. D. Review of Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, by Prem Nath. New Rambler D:5, no. 5 (1989): 38–41.
      • McGlynn, P. D. Review of Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, by Prem Nath. Choice 25 (1988): 1554.
      • Pailler, Albert. Review of Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, by Prem Nath. Études Anglaises 42, no. 4 (1989): 475–76.
      • Woodruff, James F. Review of Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, by Prem Nath. University of Toronto Quarterly 58, no. 3 (1989): 419–20.
3212. Nath, Prem. “Johnson’s London Re-Examined.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 215–26. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
3213. Naughton, John. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. The Observer, March 24, 1996.
3214. Neill, Edward. “‘Found Wanting’? Second Impressions of a Famous First Sentence.” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 25 (2003): 76–84.
3215. Nelson, Nicolas H. “Narrative Transformations: Prior’s Art of the Tale.” Studies in Philology 90, no. 4 (September 1993): 442–61.
3216. Neubauer, John. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. Comparative Literature Studies 29, no. 1 (1992): 94–96.
3217. New, Melvyn. “Anglicanism.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 101–8. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3218. New, Melvyn. “Boswell and Sterne in 1768.” In Laurence Sterne’s “A Sentimental Journey”: A Legacy to the World, edited by W. B. Gerard, M.-C. Newbould, and Pat Rogers, 171–93. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
3219. New, Melvyn. “Johnson, T. S. Eliot, and the City.” In Samuel Johnson among the Modernists, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 21–40. Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2019.
      Abstract: A literary scholar spending years in the company of Laurence Sterne will, if only as a defense mechanism against the many assertions of Sterne’s anticipation of postmodernism, find himself arguing for his far more interesting, if less obvious, relationship to modernism. Hence, in a series of essays over the years, I have brought Sterne’s writings into proximity with the novels of Marcel Proust, Italo Svevo, Bruno Schulz, and Virginia Woolf; with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche; and with the autobiographical Sentimental Journey of Viktor Shklovsky — an erratic but sufficiently representative sampling of the modernist movement.
3220. New, Melvyn. “Johnson, T. S. Eliot, and the City.” In Textual and Critical Intersections: Conversations with Laurence Sterne and Others, 136–62. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2023. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.8362597.11.
3221. New, Melvyn, and Anthony W. Lee, eds. Notes on Footnotes: Annotating Eighteenth-Century Literature. Penn State Series in the History of the Book Series. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271094328.
      Abstract: This collection presents fourteen essays on annotating eighteenth-century literature. Authored by editors and annotators of current standard editions — such as California’s Works of John Dryden, the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, and the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson — this book explores theoretical perspectives on critical editing and the practical work of annotation. Through examples from their own editorial work, the contributors illuminate the personal dilemmas and decisions confronting the annotator of texts: What information in the text needs annotation? When does one stop annotating? How does one manage the annotation-versus-interpretation problem? Brimming with erudition, Notes on Footnotes showcases the precision and attentiveness of some of the world’s foremost editors and annotators. The book is necessary reading — not only for scholars of the eighteenth century but also for scholarly editors of texts of all historical periods, book historians, and book lovers in general.In addition to the editors, the contributors include Kate Bennett, Robert DeMaria Jr., Michael Edson, Robert D. Hume, Stephen Karian, Elizabeth Kraft, Thomas Lockwood, William McCarthy, Maximillian E. Novak, Shef Rogers, Robert G. Walker, and Marcus Walsh.
3222. New, Melvyn. “Rasselas in an Eighteenth-Century Novels Course.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 121–27. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
3223. New, Melvyn, and Gerard Reedy, eds. Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2012.
      Abstract: Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism contains seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches and theologies. To argue that the age “resisted secularism” is by no means to argue that resistance was blindly doctrinal or rigidly uniform. The many ways secularism could be resisted is the subject of the collection.
3224. New, Melvyn, and Robert G. Walker. “Boswell, Addison’s Cato, and the ‘Minute Philosopher.’” Theatre Notebook: A Journal of the History and Technique of the British Theatre 77, no. 1 (2023): 2–7.
3225. New, Melvyn, and Robert G. Walker. “‘Curious Particulars’: The Will of Thomas Cumming, the Fighting Quaker.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 2 (September 2019): 18–27.
3226. New, Melvyn, and Robert G. Walker. “Further Annotations to Boswell.” Notes and Queries 65 [263], no. 2 (June 2018): 255–57. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjy037.
3227. New, Melvyn, and Robert G. Walker. “Who Killed Tom Cumming the Quaker? Recovering the Life Story of an Eighteenth-Century Adventurer.” Modern Philology 116, no. 3 (2019): 262–98.
3228. New, Peter. “Rasselas: Ends.” In Fiction and Purpose in “Utopia,” “Rasselas,” “The Mill on the Floss “ and “Women in Love,” 108–32. London: Macmillan, 1985.
3229. New, Peter. “Rasselas: Fiction and Acceptance.” In Fiction and Purpose in “Utopia,” “Rasselas,” “The Mill on the Floss “ and “Women in Love,” 133–53. London: Macmillan, 1985.
3230. New, Peter. “Rasselas: Form as Model.” In Fiction and Purpose in “Utopia,” “Rasselas,” “The Mill on the Floss “ and “Women in Love,” 83–107. London: Macmillan, 1985.
3231. New, Peter. “Re-Reading Johnson.” In New Trends in English and American Studies: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference, edited by Zygmunt Mazur and Marta Gibińska, 57–72. Cracow: Towarzystwo Autorów i Wydawców Prac Naukowych “Universitas,” 1990.
3232. New York Times Book Review. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. 2001.
3233. Newman, Donald J. Review of All the Sweets of Being: A Life of James Boswell, by Roger Hutchison. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 11 (1997): 19.
3234. Newman, Donald J., ed. Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
      Abstract: Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets, and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he worked influenced what he wrote and how he wrote it. This book will also be of interest to historians of journalism and the publishing industry of eighteenth-century Britain. Contributions by Donald J. Newman, Paul Tankard, James J. Caudle, Terry Seymour, Celia Barnes, Allan Ingram, Jennifer Preston Wilson and Nigel Aston.
      Reviews:
      • Glover, Brian. Review of Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, by Donald J. Newman. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 56, no. 1–2 (2023): 25–27. https://doi.org/10.5325/scriblerian.56.1-2.0025.
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, by Donald J. Newman. Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 1 (March 2022): 48–52.
      • Tung, Shirley F. Review of Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, by Donald J. Newman. Journal of British Studies 62, no. 1 (2023): 257–59. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2022.183.
3235. Newman, Donald J. “Boswell’s ‘Egyptian Task’: Ten Lines a Day.” Scottish Studies Review 9, no. 1 (March 2008): 1–26.
3236. Newman, Donald J. “Boswell’s Ephemeral Writing: An Overview.” In Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, edited by Donald J. Newman, 1–31. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
3237. Newman, Donald J. “Boswell’s Poetry: The Comic Cohesion of a Fragmented Self.” In James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, edited by Donald J. Newman, 165–87. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
3238. Newman, Donald J. “Disability, Disease, and the ‘Philosophical Heroism’ of Samuel Johnson in Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” A/B: Auto/Biography Studies 6, no. 1 (March 1991): 8–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.1991.10814983.
3239. Newman, Donald J. “An Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady: Serious Effort or Elaborate Joke?” In Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, edited by Donald J. Newman, 80–93. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
3240. Newman, Donald J. “James Boswell, Joseph Addison, and the Spectator in the Mirror.” In James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, edited by Donald J. Newman, 1–31. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
3241. Newman, Donald J., ed. James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995. Reviews:
      • Folkenflik, Robert. Review of James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, by Donald J. Newman. Eighteenth-Century Studies 33, no. 2 (2000): 289.
      • Sher, Richard B. Review of James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, by Donald J. Newman. Albion 28 (1996): 496–97.
      • Zachs, William. Review of James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, by Donald J. Newman. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 10 (1996): 16–18.
3242. Newman, Donald J. “A Pretty Trifle: Art and Identity in Boswell’s London Journal.” Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism 25, no. 2 (August 2002): 25–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440350208559404.
3243. Newman, Donald J. “‘Untoward Genius’: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Life and Early Writings of James Boswell, Esq.” PhD thesis, University of Southern California, 1994.
      Abstract: The fact that James Boswell is difficult if not impossible to understand without recourse to psychological explanations makes him a particularly appropriate subject for an interpretation that draws on modern theories of psychoanalysis. Modern psychological theory, in particular the epigenetic developmental theory of Erik Erikson and modern theories of narcissism, are especially useful in a work on Boswell for yet another reason. These particular theories provide good accounts of what the interaction between the baby Boswell, his parents, and his culture should have been if he were to have grown into a happily productive, responsible member of his society. This study advances a theory about how Boswell’s early childhood produced the psychic forces the prevented him from becoming a serious poet but transformed him into a genius with prose. Erikson provides the overarching theory for the author’s interpretation of Boswell’s psychological development, or lack thereof.
3244. Newman, Ray Andrew. “Samuel Johnson’s View of Human Nature and Its Relationship to His Political, Societal and Religious Concepts.” MA thesis, University of Wyoming, 1995.
3245. Newnham, David. “The Outsider: Play It Again, Sam: David Newnham Visits the Rose-Red City Where Dr Johnson, Lexicographer and Clever-Clogs Learnt His Letters.” Guardian, July 31, 1999.
3246. Nichol, Don. “The Big English Dictionary at 250.” Globe and Mail (Toronto), April 15, 2005.
3247. Nicholls, G. W., and R. W. White. “Young Samuel Johnson and His Birthplace.” New Rambler D:7, no. 7 (1991): 3.
3248. Nicholls, Graham. “A New Look for the Birthplace.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1989, 19–22.
3249. Nicholls, Graham. “A Newly Discovered Johnson Letter.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1989, 74–89.
3250. Nicholls, Graham. “‘Better Acquainted with My Heart’: Johnson’s Friendship with John Taylor.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1997, 30–35.
3251. Nicholls, Graham. “English Literature in the Time of Johnson.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1992, 14–25.
3252. Nicholls, Graham. “Four Quotations of Samuel Johnson.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), September 1997, 1–10.
3253. Nicholls, Graham. “Four Quotations of Samuel Johnson.” New Rambler E:8 (2004): 3–10.
3254. Nicholls, Graham. “Johnson Reads for the Dictionary.” New Rambler E:3 (1999): 29–34.
3255. Nicholls, Graham. Review of Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer: A Duty to Examine the Labors of the Learned, by Brian Hanley. New Rambler E:5 (2001): 69–70.
3256. Nicholls, Graham. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Critical Opinions: A Reexamination, by Arthur Sherbo. New Rambler D:10, no. 10 (1994): 66–67.
3257. Nicholls, Graham. ‘The General Disease of My Life’: Samuel Johnson and His Health,” in The Tyranny of Treatment: Samuel Johnson, His Friends, and Georgian Medicine. Edited by Natasha McEnroe and Robin Simon. London: British Art Journal and Dr Johnson’s House Trust, 2003.
3258. Nicholls, Graham. “‘The Race with Death’: Samuel Johnson and Holy Dying.” New Rambler E:9 (2005): 11–21.
3259. Nicholls, Graham. “Thomas Harwood’s Copy of Boswell’s Life of Johnson, An Account of the Life of Dr Samuel Johnson Written by Himself, and a Local Rumour about Nathaniel Johnson.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1994, 23–26.
3260. Nichols, Ashton. “Walking with Dr. Johnson and Wordsworth.” Wordsworth Circle 49, no. 2 (2018): 96–98.
3261. Nichols, Michelle. “Johnson’s Bawdy Truth Found in Print.” The Scotsman, December 7, 2000.
3262. Nicholson, Eirwen E. C. “The St. Clement Danes Altarpiece and the Iconography of Post-Revolution England.” In Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, edited by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill, 55–76. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
3263. Nieman, John. “‘This New Species of Affliction’: Self-Destruction and the Eighteenth-Century Ethic of Self-Improvement.” PhD thesis, University of California at Irvine, 2015.
      Abstract: This dissertation tests the eighteenth century’s narrative of individual agency as the source of modern personal autonomy, and argues that there is a subtle but problematic conflation between agency and autonomy; rather than assume increased personal agency guarantees a corresponding surge in the experience of autonomy, I suggest that autonomy is ultimately eroded by the modern self’s dependence on social identities that must be continuously maintained, objectified, and circulated as forms of social currency. My approach is founded upon an extensive examination of nonfiction (puritan autobiographies, science writing, essays, etc.) married to close readings of eighteenth-century fictional texts by Defoe, Lennox, Johnson, and others. This nonfictional foundation provides a historical record of the individuated enterprise of self-production, the true genesis of the self-help industry, and the fiction serves as the experimental testing ground that reveals the limits and hazards of this quintessentially modern enterprise. The primary insight of this dissertation is the counter-intuitive revelation that modern selfhood is needful of comic perception to transform exertions of agency squandered within social institutions into exercises of improvisation that buoy the individual rather than burden it. My first chapter focuses on recovering the neglected comic subtext of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, and by including analysis of Puritan autobiographies, I demonstrate that this form which is produced in the novel can be re-read through its comic elements to reveal the limiting nature of the process of self-production inaugurated by Puritan nonfiction. Lennox’s The Female Quixote and Johnson’s Rasselas anchor the next two chapters, and I chose two fictions not usually associated with discourse on the “self” because of their unique capacity to complement the first chapter by showing first how any model of “self” is inherently social and subsequently what destructive political consequences are catalyzed by western models of self-formation and self-improvement. Together these three fictions form a demonstration of how the eighteenth-century didactic impulse is transformed via the novel from a textual operation meant to produce discrete moral and social imperatives that would tend to produce uniform social self products into a more idiosyncratic cultural program that has persisted into the twenty-first century.
3264. Nightingale, Benedict. “Blame It on the Doctor [Review of Resurrection by Maureen Lawrence].” The Times, May 14, 1996.
3265. Niklaus, Robert. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 13, no. 2 (1990): 253–54.
3266. Nixon, Jude V. “‘Proud Possession to the English Nation’: Victorian Philanthropy and Samuel Johnson’s Goddaughter.” Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 32 (2002): 247–75.
3267. Noble, Andrew. “James Boswell: Scotland’s Prodigal Son.” In Improvement and Enlightenment: Proceedings of the Scottish Historical Studies Seminar, University of Strathclyde 1987–88, edited by Thomas Martin Devine, 22–24. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1987.
3268. Nokes, David. “Autobiographies of Samuel Johnson.” New Rambler E:12 (2008–9): 3–12.
3269. Nokes, David. “A ‘Broad-Bottomed’ Man of Letters Reborn as a Thoroughly Modern Englishman [Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England by Nicholas Hudson].” Times Higher Education Supplement, January 28, 2005.
3270. Nokes, David. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. TLS, October 29, 1993, 11–12.
3271. Nokes, David. “Johnson and Swift.” New Rambler D:1, no. 26 (1985): 35–36.
3272. Nokes, David. Review of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment, by Philip Smallwood. TLS, July 2, 2004, 27.
3273. Nokes, David. “‘A Painted Poppet, Full of Affectation and Rural Airs’: A Study of Samuel Johnson’s Marriage.” New Rambler E:9 (2005): 47–55.
3274. Nokes, David. Samuel Johnson: A Life. London: Faber, 2009.
      Abstract: In this portrait of Samuel Johnson, David Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work. This biography addresses his life and action through the hitherto unexplored perspectives of such major players as Johnson’s wife, Tetty; Hester Thrale, in whose household he resided for seventeen years while working on his annotated Shakespeare; and Frances Barber, the black manservant who in many ways was like a son to Johnson.
      An original biography, drawing largely from the published sources but not always the familiar ones. Nokes works to set Johnson in his historical context, and pays particular attention to his finances.
      Reviews:
      • Bate, Jonathan. “The Definition of This Biography of Dr Johnson Can Be Found in the Dictionary under ‘S’ for Solid [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Life, by David Nokes].” Sunday Telegraph, October 18, 2009.
      • Bloom, Harold. “The Critic’s Critc [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Life by David Nokes].” New York Times, November 8, 2009.
      • Carey, John. “Doctor in Distress: Samuel Johnson’s Life Was Shaped by Failure, but This Rewarding Biography Reveals a Man of Remarkable Kindness Pen for Hire [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Life by David Nokes].” The Sunday Times, September 13, 2009.
      • Power, Henry. “After Bozzy [Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by John Hawkins, and Samuel Johnson: A Life, by David Nokes].” TLS 5568–69 (18 & 25 Dec. 2009 (n.d.): 18.
      • Royle, Trevor. “Redefining the Life of Johnson: A Thorough and Entertaining Study Sheds New Light on the Capricious Great Man of English Letters [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Life, by David Nokes].” The Herald (Glasgow), September 12, 2009.
      • Thomson, Ian. “Grub Street’s Finest [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Life by David Nokes].” Irish Times, October 10, 2009.
3275. Nokes, David. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. Times Higher Education, no. 713 (1986): 19.
3276. Nokes, David. “The Last Word — Even If Not Adroit [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World by Henry Hitchings; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick; and Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott].” Times Higher Education Supplement 1739 (April 21, 2006): 22.
3277. Nokes, David. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. TLS, May 15, 1992, 24.
3278. Norman, Nathaniel. “Organic Tensions: Putting the Tracings Back on the Map in Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 55, no. 1 (March 2014): 57–75. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecy.2014.0003.
      Abstract: This article argues that James Boswell’s attempt to stabilize a biographical representation of Samuel Johnson in the Life of Johnson was frustrated by Johnson’s resistance to the project, which Boswell wrote into the Life. Using the theoretical approaches of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, the article examines how Boswell uses the conventions of eighteenth-century letter writing, paratextual arrangement, and intrusive commentary to confine and fix Johnson’s life in the biography. The rhizomatic intensity of Johnson’s life cannot be fully contained, and it destabilizes its own biographical representation with laughter: Bowell’s representation of Johnson is depicted laughing at the biographer and the biographer’s project, ultimately undermining the biographical stability Boswell seeks to impose.
3279. Norton, Brian Michael. “Happiness.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 617–30. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: This chapter is a comprehensive study of Samuel Johnson’s ideas of happiness. It argues that what Johnson demonstrates is not that earthly happiness is impossible, but that it is subject to conditions we’d be unwise to ignore. In place of perfect happiness, Johnson offers a tempered happiness, one that will always be a work in progress and vulnerable to loss. But rather than viewing the endlessness of desire and the fragility of the good simply as obstacles to happiness, this chapter argues further, Johnson’s larger point is that there would be no happiness (as we know it) without these human realities. In scaling back our estimation of happiness, he challenges us to come to terms with happiness as it is, not as we’d like it to be, and to ask no more from life than life can allow.
3280. Novak, Maximillian E. “James Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” In The Biographer’s Art: New Essays, edited by Jeffrey Myers, 31–52. Basingstoke: McMillan, 1987.
3281. Novak, Maximillian E. “‘Rotation of Interests’: Johnson’s Concept of Social and Historical Encounter and Change.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 43–62. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
3282. Novak, Maximillian E. “Warfare and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Or, Why Eighteenth-Century Fiction Failed to Produce a War and Peace.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 4, no. 3 (1992): 185–205.
3283. Noy, David. Dr Johnson’s Friend and Robert Adam’s Client Topham Beauclerk. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
      Abstract: Dr Johnson said that he would walk to the ends of the earth to save Beauclerk. Other people who claimed to be his friends rejoiced at his early death. How did the beautiful youth of Francis Coates’ 1756 portrait become a man whose greatest claim to fame was causing an infestation of lice at Blenheim Palace through lack of personal hygiene? A great-grandson of Charles II and Nell Gwyn, he lived a privileged life thanks to fortuitously inherited wealth. He employed Robert Adam to build him a house at Muswell Hill which has almost completely disappeared from the records of Adam’s work due to ...
3284. Nunnery, David. “‘Hoot Him Back Again into the Common Road’: The Problem of Singularity, and the Human Comedy of the Lives of the Poets.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 107–28. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
3285. Nunnery, David. “Informational Biography and the Lives of the Poets.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 22 (2012): 1–21.
3286. Nunnery, David. “Johnson’s Irascibles and the Good Work of Bad Stories.” In Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment, 121–37. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2024.
3287. Nunnery, David. “Sociability, Information, and the ‘Inlets to Happiness’ in Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.” PhD thesis, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2010.
3288. Nussbaum, Felicity A. “Manly Subjects: Boswell’s Journals and The Life of Johnson.” In The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England, 103–26. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
3289. Nussbaum, Felicity A. “‘Savage’ Mothers: Narratives of Maternity in the Mid-Eighteenth Century.” Cultural Critique 20 (1991): 123–51. https://doi.org/10.2307/1354225.
3290. Nye, Robert. “Key to the Doctor’s Padlock [Review of According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge].” The Times, August 22, 2001.
3291. Ober, William B. “Johnson and Boswell: ‘Vile Melancholy’ and ‘The Hypochondriack.’” In Bottoms Up!: A Pathologist’s Essays on Medicine and the Humanities, 179–202. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.
3292. Ober, William B. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Verbatim 18, no. 4 (1992): 13–14.
3293. O’Brian, Patrick. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Daily Telegraph, April 22, 1992.
3294. O’Brien, Conor Cruise. “Dr Johnson and Edmund Burke.” New Rambler D:12, no. 12 (1996): 25–32.
3295. O’Brien, Conor Cruise. “Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1993, 1–7.
3296. O’Brien, Karen. Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, by Pat Rogers. Review of English Studies 46 (November 1995): 590–91.
3297. O’Brien, Karen. “Johnson’s View of the Scottish Enlightenment in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 4 (1991): 59–82.
3298. O’Casey, Brenda, ed. The Sayings of Doctor Johnson. London: Duckworth, 1990.
3299. O’Connell, Jeffrey, and Thomas E. O’Connell. Friendships across Ages: Johnson and Boswell: Holmes and Laski. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008.
      A comparison of two friendships. Johnson and Boswell are the subject of chapters 1 (“From Doctor Johnson to Justice Holmes to Professor Laski,” pp. 9–25), 2 (“Johnson,” pp. 27–54), and 3 (“Boswell,” pp. 55–66), though they appear throughout the book.
3300. O’Connell, Sheila. “One of the Hungry Mob of Scriblers and Etchers: Johnson’s Pension in Visual Satire.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 20 (2010): 61–78.
3301. O’Flaherty, Patrick. A Reading of Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated (1749). St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador: Long Beach Press, 2016. Reviews:
      • Davies, Richard A. Review of A Reading of Samuel Johnson’s “The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated” (1749), by Patrick O’Flaherty. Mouseion 15, no. 1 (2018): 165–68. https://doi.org/10.3138/mous.15.1.165.
3302. O’Flaherty, Patrick. “Samuel Johnson’s Politics: Some Points of Disagreement [Review of The Politics of Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene].” Dalhousie Review 72, no. 3 (September 1992): 382–98.
3303. Ogawa, Kimiyo. “Scientific Curiosity in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” In Johnson in Japan, edited by Kimiyo Ogawa, Mika Suzuki, and Greg Clingham, 41–61. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
3304. Ogawa, Kimiyo, and Mika Suzuki, eds. Johnson in Japan. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684482450.
      Abstract: The study and reception of Samuel Johnson’s work has long been embedded in Japanese literary culture. The essays in this collection reflect that history and influence, underscoring the richness of Johnson scholarship in Japan, while exploring broader conditions in Japanese academia today. In examining Johnson’s works such as the Rambler (1750–52), Rasselas (1759), Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), and Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), the contributors — all members of the half-century-old Johnson Society of Japan—also engage with the work of other important English writers, namely Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, and Matthew Arnold, and later Japanese writers, including Natsume Soseki (1867–1916). If the state of Johnson studies in Japan is unfamiliar to Western academics, this volume offers a unique opportunity to appreciate Johnson’s centrality to Japanese education and intellectual life, and to reassess how he may be perceived in a different cultural context.
      Reviews:
      • Berglund, Lisa. Review of Johnson in Japan, by Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 34, no. 4 (2022): 493–96.
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of Johnson in Japan, by Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 36, no. 2 (2022): 64–67.
      • Smallwood, Philip. Review of Johnson in Japan, by Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki. Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 2 (September 2021): 57–61.
      • Stone, John. Review of Johnson in Japan, by Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 28 (2023): 292–95.
3305. Ogden, James. “A Johnson Borrowing from Milton.” Notes and Queries 39 [237], no. 4 (December 1992): 482.
3306. Ogée, Frédéric. Review of État de la Corse, by Jean Viviès. Dix-Huitième Siècle 26 (August 1994): 579–80.
3307. Ogino, Masatoshi. “Samayoeru tabibitotachi (1): Eibeibungaku ni okeru ‘hōkō’ to sono hensō.” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 139, no. 1 (April 1993): 8–10.
3308. Ogura, Masaaki. “An Analysis of Johnson’s View of Knowledge: A Corpus-Stylistic Approach.” In Johnson in Japan, edited by Kimiyo Ogawa, Mika Suzuki, and Greg Clingham, 130–44. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
      The editorial board announced that this article has been retracted on May 16, 2018. If you have any further question, please contact us at: ijel@ccsenet.org
3309. Ogura, Masaaki. “Phrases Constituting Periodic Sentences of Samuel Johnson: A Case of The Rambler.” International Journal of English Linguistics 8, no. 5 (2018): 6–9. https://doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v8n5p6.
3310. O’Hagan, Andrew. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. London Review of Books 22, no. 19 (2000): 7–8.
3311. O’Hagan, Andrew. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. London Review of Books 22, no. 19 (October 5, 2000): 7–8.
3312. O’Hagan, Andrew. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. London Review of Books 22, no. 19 (2000): 8.
3313. O’Hagan, Andrew. “The Laird of Life: Boswell’s Life of Johnson Is the First Great Modern Biography.” Guardian, May 16, 1998.
      Discussion of the Life with literary biographers.
3314. O’Hagan, Andrew. “The Powers of Dr. Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” New York Review of Books 66, no. 15 (October 8, 2009): 6–8, 10.
3315. O’Hagan, Andrew. “Word Wizard [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” New York Review of Books 53, no. 7 (April 27, 2006): 12–13.
3316. O’Kill, Brian. The Lexicographic Achievement of Johnson. Harlow: Longman, 1990.
3317. Olsen, Thomas G. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 58–72.
3318. Olson, Ray. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Booklist 97, no. 21 (July 2001): 1971.
3319. Olson, Ray. Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin. Booklist 13, no. 2 (September 15, 2008): 13–14.
3320. Olson, Robert C. “Samuel Johnson’s Ambivalent View of Classical Pastoral.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 31–42. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
3321. O’Mara, Richard. “London and Boswell: [1].” Sewanee Review 111, no. 4 (2003): 595–602.
      Abstract: James Boswell, celebrated mainly as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was a diligent explorer of preindustrial London. The very streets, mews, alleys and lanes animated him his entire life, though he dwelt only a dozen years among them.
3322. Ong, Walter J. “Samuel Johnson and the Printed Word.” Review 10 (1988): 97–112.
3323. Orchard, Jack. “Dr Johnson on Trial: Catherine Talbot and Jemima Grey Responding to Samuel Johnson’s The Rambler.” Women’s Writing 23, no. 2 (2016): 193–210.
      Abstract: This article is an analysis of contemporary critical approaches to the relationships between Dr Johnson and women, particularly with reference to The Rambler, followed by the introduction of previously unpublished letters which display a female reader of the periodical, Jemima Campbell, Marchioness Grey, choosing not to write for The Rambler and instead opting to produce a satirical attack on “Mr Rambler” within the private sphere of a familiar letter to her friend Catherine Talbot. Talbot did write an essay for Johnson’s periodical, and this article looks at the two documents as different case studies in responses to Johnson’s moralizing persona. Essentially, criticism on The Rambler has undergone a shift from celebratory analysis of his positive and nuanced representations of his female characters and relationships with contemporary women writers, since James Basker and Isobel Grundy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, to a reappraisal of his relationships with women through lo
3324. Orgel, Stephen. “Johnson’s Lear.” In Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson, edited by Eric Rasmussen and Aaron Santesso, 181–202. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
      On the treatment of Lear in the eighteenth century, including Tate’s famous revision. Johnson appears only in passing.
3325. Ormsby, Eric. “The Boundless Chaos of a Living Speech.” New York Sun, November 16, 2005.
3326. Ortiz, Mary Terese. “‘On the Margins of Eternity’: A Reconsideration of Hope in the Writings of Samuel Johnson.” PhD thesis, New York University, 2000.
3327. O’Shaughnessy, Toni. “Fiction as Truth: Personal Identity in Johnson’s Life of Savage.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 30, no. 3 (June 1990): 487–501. https://doi.org/10.2307/450708.
3328. Osmun, Mark Hazard. “Touring Scotland: In the Footsteps of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Boswell.” San Francisco Examiner, June 25, 1995.
3329. Osselton, N. E. “Quotation and Example in Johnson’s Abridged Dictionary (1756–78).” International Journal of Lexicography 31, no. 4 (2018): 475–84.
3330. Osselton, N. E. “Usage Guidance in Early Dictionaries of English.” International Journal of Lexicography 19, no. 1 (March 2006): 99–105. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/eci053.
3331. Osselton, Noel. “Dr. Johnson and the Spelling of Dispatch.” International Journal of Lexicography 7, no. 4 (1994): 307.
3332. Osselton, Noel E. “Alphabetisation in Monolingual Dictionaries to Johnson.” Exeter Linguistic Studies 14 (1989): 165–73.
3333. Osselton, Noel E. “Dr. Johnson and the English Phrasal Verb.” In Lexicography: An Emerging International Profession, edited by R. Ilson, 7–16. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986.
3334. Osselton, Noel E. “Hyphenated Compounds in Johnson’s Dictionary.” In Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott, 160–74. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
3335. Osselton, Noel E. “Phrasal Verbs: Dr. Johnson’s Use of Bilingual Sources.” In Chosen Words: Past and Present Problems for Dictionary Makers, 93–103. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1995.
      A lightly revised reprint of “Dr. Johnson and the English Phrasal Verb.”
3336. O’Sullivan, Maurice J. “Shakespeare, Johnson, and Wolsey: A Community of Mind.” Sydney Studies in English 14 (1988): 13–20.
3337. Ott, Bill. “The Age of Insults [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch].” Booklist, April 1, 2004.
3338. Ott, Bill. Review of The Brothers Boswell, by Philip Baruth. Booklist 105, no. 19–20 (2009): 39.
3339. Owen, Meurig. A Grand Tour of North Wales: An Eighteenth Century Jaunt of Castles and Mansions. Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2003.
3340. Padnos, Peg. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Wilson Library Bulletin 66, no. 5 (January 1992): 121.
3341. Page, K. A. J. “Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas and Its Intellectual Background.” PhD thesis, Birkbeck College, University of London, 1984.
3342. Page, Norman. A Dr. Johnson Chronology. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1990. Reviews:
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of A Dr. Johnson Chronology, by Norman Page. Notes and Queries 38 [236], no. 4 (1991): 546.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of A Dr. Johnson Chronology, by Norman Page. Johnsonian News Letter 49, no. 3 (June 1989): 21–22.
      • Ziegler, Robert. “Recent Books on Johnson and Boswell [Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of ‘The Life of Johnson,’ by Greg Clingham; The Politics of Samuel Johnson, 2nd Ed., by Donald Greene; Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan; A Dr. Johnson Chronology, by Norman Page; Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker; The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick; The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford; and Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire].” Papers on Language and Literature 28, no. 4 (September 1992): 457–75.
3343. Page, Norman, ed. Dr. Johnson: Interviews and Recollections. Toronto: Barnes & Noble, 1987. Reviews:
      • Barron, Janet. Review of Dr. Johnson: Interviews and Recollections, by Norman Page. Times Higher Education, no. 770 (1987): 19.
      • Fleeman, J. D. Review of Dr. Johnson: Interviews and Recollections, by Norman Page. New Rambler D:3, no. 3 (1987): 48–50.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Dr. Johnson: Interviews and Recollections, by Norman Page. Notes and Queries 36 [234], no. 1 (1989): 114.
      • Pailler, Albert. Review of Dr. Johnson: Interviews and Recollections, by Norman Page. Études Anglaises 41, no. 3 (July 1988): 358.
      • Review of Dr. Johnson: Interviews and Recollections, by Norman Page. Year’s Work in English Studies 68 (1990): 362.
3344. Pahl, Chance David. “Samuel Johnson, Periodical Publication, and the Sentimental Reader: Virtue in Distress in The Rambler and The Idler.” In Lumen: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Travaux Choisis de La Société Canadienne d’étude Du Dix-Huitième Siècle, 36:21–35, 2017.
3345. Pahl, Chance David. “Teleology in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas.” Renascence: Essays on Literature and Ethics, Spirituality, and Religion 64, no. 3 (March 2012): 221–32. https://doi.org/10.5840/renascence201264336.
3346. Pahl, Kerstin. “Relations of Likeness: Portraiture and Life-Writing in England, 1660–1790.” PhD thesis, King’s College, London, 2018.
      Abstract: This thesis treats the interplay between English portraiture and life-writing between 1660 and 1790. It analyses how and to what ends they did engage with each other in theory, practice, and as concepts and it argues that the mutually complementary use of information via different media had a strong bearing on aesthetics. At first glance, the similarity of visual portraits and literary Lives appears to be self-evident. Portraits show people, biography describes them. Both draw on a pool of information that they transform into a work according to their respective aesthetics. Portraiture’s and biography’s evolution often evolved concurrently, indicating that a heightened interest in the individual is thought to express itself across the artistic field and also often operated with almost identical terminology. The closeness in language reflected the multiple ways in which portraiture and life-writing made use of and referred to each other to heighten their respective effect. Constituting a multi-modal approach, portraiture and life-writing relied on quantity, illustration, and complementation. They were understood as relational works that put forward a thematic core that could be endlessly expanded. The concept of likeness plays a major role in this thesis. Likeness never implied identity, but likeliness, proposing that the presentation was a credible approximation of the original. Being able to stand alone, even to acquire authority over its original, makes likeness unique. By tracing its historic understanding and negotiation, my aim is to historicise the concept of likeness, considering it the joint between visual portraiture and life-writing. Proceeding chronologically, this study covers a period of 120 years, roughly between the 1660s and the 1790s. It starts at the time when issues of classification of genres became prevalent in England and ending when their interaction itself had become subject to theorisation. The approach of each chapter is informed by specific themes, and all chapters attempt to embed aesthetics within their social realm. The introduction outlines the topic, methodology, the material and provides an overview of the current state of research. Chapter 1 will address the period of the late seventeenth century, c. 1660s to 1690s, focusing particularly on the concept of worthiness, meaning the social value portraiture or biography assigned to and argued for their subjects. Chapter 2 is set at around 1700, more precisely between 1683, the publication of Dryden’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives, and 1719, when all three treatises on art by Jonathan Richardson’s had appeared. This section deals with emerging methodology, referentiality, and likeness. It explores comparative methods (“paralleling”) and the increasing orientation of art and literary theories towards contemporaneity. Chapter 3 covers the early eighteenth century, c. 1710s to 1740s, and explores the relationship between subject, work, and the public sphere, and strategies of image-making. Chapter 4 ranges from 1740s to 1750s, examining narrative methods in visual and literary life-writing, especially focusing Samuel Johnson, William Hogarth, and James Harris and the role that time as moment, length, and duration played in aesthetic thinking. Covering the period from c. 1750s to 1780s, chapter 5 picks up the thread of chapter 4 by analysing how, in occasional genres, aesthetics and ethics concur in their embodiment by people. Finally, chapter 6 brings the several threads of the other chapters together to show how the coexistent and interacting streams of portraiture and biography were consciously merged, implying that one should no longer exist without the other. The conclusion summarises the arguments and discusses how aesthetics and information work as complements.
3347. Pailler, Albert. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. Études Anglaises 39, no. 3 (July 1986): 346.
3348. Pailler, Albert. Review of Dr. Johnson: Interviews and Recollections, by Norman Page. Études Anglaises 41, no. 3 (July 1988): 358.
3349. Pailler, Albert. Review of Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, by Prem Nath. Études Anglaises 42, no. 4 (1989): 475–76.
3350. Pailler, Albert. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Études Anglaises 40, no. 2 (April 1987): 216–17.
3351. Pailler, Albert. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. Études Anglaises 39, no. 4 (December 1986): 458–59.
3352. Pailler, Albert. Review of Rasselas and Other Tales, by Gwin J. Kolb. Études Anglaises 46, no. 1 (January 1993): 83–84.
3353. Pailler, Albert. “Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking.” Études Anglaises 46, no. 1 (January 1993): 86.
3354. Pailler, Albert. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Études Anglaises 46, no. 1 (1993): 85–86.
3355. Pailler, Albert. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays, by Isobel Grundy. Études Anglaises 39, no. 2 (April 1986): 217–18.
3356. Pailler, Albert. Review of The Oxford Authors: Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. Études Anglaises 39, no. 2 (April 1986): 217–18.
3357. Pajares Infante, Eterio. “Contra las ‘belles infidèles’: La primera traducción al Español del Rasselas de Samuel Johnson.” TRANS, no. 4 (2017): 89–99. https://doi.org/10.24310/TRANS.2000.v0i4.2520.
      Abstract: Durante el siglo XVIII, la tendencia en la traducción de textos ingleses al español, que no perseguían ser adaptaciones sino tender al polo de aceptabilidad, era seguir la moda francesa de las “belles infidèles” mayoritariamente imperante entonces. Se llegó incluso a decir que era mejor no ser fieles en la traducción de textos ingleses, dada la distancia ética y estética que separaba la producción de Gran Bretaña con respecto a lo que se elaboraba en el continente. Sufrieron este proceso, por mencionar los ejemplos más significativos, las tres novelas de Richardson y Tom Jones y Amelia de Fielding. Sin embargo, el Rasselas de Johnson conoció una suerte muy diferente. La finalidad de este ensayo es analizar por qué la versión de esta novela se aparta de los cánones establecidos y señalar qué tipo de versión se ofreció al lector español del dieciocho.
3358. Pakenham, Michael. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch. Baltimore Sun, June 6, 2004.
3359. Paku, Gillian. “The Age of Anon: Johnson Rewrites the Name of the Author.” Eighteenth-Century Life 32, no. 2 (March 2008): 98–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2008-009.
3360. Pal, S. L. “Johnson’s Philosophy of Life and Literature.” In Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, edited by T. R. Sharma, 25–34. India: Shalabh, 1986.
3361. Palmer, Anthony. “The Proper Use of Words: Criticism within the Way of Ideas.” In Science and Imagination in XVIIIth-Century British Culture/Scienza e Immaginazione Nella Cultura Inglese Del Settecento, edited by Sergio Rossi and Giulio Giorello, 287–95. Milano: Unicopli, 1987.
3362. Palmer, Joanna. “Remarkable Lives, Remarkable Words.” The Lancet 360, no. 9339 (2002): 1036–1036. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11177-9.
3363. Pandey, Radhe Shyam. Dr. Samuel Johnson as Critic. Patna: Uma Publications, 1987.
3364. Panja, Shormishtha. “‘Tumour, Meanness, Tediousness and Obscurity’: Dr. Johnson’s Reading of Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies: An International Journal of Research on The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke 20, no. 1–2 (June 1998): 107–16.
3365. Pape, Walter. “The Battle of the Signs: Robert Crumb’s Visual Reading of James Boswell’s London Journal.” In Icons, Texts, Iconotexts: Essays on Ekphrasis and Intermediality, edited by Peter Wagner, 324–46. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1996. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110882599.324.
      Abstract: Comic strips are the modern example of a combination of the sister arts. But in contrast to traditional pictorial arts, their ‘natural signs’ are abbreviations and reductions almost to the same extent as the text is. Robert Crumb’s Klassic Komik at first sight may not seem superficial, but rather a clever contemporary critique of an eighteenth-century text. Whereas Boswell’s text is often ambiguous and evocative, Crumb’s visual rendering offers a specific but constrained reading. The German translation of Crumb’s excerpts from Boswell by Harry Rowohlt further reveals how iconic ekphrasis tends to iconic ellipsis.
3366. Parisot, Eric. “Death.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 551–66. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: This chapter examines the persistence of death, and the related concepts of salvation and the afterlife, in the life and writings of Johnson. As a pious rationalist, death presented a conundrum for Johnson, one that (according to Boswell) pitted his intellectual faculties against illogical, religious fear. It was indeed a source of enduring angst for Johnson, revealed in this chapter by: (i) his holy fear of death, a Christian duty that Johnson believed to be a deeply rational position informed by the uncertainty of salvation; (ii) his contemplation of the dead, and his grief over departed loved ones (including his mother, his wife, and Robert Levet); and (iii) the various biographical constructions of Johnson’s character when on his own death-bed, finally confronted with his own mortality.
3367. Park, Hye-Young. “The Politics of Johnson’s Reading of ‘Lycidas’ and the Social Aspect of Pastoral Poetry.” Milton Studies: The Journal of the Milton Studies in Korea 12, no. 1 (2002): 83–101.
3368. Park, Jai Young. “Samuel Johnson’s The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Pilgrimage of Buddhists.” Journal of English Language and Literature/Yǒngǒ Yǒngmunhak 48, no. 4 (December 2002): 955–70.
3369. Parke, Catherine N. “Boswell’s First and Second Person: The Yale-BBC Scotland Production of Boswell’s London Journal and Boswell for the Defense.” Eighteenth-Century Life 16, no. 2 (May 5, 1992): 139–42.
3370. Parke, Catherine N. Review of Designing the “Life of Johnson”: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2, by Bruce Redford. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 386–87.
3371. Parke, Catherine N. Review of Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, by David Wheeler. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 473–77.
3372. Parke, Catherine N. “Johnson and the Arts of Conversation.” In The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 18–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.003.
3373. Parke, Catherine N. “Johnson, Imlac, and Biographical Thinking.” In Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, edited by David Wheeler, 85–106. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
3374. Parke, Catherine N. “Majority Biography 1: Samuel Johnson.” In Biography: Writing Lives, 35–66. New York: Twayne, 1996.
3375. Parke, Catherine N. “Negotiating the Past, Examining Ourselves: Johnson, Women, and Gender in the Classroom.” South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 9, no. 4 (December 1992): 71–80. https://doi.org/10.2307/3189482.
3376. Parke, Catherine N. “Rasselas and the Conversation of History.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 1 (1987): 79–109.
3377. Parke, Catherine N. Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991.
      Abstract: Catherine N. Parke offers new readings of Johnson’s major prose writings, the familiar and the not so familiar. Through an inquiry into the centrality of biography in his thinking, she examines Johnson’s ideas about education, portrays his habits of mind, and explores his creative temperament.
      Reviews:
      • Danziger, Marlies K. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neal Parke. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 16, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 175–76.
      • Fleeman, J. D. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neale Parke. New Rambler D:7, no. 7 (1991): 39–40.
      • Gray, James. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neale Parke. Dalhousie Review 71 (1991): 502–7.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neale Parke. Review of English Studies 45 (August 1994): 424–25.
      • Maner, Martin. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neale Parke. South Atlantic Review 57, no. 3 (September 1992): 128–31.
      • Pailler, Albert. “Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking.” Études Anglaises 46, no. 1 (January 1993): 86.
      • Pettit, Alexander. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neal Parke. Eighteenth-Century Studies 26 (1992): 121–26.
      • Scanlan, J. T. “The Biographical Part of Literature [Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neale Parke].” Johnsonian News Letter 52, no. 2–53, 2 (June 1992): 26–28.
      • Scholtz, Gregory. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neal Parke. Choice 29, no. 7 (March 1992): 1079.
      • Sherman, Stuart. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neale Parke. JEGP 93 (October 1994): 585–88.
3378. Parke, Catherine N. “Samuel Johnson and Gender.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 19–27. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
3379. Parke, Catherine N. “Samuel Johnson and Melodrama.” New Rambler D:5, no. 5 (1989): 29–37.
3380. Parke, Catherine N. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 473–77.
3381. Parke, Catherine N. “‘The Hero Being Dead’: Evasive Explanation in Biography: The Case of Boswell.” Philological Quarterly 68, no. 3 (June 1989): 343–62.
3382. Parke, Catherine N. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1994): 391–93.
3383. Parker, Blanford. “God.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 646–63. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: We can deduce from Johnson's major works his clearest conception of God. We get a very particular kind of “fideism" by reading the ideas of God and futurity in The Vanity of Human Wishes, Rasselas, The Vision of Theodore, and his review of Soame Jenyns. Johnson indicates that faith and hope are the only fruitful means of getting close to a remote and largely unknowable God. This position is conformed in a few very important Rambler essays. This alone grounds for him the promise of the Bible. By this Johnson challenges most of the claims of evidential or natural theology so common in his era.
3384. Parker, Blanford. “Johnson and Fideism.” In The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson, 231–49. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
3385. Parker, Fred. “Johnson and the Lives of the Poets.” Cambridge Quarterly 29, no. 4 (2000): 323–37. https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/XXIX.4.323.
3386. Parker, Fred. “Johnson’s Lives of the Poets: A Guided Tour.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 164–77. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
3387. Parker, Fred. “Philosophy.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 286–93. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3388. Parker, Fred. Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Reviews:
      • Gordon, Scott Paul. Review of Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson, by Fred Parker. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 16 (2005): 288–91.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson, by Fred Parker. Choice 42, no. 1 (September 1, 2004): 0169. https://doi.org/10.5860/CHOICE.42-0169.
      • Potkay, Adam. Review of Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson, by Fred Parker. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 1 (March 2005): 35–37.
3389. Parker, Fred. “The Skepticism of Johnson’s Rasselas.” In The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 127–42. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.010.
3390. Parker, Fred. “The Sociable Philosopher: David Hume and the Philosophical Essay.” In On Essays: Montaigne to the Present, edited by Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy, 115–31. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
3391. Parker, Fred. “‘We Are Perpetually Moralists’: Johnson and Moral Philosophy.” In Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, edited by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood, 15–32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
3392. Parker, G. F. Review of Johnson’s and Lessing’s Dramatic Critical Theories and Practice with a Consideration of Lessing’s Affinities with Johnson, by Emma Hawari. Cambridge Quarterly 19, no. 3 (1990): 243–54.
3393. Parker, G. F. “Johnson’s Criticism of Shakespeare.” PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986.
3394. Parker, G. F. Johnson’s Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Reviews:
      • Brown, R. G. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Choice 27, no. 4 (December 1989): 634.
      • Gondris, Joanna. “Of Poets and Critics [Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker, and Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken].” Johnsonian News Letter 51, no. 4 (March 1991): 4–7.
      • Gray, James. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Modern Philology 89, no. 1 (August 1991): 127–31.
      • Hapgood, Robert. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. TLS, August 25, 1989, 927–28.
      • Hopkins, David. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Review of English Studies 42 (1991): 271–72.
      • Kaminski, Thomas. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. JEGP 90, no. 4 (October 1991): 559–61.
      • Leggatt, Alexander. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Shakespeare Quarterly 42, no. 1 (1991): 107–9.
      • Lim, C. S. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Notes and Queries 37 [235], no. 4 (December 1990): 475–76.
      • McLaverty, James. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Essays in Criticism 40, no. 2 (April 1990): 164–70.
      • Rawson, Claude. “Samuel Johnson Goes Abroad [Review of Johnson’s Dictionary, Longman; Johnson’s Shakespeare by G. F. Parker; The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’ by Allen Reddick; A Voyage to Abyssinia by Joel J. Gold; Rasselas and Other Tales by Gwin J. Kolb].” London Review of Books 13, no. 15 (1991): 15–17.
      • Schrickx, Willem. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 71, no. 3 (June 1990): 280–83.
      • White, R. S. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Shakespeare Survey Annual 43 (1990): 219–35.
      • White, R. S. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft-West, Jahrbuch, 1990, 283.
      • Ziegler, Robert. “Recent Books on Johnson and Boswell [Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of ‘The Life of Johnson,’, by Greg Clingham; The Politics of Samuel Johnson, 2nd Ed., by Donald Greene; Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan; A Dr. Johnson Chronology, by Norman Page; Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker; The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick; The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford; and Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire].” Papers on Language and Literature 28, no. 4 (September 1992): 457–75.
3395. Parker, Peter. “Naked Portraits: The Lives of Their Times: How the Art of Biography Evolved [Review of Johnson on Savage: The Life of Mr Richard Savage by Samuel Johnson by Richard Holmes].” TLS 5379 (May 5, 2006): 3–4.
3396. Parry-Jones, B. “A Bulimic Ruminator? The Case of Dr. Samuel Johnson.” Psychological Medicine 22, no. 4 (November 1992): 851.
3397. Pasanek, Brad. “Philosophy.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 519–35. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: This chapter approaches eighteenth-century philosophy characterologically, exhibiting Samuel Johnson by means of several Theophrastan types (Sage, Gadfly, Stoic, Sceptic, Man of Science) and surveying likewise the cast of philosophical characters presented in his periodical essays and other publications. Many studies of Johnson’s philosophical engagements pair him with John Locke, David Hume, or Jean-Jacques Rousseau and discover surprising alignments and affinities. Often in this important scholarship, much of it here summarized and digested, Johnson is contrasted with a contemporary philosophe who becomes a foil useful for more narrowly characterizing Johnson’s commitments as those of a moralist or religious anti-philosopher. My exposition instead begins and concludes with a consideration of nonsense and laughter, which are understood as conditioning the open and variegated eighteenth-century character system available to Johnson and evidenced in his writing.
3398. Pascual Garrido, María Luisa. “La recepción española de la obra de Samuel Johnson en las traducciones al castellano.” Odisea, no. 11 (2017): 329–42. https://doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i11.339.
      Abstract: The present study analyses the reception of Samuel Johnson in Spain through the translation of his works into Spanish. Despite the immense influence Samuel Johnson has had in the English-speaking world as one of the most significant representatives of enlightened Humanism, the knowledge of his works and his figure have been rather belated in the Hispanic world. His marked “Englishness” may be considered one of the causes why his works went unnoticed among his Spanish contemporaries and the following generations at a time when political and cultural alliances linked Spain to France rather than to Great Britain. A determining factor in the process of making Samuel Johnson better-known in Spain has been the development of English Studies as an academic discipline, especially since the 1980’s. The second important factor is the availability of Spanish translations of the famous biography signed by James Boswell.
3399. Patey, Douglas L. Review of Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd, by Thomas Reinert. Choice 34, no. 11–12 (July 1997): 1804.
3400. Patey, Douglas L. Review of Samuel Johnson’s “General Nature”: Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse, by Scott D. Evans. Choice 37 (June 2000): 5517.
3401. Patey, Douglas L. Review of “The Fictions of Romantick Chivalry”: Samuel Johnson and Romance, by Eithne Henson. Choice 30, no. 6 (February 1993): 960.
3402. Patey, Douglas Lane. “Johnson’s Refutation of Berkeley: Kicking the Stone Again.” Journal of the History of Ideas 47, no. 1 (1986): 139–45. https://doi.org/10.2307/2709600.
3403. Patterson, Melissa. “Nathan Bailey’s Dictionary: Signs of Its Author, Readers, and Influence on Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 21 (2011): 93–122.
3404. Patterson, Melissa. “The Creators of Information in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” PhD thesis, University of Toronto, 2015.
      Abstract: In twenty-first-century accounts of how knowledge was transmitted at second hand in the early modern period and the eighteenth century, the idea of information has played a crucial role. “Information” refers to the content that was compiled and stored on paper and shared in reference books and periodical sheets. My thesis argues that eighteenth-century Britons understood printed information through the lens of cultural discourses that privileged engagements with books that we would now call “literary.” By re-thinking the transmission of information as a textual object in eighteenth-century Britain, I argue, we can better understand the complex ways in which information was credited, acquired, and shared. I show how the author-function played a role in the public sharing of information in Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755). Johnson’s rhetoric of personal sacrifice in the “Preface” and Plan of an English Dictionary (1747), I argue, should be contrasted with the methods of Johnson’s rival, Nathan Bailey. Bailey’s Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1721–1802) offers an example of the failure of compiled information to gain cultural authority without authorial control. I argue that Jonathan Swift’s satires on textual criticism, cryptanalysis, and scientific languages can be seen as critiques of mechanical reading “devices” that extracted information from texts. A direct challenge to informational uses of language was offered at the end of the eighteenth century in the work of Johnson’s friend, Hester Lynch Piozzi. Piozzi’s English-language reference work, British Synonymy (1794), showed how direct engagement with the “redundant” material of language provided a knowledge of texts that was difficult to communicate but necessary to observe. I suggest that the mediation of public information in eighteenth-century Britain was balanced in important ways by literary discourses that argued for the importance of the specific ways in which knowledge was credited, acquired, and shared through language.
3405. Pauley, Benjamin. “Authorship.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 281–97. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson’s works and correspondence contain of wealth of remarks on the “adventures of books” in the eighteenth-century marketplace of print. Taken together, Johnson’s observations on a broad range of books — his own and others’ — provide a compact introduction to the landscape of the eighteenth-century book trades and the world of eighteenth-century publishing. These comments reveal that Johnson’s ideas about authorship and letters were thoroughly conditioned by his keen awareness of practical questions of book production and publishing.
3406. Paxman, David B. “Samuel Johnson, Life’s Incompleteness, and the Limits of Representation.” Literature and Belief 10 (2000): 136–51.
3407. Payne, Laura. “Hammond, Johnson and the Most Difficult Book in the World.” New Rambler D:6, no. 6 (1990): 5–6.
3408. Payne, Laura. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 51, no. 1 (1988): 142–46.
3409. Payne, Laura A. “The Success of Johnson’s Irene.” New Rambler D:4, no. 4 (1988): 27–36.
3410. Payne, Linda R. “An Annotated Life of Johnson: Dr. William Cadogan on ‘Bozzy’ and His Bear.” Collections 2 (1987): 1–25.
3411. Payne, Michael. “Imaginative Licentiousness: Johnson on Shakespearean Tragedy.” New Rambler D:4, no. 4 (1988): 38–48.
3412. Payne, Michael. “Imaginative Licentiousness: Johnson on Shakespearean Tragedy.” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 17, no. 1 (1990): 66–78.
3413. Payne, Michael. “Johnson vs. Milton: Criticism as Inquisition.” New Rambler D:7 (1991): 31–44.
3414. Payne, Michael. “Johnson vs. Milton: Criticism as Inquisition.” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 19, no. 1 (February 1992): 60–74.
3415. Pearce, Chris P. “‘Gleaned as Industry Should Find, or Chance Should Offer It’: Johnson’s Dictionary after 250 Years [Review of Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s Dictionary by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott].” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 341–62.
3416. Pearce, Chris P. “Johnson’s Proud Folio: The Material and Rhetorical Contexts of Johnson’s Preface to the Dictionary.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 1–35.
3417. Pearce, Chris P. “Recovering the ‘Rigour of Interpretative Lexicography’: Border Crossings in Johnson’s Dictionary.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 19, no. 1 (2006): 33–50.
3418. Pearce, Chris P. “Samuel Johnson’s Use of Scientific Sources in the Dictionary.” Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 30 (2009): 119–29. https://doi.org/10.1353/dic.2009.0006.
3419. Pearce, Chris P. “The Pleasures of Polysemy: A Plan for Teaching Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language in an Eighteenth-Century Course.” Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 2 (September 2005): 10–14.
3420. Pearce, Christopher Patrick. “Terms of Corruption: Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary in Its Contexts.” PhD thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 2004. Reviews:
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Terms of Corruption: Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary” in Its Contexts, by Chris P. Pearce. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 1 (March 2005): 46–47.
3421. Pearce, Edward. “Commentary: A Prospect to Please Dr Johnson.” Guardian, November 25, 1992.
3422. Pearce, Edward. “Leave the Gillet, Here’s the Kicksey-Wicksey [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch].” The Herald (Glasgow), November 27, 2004.
3423. Pearce, J. M. S. “Doctor Samuel Johnson: ‘The Great Convulsionary’ a Victim of Gilles de La Tourette’s Syndrome.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 87, no. 7 (July 1, 1994): 396.
3424. Pearce, J. M. S. “Fanny Burney on Samuel Johnson’s Tics and Mannerisms.” Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 57, no. 3 (March 1994): 380.
3425. Pearson, Hesketh. Johnson and Boswell: The Story of Their Lives. London: Cassell, 1987.
      Abstract: Johnson and Boswell have been he subject of many books but here, for the first time, Hesketh Pearson presents the combined story of their lives. The two men, inseparable in the history of literature, are now united in one narrative. By combining their biographies, Pearson has made each man more distinct.
3426. Pedreira, Mark. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. Essays in Criticism 51, no. 4 (2001): 450–57.
3427. Pedreira, Mark. “Johnsonian Figures: A Cornucopia of Vanity, Idleness, and Death in Samuel Johnson’s Prose Writings.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 2 (1996): 241–73.
3428. Pedreira, Mark. “Johnsonian Figures: Copia and Lockean Observation in Samuel Johnson’s Critical Writings.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 1 (1994): 157–96.
3429. Pedreira, Mark. “Scholarship.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 153–68. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: This chapter revisits Samuel Johnson’s scholarship, exploring the interconnectedness of his bibliographical, lexicographical, and editorial studies in his scholarly works: the Harleian Catalogue (1743–45), A Dictionary of the English Language (1755; rev. 1773), and The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765; rev. 1773 and 1778). It begins by examining in the Harleian Catalogue, Catalogus Bibliothecæ Harleianæ (co-authored with William Oldys), Johnson’s statements on the value of catalogs and by conjecturing on his contributions to the annotations, especially on classics and Bibles, in the sale catalog of the Earl of Oxford’s library. The chapter then looks at Johnson’s Dictionary, examining, in this reference work, his “interpretative lexicography,” comprising his definitions (which have the function of “explanation”) and scholarly citations from Sidney to Pope, especially Shakespeare. The chapter concludes with Johnson’s scholarly notes on King Lear in his variorum edition of Shakespeare, arguing that Johnsonian textual criticism is noteworthy for its lexicographical learning.
3430. Pedreira, Mark A. “Revisiting Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot].” Eighteenth-Century Life 40, no. 3 (2016): 103–7.
3431. Pedreira, Mark Alan. “Samuel Johnson’s Rhetorical Art: Topical and Figurative Copia in the Age of Locke.” PhD thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, 1995.
3432. Pellicer, Juan Christian. “Dryden, Chesterfield, and Johnson’s ‘Celebrated Letter’: A Case of Compound Allusion.” Notes and Queries 48 [246], no. 4 (December 2001): 413–14. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/48.4.413-b.
3433. Pelser, Abraham Christoffel. “Die Literêre Biografie — ’N Terreinverkenning.” PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2001.
      Abstract: This study endeavours to research the field of literary historiography in general and specifically biographic historiography. In South Africa this genre has a limited tradition. Apart from a few diffused contributions by specialists in technical and other publications, and the essays by Hennie Aucamp in Beeltenis verbode and J. C. Kannemeyer in Getuigskrifte and Ontsyferde stene, very little research has been done in South Africa in this field. Chapter one expounds the research methodology. It briefly states the definition of the problem, as well as the goal orientation and the delimitation of the field of study, actuality, hypotheses and structural development. Chapter two affords the theoretical foundation of literary and more specifically biographic historiography. The concept “biography” is defined. The modern biography and its characteristics and structure are scrutinized in terms of different theoretical criteria. Finally this chapter contemplates some problems experienced by contemporary biographers. Chapter three is an overview which sets out the history of biographic historiography from the most ancient times, during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the 16th to the 20th century. Biographic historiography in the USA is closely researched. Major achievements and the most important texts which influenced the genre are emphasized. The contributions of notable biographers such as James Boswell and Lytton Strachey are highlighted. Chapter four is the core of this dissertation. Initially it contemplates biographic historiography in South Africa in general. Thereafter it researches literary biographies in depth. The earliest comprehensive literary biography in Afrikaans, Ds. S. J. du Toit in weg en werkby Totius, is discussed. Attention is drawn to Leon Rousseau’s biography of Eugène N. Marais, which, in 1974, ushered in the true beginning of this tradition in Afrikaans. Subsequently the biographies of V. E. d’As-sonville on Totius and S. J. du Toit are discussed. The major part of this chapter is devoted to the oeuvre of J. C. Kannemeyer, who probably made the most important contribution in this field with his comprehensive biographies on D. J. Opperman, C. J. Langenhoven, and C. Louis Leipoldt. Finally J. C. Steyn’s monumental description of the life of N. P. van Wyk Louw, in two volumes, is discussed. The discussion and evaluation of these texts are set out narratively and comparatively. The said biographies are evaluated according to different biographic theories. Chapter five, a concise chapter, evaluates the hypotheses set out at the beginning of this research. Furthermore it is indicated that the field of biographic historiography in South Africa is still not properly exploited. Suggestions for further research are given. South Africa is a multi-ethnic country and contradictory political, cultural, socio-economic and language interests are not uncommon. Biographies could contribute to mutual understanding of these diversities, as manifested in J. C. Steyn’s Van Wyk Louw: ‘n Lewensverhaal.Perhaps at present research in this field is crucial.
3434. Peña, Melvin. “Cosmopolitan Friendship in Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to Corsica.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 20 (2013): 169–94.
3435. Percy, Carol. “The Fall and Rise of Lord Chesterfield? Aristocratic Values in the Age of Prescriptivism.” In Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms, edited by Luisella Caon, Marion Elenbaas, and Janet Grijzenhout, 79–92. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.
3436. Percy, Carol. “The Social Symbolism of Contractions and Colloquialisms in Contemporary Accounts of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Bozzy, Piozzi, and the Authority of Intimacy.” Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics 2 (2002).
3437. Perman, David. Scott of Amwell: Dr. Johnson’s Quaker Critic. Ware, Herts.: Rockingham Press, 2001. Reviews:
      • Elias, A. C., Jr. Review of Scott of Amwell: Dr. Johnson’s Quaker Critic, by David Perman. East-Central Intelligencer 16 (May 2002): 16–17.
3438. Perreten, Peter F. “Boswell’s Response to the European Landscape.” In Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, edited by Irma S. Lustig, 37–63. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
3439. Pettingell, Phoebe. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. New Leader 77, no. 10 (October 10, 1994): 14.
3440. Pettit, Alexander. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neal Parke. Eighteenth-Century Studies 26 (1992): 121–26.
3441. Pettit, Alexander. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Eighteenth-Century Studies 26, no. 1 (1992): 124–26.
3442. Pettit, Alexander. Review of The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets,” by Martin Maner. Eighteenth-Century Studies 26, no. 1 (1992): 121–24.
3443. “Petty Caviller or ‘Formidable Assailant’? Johnson Reads Dennis.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 1 (Autumn 2019): 24–24.
3444. Pfeiffer, K. Ludwig. “The Splintering of Culture: Reading versus Salon.” In Sociability and Society: Literature and the Symposium, 79–95. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503634855.
      Abstract: Today, churches, political parties, trade unions, and even national sports teams are no guarantee of social solidarity. At a time when these traditional institutions of social cohesion seem increasingly ill-equipped to defend against the disintegration of sociability, K. Ludwig Pfeiffer encourages us to reflect on the cultural and literary history of social gatherings — from the ancient Athenian symposium to its successor forms throughout Western history. From medieval troubadours to Parisian salons and beyond, Pfeiffer conceptualizes the symposium as an institution of sociability with a central societal function. As such he reinforces a programmatic theoretical move in the sociology of Georg Simmel and builds on theories of social interaction and communication characterized by Max Weber, George Herbert Mead, Jürgen Habermas, Niklas Luhmann, and others. To make his argument, Pfeiffer draws on the work of a range of writers, including Dr. Samuel Johnson and Diderot, Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust, Dorothy Sayers, Joseph Conrad, and Stieg Larsson. Ultimately, Pfeiffer concludes that if modern societies do not find ways of reinstating elements of the Athenian symposium, especially those relating to its ritualized ease, decency and style of interaction, they will have to cope with increasing violence and decreasing social cohesion.
3445. Phillips, Adam. “Johnson’s Freud.” In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, 62–71. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0006.
3446. Phillips, J. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. Albion 28, no. 1 (1996): 109–11.
3447. Phillips, Jacob. “18th Century Samuel Johnson Letter to Young Girl Sells for £38,460.” The Independent, September 20, 2023, sec. News.
      Abstract: The item had been found stashed among a number of historic letters in a cupboard in a Gloucestershire country house.
3448. Phillips, Lidie Ann Risher. “Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas: Portrait of the Artist.” MA thesis, East Carolina University, 1986.
3449. Phillips, Natalie. “Narrating Distraction: Problems of Focus in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 1750–1820.” PhD thesis, Stanford University, 2011.
3450. Phillips, Natalie M. “Mind Wandering: Forms of Distraction in the Eighteenth-Century Essay.” In Distraction: Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature, 29–60. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
      Abstract: Early novel reading typically conjures images of rapt readers in quiet rooms, but commentators at the time described reading as a fraught activity, one occurring amidst a distracting cacophony that included sloshing chamber pots and wailing street vendors. Auditory distractions were compounded by literary ones as falling paper costs led to an explosion of print material, forcing prose fiction to compete with a dizzying array of essays, poems, sermons, and histories. In Distraction, Natalie M. Phillips argues that prominent Enlightenment authors — from Jane Austen and William Godwin to Eliza Haywood and Samuel Johnson — were deeply engaged with debates about the wandering mind, even if they were not equally concerned about the problem of distractibility. Phillips explains that some novelists in the 1700s — viewing distraction as a dangerous wandering from singular attention that could lead to sin or even madness — attempted to reform diverted readers.
3451. Phillips, Natalie M., and Sydney Logsdon. “Loose Sallies of the Mind: Distraction and the Essay.” In The Cambridge History of the British Essay, edited by Denise Gigante and Jason Childs, 167–82. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
3452. Picard, Liza. Dr Johnson’s London. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. Reviews:
      • Ackroyd, Peter. Review of Dr Johnson’s London, by Liza Picard. The Times, July 19, 2000.
      • Chisolm, Kate. Review of Dr Johnson’s London, by Liza Picard. Sunday Telegraph, July 16, 2000.
      • Griffiths, Eric. Review of Dr Johnson’s London, by Liza Picard. Evening Standard, July 17, 2000.
      • Schwarz, Leonard. Review of Dr Johnson’s London, by Liza Picard. New Rambler E:4 (2000): 84–85.
3453. Pickford, Stephanie. “Johnson and Tea.” New Rambler E:12 (2008–9): 13–23.
3454. Pierce, Charles E. Review of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. Eighteenth-Century Studies 22 (1988): 102–5.
3455. Pierce, Charles E. The Religious Life of Samuel Johnson. London: Athlone Press; Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1983. Reviews:
      • Boyd, John D. Review of The Religious Life of Samuel Johnson, by Charles E. Pierce. America 149 (July 9, 1983): 34–36.
3456. Pietilä, Päivi. “The Lives of the Poets: The More Readable Dr. Johnson.” In Alarums & Excursions: Working Papers in English, 125–41. Turku, Finland: University of Turku, 1990.
3457. Pigman, G. W. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. Huntington Library Quarterly 61, no. 1 (1998): 115–26.
3458. Pinnavaia, Laura. “Idiomatic Expressions Regarding Food and Drink in Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755 and 1773).” Textus: English Studies in Italy 19, no. 1 (2006): 151–66.
3459. Pino, Melissa. “Devilish Appetites, Doubtful Beauty, and Dull Satisfaction: Rochester’s Scorn of Ugly Ladies (Which Are Very Near All).” Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660–1700 27, no. 1 (March 2003): 1–21.
3460. Piozzi, Hester Lynch. Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: To Which Are Added Some Poems Never before Printed. Cambridge Library Collection: Literary Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
3461. Piozzi, Hester Lynch. Souvenirs et anecdotes sur Samuel Johnson. Edited by Richard Ingrams. Translated by Isabel Di Natale. Collection Anatolia. [Monaco]: Du Rocher, 2005.
3462. Piozzi, Hester Lynch. “Well Said Mr. Northcote”: A Keepsake to Commemorate the Two Hundred Eighty-Ninth Anniversary of the Birth of Samuel Johnson and the Fifty-Second Annual Dinner of The Johnsonians, the Boston Athenaeum, 25 September 1998. Edited by Richard Wendorf. New York? Privately printed for The Johnsonians, 1998.
      Discusses the marginal annotations made by Hester Lynch Piozzi in her copy of James Northcote, Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds (London: Henry Colburn, 1818), now in the Houghton Library.
3463. Pireddu, Silvia. “The ‘Landscape of the Body’: The Language of Medicine in Johnson’s Dictionary.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 19, no. 1 (2006): 107–30.
3464. Pisarska, Katarzyna. “Revisiting the Happy Valley in Alan Jacobs’s Eutopia: The Gnostic Land of Prester John.” In The Epistemology of Utopia: Rhetoric, Theory and Imagination, edited by Jorge Bastos da Silva, 197–222. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
3465. Pitcher, E. W. “The Moralist Serial in The Federal Gazette of 1798.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 8, no. 1 (1995): 16–18.
3466. Pittock, Joan H. “Boswell as Critic.” In New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” edited by Greg Clingham and David Daiches, 72–85. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
3467. Pittock, Joan H. Review of Samuel Johnson, 1709–1784: A Bicentenary Exhibition, by Kai Kin Yung. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 9, no. 1 (1987): 105–6.
3468. Pittock, Joan H. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Theme of Hope, by T. F. Wharton. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 9, no. 1 (1986): 105–6.
3469. Pittock, Murray G. H. James Boswell. Aberdeen Introductions to Irish and Scottish Culture. Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen, Arts & Humanities Research Council, 2007. Reviews:
      • Review of James Boswell, by Murray G. H. Pittock. Forum for Modern Language Studies 46, no. 1 (2010): 116. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqp091.
3470. Pittock, Murray G. H. Review of James Boswell, 1740–1795: The Scottish Perspective, by Roger Craik. History 81, no. 264 (1996): 674–674.
3471. Pittock, Murray G. H. “Johnson, Boswell, and Their Circle.” In The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740–1830, edited by Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee, 157–72. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521809746.009.
3472. Pittock, Murray G. H. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 12 (1989): 111–12.
3473. Pittock, Murray G. H. “Johnson and Scotland.” In Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, edited by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill, 184–96. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
3474. Pittock, Murray G. H. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 12 (1989): 111–12.
3475. Pittock, Murray G. H. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. JEGP 95, no. 4 (October 1996): 558–60.
3476. Pittock, Murray G. H. “Scotland.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 329–36. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3477. Pizzichini, Lilian. “A Journey into Hypertext: Two Artists Are Recreating the Scottish Travels of the Celebrated Literary Duo James Boswell and Samuel Johnson.” The Independent, April 15, 1996.
3478. Plank, Jeffrey. “Johnson’s Lives and Augustan Poetry.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 373–87. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
3479. Plank, Jeffrey. “Reading Johnson’s Lives: The Forms of Late Eighteenth-Century Literary History.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 335–52.
3480. Plasha, Wayne W. “The Social Construction of Melancholia in the Eighteenth Century: Medical and Religious Approaches to the Life and Work of Samuel Johnson and John Wesley.” MLitt thesis, University of Oxford, 1994.
3481. Ply, Mary Sue. “Samuel Johnson’s Journeys into the Past.” PhD thesis, Florida State University, 1983.
3482. Podlubne, Judith. “Un diario biográfico: Sobre Borges, de Bioy.” Revista Chuy 11, no. 16 (2024): 197–224.
      Abstract: The article proposes a reading of Adolfo Bioy Casares’ Borges, based on the observations on the personal diary and biography, which the author develops in the essay “El diario de Léautaud,” published in La Nación in 1956 and later included with variations in La otra aventura in 1968. These observations separate both genres from their conventional purposes. Bioy takes up a statement by Oscar Wilde, who frees the biographical from its formal guidelines by inscribing it in the diary, and then does the same with the diaristic by reading it in the texture of James Boswell’s Life of Dr. Johnson. The core idea of the article argues that it is only on condition of these displacements that Johnson’s biography can be counted as an antecedent of the diary on Borges. While Boswell’s book is a conversational biography, the master antecedent of the so-called “relational turn in contemporary biography,” Bioy’s Borges is a biographical diary, centered on the record of the conversations he had with his friend during the long period of their shared life. The conversation becomes the material and scene of friendship between them. Like Boswell with Johnson, Bioy often recreates these exchanges in direct style: Borges’s voice is also his work. Based on this conviction, the article then examines how the newspaper dramatizes these conversations and the drift they assume with Borges’s decline. / El artículo propone una lectura del Borges de Adolfo Bioy Casares, a partir de las observaciones sobre el diario personal y la biografía, que el autor realiza en el ensayo “El diario de Léautaud,” que publica en La Nación en 1956 e incluye luego con variantes en La otra aventura de 1968. Estas observaciones separan a ambos géneros de sus fines convencionales. Bioy retoma una afirmación de Oscar Wilde, que libera lo biográfico de sus pautas formales al inscribirlo en el diario, y hace luego lo propio con lo diarístico al leerlo en la textura de la Vida del Dr. Johnson de James Boswell. La idea medular del artículo sostiene que es solo a condición de estos desplazamientos que la biografía de Johnson puede contarse como antecedente del diario sobre Borges. Mientras el libro de Boswell es una biografía conversada, el antecedente maestro del llamado “giro relacional de la biografía contemporánea,” el Borges, de Bioy, es un diario biográfico, centrado en el registro de las conversaciones que mantuvo con el amigo, durante el extenso período de vida compartido por ambos. La conversación se transforma en materia y escenario de la amistad entre ellos. Como Boswell con Johnson, a menudo Bioy recrea estos intercambios en estilo directo: la voz de Borges es también obra suya. A partir de esta convicción, el artículo examina entonces cómo dramatiza el diario estas conversaciones y la deriva que asumen con la decadencia de Borges.
3483. Poetzsch, Markus Joachim. “Theoretical and Practical Biography: Principles, Problems, Processes and the Inscrutable Subject in Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.” MA thesis, University of Alberta, 2000.
3484. Pollack, Kristin Hatch. “Samuel Johnson, Feminist.” MA thesis, Southwest Texas State University, 1988.
3485. Poncarová, Petra Johana. “‘Many More Remains of Ancient Genius’: Approaches to Authorship in the Ossian Controversy.” In From Shakespeare to Autofiction, edited by Martin Procházka, 55–72. London: UCL Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.8816151.9.
      Abstract: The ‘author function,’ as Michel Foucault outlines it, characterises ‘the mode of existence, circulation, and functioning of certain discourses in society.’ It does not ‘refer purely and simply to a real individual, since it can give rise simultaneously to several selves, several subject-positions that can be occupied by different classes of individuals.’ While Foucault acknowledges that ‘it would be ridiculous to deny the existence of individuals who write, and invent,’ he asserts that ‘some time, at least, the individual who sits down to write a text, at the edge of which lurks a possible œuvre, resumes...
3486. Pooley, Julian. “‘And Now a Fig for Mr Nichols!’: Samuel Johnson, John Nichols and Their Circle.” New Rambler E:7 (2003): 30–45.
3487. Pooley, Julian. “‘Conciliating His Esteem’: John Nichols’s Contribution to Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, to Biographies of Johnson, and to Later Johnsonian Scholarship.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 21 (2011): 143–92.
3488. Pooley, Julian. “The Gentleman’s Magazine, a Panoramic View of Eighteenth-Century Life and Culture.” Book Collector 69, no. 3 (2020): 407–19.
      Abstract: Pooley cites that according to Samuel Johnson, Edward Cave (1691–1754), founder and first editor of the Gentleman’s Magazine in 1731, “never looked out of the window but with a view to the Gentleman’s Magazine.” This view encompassed the diversity of Georgian life, politics and culture. It captivated Cave’s readers and established the magazine as the leading periodical of its day. It was the world’s first magazine as we understand the word, a monthly compendium of useful and entertaining information aimed at an increasingly literate public in Georgian Britain. Readers approached the magazine in different ways. Some turned straight to the back to scan the obituaries, while others, like “Veritas,” asked their servant to carefully cut the leaves so that they could peruse the table of contents and read the valuable parts first. In defiance of its title, the magazine was popular with women, who both read and contributed to its pages.
3489. Porter, Dahlia. “Science and Technology.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 320–28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3490. Porter, David. “Writing China: Legitimacy and Representation 1606–1773.” Comparative Literature Studies 33, no. 1 (1996): 98–122.
3491. Porter, Dennis. “Uses of the Grand Tour: Boswell and His Contemporaries.” In Haunted Journeys: Desire and Transgression in European Travel Writing, 25. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
      Abstract: By the time the young James Boswell undertook his grand tour in the 1760s, the quantity and scope of European travel writing had become a widely attested phenomenon of the age. In the wake of the discovery, exploration, conquest and colonization of the New World in particular, writers from the Renaissance on had spawned a wide variety of literary forms that were centered on travel well beyond the confines of Europe as well as within it. And the New Science of the seventeenth century stimulated a fresh vogue of discovery and speculation that gave rise to further kinds of voyage.
3492. Porter, Roy. “‘Mad All My Life’: The Dark Side of Samuel Johnson.” History Today 34 (December 1984): 43–46.
3493. Porter, Roy. “‘The Hunger of Imagination’: Approaching Samuel Johnson’s Melancholy.” In The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry, edited by William Bynum, Roy Porter, and Michael Shepherd, 1:63–88. London: Tavistock, 1985.
      Abstract: This chapter explores a particular instance of mental disturbance and threatened collapse into madness from crucial period. It is the case of a man who suffered the torments of melancholy on and off all his life, who feared that his melancholy would career downhill into madness proper; a man who recorded symptoms, speculated on causes, and reported his experience of that affliction and attempted remedies in some detail. The chapter explores the course, nature, and possible explanations of Samuel Johnson’s melancholy. Johnson was thus haunted by dread that his “mind corrupted with an inveterate disease of wishing,” would eventually succumb to monomania. Christianity gave Johnson a prospect of managing mortality, a vision of triumph over the Grim Reaper, an earnest of life eternal. The chapter concludes by briefly indicating what wider conclusions Johnson’s sufferings might help us to draw about mental disturbance in Georgian England.
3494. Porter, Roy. “‘The Hunger of Imagination’: Approaching Samuel Johnson’s Melancholy.” In The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry, edited by William Bynum, Roy Porter, and Michael Shepherd, 1:63–88. London: Routledge, 2004. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315017099-4.
3495. Postle, Martin. “‘Boswell Redivivus’: Northcote, Hazlitt, and the British School.” Hazlitt Review 8 (2015): 5–19.
3496. Postle, Martin. “Johnson, Joshua Reynolds and ‘Renny Dear.’” New Rambler E:8 (2004): 13–21.
3497. Postle, Martin. “Visual Arts.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 385–92. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3498. Potemra, Michael. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. National Review, October 13, 2003.
3499. Potkay, Adam. “Happiness in Johnson and Hume.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 165–86.
3500. Potkay, Adam. “Hope.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 582–98. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: Johnson’s bifurcated sense of hope has deep roots in the Western tradition. As one of the theological virtues, hope, along with faith and love, is always good in Christianity. Worldly hopes or wishes, however, are treated as vices by the classical moralists Johnson sometimes follows: irrational and self-destructive hopes distract from enjoyment or exertion in the present moment. For the mature Johnson, worldly hope is in the main an illusion, a cheat, but also most if not all of life itself. Johnson concedes, as no ancient would, that hope is both motivating and palliative. Nonetheless, he encourages us, as the ancients did, to distance ourselves as best we can from unreasonable hopes.
3501. Potkay, Adam. “‘How like He Was to Rousseau’: Johnson on Social Evils and Future Happiness.” Johnsonian News Letter 76, no. 1 (March 2025): 30–41.
3502. Potkay, Adam. “Johnson and the Terms of Succession.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 26, no. 3 (June 1986): 497–509. https://doi.org/10.2307/450576.
3503. Potkay, Adam. “Samuel Johnson (1709–1784).” In British Writers: Retrospective Supplement I, edited by Jay Parini, 137–50. Michigan: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002.
3504. Potkay, Adam. Review of Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson, by Fred Parker. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 1 (March 2005): 35–37.
3505. Potkay, Adam. The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Reviews:
      • Broman, Walter E. Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. Philosophy and Literature 25, no. 1 (2001): 169–71.
      • Davidson, Jenny. Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. Modern Philology 100, no. 1 (2002): 112–15.
      • Griffin, J. R. Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. Choice 38, no. 3 (November 2000): 1432.
      • Hudson, Nicholas. Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 13 (2002): 509–15.
      • McDermott, Anne. Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. Review of English Studies 52, no. 208 (November 2001): 590–92.
      • McKenzie, Alan T. “Making the Wisdom Figure [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking; Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo; Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt; Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart; and The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay].” Eighteenth-Century Studies 34, no. 3 (Spring 2001): 466–70.
      • Miller, Stephen. Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2000.
      • Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. Virginia Quarterly Review 74, no. 4 (2000): 125–26.
      • Scanlan, J. T. “The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume.” New Rambler E:4 (2000): 86–88.
      • Vermeule, Blakey. Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. Wordsworth Circle 31, no. 4 (2000): 190–91.
3506. Potkay, Adam. “The Spirit of Ending in Johnson and Hume.” Eighteenth-Century Life 16, no. 3 (November 1992): 153–66.
3507. Potkay, Adam. “The Spirit of Ending in Johnson and Hume.” In British Literature, 1640–1789: A Critical Reader, edited by Robert DeMaria Jr., 204–17. Blackwell, 1999.
3508. Potkay, Adam. “‘The Structure of His Sentences Is French’: Johnson and Hume in the History of English.” Language Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Forum 22, no. 3 (July 2000): 285–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0388-0001(00)00007-3.
3509. Potkay, Adam. Review of Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat, by Stephen Miller. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 1 (March 2005): 35–37.
3510. Potter, Harry. “Garrow’s Law?” In Law, Liberty and the Constitution: A Brief History of the Common Law, 201–5. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2015.
3511. Potter, R., and Elizabeth Montagu. The Amiable Clergyman & the Forgetful Patron: Robert Potter Writes to Elizabeth Montagu. Edited by Stephen Clarke. New Haven: The Johnsonians & The Samuel Johnson Society of the West, 2014.
3512. Pottle, Marion S., Claude Colleer Abbott, and Frederick A. Pottle. Catalogue of the Papers of James Boswell at Yale University: For the Greater Part Formerly the Collection of Lieut.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham. 3 vols. Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. Reviews:
      • Howard-Hill, T. H. Review of Catalogue of the Papers of James Boswell at Yale University: For the Greater Part Formerly the Collection of Lieut.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, by Marion S. Pottle, Claude Colleer Abbott, and Frederick A. Pottle. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 87, no. 3 (1993): 390.
      • Radner, John B. Review of Catalogue of the Papers of James Boswell at Yale University: For the Greater Part Formerly the Collection of Lieut.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, by Marion S. Pottle, Claude Colleer Abbott, and Frederick A. Pottle. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 89, no. 2 (1995): 204–7. https://doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.89.2.24304254.
      • Review of Catalogue of the Papers of James Boswell at Yale University: For the Greater Part Formerly the Collection of Lieut.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, by Marion S. Pottle, Claude Colleer Abbott, and Frederick A. Pottle. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 87, no. 3 (1993): 390–91. https://doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.87.3.24304400.
      • Yerkes, David. Review of Catalogue of the Papers of James Boswell at Yale University: For the Greater Part Formerly the Collection of Lieut.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, by Marion S. Pottle, Claude Colleer Abbott, and Frederick A. Pottle. Text (New York) 9 (1996): 474–76.
3513. Powell, J. Enoch. “Cathedral Address.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1989, 73–76.
3514. Powell, J. Enoch. “Rasselas.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1989, 30–40.
3515. Powell, J. Enoch. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. The Sunday Times, March 1, 1992.
3516. Powell, Manushag N. “Johnson and His ‘Readers’ in the Epistolary Rambler Essays.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 44, no. 3 (June 2004): 571–94. https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2004.0030.
      Abstract: This essay examines the fictitious “letters to the editor” in Samuel Johnson’s Rambler in order to explore the author’s powerful ambivalence toward his various personas, his readership, and his own text throughout the periodical.
3517. Power, Henry. “After Bozzy [Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by John Hawkins, and Samuel Johnson: A Life, by David Nokes].” TLS 5568–69 (18 & 25 Dec. 2009 (n.d.): 18.
3518. Power, Stephen S. “Through the Lens of Orientalism: Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas.” West Virginia University Philological Papers 40 (1994): 6–10.
3519. Prasad, Nagendra. “Dr. Johnson.” In Personal Bias in Literary Criticism: Dr Johnson, Matthew Arnold, T. S. Eliot, 44–94. New Delhi: Sarup & Sons, 2002.
3520. Prescott, Andrew. “Searching for Dr. Johnson: The Digitisation of the Burney Newspaper Collection.” In Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century, edited by Siv Gøril Brandtzæg, Paul Goring, and Christine Watson, 51–71. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
3521. Price, Leah. “Lives of Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” New York Times, February 1, 2009.
3522. Priestley, Sharon L. “‘Happy to Worship in a Romish Church’: Boswell and Roman Catholicism.” Studies in Scottish Literature 32 (2001): 150–63.
3523. Priestley, Sharon L. “The Navigation of a Soul: The Spiritual Autobiography of James Boswell.” Dissertation Abstracts International. PhD Thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, 1996.
3524. Primer, Irwin. “Tracking a Source for Johnson’s Life of Pope.” Yale University Library Gazette 61, no. 1–2 (October 1986): 55–60.
3525. Prince, Michael B. Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment: Theology, Aesthetics, and the Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
3526. Prior, Karen Swallow. Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More: Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist. Nashville: Nelson Books, 2014.
      Abstract: The enthralling biography of the womanwriter who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain’s upper classes, and taught a nation how to read. The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected every level of 18th-Century British society through her keen intellect, literary achievements,collaborative spirit, strong Christian principles, and colorful personality. A woman without connections or status, More took the world of British letters by storm when she arrived in London from Bristol, becoming a best-selling author and acclaimed playwright and quickly befriending the author Samuel Johnson, the politician Horace Walpole, and the actor David Garrick. Yet she was also aleader in the Evangelical movement, using her cultural position and her pen to support the growth of education for the poor, the reform of morals and manners,and the abolition of Britain’s slave trade; Fierce Convictions weaves together world and personal history into a stirring story of life that intersected with Wesley and Whitefield’s GreatAwakening, the rise and influence of Evangelicalism, and convulsive effects ofthe French Revolution. A woman of exceptional intellectual gifts and literarytalent, Hannah More was above all a person whose faith compelled her both to engageher culture and to transform it.
3527. Pritchard, William H. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. Hudson Review 60, no. 1 (2007): 25–35.
3528. Pritchard, Will. “New Light on Crumb’s Boswell.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 42, no. 2 (December 2009): 289–307. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.0.0042.
      Abstract: This article considers a pair of strange bedfellows, the diarist James Boswell and the cartoonist R. Crumb. In 1981, Crumb published a comic-book adaptation of Boswell's London Journal. This essay considers that comic from several angles: as a veiled autobiography, as a Hogarthian satire, and as a parody of the Classics Illustrated comic books of the forties and fifties. Crumb's adaptation, I argue, helps us to a new appreciation of key aspects of Boswell's text: its visual properties (or lack thereof), its generic status, and its relation to the 1950s world which provided it with a mass audience.
3529. Pritchard, William H. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Hudson Review 52, no. 1 (1999): 133–40.
3530. Pritchard, William. “What Johnson Means to Me: Reading Johnson When Young.” Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 2 (September 2007): 6–9.
      A personal meditation on Pritchard’s early experience with Johnson.
3531. Probyn, Clive. “Eve, Savage’s Mother, and Learned Ladies: Johnson, Boswell and Women.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 2, no. 1 (1998): 15–24.
3532. Probyn, Clive. “Johnson and Romance.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 6 (2002): 20–25.
3533. Probyn, Clive. Review of Johnson, “Rasselas,” and the Choice of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. Modern Language Review 87, no. 2 (1992): 434–35.
3534. Probyn, Clive. Pall Mall and the Wilderness of New South Wales”: Samuel Johnson, Watkin Tench and “Six” Degrees of Separation. Melbourne: Privately printed for the Johnson Society of Australia, 1998.
      The David Fleeman Memorial Lecture for 1997.
3535. Probyn, Clive. “Referencing the Real: Hugh Blair, Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Johnson, and the Limits of Representation.” In New Windows on a Woman’s World, edited by Colin Gibson and Lisa Marr, 1:258–75. Dunedin, N.Z.: University of Otago Department of English, 2005.
3536. Probyn, Clive. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Modern Language Review 88 (January 1993): 163–64.
3537. Probyn, Clive. “Surfacing and Falling into Matter: Johnson, Swift, Disgust and Beyond.” Mattoid 48, no. 1 (1994): 37–43.
3538. Prose, Francine. “Hester Thrale.” In The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired, 27–56. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.
3539. Prowse, Gillian Frances. “Wanting a Name: Constructing Anonymity in Milton, Defoe, Johnson, and Sterne.” PhD thesis, Harvard University, 2008.
3540. Prunier, Clotilde. “Les Traditions des Highlanders. Des Superstitions qui ont réussi?” Etudes Ecossaises 7 (2001): 125–39.
3541. Publishers Weekly. Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge. July 23, 2001.
3542. Publishers Weekly. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. August 1, 1994.
3543. Publishers Weekly. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. July 18, 2005.
3544. Publishers Weekly. Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin. July 21, 2008.
3545. Publishers Weekly. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers. September 22, 2008.
3546. Publishers Weekly. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return, by Martin Riker. 2015.
3547. Publishers Weekly. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch. January 26, 2004.
3548. Publishers Weekly. Review of The Brothers Boswell, by Philip Baruth. March 30, 2009.
3549. Publishers Weekly. “The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir.” 2015.
3550. Purdie, David W. “‘Never Met-and Never Parted’: The Curious Case of Burns and Boswell.” Studies in Scottish Literature 33–34 (2004): 169–76.
3551. Purdie, David W., and N. Gow. “The Maladies of James Boswell, Advocate.” Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 32, no. 3 (2002): 197–202. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478271520023203016.
      Abstract: Literary criticism, like legal judgement, will ultimately rest upon the written word. However, since the context of that written word is conditioned by the author’s physical and mental health — both of which can materially affect the content and style of the writing — these areas are worthy of serious enquiry. Where details of a great writer’s health are unavailable — as with Shakespeare — speculative and often unsatisfactory conjectures have to account for variations in the quality and quantity of output. Where a disease process is known and independently attested, such as Milton’s blindness, criticism of the works produced is materially enhanced. Whereas the volume of a writer’s output will be influenced by longevity and the physical ability to dictate or to lift a pen, the content and style will necessarily be influenced by his or her mental state, conditioning as it does the personal and societal environment of creativity.
3552. Quennell, Peter. “Who Can Like the Highlands?” Horizon 15, no. 2 (1973): 89–103.
3553. Quigg, Melissa R. “Mental Illness as Subject and Symptom: Examining the Literature of Samuel Johnson and Christopher Smart.” MA thesis, University of Calgary, 2004.
3554. Quinn, Anthony. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. The Independent, January 15, 1994.
3555. Quinn, Anthony. “Gospel According to James [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman].” The Sunday Times, October 29, 2000.
3556. Quinney, Laura. “Johnson in Mourning.” In Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth, 29–53. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995.
3557. Quinney, Laura. “The Grimness of the Truth.” In Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth, 55–85. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995.
3558. Quinney, Laura Ellen. “Johnson in Mourning: The Authority and the Love of Mimesis.” PhD thesis, Cornell University, 1987.
3559. Rabb, Melinda Alliker. “Johnson, Lilliput, and Eighteenth-Century Miniature.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 46, no. 2 (Winter 2013): 281–98. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2013.0013.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson’s observation that “there is nothing . . . too little for so little a creature as man” is substantiated by eighteenth-century material culture, which produced thousands of small versions of familiar items. The phenomenon of downsizing indicates changes in the relationships between things, human cognition, and literature. Such changes inform Johnson’s work, beginning with his early adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s Lilliput, the period’s most famous literary miniature. Johnson’s reworking of Gulliver’s first voyage establishes a cognitive paradigm at the intersection of material culture and moral thought, a paradigm to which Johnson returns in order to test the miniature’s promise of comprehending the whole at once.
      On Johnson’s observation that “there is nothing too little for so little a creature as man” read against contemporary miniatures, including in Swift’s Gulliver.
3560. Rabb, Melinda Alliker. “War.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 367–88. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: The concept of war — “the extremity of evil”—weaves through Johnson’s work like a connective thread that at times appears visibly on the surface and at other times more subtly underlies the fabric of his thinking and expression. If the idea of war is pervasive, however, the actual body of the warrior is rare. Johnson avoided representation of the embattled flesh and bone of those who did the fighting and suffered its consequences. This dichotomy — confront the idea of war but avoid war-torn bodies — is central to recognizing the effect in his work of postmemory, the phenomenon through which trauma can be displaced onto later generations and can be reimagined by those who are distanced from immediate disaster by history or geography. Johnson’s transformative abstractions of the corporeal human form are situated within narratives of human-generated violence whose pains resist direct confrontation.
3561. Rader, Ralph W. “From Richardson to Austen: ‘Johnson’s Rule’ and the Development of the Eighteenth-Century Novel of Moral Action.” In The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1900-2000, edited by Dorothy J. Hale, 140–53. Blackwell, 2006.
3562. Radner, John B. “‘A Very Exact Picture of His Life’: Johnson’s Role in Writing the Life of Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 7 (1996): 299–342.
3563. Radner, John B. Review of Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt. Albion 31, no. 3 (1999): 491–92.
3564. Radner, John B. “Boswell, Johnson, and the Biographical Project.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 23 (2015): 33–56.
      Abstract: Johnson fiercely longed for personal immortality, hoped for salvation but feared being judged not to have made full use of his prodigious talents, and preferred even damnation to annihilation. Besides wanting his works to be read and admired, he also wanted to be remembered, even by those he met only once. [...] Johnson’s enjoyment of this first session formally preparing Boswell to write his Life, along with his awareness that Boswell — and also Thomas Percy — were gathering materials for biographies, may have prompted Johnson to begin writing his autobiography. Because Boswell had such rich material and had the challenge and the opportunity of describing for Johnson what they had said and done, including those exchanges that most troubled him, he wrote more about their first nine weeks of travel than about any other nineweek period. [...] by referring to his upcoming trip to Paris simply as “another journey,” Johnson kept his biographer from realizing until later that he was traveling abroad for the first time.
3565. Radner, John B. “Boswell’s and Johnson’s Sexual Rivalry.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 201–46.
3566. Radner, John B. Review of Catalogue of the Papers of James Boswell at Yale University: For the Greater Part Formerly the Collection of Lieut.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, by Marion S. Pottle, Claude Colleer Abbott, and Frederick A. Pottle. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 89, no. 2 (1995): 204–7. https://doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.89.2.24304254.
3567. Radner, John B. “Connecting with Three ‘Young Dogs’: Johnson’s Early Letters to Robert Chambers, Bennet Langton, and James Boswell.” In Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 9–30. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019.
3568. Radner, John B. “Constructing an Adventure and Negotiating for Narrative Control: Johnson and Boswell in the Hebrides.” In Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship, edited by Marjorie Stone and Judith Thompson, 59–78. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
3569. Radner, John B. Review of Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell, by Paul Tankard. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 23 (2015): 349–58.
3570. Radner, John B. “From Paralysis to Power: Boswell with Johnson in 1775–1778.” In James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, edited by Donald J. Newman, 127–48. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
3571. Radner, John B. Johnson and Boswell: A Biography of Friendship. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
      Abstract: In this book John Radner examines the fluctuating, close, and complex friendship enjoyed by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, from the day they met in 1763 to the day when Boswell published his monumental Life of Johnson. Drawing on everything Johnson and Boswell wrote to and about the other, this book charts the psychological currents that flowed between them as they scripted and directed their time together, questioned and advised, confided and held back. It explores the key longings and shifting tensions that distinguished this from each man’s other long-term friendships, while it tracks in detail how Johnson and Boswell brought each other to life, challenged and confirmed each other, and used their deepening friendship to define and assess themselves. It tells a story that reaches through its specificity into the dynamics of most sustained friendships, with their breaks and reconnections, their silences and fresh intimacies, their continuities and transformations.
      Reviews:
      • Bonnell, Thomas F. Review of Johnson and Boswell: A Biography of Friendship, by John B. Radner. The Historian 76, no. 3 (2017): 639–41.
      • Johnston, Freya. “Sick of Both [Review of Johnson and Boswell: A Biography of Friendship, by John B. Radner].” TLS 5755 (July 19, 2013): 25.
      • Lynch, Jack. “And We Ashamed of Him [Review of Johnson and Boswell: A Biography of Friendship, by John B. Radner].” Eighteenth-Century Scotland 27 (2013).
      • Rogers, Pat. Review of Johnson and Boswell: A Biography of Friendship, by John B. Radner. The Historian 77, no. 2 (2017): 402–3.
      • Smallwood, Philip. Review of Johnson and Boswell: A Biography of Friendship, by John B. Radner. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 40, no. 1 (2017): 153–54.
3572. Radner, John B. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 6 (1992): 15–16.
3573. Radner, John B. “New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of ‘The Life of Johnson.’” Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 25, no. 1–2 (March 2011): 37–42.
3574. Radner, John B. “Pilgrimage and Autonomy: The Visit to Ashbourne.” In Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, edited by Irma S. Lustig, 203–27. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
3575. Radner, John B. “Teaching Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” East-Central Intelligencer 13, no. 2 (May 1999): 11–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s004150050403.
3576. Radner, John B. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 448–55.
3577. Radner, Sanford. “James Boswell’s Silence.” In James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, edited by Donald J. Newman, 149–63. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
3578. Raicu, Irina. “The Violence of Purgation in Henry Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans: Singing Best When the Nest Is Broken.” In The Image of Violence in Literature, the Media, and Society, edited by Will Wright and Steven Kaplan, 96–103. Pueblo: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, 1995.
3579. Rakhi. “Johnson’s Prose Style.” In Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, edited by T. R. Sharma, 96–103. Shalabh, 1986.
3580. Ramsey, Paul. “Samuel Johnson at Twenty.” Johnsonian News Letter 47, no. 3–4 (September 1988): 12.
      Poem on Johnson.
3581. Randle, Dave. A Troublesome Disorder: Being an Account of an Interview with Master Francis Barber, Servant of the Late Doctor Samuel Johnson. Lydd: Bank House Books, 2002.
3582. Ranson, Rita. “L’Image des locuteurs écossais au siècle des Lumières: Les Points de vue de Johnson, Boswell et des orthoépistes.” Etudes Ecossaises 15 (2012): 131.
3583. Rapoport, Judith L. “The Biology of Obsessions and Compulsions.” Scientific American 260, no. 3 (March 1, 1989): 82.
3584. Rasmussen, Eric, and Aaron Santesso, eds. Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
      A collection of ten original essays on Johnson and Shakespeare, from a conference in April 2005 in Reno and Lake Tahoe.
      Reviews:
      • Ritchie, Fiona. Review of Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson, by Eric Rasmussen and Aaron Santesso. Review of English Studies 59, no. 238 (2008): 152–54.
3585. Raven, James. “Dr Johnson’s Fleet Street and the Sites of Publishing in Eighteenth-Century London.” New Rambler E:8 (2004): 11–12.
3586. Rawlinson, David H. “Presenting Its Evils to Our Minds: Imagination in Johnson’s Pamphlets.” English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 70, no. 4 (August 1989): 315–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138388908598639.
3587. Rawson, Claude. “Boswell’s Boswell.” New York Times Book Review, 2001.
3588. Rawson, Claude. “Cooling to a Gypsy’s Lust: Johnson, Shakespeare, and Cleopatra.” In Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson, edited by Eric Rasmussen and Aaron Santesso, 203–38. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
      On Johnson’s admiration for Antony and Cleopatra.
3589. Rawson, Claude. Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Malone: Great Shakespeareans, Volume I. London: Continuum, 2010.
3590. Rawson, Claude. “Intimacies of Antipathy: Johnson and Swift.” Review of English Studies 63, no. 259 (April 2012): 265–92. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgr053.
      Abstract: Johnson disliked Swift but had an intense self-implicating interest in him, sharing much of his social, psychological and devotional outlook, and exhibiting a wide and life-long reading of his works. He found Swift’s irony, and satire in general, unsympathetic, but wrote in a manner deeply shaped by Swift and other Augustan satirists. His relationship with Hester Thrale included a self-conscious and often conflicted awareness of Swift’s friendship with Stella. His novel Rasselas shares with Swift’s ‘Digression on Madness’ a strikingly similar diagnosis of humanity’s mental constitution, but draws teasingly opposite and sometimes adversarial consequences from it. Johnson’s antipathies coexist with a reluctant sense of likeness, a combination implicit in the forthrightly evasive and wayward judgments of the ‘Life of Swift’, from which the main examples are drawn. Their nevertheless compelling power (like that of F. R. Leavis’s very different but equally hostile essay) raises questions about what we can learn about Swift from those who dislike him.
3591. Rawson, Claude. “Johnson’s Doctorate.” TLS, October 12, 1990, 1099.
      Reply to Greene and Jones.
3592. Rawson, Claude. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. New York Times Book Review, January 7, 2001.
3593. Rawson, Claude. “Lives and Dislikes: Johnson’s Lives of the Poets [Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale].” Eighteenth-Century Studies 40, no. 1 (2006): 109–15.
3594. Rawson, Claude. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. London Review of Books 17, no. 18 (1995): 14–15.
3595. Rawson, Claude. “Samuel Johnson Goes Abroad [Review of Johnson’s Dictionary, Longman; Johnson’s Shakespeare by G. F. Parker; The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’ by Allen Reddick; A Voyage to Abyssinia by Joel J. Gold; Rasselas and Other Tales by Gwin J. Kolb].” London Review of Books 13, no. 15 (1991): 15–17.
3596. Rawson, Claude. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Attitude to the Arts, by Morris R. Brownell. London Review of Books 13, no. 15 (1991): 15–17.
3597. Rawson, Claude. “An Unclubbable Life: Hawkins on Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 21 (2011): 339–51.
3598. Rawson, Claude. “A Working Life [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking].” New Criterion 17, no. 10 (June 1999): 74–78.
3599. Rawson, Claude. “π-ions Boswell.” In Order from Confusion Sprung: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper, 355–65. London: Routledge, 1985. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429464713-13.
      Abstract: Two new volumes have been added to the Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Boswell: Laird of Auchinleck, 1778–1782, edited by Joseph W. Reed and Frederick A. Pottle, and Boswell: The Applause of the Jury, 1782–1785, edited by Irma S. Lustig and Frederick A. Boswell reported himself to be ‘always easiest among strangers,’ and the Editors comment that strangers enable Boswell freely to assume roles which he enjoys and needs for the full release of his personality. At all events, p seems so uniform and so routine, in word as in deed, that it is used by Boswell as a handy anchor of ordinariness, helping him to domesticate thoughts and even actual occurrences of such untoward events as death. The English Review called Boswell ‘an agreeable trifler’ and hoped ‘that Mrs Boswell has often given her husband more essential tokens of complaisance and affection than by changing her bed-chamber for one night to accommodate Dr Johnson.’
3600. Rayan, Krishna. “Resistance in Reading.” English 41, no. 171 (1992): 249–53.
3601. Raymond, Richard. “Teaching Johnson’s Sermons: The Nexus of Rhetoric and Literature.” CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 74, no. 1 (September 2011): 1–19.
3602. Read, Jemma. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. The Observer, April 24, 2005.
3603. Ready, Kathryn. “From Moated Castle to Modern Parlour: Anna Letitia Barbauld’s Theorization of Wonder, Women, and the Novel.” In Lumen: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Travaux Choisis de la Société Canadienne d’étude du dix-huitième siècle, 39:113–31, 2020.
      Abstract: As a literary critic Anna Letitia Barbauld provides important evidence for those who have sought to challenge a long-established critical view that the development of the novel was premised on a renunciation of the wonders of romance which went hand in hand with the project of Enlightenment science and its rejection of miracles and the supernatural. At the same time, she presents an alternative perspective from that of influential eighteenth-century male critics such as Samuel Johnson regarding the relationship between novels and romances, and a sharply contrasting view of the place of wonder within the overall history of fiction. Against male contemporaries, she makes a case for women’s continuing special claims as readers and writers of fiction based in part on their greater receptivity to emotions such as that of wonder, challenging Johnson’s implicit positioning of men as the leaders of a developing form of literary realism that required a broad knowledge of nature and society.
3604. Reckford, Kenneth J. “Horace through Johnson (I): The Skye Odes.” Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics 18, no. 3 (December 2011): 47–82.
3605. Reckford, Kenneth J. “Horace through Johnson (II): The Prodigal Heir: ‘A Short Song of Congratulations’: Horace, Johnson, and Satire.” Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics 19, no. 1 (March 2011): 65–99.
3606. Reddick, Allen. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. Review of English Studies 208 (November 2001): 588–90.
3607. Reddick, Allen. “Bate and Johnson.” Erato: The Harvard Book Review 5–6 (Summer–Fall 1987).
3608. Reddick, Allen. Review of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, by Anthony W. Lee. Eighteenth-Century Studies 54, no. 4 (2021): 1056–58.
3609. Reddick, Allen. “Johnson and Richardson.” In The Oxford History of English Lexicography, edited by A. P. Cowie, 1:154–81. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009.
      A careful account of Johnson’s Dictionary and Charles Richardson’s New Dictionary of the English Language, which “provocatively illuminates aspects of Johnson’s works.” Includes illustrations.
3610. Reddick, Allen. “Johnson Beyond Jacobitism: Signs of Polemic in the Dictionary and the Life of Milton.” ELH: English Literary History 64, no. 4 (1997): 983–1005.
3611. Reddick, Allen. Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria Jr. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 18 (2007): 443–XVI.
3612. Reddick, Allen. Review of Johnson, “Rasselas,” and the Choice of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 4 (1991): 424–28.
3613. Reddick, Allen. “Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language and Its Texts: Quotation, Context, Anti-Thematics.” Yearbook of English Studies 28 (1998): 66–76. https://doi.org/10.2307/3508756.
3614. Reddick, Allen. Johnson’s “Dictionary”: The Sneyd–Gimbel Copy. Cambridge, Mass.: Privately printed for the Johnsonians, 1991.
3615. Reddick, Allen. “Living Lives: The Return of Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets [Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale].” Huntington Library Quarterly 71, no. 3 (2008): 539–52.
3616. Reddick, Allen. “Past and Present in Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language.” International Journal of Lexicography 23, no. 2 (June 2010): 207–22. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecq005.
3617. Reddick, Allen. “Revision and the Limits of Collaboration: Hands and Texts in Johnson’s Dictionary.” In Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott, 212–27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
3618. Reddick, Allen. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone. Review of English Studies 67, no. 281 (2016): 807–9.
3619. Reddick, Allen. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone. International Journal of Lexicography 30, no. 3 (2017): 382–87. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecw009.
3620. Reddick, Allen. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England, by Nicholas Hudson. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 16 (2005): 285–88.
3621. Reddick, Allen. “Teaching the Dictionary.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 84–91. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
3622. Reddick, Allen. “The Making of Johnson’s Dictionary, 1746–55 and 1771–73.” PhD thesis, Columbia University, 1985.
3623. Reddick, Allen. The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Reviews:
      • Anderson, David R. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. South Atlantic Review 58, no. 3 (September 1993): 116–18.
      • Bundock, Michael. “The Making of Johnson’s Prayers and Meditations.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 77–97.
      • Carnochan, W. B. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. TLS, April 19, 1991, 9–10.
      • Clayton, Paul. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Notes and Queries 39 [237] (June 1992): 231–32.
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Modern Philology 90 (November 1992): 268–73.
      • Gray, James. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Dalhousie Review 70 (1990): 260–63.
      • Hedrick, Elizabeth. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Johnsonian News Letter 50, no. 3–51, 3 (September 1990): 5–6.
      • Korshin, Paul J. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 4 (1991): 417–24.
      • McDermott, Anne. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 17, no. 1 (1994): 74–79.
      • Nagashima, Daisuke. “Jonson Eigo jiten shin-kenkyū shōkai [review of The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick].” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 137, no. 3 (June 1991): 138–39.
      • Rawson, Claude. “Samuel Johnson Goes Abroad [Review of Johnson’s Dictionary, Longman; Johnson’s Shakespeare by G. F. Parker; The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’ by Allen Reddick; A Voyage to Abyssinia by Joel J. Gold; Rasselas and Other Tales by Gwin J. Kolb].” London Review of Books 13, no. 15 (1991): 15–17.
      • Rogers, Pat. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Review of English Studies 45 (May 1994): 259–60.
      • Scholtz, G. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Choice 28, no. 9 (May 1991): 4972.
      • Steckel, Michael. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Libraries & Culture: A Journal of Library History 29 (1994): 233–35.
      • Suarez, Michael F. S.J. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Eighteenth-Century Studies 26 (1993): 514–17.
      • Urdang, Laurence. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Verbatim 20, no. 2 (1993): 8–10.
      • Ziegler, Robert. “Recent Books on Johnson and Boswell [Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of ‘The Life of Johnson,’ by Greg Clingham; The Politics of Samuel Johnson, 2nd Ed., by Donald Greene; Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan; A Dr. Johnson Chronology, by Norman Page; Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker; The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick; The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford; and Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire].” Papers on Language and Literature 28, no. 4 (September 1992): 457–75.
3624. Reddick, Allen. The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773. Rev. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
3625. Reddick, Allen. “Vindicating Milton: Poetic Misprision in Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language.” Harvard Library Bulletin 20, no. 3–4 (September 2009): 62–71.
3626. Reddick, Allen H. “Hopes Raised for Johnson: An Example of Misleading Descriptive and Analytical Bibliography.” TEXT: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship 2 (1985): 245–49.
3627. Reddick, Allen H. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Modern Philology 86, no. 3 (1989): 312–16.
3628. Redford, Bruce. “Boswell’s Fear of Death.” Studies in Scottish Literature 21 (1986): 99–118.
3629. Redford, Bruce. “Case History [Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire].” Johnsonian News Letter 51, no. 4 (March 1991): 7–9.
3630. Redford, Bruce. “Defying Our Master: The Appropriation of Milton in Johnson’s Political Tracts.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 20 (1990): 81–91. https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2010.0343.
3631. Redford, Bruce. Designing the “Life of Johnson”: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
      Abstract: For over two centuries Boswell’s massive biography of Samuel Johnson has been both reverenced and reviled. Yet neither its admirers nor its critics have fully understood how the book was designed to work upon them. Boswell himself is partly to blame: throughout the Life he directs attention away from artistry to industry, from creative choices to dedicated researches. Yet his working manuscript, one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary discoveries, tells a much different tale. Designing the Life of Johnson, the first study of its kind, reconstructs Boswell’s models and methods by charting this textual labyrinth. It begins by analysing the stages that led to the first edition, goes on to reveal the impact of portrait and theatre-piece upon the structure of the Life, and ends by uncovering the transformation of Johnson from savage into sage. The result is a more subtle, more vital assessment of Boswell the designer — and an enhanced awareness of biography’s power to make life into art.
      Reviews:
      • Lock, F. P. Review of Designing the “Life of Johnson”: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2, by Bruce Redford. Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 66–69.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Designing the “Life of Johnson”: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2, by Bruce Redford. Notes and Queries 51 [249], no. 1 (March 2004): 91–93.
      • McLaverty, James. Review of Designing the “Life of Johnson”: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2, by Bruce Redford. New Rambler E:5 (2001): 67–69.
      • Parke, Catherine N. Review of Designing the “Life of Johnson”: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2, by Bruce Redford. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 386–87.
      • Turner, Katherine. Review of Designing the “Life of Johnson”: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2, by Bruce Redford. Essays in Criticism 53, no. 2 (April 2003): 184–91.
      • Wilcox, Lance E. “Designing the ‘Life of Johnson’: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 10 (2004): 389–92.
      • Womersley, David. Review of Designing the “Life of Johnson”: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2, by Bruce Redford. Review of English Studies 54, no. 213 (February 2003): 129–31.
      • Woudhuysen, H. R. “Reconstituted Boswell [Review of Designing the ‘Life of Johnson’: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2, by Bruce Redford].” TLS, August 30, 2002, 21.
3632. Redford, Bruce. “Frederick Albert Pottle.” Yale University Library Gazette 66, no. 1–2 (October 1991): 64–69.
3633. Redford, Bruce. “Hearing Epistolick Voices: Teaching Johnson’s Letters.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, edited by David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, 78–83. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
3634. Redford, Bruce. “James Boswell, The Life of Johnson.” In A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, 393–401. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
3635. Redford, Bruce. “Johnson Ventriloquens.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1994, 1–12.
3636. Redford, Bruce. “Samuel Johnson and Mrs. Thrale: The ‘Little Language’ of the Public Moralist.” In The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter, 206–43. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
3637. Redford, Bruce. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England, by Nicholas Hudson. Review of English Studies 55, no. 222 (November 2004): 807–9.
3638. Redford, Bruce. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Review of English Studies 201 (February 2000): 137–38.
3639. Redford, Bruce. “Talk into Text: The Shaping of Conversation in Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” In Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, Peter J. Schakel, and Stephen E. Karian, 247–64. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.
3640. Redford, Bruce. “Taming Savage Johnson.” Literary Imagination 1, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 85–101. https://doi.org/10.1093/litimag/1.1.85.
3641. Redford, Bruce. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Review of English Studies 49, no. 196 (November 1998): 518–19.
3642. Redford, Bruce. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Eighteenth-Century Studies 53, no. 2 (2020): 321–23.
3643. Redgrave, Corin. “My Season with Sam.” The Independent, September 11, 2003.
      The actor describes his role as Johnson in Maureen Lawrence’s Resurrection in Lichfield.
3644. Redgrave, Corin. “My Season with Sam.” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 1 (March 2004): 6–8.
      The actor describes his role as Johnson in Maureen Lawrence’s Resurrection in Lichfield.
3645. Reed, Brian D. “Stabilizing Reason with Sensibility: Boswell and Johnson’s Pursuit of a Genuine Definition of Masculinity.” In Spectacle, Sex, and Property in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, edited by Julie A. Chappell and Kamille Stone Stanton, 117–37. New York: AMS Press, 2015.
3646. Reed, Joseph W. “James Boswell’s Ebony Cabinet at Yale.” Yale University Library Gazette 82, no. 1/2 (2007): 31–37.
3647. Reed, Joseph W. “Early Morning in the Boswell Vineyard.” Yale University Library Gazette 72, no. 3–4 (April 1998): 141–54.
3648. Reed, Joseph W. “A Piece of Boswell Lore.” Yale University Library Gazette 66, no. 3–4 (April 1992): 150–56.
3649. Rees, Christine. “Johnson Reads Areopagitica.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 1–21.
      On Johnson’s interest in Milton’s prose and political censorship.
3650. Rees, Christine. Johnson’s Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson is often represented as primarily antagonistic or antipathetic to Milton. Yet his imaginative and intellectual engagement with Milton’s life and writing extended across the entire span of his own varied writing career. As essayist, poet, lexicographer, critic and biographer — above all as reader — Johnson developed a controversial, fascinating and productive literary relationship with his powerful predecessor. To understand how Johnson creatively appropriates Milton’s texts, how he critically challenges yet also confirms Milton’s status, and how he constructs him as a biographical subject, is to deepen the modern reader’s understanding of both writers in the context of historical continuity and change. Christine Rees’s insightful study will be of interest not only to Milton and Johnson specialists, but to all scholars of early modern literary history and biography.
      Reviews:
      • Walsh, Marcus. Review of Johnson’s Milton, by Christine Rees. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 23 (2015): 347–49.
3651. Rees, Christine. “Johnson’s Milton: The Writer-Hero in The Rambler.” New Rambler E:4 (2000): 17–23.
3652. Rees, Christine. “‘Pray Lend Me Topsel on Animals’: The Place of Animals in Johnson’s Life and Interests.” New Rambler E:8 (2004): 57–66.
3653. Rees, Christine. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. New Rambler E:6 (2002): 76–78.
3654. Rees, Christine. Review of Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood. New Rambler E:12 (2008–9).
3655. Rees-Mogg, William. “He Gave Us Johnson: Thanks to Boswell, We Can Still Live in the 18th Century — And Emulate Its Style.” The Times, May 18, 1995.
3656. Reference and Research Book News. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. August 1, 2000.
3657. Reibman, James E. “Dr. Johnson and the Law: An Enlightenment View.” New Rambler D:1, no. 26 (1985): 9–11.
3658. Reich, Jerome M. “Convulsion of the Lung: An Historical Analysis of the Cause of Dr. Johnson’s Fatal Emphysema.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 159–74.
      A thorough consideration of the evidence regarding Johnson’s pulmonological health.
3659. Reid, Bryan. “The Johnson Society of Australia: Convivial Tercentenary Dinner.” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 2 (September 2009): 28.
      A brief account of the society’s dinner on 15 May 2009.
3660. Reid, Christopher. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. New Rambler D:11, no. 4 (1995): 62–63.
3661. Reid, Hugh. “‘The Want of a Closer Union…’: The Friendship of Samuel Johnson and Joseph Warton.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 133–43.
3662. Reifel, Karen Faith. “The Work of Believing: Labor as Self-Definition in Carlyle, Dickens, and Brontë.” PhD thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1990.
3663. Reinert, Thomas. “Johnson and Conjecture.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 28, no. 3 (June 1988): 483–96. https://doi.org/10.2307/450598.
3664. Reinert, Thomas. Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
      Abstract: With the urbanization of eighteenth-century English society, moral philosophers became preoccupied with the difference between individual and crowd behavior. In so doing, they set the stage for a form of political thought divorced from traditional moral reflection. In Regulating Confusion Thomas Reinert places Samuel Johnson in the context of this development and investigates Johnson’s relation to an emerging modernity. Ambivalent about the disruption, confusion, perplexity, and boundless variety apparent in the London of his day, Johnson was committed to the conventions of moral reflection but also troubled by the pressure to adopt the perspective of the crowd and the language of social theory. Regulating Confusion explores the consequences of his ambivalence and his attempt to order the chaos. It discusses his critique of moral generalizations, concept of moral reflection as a symbolic gesture, and account of what happens to the notion of character when individuals, having lost the support of moral convention, become faces in a crowd. Reflecting generally on the relationship between skepticism and political ideology, Reinert also discusses Johnson’s political skepticism and the forms of speculation and action it authorized. Challenging prevalent psychologizing and humanistic interpretations, Regulating Confusion leaves behind the re-emergent view of Johnson as a reactionary ideologue and presents him in a theoretically sophisticated context. It offers his style of skepticism as a model of poise in the face of confusion about the nature of political truth and personal responsibility and demonstrates his value as a resource for students of culture struggling with contemporary debates about the relationship between literature and politics.
      Reviews:
      • Deutsch, Helen. Review of Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd, by Thomas Reinert. Modern Philology 97, no. 4 (May 2000): 599–605.
      • Review of Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd, by Thomas Reinert. Year’s Work in English Studies 77 (1999): 402–3.
      • Scanlan, J. T. Review of Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd, by Thomas Reinert. Albion 30, no. 1 (1998): 125–27.
      • Devens, Robert. Review of Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd, by Thomas Reinert. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 21, no. 2 (1998): 234.
      • Lamoine, G. Review of Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd, by Thomas Reinert. Études Anglaises 50, no. 4 (October 1997): 473–74.
      • Patey, Douglas L. Review of Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd, by Thomas Reinert. Choice 34, no. 11–12 (July 1997): 1804.
3665. Reinert, Thomas Jeffrey. “Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd,” 1988.
3666. Reisz, Matthew J. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. The Independent, April 15, 2005.
3667. Reitan, Earl A. “Samuel Johnson, the Gentleman’s Magazine, and the War of Jenkins’ Ear.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 19 (2009): 1–8.
      Reitan attributes a note in GM on the War of Jenkins’ Ear to Johnson.
3668. Remoortel, Marianne Van. “A Poem Wrongly Ascribed to Johnson and to Coleridge.” Notes and Queries 57 [255], no. 2 (June 2010): 211–13. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjq052.
3669. Rennie, Susan. “Boswell’s Scottish Dictionary Rediscovered.” Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 32, no. 1 (2011): 94–110. https://doi.org/10.1353/dic.2012.0010.
      Abstract: This paper describes the recent rediscovery by the author of the manuscript materials for James Boswell’s Scottish Dictionary: a work which Boswell began in Utrecht in the 1760s, but which he never completed. The surviving manuscript, which was thought to be lost, is now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It had been misattributed to the Scottish lexicographer, John Jamieson, in the nineteenth century and subsequently catalogued under Jamieson’s name. This paper gives the latest information on the remarkable history of the manuscript, and provides a first glimpse into the lexical riches in contains. Although never completed, Boswell’s dictionary contains over 800 draft entries and is an important new source of information on eighteenth-century Scots. Research is still at an early stage, but the manuscript is already providing antedatings to the information in current historical dictionaries of Scots, and confirming the currency of some Scots words for which there was previously little evidence. It is also now possible to begin to compare Boswell’s plan for his Scots dictionary, as outlined in his journals and memoranda, with the evidence of his surviving manuscript. The paper further outlines the author’s future plans for transcribing and editing the manuscript, and describes the current website devoted to this ongoing research. Adapted from the source document
3670. Rennie, Susan. “Boswell’s Scottish Dictionary Update.” Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 33 (2012): 205–7. https://doi.org/10.1353/dic.2012.0010.
      Abstract: In the last issue of Dictionaries, I described my serendipitous discovery of the manuscript materials for Boswell’s Scottish dictionary, now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Here I provide a brief update of research on the dictionary, including details of a funding award which will allow me to focus on this project over the next three years.
3671. Respess, John. “Samuel Johnson and the Use of /h/.” Notes and Queries 36, no. 4 (December 1, 1989): 484–85. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/36-4-484c.
      See also the response from Mugglestone.
3672. Rettig, James. Review of Dr. Johnson’s Critical Vocabulary: A Selection from His “Dictionary,” by Richard L. Harp. American Reference Books Annual 19 (1988): 1074.
3673. Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge. Kirkus Reviews, June 15, 2001.
3674. Review of All the Sweets of Being: A Life of James Boswell, by Roger Hutchinson. Publishers Weekly 242, no. 49 (1995): 50.
3675. Review of Boswell’s Enlightenment, by Robert Zaretsky. Kirkus Reviews 83, no. 1 (2015).
3676. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Atlantic Monthly 288, no. 2 (2001): 140.
3677. Review of A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1986–1998, by Jack Lynch. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 25 (2003): 106–7.
3678. Review of A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson’s Notes for the “Life of Pope,” by Harriet Kirkley. Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 70–71.
3679. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. Indexer 20 (October 1996): 109.
3680. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne McDermott. Book World 27 (October 5, 1997): 15.
3681. Review of A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson, by Edward Tomarken. Year’s Work in English Studies 75 (1997): 362–63.
3682. Review of A Preface to Samuel Johnson, by Thomas M. Woodman. Year’s Work in English Studies 75 (1997): 361.
3683. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 2001.
3684. Review of Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, by David Wheeler. Virginia Quarterly Review 64, no. 1 (1988): 8–9.
3685. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Booklist 90 (July 1994): 1916.
3686. Review of Dr. Johnson: Interviews and Recollections, by Norman Page. Year’s Work in English Studies 68 (1990): 362.
3687. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 2005.
3688. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 75 (1994): 555–56.
3689. Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, by Pat Rogers. Virginia Quarterly Review 70, no. 2 (1994): 57.
3690. Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, by Pat Rogers. Year’s Work in English Studies 75 (1997): 360–61.
3691. Review of Johnson and “The Letters of Junius”: New Perspectives on an Old Enigma, by Linde Katritzky. Year’s Work in English Studies 77 (1999): 404.
3692. Review of Johnson on Language: An Introduction, by A. D. Horgan. Year’s Work in English Studies 75 (1997): 362.
3693. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Kirkus Reviews, October 15, 2000.
3694. Review of New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, by Anthony W. Lee. Notes and Queries 66 [264], no. 4 (2019): 603.
3695. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 73 (1992): 537–38.
3696. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Forum for Modern Language Studies 28, no. 3 (1992): 292–93.
3697. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Year’s Work in English Studies 68 (1990): 362.
3698. Review of Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd, by Thomas Reinert. Year’s Work in English Studies 77 (1999): 402–3.
3699. Review of Samuel Johnson: An Analysis, by Charles H. Hinnant. Year’s Work in English Studies 75 (1997): 363.
3700. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Essay, by Robert D. Spector. Year’s Work in English Studies 78 (2000): 451.
3701. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Biblio 3, no. 7 (July 1998): 73.
3702. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Forum for Modern Language Studies 51, no. 1 (2015): 89. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqu080.
3703. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Year’s Work in English Studies 79 (2001): 399–406.
3704. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers. Kirkus Reviews, October 2008.
3705. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 73–74.
3706. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return, by Martin Riker. Kirkus Reviews 86, no. 15 (August 1, 2018).
3707. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch. Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 2 (September 2004): 70.
3708. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Year’s Work in English Studies 68, no. 1 (1990): 363.
3709. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Year’s Work in English Studies 75 (1997): 361–62.
3710. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Year’s Work in English Studies 77 (1999): 403–4.
3711. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Year’s Work in English Studies 78 (2000): 448–50.
3712. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Year’s Work in English Studies 79 (2001): 399–406.
3713. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Jack Lynch. Year’s Work in English Studies 87 (2008): 4–5.
3714. Review of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. Year’s Work in English Studies 68 (1990): 362.
3715. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Wilson Quarterly 15 (1992): 118.
3716. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Bloomsbury Review 13 (1993).
3717. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Year’s Work in English Studies 75 (1997): 360.
3718. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Kirkus Reviews, October 15, 2000.
3719. Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. Virginia Quarterly Review 74, no. 4 (2000): 125–26.
3720. Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. American Reference Books Annual 28 (1997): 455.
3721. Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. Year’s Work in English Studies 77 (1999): 404–5.
3722. Review of The Selected Essays of Donald Greene, by Donald J. Greene. Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 2 (September 2009): 56–59.
3723. Review of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Johnson: Common Readers, by Beth Carole Rosenberg. Year’s Work in English Studies 77 (1999): 404.
3724. Review of Catalogue of the Papers of James Boswell at Yale University: For the Greater Part Formerly the Collection of Lieut.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, by Marion S. Pottle, Claude Colleer Abbott, and Frederick A. Pottle. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 87, no. 3 (1993): 390–91. https://doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.87.3.24304400.
3725. Review of Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell, by Paul Tankard. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 51, no. 2 (2019): 196–97. https://doi.org/10.5325/scriblerian.51.2.0196.
3726. Review of James Boswell: As His Contemporaries Saw Him, by Lyle Larsen. Reference and Research Book News 23, no. 3 (2008).
3727. Review of James Boswell, by Murray G. H. Pittock. Forum for Modern Language Studies 46, no. 1 (2010): 116. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqp091.
3728. Review of James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795, by Frank Brady. Tribune (London) 50, no. 40 (1986): 8.
3729. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Psychological Medicine 23, no. 3 (1993): 807–8. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700025654.
3730. Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland, by Pat Rogers. Field 281, no. 7072 (1993): 99.
3731. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb: Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate, by Nellie Pottle Hankins and John Strawhorn. Virginia Quarterly Review 75, no. 4 (1999): A128–29.
3732. Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769, by Richard Cargill Cole, Peter S. Baker, and Rachel McClellan. Virginia Quarterly Review 72, no. 1 (1996): SS20.
3733. Reynolds, Joshua. “Art-Connoisseurs.” Art & Antiques 17, no. 6 (June 1994): 89–92.
      Letter from Reynolds in response to Idler 25 on art connoisseurs.
3734. Reynolds, R. C. “Johnson on Fielding.” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 13, no. 2 (March 1986): 157–67.
3735. Ribbans, Geoffrey. “A Note on Cadalso and Samuel Johnson.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Scotland) 68, no. 1 (1991): 47–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475382912000368047.
3736. Ricciardi, Marc. “Johnson’s Prayerful Puritanism: An Episode in the Life of Milton.” Milton Quarterly 44, no. 3 (October 2010): 181–84. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1094-348X.2010.00248.x.
3737. Richard, Jessica. “Education.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 477–95. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson was famously learned, a teacher, an autodidact, and a didactic writer; he understood all of his work to be educational in purpose. Like so many educational thinkers of his era, he was strongly influenced by John Locke and excited by the opportunities that an expanding print market offered for learning. Yet he understood and acknowledged more than most educationalists of his era how one’s psychology might undermine efforts at learning; rather than fighting these weaknesses, Johnson structured his educational approach around them. Examining Johnson’s own learning, his teaching, and his educational writing across his career from the textbook The Preceptor to his essays and tales to the Dictionary, we can see Johnson’s construction of an educational practice sensitive to the challenges of reading with attention.
3738. Richard, Jessica. “‘I Am Equally Weary of Confinement’: Women Writers and Rasselas from Dinarbas to Jane Eyre.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 22, no. 2 (September 2003): 335–56. https://doi.org/10.2307/20059156.
3739. Richards, Penny. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 33, no. 1/2 (2021): 151–52.
3740. Richardson, John. “War.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 393–99. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3741. Richardson, Robert. “Media Types: Hero in the Image of Dr. Johnson.” The Independent, April 28, 1993.
3742. Richetti, John. “Fiction.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 200–207. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3743. Richetti, John. “Ideas and Voices: The New Novel in Eighteenth-Century England.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 12, no. 2–3 (2000): 327–44.
3744. Richetti, John. “Johnsoniana: From Anthony Lane, ‘Ginmania’ (the New Yorker, 9 December 2019).” Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 1 (March 2020): 53.
3745. Richetti, John. “Johnson’s Assertions and Concessions: Moral Irresolution and Rhetorical Performance.” In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, 37–48. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0004.
3746. Richetti, John. “Johnson’s Poetry.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 135–49. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
3747. Richetti, John. “Samuel Johnson as Heterdox Critic and Poet.” In New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 131–43. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.
3748. Ricks, Christopher. “Dictionary Johnson [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.].” New Criterion 24, no. 1 (September 2005): 82–87.
3749. Ricks, Christopher. “Dr. Johnson and the Falkland Islands.” New Rambler D:1, no. 26 (1985): 13–15.
3750. Ricks, Christopher. “Samuel Johnson: Dead Metaphors and ‘Impending Death.’” In The Force of Poetry, 80–88. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
3751. Ricks, Christopher. “Samuel Johnson in His Letters [Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford].” New Criterion 11, no. 1 (September 1992): 38–41.
3752. Ricks, Christopher. “The Definitive Dr. Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking].” Boston Globe, November 8, 1998.
3753. Riemer, Andrew. “Posthumous Cheek of a Man of Letters [Review of The Essential Boswell: Selections from the Writings of James Boswell, by Peter Martin].” Sydney Morning Herald, March 27, 2004.
3754. Riker, Martin. Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return. The Golden Greek. La Vergne: Coffee House Press, 2018.
      Abstract: After he dies, Samuel Johnson inhabits one body after the next, waiting for a chance to return to his son.
      Reviews:
      • Hoffert, Barbara. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return. Library Journal 143, no. 16 (2018): 25.
      • Review of Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return, by Martin Riker. Kirkus Reviews 86, no. 15 (August 1, 2018).
      • Martin, Andrew. “Body Hopping; a Dead Soul Migrates from Person to Person in This Inventive Novel [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return, by Martin Riker].” New York Times Book Review 123, no. 45 (2018): 44.
3755. Rippey, Arthur G. The Story of a Library: Reminiscences of a Latter Day Book Collector. Denver: Smith & Smith, 1985.
3756. Risling, Matthew. “Ants, Polyps, and Hanover Rats: Henry Fielding and Popular Science.” Philological Quarterly 95, no. 1 (Winter 2016): 25.
3757. Ritchie, Daniel E. “Johnson Reading Literature, Johnson Reading the Canon of Scripture: The Difference between Literary Pleasure and Religious Happiness.” In Reconstructing Literature in an Ideological Age: A Biblical Poetics and Literary Studies from Milton to Burke, 71–118. Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans, 1996.
3758. Ritchie, Daniel E. “Samuel Johnson’s The Rambler and Edmund Burke’s Reflections.” Modern Age 34, no. 4 (June 1992): 344–48.
3759. Ritchie, Fiona. Review of Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson, by Eric Rasmussen and Aaron Santesso. Review of English Studies 59, no. 238 (2008): 152–54.
3760. Ritchie, Fiona. “Exploring the Theatre History of the Eighteenth Century: My Experience of Curating an Exhibition on Johnson and the Theatre.” Johnsonian News Letter 59, no. 1 (March 2008): 35–41.
      On “Behind the Scenes: The Hidden Life of Georgian Theatre, 1737–1784,” an exhibition at Dr. Johnson’s House, 16 April–18 Sept. 2007.
3761. Ritchie, Fiona. “Hanna Pritchard: Johnson’s Irene.” New Rambler E:9 (2005): 31–46.
3762. Ritchie, Fiona. “Shakespeare.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 343–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3763. Ritchie, Stefka. “In Awe of Nature: The Influence of Science in the Works of Samuel Johnson and Joseph Wright of Derby.” BMI InBMInsightsight 5 (2003): 44–56.
3764. Ritchie, Stefka. Samuel Johnson Illustrated. Manchester: I2i Publishing, 2015.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson Illustrated is a unique introduction to six of Johnson’s allegories featured in the Rambler together with ‘The Vision of Theodore, the Hermit of Teneriffe, found in his Cell’ which Johnson thought was the best of all he ever wrote. The keynote to the present compilation is the extraordinary imaginative power Johnson instils in his writings which in turn stimulates the reader’s own personal creative experience. It is a new approach that draws attention to the influence of post-Newtonian science on mid-eighteenth-century art which valued mental imagery, ‘seeing in the mind’s eye,’ just as Newton had done to produce his synthesis of one universal law. For Johnson, too, ‘words were images of things’ and he often used the power of creative visualisation in an act of contemplation in his allegories. The introduction as well as the analytical notes that precede each text aim to facilitate the reader’s understanding of the peculiarities of mid-eighteenth-century aesthetics and of Johnson’s own affinity to the arts. The contributors have also taken into account a striking characteristic of the mid-eighteenth century — that of the affinity between poetry and painting, in the words of Samuel Johnson, ‘two sister arts,’ and the book has benefited from over fifty original illustrations by Dr Ana Stefanova, a psychologist and amateur artist and Svetlan Stefanov, a visual artist. As an inter-disciplinary project, the book has allowed its four contributors to broaden their critical perspective in a truly mid-eighteenth-century fashion, and travelling beyond their own fields of study, they have produced a truly exciting compilation.
3765. Ritchie, Stefka. “Samuel Johnson in an Age of Science.” MPhil thesis, University of Central England, 2002.
3766. Ritchie, Stefka. Samuel Johnson’s Pragmatism and Imagination. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
      Abstract: The central theme of this book is an under-studied link between the canon of Francis Bacon’s and Isaac Newton’s scientific and philosophical thought and Samuel Johnson’s critical approach that can be traced in a textual study of his literary works. The interpretive framework adopted here encourages familiarity with the history and philosophy of science, confirming that the history of ideas is an entirely human construct that constitutes an integral part of intellectual history. This further endorses the argument that intermediality can only be of benefit to future research into the richness of Johnson’s literary style. As perceived boundaries are crossed between conventionally distinct communication media, the profile of Johnson that emerges is of a writer of passionate intelligence who was able to combine a pragmatic approach to knowledge with flights of imagination as a true artist.
3767. Ritchie, Stefka. The Reformist Ideas of Samuel Johnson. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
      Abstract: This book explores what remains an under-studied aspect of Samuel Johnson’s profile as a person and writer — namely, his attitude to social improvement. The interpretive framework provided here is cross-disciplinary, and applies perspectives from social and cultural history, legal history, architectural history and, of course, English literature. This allows Johnson’s writings to be read against the peculiarities of their historical milieu, and reveals Johnson in a new light — as an advocate of social improvement for human betterment. Considering the multiplicity of narrative modes that have been employed, the book points to the blurred boundaries and overlapping between history, testimony and fiction, and argues that a future biography of Samuel Johnson has to recognise that throughout his life he valued the utilitarian aspect of his manifesto as a writer to impart a more charitable attitude in the pursuit of a more caring society.
      Reviews:
      • Walker, Robert G. Review of The Reformist Ideas of Samuel Johnson, by Stefka Ritchie. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 236. https://doi.org/10.1353/scb.2020.0015.
3768. Rivara, Annie. “Savoir délirant et encyclopédie détraquée: Figures de savant fou dans le Prince Rasselas de Johnson et le Compère Mathieu de Du Laurens.” In Folies romanesques au siècle des lumières, edited by René Démoris and Henri Lafon, 351–64. Paris: Desjonquères, 1998.
3769. Rivero, Albert. “Noble Savage [Review of The Life of Mr Richard Savage, by Lance E. Wicox and Nicholas Seager].” TLS, no. 5957 (June 2, 2017): 31.
3770. Rivero, Albert. Review of The Life of Mr Richard Savage, by Nicholas Seager and Lance E. Wilcox. TLS, no. 5957 (June 2, 2017): 31.
3771. Rivero, Albert J. “Celebrating Johnson’s Dictionary.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 49, no. 3 (September 2008): 265–72. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecy.0.0021.
3772. Rizzo, Betty. “‘Downing Everybody’: Johnson and the Grevilles.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 17–46.
3773. Rizzo, Betty. “‘Innocent Frauds’: By Samuel Johnson.” The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 3, no. 3 (September 1986): 249–64. https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s6-viii.3.249.
3774. Rizzo, Betty. “Johnson’s Efforts on Behalf of Authorship in The Rambler.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 264 (1989): 1188–90.
3775. Robert DeMaria, Jr., and Gwin J. Kolb. “The Preliminaries to Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary: Authorial Revisions and the Establishment of the Texts.” Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 48 (1995): 121–34.
3776. Robinson, Duncan. “Giuseppe Baretti as ‘A Man of Great Humanity.’” In British Art, 1740–1820: Essays in Honor of Robert R. Wark, edited by Guilland Sutherland and John Hayes, 81–94. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1992.
3777. Robinson, Peter. “The Edge of Satire: Post-Mortem and Other Effects.” In The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire, edited by Paddy Bullard, 629–44. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
3778. Robinson, Roger. “‘We All Love Beattie’: The Truthful Minstrel in the Johnson Circle.” New Rambler D:10, no. 10 (1994): 39–47.
3779. Röder, Katrin. Entwürfe des Glücks und des guten Lebens in englischen Romanen vom 18. zum 20. Jahrhundert. Anglistische Forschungen 452. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015.
3780. Rodgers, Nini. “A Special Relationship?” In Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612–1865, 312–30. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625228_15.
3781. Rogers, J. P. W. “Dr. Johnson and the English Eccentrics.” New Rambler D:1, no. 26 (1985): 5–7.
3782. Rogers, J. P. W. “Johnson’s Lady Frances.” New Rambler D:7, no. 7 (1991): 41–43.
3783. Rogers, J. P. W. “Samuel Johnson’s Gout.” Medical History 30 (1986): 133–44.
3784. Rogers, Katharine M. “Anna Barbauld’s Criticism of Fiction-Johnsonian Mode, Female Vision.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 21 (1991): 27–41. https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2010.0221.
3785. Rogers, Pat. “Boswell and the Scotticism.” In New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” edited by Greg Clingham, 56–71. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511597589.005.
      Appears, with slight revisions, in Rogers’s Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, chapter 7.
3786. Rogers, Pat. Review of Boswellian Studies: A Bibliography, by Anthony E. Brown. New Rambler D:7, no. 7 (1991): 40–41.
3787. Rogers, Pat. “Chatterton and the Club.” In Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture, edited by Nick Groom, 121–50. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
3788. Rogers, Pat. “Checkers Careers: The Evolution of Samuel Johnson’s Harmless Game.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 2 (September 2017): 6–24.
3789. Rogers, Pat. “Cheerfulness Breaks In [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” New Criterion 27 (June 2009): 16–22.
3790. Rogers, Pat. “Conversation.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 151–56. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3791. Rogers, Pat. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. New York Times Book Review, September 4, 1994.
3792. Rogers, Pat. Johnson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Reviews:
      • Bayley, John. Review of Johnson, by Pat Rogers. London Review of Books 15, no. 21 (1993): 7–8.
      • Douglas, Hugh. Review of Johnson, by Pat Rogers. New Rambler D:10 (1994): 68–70.
      • Fleeman, J. D. Review of Johnson, by Pat Rogers. Notes and Queries 41 [239], no. 2 (June 1994): 249–50.
      • Walker, Keith. Review of Johnson, by Pat Rogers. TLS, September 24, 1993, 26.
3793. Rogers, Pat. Review of Johnson and Boswell: A Biography of Friendship, by John B. Radner. The Historian 77, no. 2 (2017): 402–3.
3794. Rogers, Pat. Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Reviews:
      • Carnochan, W. B. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. Albion 28, no. 3 (1996): 495–96.
      • Colley, Linda. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. London Review of Books 17, no. 18 (1995): 14–15.
      • Copley, Stephen. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 20, no. 1 (1997): 78–79.
      • Danziger, Marlies K. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 10 (1996): 15–16.
      • Dunn, Douglas. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. TLS, August 11, 1995, 4–5.
      • Fulton, Henry L. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. Studies in Scottish Literature 31 (1999): 307–10.
      • Tankard, Paul. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. Colloquy 1 (1996): 87–88.
      • The Observer. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. November 26, 1995.
      • Womersley, David. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. Review of English Studies 48 (1997): 114–16.
3795. Rogers, Pat. Review of Johnson and His Age, by James Engell. Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism 10, no. 1 (1987): 111–12.
3796. Rogers, Pat. “Johnson and the Art of Flying.” Notes and Queries 40 [238], no. 3 (September 1993): 329–30.
3797. Rogers, Pat. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. London Review of Books 9, no. 1 (1987): 13–14.
3798. Rogers, Pat. “The Johnson Club and Late Victorian Literary Culture.” Journal of Victorian Culture 18, no. 1 (March 2013): 115–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2013.774239.
      Abstract: In 1902 both the Order of Merit and the British Academy came into being. As David Cannadine has noted, Gladstonian liberals including Lord Rosebery, John Morley and Sir G. O. Trevelyan occupied a key segment of the newly formed elite with several others who were admitted to one or both of the new groups, belonged to the Club, the private society founded by Samuel Johnson and Joshua Reynolds in 1764. In fact several members took a leading part in the negotiations leading to the establishment of the Academy. The article seeks to demonstrate the significance of the Club in promoting what Cannadine terms “liberal and literary culture” in the later nineteenth century. A detailed examination of the membership shows a broad array of high achievers in the arts and sciences, as well as many individuals who held important public office. In particular, the Club elected a remarkable group of distinguished Victorian historians, including Macaulay, Grote, Froude, Lecky, Acton, Maine, Stubbs and Creighton. At the end of the century, several members had served in Gladstone’s administrations, and as a solid phalanx of liberal politician/writers they provided the base from which the new recipients of the Order of Merit and Fellows of British Academy would be chosen. My conclusion is that the group held a central place in the intellectual and literary world of Britain around 1900, with its extensive connections to the political power base, and understandably provided a nucleus of members for both the Order of Merit and the British Academy
      On the role of the Club in the late nineteenth century, including a number of distinguished historians.
3799. Rogers, Pat. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Review of English Studies 45 (May 1994): 259–60.
3800. Rogers, Pat. “The Noblest Savage of Them All: Johnson, Omai, and Other Primitives.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 281–301.
      Appears, with slight revisions, in Rogers’s Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia chapter 4.
3801. Rogers, Pat. The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.
      A wide-ranging reference work on Johnson’s life, works, and associates.
      Reviews:
      • Dollard, P. A. Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. Library Journal 121, no. 17 (October 15, 1996): 53.
      • McDermott, Anne. Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. New Rambler E:1 (1997): 71–73.
      • Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. American Reference Books Annual 28 (1997): 455.
      • Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. Year’s Work in English Studies 77 (1999): 404–5.
      • Stavisky, Aaron. Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 10 (1999): 302–28.
      • Stuhr-Rommereim, R. Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. Choice 34, no. 4 (December 1996): 1935.
      • Tankard, Paul. Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. The Southern Johnsonian, November 1998, 6.
      • Watson, Anne. Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1997, 47–48.
3802. Rogers, Pat. The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia. Translated by Daisuke Nagashima. Tokyo: Yumani-shobo, 1999.
      With an introductory essay by Nagashima on Johnson studies in Japan.
3803. Rogers, Pat. “‘The Transit of the Caledonian Hemisphere’: Johnson, Boswell, and the Context of Exploration.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 328–48. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
      Appears, with slight revisions, in Rogers’s Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, chapter 3.
3804. Rogers, Shef. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 97, no. 1 (March 2003): 93–98.
3805. Rogers, Shef. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 101, no. 2 (June 2007): 247–48.
3806. Rollyson, Carl. “Biography Theory and Method: The Case of Samuel Johnson.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 25, no. 2 (March 2002): 363–68. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2002.0030.
      Abstract: In the Life of Savage, Samuel Johnson exemplifies his enlightenment biographical method, which stresses the biographer’s effort to overcome the differences between himself and his subject. Contrary to romantic doctrine, Johnson’s theory values the biographer’s empathy for, rather than identification with, the biographee.
3807. Rollyson, Carl. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 25, no. 2 (2002): 363–68.
3808. Rollyson, Carl. “Samuel Johnson: Dean of Contemporary Biographers.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 24, no. 2 (March 2001): 442–47. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2001.0041.
3809. Romary, Laurent, and Werner Wegstein. “Consistent Modeling of Heterogeneous Lexical Structures.” Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 3 (November 2012). https://doi.org/10.4000/jtei.540.
3810. Rompkey, Ronald. “Soame Jenyns’s ‘Epitaph on Dr. Samuel Johnson.’” Bodleian Library Record 12, no. 5 (October 1987): 421–24.
3811. Root, Douglas. “Two ‘Most Un-Clubbable Men’: Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Franklin, and Their Social Circles.” In Social Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century: Clubs, Literary Salons, Textual Coteries, edited by Ileana Baird, 243–64. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
3812. Roper, Alan. “Johnson, Dryden, and an Allusion to Horace.” Notes and Queries 53 [251], no. 2 (June 2006): 198–99. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjl028.
3813. Rose, Mark. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Poetics Today 8, no. 3–4 (1987): 714–17.
3814. Rosenberg, Beth Carole. “The Dialogic Influence: Virginia Woolf and Samuel Johnson.” PhD thesis, New York University, 1992.
3815. Rosenberg, Beth Carole. Virginia Woolf and Samuel Johnson: Common Readers. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995. Reviews:
      • Laurence, P. Review of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Johnson: Common Readers, by Beth Carole Rosenberg. English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 39, no. 3 (1996): 380–83.
      • Review of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Johnson: Common Readers, by Beth Carole Rosenberg. Year’s Work in English Studies 77 (1999): 404.
3816. Rosenberg, Jordana. “Reading Lessons: Rasselas with The Matrix.” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 1 (March 2004): 13–17.
      On teaching Rasselas against the background of the movie.
3817. Rosenblum, Joseph. Review of The Journals of James Boswell, 1762–1795, by John Wain. Library Journal 117, no. 13 (1992): 99.
3818. Rosenblum, Joseph. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Library Journal 116, no. 18 (November 1991): 99.
3819. Rosenblum, Joseph. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria, Jr. Library Journal 118, no. 5 (March 15, 1993): 76–77.
3820. Ross, Angus. “New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of ‘The Life of Johnson.’” Scottish Literary Journal 39 (1994): 9–12.
3821. Ross, Ian Simpson. “Dr. Johnson in the Gaeltacht, 1773.” Studies in Scottish Literature 35–36 (2013): 108–30.
3822. Ross, John C. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript, by David L. Vander Meulen and G. Thomas Tanselle. Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 7 (1993): 252–53.
3823. Ross, Trevor. “A Basis for Criticism.” In The Making of the English Literary Canon: From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century, 247–91. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998.
3824. Roten, M. Review of Bozzy, Mistress and the Bear, by Clare Steyn. Choice 28, no. 10 (June 1991): 5963.
3825. Rothschild, Loren. Blinking Sam: The True History of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s 1775 Portrait of Samuel Johnson. Tempe, Ariz.: Printed for The Johnsonians and the Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California at the Almond Tree Press and Paper Mill, 2002.
      An authoritative account of the famous Blinking Sam portrait.
3826. Rothschild, Loren. “Blinking Sam: The True History of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s 1775 Portrait of Samuel Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 141–50.
      An authoritative account of the famous Blinking Sam portrait.
3827. Rothschild, Loren. “Collecting Samuel Johnson and His Circle.” In Editing Lives, edited by Jesse G. Swan, 1–8. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2014.
3828. Rothschild, Loren. “Johnsoniana: From ‘The Initiation of a Young Irishman’ by Frank McCort.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 2 (September 2019): 49–50.
3829. Rothschild, Loren. Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary”: A Lecture Presented at the Huntington Library May 27, 2009 on the Occasion of the Opening of the Exhibition “Samuel Johnson: Literary Giant of the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles: The Samuel Johnson Society of the West, 2009.
      A keepsake of Rothschild’s wide-ranging introduction to the Dictionary to mark the opening of the Huntington’s exhibition in 2009.
3830. Rothschild, Loren, and Frances Rothschild. Author for All Seasons: An Exhibition of Manuscripts & Books from the Library of Loren & Frances Rothschild Held at the Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California. Pacific Palisades & Los Angeles: Rasselas Press & the USC Fine Arts Press, 1988.
3831. Rounce, Adam. “Boswell and the Limits of Sensibility.” In Beyond Sense and Sensibility: Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth, edited by Peggy Thompson and Timothy Erwin, 9–23. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2015.
3832. Rounce, Adam. “Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 23, no. 1 (2000): 117–19.
3833. Rounce, Adam. “Editions.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 31–37. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3834. Rounce, Adam. “In Silence and Darkness: Johnson’s Verdicts on Artistic Failure.” In A Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 54–70. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson was never backward in pointing out the invariable tendency in human affairs towards failure, or at best a sense of limitation qualifying the possible; even the ghost is upbraided, in Hamlet, for not achieving his ends, in a manner that makes him sound almost hapless: “The apparition left the regions of the dead to little purpose; the revenge which he demands is not obtained but by the death of him that was required to take it,” let alone the “untimely death” of Ophelia. The deadpan register of such pronouncements is a part of the perceived monumentality of Johnson’s...
3835. Rounce, Adam. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 24, no. 2 (2001): 229–32.
3836. Rounce, Adam. “More Brickbats: Percival Stockdale, Johnson, and Misanthropy.” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 2 (September 2022): 7–16.
3837. Rounce, Adam. “‘Pleasure or Weariness’: Additions to and Exclusions from the Lives of the Poets.” In New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 47–67. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.
3838. Rounce, Adam. “Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 24, no. 2 (2001): 229–32.
3839. Rounce, Adam. “Samuel Johnson’s “General Nature”: Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 24, no. 2 (2001): 229–32.
3840. Rounce, Adam. “Success and Failure in Grub-Street: Samuel Johnson and Percival Stockdale.” New Rambler E:8 (2004): 22–34.
3841. Rounce, Adam. “Suffering.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 536–50. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: This chapter discusses the various ways in which the concept of suffering occurs in Johnson’s writing and thought. It considers the two principles uses of the verb, whereby suffering is either something that happens or is allowed to happen, and relates these to different examples, from the characters and ideas of Rasselas, Johnson’s writings on art and literature (including the annotations to Shakespeare, the ‘Lives’ of Waller, Addison, Savage, and Pope) and his periodical essays. The argument demonstrates how the impossibility of understanding suffering in a providential world (and yet the necessity of striving to do so), results in Johnson’s trenchant and coruscating criticisms of the facile views of suffering displayed in Pope’s Essay on Man, and Jenyns’ enquiry on the nature of evil; the rejection of complacency stresses the importance of understanding suffering in Johnson’s work and life.
3842. Rounce, Adam. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 23, no. 1 (2000): 117–19.
3843. Rounce, Adam. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 24, no. 2 (2001): 229–32.
3844. Rounce, Adam. “The Difficulties of Quantifying Taste: Blackmore and Poetric Reception in the Eighteenth Century.” Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries 6, no. 1 (Fall 2014): 19–35.
3845. Rounce, Adam. “Toil and Envy: Unsuccessful Responses to Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.” In Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, edited by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood, 186–206. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
3846. Rounce, Adam. “Young, Goldsmith, Johnson, and the Idea of the Author in 1759.” In Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Shaun Regan, 95–112. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2013.
3847. Rousseau, S. “Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 29, no. 3 (July 1993): 265–68.
3848. Rowell, Phyllis. Dr Johnson’s House during the War, 1939–1945. Somerville, N.J.: Four Oaks Library, 1987.
3849. Rowland, Michael. “‘Plain, Hamely, Fife’: James Boswell’s Shameful National Masculinity.” European Journal of English Studies 23, no. 3 (December 2019): 281–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2019.1655244.
      Abstract: Much has been made in the scholarship of eighteenth-century autobiography of James Boswell’s journals, particularly the London Journal of 1762–3. While critical attention has tended to focus on his use of journal writing to construct and shift between various idealised masculine identities, few have recognised the central importance of shame to Boswell’s project. This essay argues that by examining shame in dialogue with Boswell’s conflicting ideas of national identity – his desire to embody English politeness whilst caught in a volatile relationship with his Scottishness – we are better placed to understand his idiosyncratic selfhood. My account of the London Journal, in concert with the letters he wrote his close friend John Johnston, situates shame in context as a catalyst of masculine identity formation in a period of political and societal transition.
3850. Rowland, Michael Anthony. “Shame and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century: Politeness, Creativity, Affect.” PhD Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017.
3851. Royal Oak Foundation. History of the Boswells of Auchinleck, Home of James Boswell, Author of the Life of Samuel Johnson. New York: Royal Oak Foundation, 1999.
3852. Royle, Trevor. “Redefining the Life of Johnson: A Thorough and Entertaining Study Sheds New Light on the Capricious Great Man of English Letters [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Life, by David Nokes].” The Herald (Glasgow), September 12, 2009.
3853. Rubin, Merle. “Envisioning the Smaller World of the Great Dr. Johnson [Review of According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge).” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 2001.
3854. Rudd, Niall. “Cicero’s De Senectute and The Vanity of Human Wishes.” Notes and Queries 33 [231], no. 1 (March 1986): 59.
3855. Rudd, Niall. “Notes on Johnson’s Latin Poetry.” Translation and Literature 9, no. 2 (2000): 215–23.
3856. Ruddick, William. “Samuel Johnson: Picturesque Tourist.” New Rambler D:8, no. 8 (1992): 24–26.
3857. Ruddick, William. “Scott and Samuel Johnson and Biographers of Dryden.” New Rambler C:25, no. 25 (1984): 14–26.
3858. Rudman, Mark. “The Book of Samuel.” New England Review: Middlebury Series 28, no. 2 (2007): 38–57.
      On three Samuels: Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Samuel Beckett.
3859. Rudman, Mark. “The Book of Samuel.” In The Book of Samuel: Essays on Poetry and Imagination, 191–254. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2009.
      On three Samuels: Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Samuel Beckett.
3860. Ruggieri, Franca. “James Boswell: Biografia come storia.” In L’età di Johnson: La letteratura inglese del secondo Settecento, edited by Franca Ruggieri, 71–80. Rome: Carocci, 1998.
3861. Ruggieri, Franca. “Samuel Johnson e il suo tempo.” In L’età di Johnson: La letteratura inglese del secondo Settecento, edited by Franca Ruggieri, 41–70. Rome: Carocci, 1998.
3862. Rumbold, Valerie. “Mrs Thrale Leaves Home: Closed Circles and Expanding Horizons in Hester Lynch Piozzi’s Anecdotes of Dr Johnson.” New Rambler D:12, no. 12 (1996): 3–17.
3863. Runte, Roseann. “Voltaire and Johnson on Shakespeare.” ALFA: Actes de Langue Française et de Linguistique/Symposium on French Language and Linguistics 10–11 (1997): 33–40.
3864. Rusnock, Andrea. “Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient.” Isis 83, no. 2 (June 1992): 332–33.
3865. Russell, P. “A Hobbist Tory: Johnson on Hume.” Hume Studies 16, no. 1 (1990): 75–79.
3866. Russell, T. M. “Architecture and the Lexicographers: Three Studies in Eighteenth-Century Publications, Pt. III: Samuel Johnson and A Dictionary of the English Language.” Edinburgh Architecture Research 22 (1995): 59–79.
3867. Russell, Terence M., ed. The Encyclopaedic Dictionary in the Eighteenth Century: Architecture, Arts and Crafts Vol. 4, Samuel Johnson: “A Dictionary of the English Language.” Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1997.
      Examines 700 Dictionary entries on architecture.
      Reviews:
      • Arcistewska, B. Review of The Encyclopaedic Dictionary in the Eighteenth Century: Architecture, Arts and Crafts, by Terence M. Russell. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 58, no. 1 (March 1999): 79–82.
      • Chambers, D. C. Review of The Encyclopaedic Dictionary in the Eighteenth Century: Architecture, Arts and Crafts vol. 4, Samuel Johnson: A Dictionary of the English Language, by Terence M. Russell. Albion 30, no. 4 (1998): 695–98.
      • Gomme, A. Review of The Encyclopaedic Dictionary in the Eighteenth Century: Architecture, Arts and Crafts vol. 4, Samuel Johnson: A Dictionary of the English Language, by Terence M. Russell. TLS, February 6, 1998, 10.
3868. Rustin, Susanna. “The Doctor Is Debunked [Review of According to Queeney by Henry Hitchings].” Financial Times, September 22, 2001.
3869. Rutten, Tim. “A Towering Man and a Grand Tome [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” Los Angeles Times, December 20, 2008.
3870. Ruttkay, Kálmán G. “The Aristotelian Heritage in Critical Theory and Practice: From Dryden to Johnson.” Neohelicon: Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum 17, no. 1 (1990): 13–25. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02092753.
3871. Ruxin, Paul. “Synonymy and Satire by Association.” Caxtonian, May 2006, 1–5.
      On Boswell’s inscribed copy of John MacLaurin’s Essays in Verse, including the poem “On Johnson’s Dictionary” (reproduced here).
3872. Ruxin, Paul. “Synonymy and Satire by Association.” Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 2 (September 2007): 34–41.
      On Boswell’s inscribed copy of John MacLaurin’s Essays in Verse, including the poem “On Johnson’s Dictionary” (reproduced here).
3873. Ruxin, Paul T. “Beginnings of the Johnsonian News Letter.” Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 6–8.
3874. Ruxin, Paul T. “Dorando and the Douglas Cause.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 20 (2010): 79–94.
3875. Ruxin, Paul T. Lord Auchinleck’s Fingal: Being Remarks Inscribed in the Hand of Alexander Boswell in His Own Copy of James Macpherson’s Ossian Offerings, with an Introductory Essay on the Johnson/Macpherson Controversy. [New Haven]: [Yale University], 2004.
      A keepsake in support of the Yale editions of the private papers of James Boswell.
3876. Ruxin, Paul T. “Rasselas, Trans. Tian Ming Cai.” In The Past as Present: Selected Thoughts & Essays, 137–39. New York: Oliphant Press, 2017.
3877. Ruxin, Paul T. Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, and the Restoration of Shakespeare. London: Dr Johnson’s House, 2015.
3878. Ruxin, Paul T. “Ten More Fore-Edge Paintings.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 40–45.
3879. Ruxin, Paul T. “The Club.” Johnsonian News Letter 63, no. 2 (September 2012): 11–22.
3880. Ruxin, Paul T. “The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age.” In The Past as Present: Selected Thoughts & Essays, edited by Gordon M. Pradl and Samuel B. Ellenport, 49–63. New York: Oliphant Press, 2012.
3881. Ruxin, Paul T. The Past as Present: Selected Thoughts & Essays. Edited by Gordon M Pradl, Samuel B Ellenport, and William H Pritchard. New York: Oliphant Press, 2017.
3882. Ruxin, Paul T. Review of 幸福谷: 拉赛拉斯王子的故事 = The history of Rasselas Prince of Abissinia, by Tian Ming Cai. Johnsonian News Letter 59, no. 2 (September 2008): 56–58.
3883. Ryan, Lawrence V. Review of The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson: Text, Translation, and Commentary, by Barry Baldwin. Seventeenth-Century News 53, no. 3–4 (1995): 78–79.
3884. Ryan, Peter. “The Immortal Samuel Johnson.” Quadrant 53, no. 11 (2009): 127–28.
3885. Ryan, Peter. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 23, no. 1 (2000): 268.
3886. Ryan, Peter. “Up to the Minute with Samuel Johnson.” Quadrant 57, no. 1–2 (2013): 111–12.
3887. Ryan, Vanessa L. “The Unreliable Editor: Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus and the Art of Biography.” Review of English Studies 54, no. 215 (June 2003): 287–307. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/54.215.287.
      Abstract: In 1831 John Wilson Croker’s new edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson sparked a debate about the nature of biography: is it a branch of history, recording the life of its subject, or is it a constructive and thus literary effort on the part of the biographer? Croker’s grand claim to have surpassed all previous editors inadvertently raised the question of whether the greatness of the Life of Johnson was due to its subject or to the genius of its author. In a review of Croker’s edition, published as two separate essays, ‘Biography’ and ‘Boswell’s Life of Johnson’, Carlyle seized on this question, offering a largely unprecedented defence of biography as a literary and creative genre. At the same time as Carlyle wrote this review he was also completing Sartor Resartus. The two-year gap between the debate over Croker’s edition and the first publication of Sartor Resartus in Fraser’s Magazine (1833–4) has tended to obscure the extent to which Carlyle’s book can helpfully be seen in the context of this earlier controversy about the nature of biography. This essay argues that the relationship between the Editor’s Heuschrecke’s Teufelsdröckh in Sartor Resartus strongly resembles the relationship between Croker’s Boswell’s Johnson.
3888. Ryder, Mary R. “Avoiding the ‘Many-Headed Monster’: Wesley and Johnson on Enthusiasm.” Methodist History 23, no. 4 (1985): 214–22.
3889. Sabor, Peter. “Age.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 49–66. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: During the last twenty-two years of his life, from July 1762 to December 1784, Samuel Johnson received a Civil List pension of £300 per annum. No longer compelled to write for money, he undertook a series of travels: to Devon with Joshua Reynolds in 1762; to the Hebrides with his future biographer James Boswell in 1773; to North Wales with Henry and Hester Thrale in 1774; and to Paris, again with the Thrales, in 1775. He met Boswell for the first time in May 1763, and the Thrales with whom he soon developed a close friendship, in January 1765; Streatham Park, the country estate of this wealthy brewer and his brilliant wife, became Johnson’s second home. In winter 1764, Johnson and Reynolds founded the Club, initially with nine distinguished members. Johnson’s edition of Shakespeare was published in 1765; his Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland in 1775; and his final major publication, Lives of the Poets, in 1779-81.
3890. Sabor, Peter. “‘Armed with the Tomahawk and Scalping-Knife’: William Kenrick Versus Samuel Johnson.” Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies 84 (2015): 45.
3891. Sabor, Peter. “‘I Dearly Love to Praise Old Friends’: Dr. Burney and Dr. Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 6–17.
3892. Sabor, Peter. “‘The March of Intimacy’: Dr. Burney and Dr. Johnson.” Eighteenth-Century Life 42, no. 2 (2018): 38–55.
      Abstract: This essay offers a revisionist reading of Charles Burney Sr.’s extraordinary talent for networking. It shows that Dr. Burney initiated and burnished a friendship with Dr. Johnson, who would play a crucial role in facilitating Burney’s transition from lowly musician to respected man of letters. Despite Johnson’s own lack of interest in music, he was willing to aid his friend with his magnum opus: a history of music that would eventually extend to four volumes. And that assistance included ghostwriting: enlisting Johnson as his uncredited collaborator was the ultimate proof of Burney’s exceptional networking skills.
3893. Sabor, Peter. “‘United in One Performance’: Samuel Johnson and Frances Burney.” New Rambler E:12 (2008–9): 24–35.
3894. Sachdev, Rita. Critical Interpretation of Samuel Johnson. New Delhi: Wisdom Press, 2016.
3895. Sack, James J. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. American Historical Review 101, no. 3 (June 1996): 847–48.
3896. Sadler, E. A. “Dr Johnson’s Ashbourne Friends: Extracts from E. A. Sadler’s 1939 Paper.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1997, 36–43.
3897. Sairio, Anni. “‘Sam of Streatham Park’: A Linguistic Study of Dr. Johnson’s Membership in the Thrale Family.” European Journal of English Studies 9, no. 1 (April 2005): 21–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825570500068109.
3898. Saito, Nobuyoshi. “Reading and Teaching Rasselas in Kyoto.” Johnsonian News Letter 55, no. 2 (September 2004): 11–14.
3899. Saito, Nobuyoshi. “The Sense of a Middle: System and History in Samuel Johnson and Laurence Sterne.” PhD thesis, Brown University, 1995.
3900. Sale, Jonathan. “Abba and Dr. Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language by Jack Lynch].” Financial Times Weekend Magazine, November 20, 2004.
3901. Sam Johnson, Detector. Audiocassette. 5 vols. Charlotte Hall, MD: Recorded Books, Inc., 1989.
3902. “Samuel Johnson in His ‘Meridian Splendour’: The Genealogy of a Metaphor.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 1 (Autumn 2019): 24–25.
3903. “Samuel Johnson, Man of the Theater.” New York 28, no. 19 (May 8, 1995): 83.
3904. Samuel Johnson, Writer, 1709–1784. Falls Church, Va.: Landmark Films, 1988.
3905. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. The Southern Johnsonian 11, no. 4 (April 2004): 2.
3906. “Samuel Johnson’s Practical Sermon on Marriage in Context: Spousal Whiggery and the Book of Common Prayer.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 1 (Autumn 2019): 25–26.
3907. “Samuel Johnson’s Tics.” FDA Consumer 22 (September 1988): 29.
3908. “Samuel Johnson’s View of History.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 1 (Autumn 2019): 22–23.
3909. Sandbrook, Dominic. “Beyond the Quips and Twitches: Dominic Sandbrook Hopes a Fine New Life Will Revive Interest in Johnson’s Works [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Daily Telegraph, August 9, 2008.
3910. Sandler, Erin M. Review of Samuel Johnson, the “Ossian” Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland, by Thomas M. Curley. Eighteenth-Century Studies 44, no. 1 (2010): 142–43.
3911. Sandlin, Andrew. “Samuel Johnson’s ‘Late Conversion’ Re-Evaluated in View of the Published Sermons.” New Rambler D:10, no. 10 (1994): 57–63.
3912. Sandlin, Andrew. “The Political Sermons of Samuel Johnson.” Modern Age 39, no. 4 (1997): 383–88.
3913. Sandner, David. “‘This Wild Strain of Imagination’: Samuel Johnson and John Hawkesworth on Wonder.” In Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712–1831, 81–90. Burlington: Ashgate, 2011.
3914. Santesso, Aaron. “Johnson as Londoner.” In Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson, edited by Eric Rasmussen and Aaron Santesso, 161–79. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
      On Johnson’s “central urban philosophy,” with comments on the city and the poem London. “Shakespeare . . . comes to represent to Johnson not only how even the greatest authors are transformed by the city, but also how urban transformation is not always entirely negative.”
3915. Santesso, Aaron. “Teaching Johnson to Teach Shakespeare.” Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 2 (September 2006): 9–11.
3916. Saunders, Alan. “Doing Philosophy with Samuel Johnson: The David Fleeman Memorial Lecture, 2006.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 10 (August 2008): 11–22.
3917. Savage, Tim. “Who Annotated My Copy of Boswell’s Life of Johnson?” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 1 (March 2016): 36–48.
3918. Savater, Fernando. “Boswel [sic], el curioso impertinente.” Suplemento Literario La Nación, January 14, 1996.
3919. Sawday, Jonathan. “‘I Feel Your Pain’: Some Reflections on the (Literary) Perception of Pain.” In The Hurt(Ful) Body: Performing and Beholding Pain, 1600–1800, edited by Tomas Macsotay, Cornelis van der Haven, and Karel Vanhaesebrouck, 97–114. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.
3920. Sawer, Patrick. “Hodge Gets His Share of Dr Johnson’s Fame.” Evening Standard, September 24, 1997.
      On the statue of Hodge outside the Gough Square house.
3921. Saxton, Teresa. Review of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, by Anthony W. Lee. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 34, no. 1 (2021): 110–13.
3922. Saxton, Teresa. Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 34, no. 1 (2021): 110–13.
3923. Sayers, William. “A Source for Dr. Johnson’s Self-Referential Entry ‘Lexicographer.’” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 26, no. 1 (2013): 17–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2013.749175.
3924. Scanlan, J. T. Review of A Course of Lectures on the English Law: Delivered at the University of Oxford 1767–1773, by Thomas M. Curley. New Rambler D:2, no. 2–47, 2 (June 1986): 1–2.
3925. Scanlan, J. T. Review of A Course of Lectures on the English Law: Delivered at the University of Oxford 1767–1773, by Thomas M. Curley. New Rambler E:2 (1998): 68–69.
3926. Scanlan, J. T. “‘A Spirit of Contradiction’: Samuel Johnson and the Law.” New Rambler E:6 (2002): 2–11.
3927. Scanlan, J. T. Review of Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, by David Wheeler. South Atlantic Review 55, no. 1 (January 1990): 136–39.
3928. Scanlan, J. T. “‘He Hates Much Trouble’: Johnson’s Life of Swift and the Contours of Biographical Inheritance in Late Eighteenth-Century England.” In Representations of Swift, edited by Brian A. Connery, 99–116. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002.
3929. Scanlan, J. T. “‘How Like You the Eloquence of a Young Barrister?’: Love and the Law in Boswell’s Development as a Writer in the Late 1760s.” In Impassioned Jurisprudence Law, Literature, and Emotion, 1760–1848, edited by Nancy E. Johnson, 39–65. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2015.
3930. Scanlan, J. T. “Humor.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 453–76. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: This chapter emphasizes the development and changes in Samuel Johnson’s sense of humor over time, over the course of his entire career. Johnson’s sense of humor has a history, and it evolved according to the different contexts and experiences of his life. During his early career in London, Johnson embraced the satiric spirit of the day, but by the late 1740s and early 1750s, he began to embrace a more mirthful sense of humor. His later writing, and particularly the Lives of the Poets, show the influence of his needling conversational wit.
3931. Scanlan, J. T. “Johnson and Pufendorf.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 8 (2003): 27–59.
3932. Scanlan, J. T. “Johnson at Bucknell.” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 2 (September 2009): 31–33.
      An account of the tercentennial conference in Lewisburg, Penna., in March 2009.
3933. Scanlan, J. T. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. Albion 32, no. 4 (2000): 656–58.
3934. Scanlan, J. T. “Johnson’s Dictionary and Legal Dictionaries.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 19, no. 1 (2006): 87–106.
3935. Scanlan, J. T. “Johnson’s Dictionary and Legal Dictionaries.” In Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers, Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century, edited by Anne C. McDermott, 139–58. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.
3936. Scanlan, J. T. “Law.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 225–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3937. Scanlan, J. T. “‘Look, My Lord, It Comes’: Ghostly Silences in the Boswell/Johnson Archive.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 1 (Autumn 2019): 20–21.
      Abstract: In “‘Look, My Lord, It Comes’: Ghostly Silences in the Boswell/Johnson Archive,” Lee identifies a provocative, and somewhat amusing, subject: Johnson’s presence, especially in conversation, as a ghost. Most readers tend to think of Johnson in social situations as an intellectual pugilist, inclined every now and then to toss and gore his combatants. Lee suggests that Johnson’s initial silences in conversation are also meaningful.
3938. Scanlan, J. T. Review of The Making of Dr. Johnson: Icon of Modern Culture, by John Wiltshire. New Rambler E:12 (2008–9).
3939. Scanlan, J. T. Review of Mentoring Relationships in the Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson: A Study in the Dynamics of Eighteenth-Century Literary Mentoring, by Anthony W. Lee. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 19 (2009): 307–12.
3940. Scanlan, J. T. Review of Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd, by Thomas Reinert. Albion 30, no. 1 (1998): 125–27.
3941. Scanlan, J. T. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Religion & Literature 291, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 95–101.
3942. Scanlan, J. T. “Samuel Johnson’s Legal Thought.” In Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, edited by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood, 112–30. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
3943. Scanlan, J. T. “The Biographical Part of Literature [Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neale Parke].” Johnsonian News Letter 52, no. 2–53, 2 (June 1992): 26–28.
3944. Scanlan, J. T. “The Example of Edmond Malone: Boswell’s Life of Johnson and Patterns of Scholarly and Legal Prose.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 4 (1991): 115–35.
3945. Scanlan, J. T. “The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume.” New Rambler E:4 (2000): 86–88.
3946. Scanlan, J. T. “Three Bibliopoles.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 22 (2015): 145–68.
3947. Scanlan, J. T. “Two Allusions in Samuel Johnson’s The False Alarm.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 1 (Autumn 2019): 22.
3948. Scanlan, John. “Johnson and Impeachment?” Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 1 (March 2020): 44–50.
3949. Scanlan, John. “Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property.” JEGP 101, no. 2 (2002): 269–72.
3950. Schappell, Elissa. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch. Vogue, June 1994.
3951. Scarre, Geoffrey. “Somnium Boswelli.” Heythrop Journal 30, no. 2 (1989): 168–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2265.1989.tb00112.x.
      Abstract: “I had a strong curiosity to be satisfied if he persisted in disbeleiving a future state even when he had death before his eyes. I was persuaded from what he now said, and from his manner of saying it, that he did persist. … and he added that it was a most unreasonable fancy that he should exist for ever. … ‘Well,’ said I, ‘Mr Hume, I hope to triumph over you when I meet you in a future state; and remember you are not to pretend that you was joking with all this Infidelity.’” —from James Boswell’s last interview with David Hume1
3952. Schaff, Barbara. “James Boswell, Journals and Letters from His Grand Tour (1764–1765).” In Handbook of British Travel Writing, edited by Barbara Schaff, 231–46. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110498974-014.
3953. Schellenberg, Betty A. “The Eighteenth Century: Print, Professionalization, and Defining the Author.” In The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship, edited by Ingo Berensmeyer, Gert Buelens, and Marysa Demoor, 133–46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
3954. Schellenberg, Betty A. “The Second Coming of the Book, 1740–1770.” In Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book: Writers and Publishers in England, 1650–1800, edited by Laura L. Runge, Pat Rogers, and J. Paul Hunter, 30–52. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009.
3955. Scherwatzky, Steven D. “A New Johnson Self-Quotation in the Dictionary.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 1 (Autumn 2019): 19–20.
3956. Scherwatzky, Steven D. “‘Complicated Virtue’: The Politics of Samuel Johnson’s Life of Savage.” Eighteenth-Century Life 25, no. 3 (September 2001): 80–93. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-25-3-80.
3957. Scherwatzky, Steven D. “Dryden, Pope, and Milton in Gay’s Rural Sports and Johnson’s Dictionary.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 1 (Autumn 2019): 9.
3958. Scherwatzky, Steven D. “Fiction.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 169–90. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson wrote more fiction during his literary career than is generally realized, including philosophical fables (such as Rasselas), political satires, and prose allegories. However, Johnson’s fiction and his thoughts on fiction, expressed most famously in his periodical essays and in James Boswell’s Life of Johnson, reveal a profound ambivalence. While he praises fiction for its capacity to imitate life, Johnson is suspicious of the impact of the emergent English novel as a popular literary genre. From his dismissal of Samuel Richardson’s plotting to his condemnation of Henry Fielding’s protagonists, Johnson worried about fiction’s potential to attract, infuriate, or corrupt its readers. Despite, or perhaps because of, this ambivalence, Johnson continued to write and comment on fiction throughout his life, expressing both approval and dismay. Nonetheless, it is important to note that the only three books that Johnson suggests anyone might “wish longer” were works of fiction.
3959. Scherwatzky, Steven D. “Johnson and Politics: The Dangerous Prevalence of Imagination.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 13 (2002): 53–67.
      Scherwatzky revisits Johnson’s politics, working to go beyond the was-he-or-wasn’t-he tone of the discussions of Jacobitism.
3960. Scherwatzky, Steven D. “Johnson, Rasselas, and the Politics of Empire.” Eighteenth-Century Life 16, no. 3 (November 1992): 103–13.
3961. Scherwatzky, Steven D. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 8 (2003): 366–69.
3962. Scherwatzky, Steven D. Review of Johnson, Writing, and Memory, by Greg Clingham. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 17, no. 2 (2005): 290–93.
3963. Scherwatzky, Steven D. Review of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment, by Philip Smallwood. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 1 (March 2005): 48–51.
3964. Scherwatzky, Steven D. “Johnson’s Fallen World.” In Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism, edited by Melvyn New and Gerard Reedy, 131–46. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2012.
3965. Scherwatzky, Steven Donald. “Johnson’s Tory Politics.” PhD thesis, Rutgers University, 1991.
3966. Scherwatzky, Steven D. “Politics.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 303–11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
3967. Scherwatzky, Steven D. “Review Essay: Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Politics [Review of The Politics of Samuel Johnson, 2nd Ed., by Donald J. Greene; Jacobitism and the English People, 1688–1788, by Paul Kléber Monod; Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism: Political Ideology in Late Eighteenth-Century England and America, by Isaac Kramnick; and Politics in the Age of Fox, Pitt and Liverpool: Continuity and Transformation, by John W. Derry].” Politics in the Age of Fox 15, no. 3 (November 1991): 113–24.
3968. Scherwatzky, Steven D. “Samuel Johnson and Autobiography: Reflection, Ambivalence, and ‘Split Intentionality.’” In New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 183–201. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.
3969. Scherwatzky, Steven D. “Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Politics.” Eighteenth-Century Life 15, no. 3 (November 1991): 113–24.
3970. Scherwatzky, Steven D. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 24, no. 2 (2001): 474–77.
3971. Scherwatzky, Steven D. “Samuel Johnson’s Augustinianism Revisited.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 1–16.
      Johnson has often been called “Augustinian”; Scherwatzky provides the most thorough account of what this means.
3972. Scheuermann, Mona. “Let Us Now Praise Courageous Men: James Boswell’s Account of Corsica.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 25 (2025): 109–26.
3973. Schiavone, Michele Eva-Marie. “Heroism in Samuel Johnson’s Periodical Essays.” PhD thesis, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1989. https://doi.org/10.1159/000235092.
3974. Schindele, Märi. “Précis of Articles on Johnson and Boswell.” Johnsonian News Letter 51, no. 4 (1991): 24–28.
3975. Schmidgen, Wolfram. “Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property.” Romanticism 7, no. 2 (2001): 214–16.
3976. Schmidt, Michael. “Dr Johnson.” In Lives of the Poets, 334–41. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1998.
3977. Schmidt, Roger. “Caffeine and the Coming of the Enlightenment.” Raritan: A Quarterly Review 23, no. 1 (2003): 129–49.
3978. Schneeberger, Brandon. “Learning in Wartime: Samuel Johnson and Spiritual Transcendence in The Vanity of Human Wishes.” In Literature in Times of Crisis, edited by Robert C. Evans, 62–79. Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2021.
3979. Schneeberger, Brandon. “‘We Are Perpetually Moralists’: Samuel Johnson and Renaissance Epistemology.” Quidditas 40 (2019): 220–49.
3980. Scholtz, G. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Choice 28, no. 9 (May 1991): 4972.
3981. Scholtz, Gregory. Review of Samuel Johnson after Deconstruction: Rhetoric and “The Rambler,” by Steven Lynn. Choice 30, no. 6 (February 1993): 962.
3982. Scholtz, Gregory. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neal Parke. Choice 29, no. 7 (March 1992): 1079.
3983. Scholtz, Gregory. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. Philological Quarterly 69 (1990): 255–58.
3984. Scholtz, Gregory. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Choice 29, no. 2 (October 1991): 804.
3985. Scholtz, Gregory. “Sola Fide? Samuel Johnson and the Augustinian Doctrine of Salvation.” Philological Quarterly 72, no. 2 (March 1993): 185–212.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson’s beliefs about salvation are representative of 18th-century Anglican doctrine, but do not conform to the Augustinian doctrine of the Protestant Reformation, as Donald J. Greene has argued. Johnson regards salvation as conditional, based upon faith, obedience and repentance, with most stress placed on obedience. Johnson also holds that grace is necessary. By contrast, the Protestant Reformation doctrine was one of justification by faith alone, which Greene apparently has misunderstood. Johnson’s view stresses the importance of moral effort and eternal punishments and rewards and also involves a different concept of grace than the Reformation view.
3986. Scholtz, Gregory. Review of The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets,” by Martin Maner. Choice 27, no. 1 (September 1989): 167.
3987. Scholtz, Gregory F. “Anglicanism in the Age of Johnson: The Doctrine of Conditional Salvation.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 22, no. 2 (1989): 182–207.
3988. Scholtz, Gregory F. “Samuel Johnson on Human Nature: Natural Depravity and the Doctrine of Original Sin.” Word & World 13, no. 2 (1993): 136.
3989. Schoneveld, Cornelis W. Sea-Changes: Studies in Three Centuries of Anglo-Dutch Cultural Transmission. Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 8. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996.
3990. Schreyer, Rudiger. “Illustrations of Authority: Quotations in Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755).” Lexicographica: International Annual for Lexicography/Revue internationale de lexicographie/Internationales Jahrbuch für Lexikographie 16 (2000): 58–103.
3991. Schrickx, Willem. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 71, no. 3 (June 1990): 280–83.
3992. Schwalm, Helga. “Identität und Lebensgeschichte: Fremdbiographisches Erzählen bei Samuel Johnson und James Boswell.” In Das 18. Jahrhundert, edited by Monika Fludernik, Ruth Nestvold, and Vera Alexander, 91–107. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT), 1998.
3993. Schwalm, Helga. “Samuel Johnson, Medicine and Biography.” In Discovering the Human: Life Science and the Arts in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, edited by Ralf Haekel and Sabine Blackmore, 157–70. Göttingen: V & R Unipress, 2013.
3994. Schwandt, Jack. “Re-Reading Taxation No Tyranny: Was the United States of America a Mistake.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 263 (1989): 275–76.
3995. Schwartz, Michael. “Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson.” The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 25 (2003): 475–77.
3996. Schwartz, Richard B. After the Death of Literature. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.
3997. Schwartz, Richard B. “Boswell and Hume: The Deathbed Interview.” In New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” edited by Greg Clingham and David Daiches, 116–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
3998. Schwartz, Richard B. “Johnson’s Voluntary Agents.” In Theory and Tradition in Eighteenth-Century Studies, edited by Richard B. Schwartz, 51–65. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.
3999. Schwartz, Richard B. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Albion 33, no. 4 (2001): 659–60. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0095139000068095.
4000. Schwartz, Richard B. “Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient.” American Scientist 81 (March 1993): 200.
4001. Schwartz, Richard B. “Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author.” Albion 31, no. 3 (1999): 490–91.
4002. Schwartz, Richard B. “Samuel Johnson: The Professional Writer as Critic.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 1–12. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
4003. Schwartz, Richard B. Review of A Walk to the Western Isles: After Boswell & Johnson, by Frank Delaney. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 20 (2001): 505–6.
4004. Schwarz, Leonard. Review of Dr Johnson’s London, by Liza Picard. New Rambler E:4 (2000): 84–85.
4005. Schwendener, Peter. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. The American Scholar 64, no. 3 (1995): 467–70.
4006. Scott, John T. Review of Boswell’s Enlightenment, by Robert Zaretsky. Southwest Review 94, no. 3 (2009): 349–65.
4007. Scott, Robert Dawson. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. The Times, August 15, 2007.
4008. Seager, Nicholas. “Biography.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 260–77. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: This chapter surveys Samuel Johnson’s career as a biographer, exploring tensions between the ideals of life-writing he propounded in essays and conversations and his evolving practice from the 1730s to the 1780s. It outlines three phases in Johnson’s development as a biographer. First, it shows how his increasingly complex moral treatment of subjects in his earliest biographies challenged extant models of writing lives either to be imitated or censured. Second, it turns to his middle years to explore the conjunctions and divergences between Johnson’s influential theories of biography and his comparatively underwhelming output. Finally, it interprets the career-topping Lives of the Poets (1779–81) as to some extent an enactment of Johnson’s precepts for life-writing and to some extent an acknowledgement that his ideals needed to be modified to reconcile compassion with rigor.
4009. Seager, Nicholas. “Johnson, Biography and the Novel: The Fictional Afterlife of Richard Savage.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 51, no. 2 (April 2015): 152–70.
4010. Seary, Peter. “The Early Editors of Shakespeare and the Judgments of Johnson.” In Johnson after Two Hundred Years, edited by Paul J. Korshin, 175–86. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
4011. Seaton, Tony. “Cultivated Pursuits: Cultural Tourism as Metempsychosis and Metensomatosis.” In The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism, edited by Greg Richards and Melanie Smith, 19–27. London: Routledge, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203120958-4.
      Abstract: Metempsychosis and Metensomatosis were concepts introduced in two papers on tourism behaviour published a decade ago. The first paper adapted and adopted the word metempsychosis, a concept originally found in classical myth and ancient religion, to describe a form of cultural tourism in which travellers repeated itineraries made by significant historical others from within their own culture. Such repetitive journeys were taken by people as individual travellers or within packaged tours. Examples included journeys and tours in which subjects followed in the footsteps of James Boswell and Dr Johnson in the Hebrides, William Cobbett on his round-Britain tours, Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands, and many other prestigious travellers in history.
4012. Segal, Alex. “Conversation, Writings, and the Subversion of Economy: Samuel Johnson’s Life of Savage.” Critical Review 37 (1997): 81–95.
4013. Segarra, Marisol Cuevas. “Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas and Voltaire’s Candide: A Comparation [Sic].” MA thesis, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1986.
4014. Seidel, Michael. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Newsday, March 6, 1994.
4015. Selden, Raman. “Deconstructing the Ramblers.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 269–82. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
4016. Selections from the R. B. Adam Extra-Illustrated Copy of Boswell’s “Life of Johnson”: A Keepsake for the 312th Anniversary of the Birth of Samuel Johnson and the 2021 Celebration of the Johnsians Hosted by Houghton Library, Harvard University, September 17th, 2021. Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Library, 2021.
4017. Self, David. “Colouring in the Words [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Times Educational Supplement, April 1, 2005.
4018. Self, David. “Defining Moments in Time [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language by Jack Lynch].” Times Educational Supplement, October 29, 2004, 17.
4019. Self, Will. “The First Literary Celebrity [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” New Statesman, May 16, 2005.
4020. Selwyn, Percy. “Johnson’s Hebrides: Thoughts on a Dying Social Order.” Development and Change 10, no. 3 (1979): 345–61.
4021. Sergeant, John. “Dr Johnson: The First Spin-Doctor?” New Rambler E:10 (2006): 29–33.
4022. Sexton, David. “Boswell This Is Not: A New Biography of Samuel Johnson to Mark the Tercentenary of His Birth Adds Nothing to Our Knowledge and Suffers Badly in Comparison with Earlier Masterpieces [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Evening Standard, July 21, 2008.
4023. Sexton, David. “Broken Oaths: David Sexton Reflects on Dr Johnson’s Mastery of the Art of Making Resolutions.” The Independent, December 31, 1990.
4024. Sexton, David. “N.B.” TLS 6 (March 30, 1995): 14.
      Review of articles on masturbation in The Age of Johnson, vol. 6.
4025. Seymour, Miranda. “Bozzy’s Life: A Dazzling Portrait of James Boswell as a Literary Artist [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” The Atlantic Monthly, September 2001.
4026. Seymour, Terry. “Boswell in Broadside.” In Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, edited by Donald J. Newman, 68–79. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
4027. Seymour, Terry. Boswell’s Books: Four Generations of Collecting and Collectors. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2016.
      Abstract: Since the day in 1791 when The Life of Johnson was published, James Boswell has ranked among our greatest authors. With the discovery of Boswell’s journals and other papers in the twentieth-century, and their subsequent publication by Yale, armies of scholars have dissected his life, methods and manners. Yet until now, no one has attempted to document the books in his personal library. Terry Seymour has combed Boswell family inventories, the four Boswell auction sales, evidence from the Boswell papers, and two centuries of auction records and dealer catalogues to provide a remarkably complete reconstruction.The more than 4,500 entries, each one representing a title, document not only James Boswell’s library, but also that of his father, grandfather and two sons. The books of these four generations were inherited and shared within the family to such an extent that the Auchinleck library must be studied in its entirety. The Preface is by James J. Caudle, Associate Editor of the Boswell Editions at Yale. The extensive introduction narrates the history and migration of the Boswell library from the 14th century until the present day. Using forensic methods to study the flow of books held in Edinburgh and London, Seymour breaks new ground that uncovers what happened to these books after Boswell’s death. Many of the entries are article-length, describing all known provenance of each book, including stories of stolen and missing books. The entries also contain a complete transcription of Boswell’s own handlist of books, the inventory of Auchinleck books prepared by his wife, and the rare Greek and Latin Classics catalogue printed by his son. Boswell’s Books is illustrated with many Boswell ownership inscriptions, all the known bookstamps used by the Boswell family, a family portrait never before published, and bookplates of prominent Boswell collectors and members of his circle. Also included: details of book relationships with Samuel Johnson, David Garrick and others of Boswell’s circle; the presentation package that Boswell assembled for General Paoli; a detailed account of how Boswell planned and executed all the presentation copies of the first and second editions of the Life; provenance index, index of titles, and index of Booksellers, publishers and printers.
      Reviews:
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Boswell’s Books: Four Generations of Collecting and Collectors, by Terry Seymour. Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 55–58.
4028. Seymour, Terry. “Readeian Gleanings.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 2 (September 2021): 40–50.
4029. Seymour, Terry. “Samuel Johnson’s Library Sale Catalogue — A Census.” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 2 (September 2023): 12–29.
4030. Seymour, Terry. “SWIMMING with Johnson and Boswell.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 2 (September 2021): 39–40.
4031. Seymour, Terry. The Book That Missed the Last Truck to Houghton: A Keepsake in Commemoration of the 315th Birthday of Samuel Johnson. Privately Printed, 2024.
4032. Seymour, Terry. “The Busiest Johnson Society.” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 2 (September 2023): 52–53.
4033. Seymour, Terry I. “The Paula Peyraud Collection: Samuel Johnson and Women Writers in Georgian Society.” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 2 (September 2009): 34–36.
      An account of the sale of the Peyraud Collection at Bloomsbury Auctions in May 2009.
4034. Seymour, Terry I. “Why Dr. Johnson Was the First Mr. Everyman.” Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 2 (September 2006): 40–43.
4035. Seymour-Smith, Martin. Review of Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, by David Wheeler. TLS, January 27, 1989, 92.
4036. Shafiei, Mehraban, and Jalal Sokhanvar. “Subjectivity: A DeleuzoGuattarian Study of Samuel Johnson’s Selected Works: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.” Naqd-i Zabān va Adabīyyāt-i Khārijī 11, no. 15 (2016): 93–108.
4037. Shah, Zeynep Harputlu. “Rivalry in Literary Biography: Boswell’s Life of Johnson and Holmes’ Dr Johnson and Mr Savage.” Crossroads (Białystok, Poland) 4, no. 23 (2018): 33–45. https://doi.org/10.15290/cr.2018.23.4.03.
      Abstract: This study aims to discuss the complicated nature of literary biography by focusing on the intertextual relations and anxiety of influence among biographers of a single subject. Taking Samuel Johnson’s life and outlook on literary biography as a starting point, the article examines two influential works that are separated by a significant amount of time, Life of Johnson (1791) by James Boswell and Dr Johnson and Mr Savage (1993, 2005) by Richard Holmes, suggesting that in both there is a strong sense of rivalry with their subject and an anxiety about the influence of their predecessors. Both authors exhibit love for or interest in their subject while they strive for superiority in literary biography with their distinctive narrative technique and commentaries on Johnson’s character and life. In this study, I utilise Harold Bloom’s theory of influence in an attempt to show how anxiety and rivalry function as part of a creative process and driving force that leads to original contributions to the field.
4038. Shaltiel, Eli. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Ha’Aretz, November 12, 1999.
4039. Shanafelt, Carrie. “Doubt.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 567–81. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: Scholars have long disagreed about whether to categorize Samuel Johnson as a skeptic or anti-skeptic, as his criticism attacks religious, historical, biographical, and philosophical discourse from both sides. Johnson differentiated skepticism as an intellectual method from doubt, an experience of uncertainty; while the former could be feigned or practiced badly, the latter must be pitied and assuaged. Reading Johnson as a skeptic, an anti-skeptic, and an anti-anti-skeptic, this chapter analyzes his intellectual method as a form of Christian discernment, drawing evidence from his literary criticism, fiction, lexicography, and reported conversation regarding philosophers George Berkeley and David Hume.
4040. Shanafelt, Carrie. “The ‘Plexed Artistry’ of Nabokov and Johnson.” In Samuel Johnson among the Modernists, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 165–88. Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2019.
4041. Shankman, Steven. Review of A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality; or, Essay on Man (A Translation from the French), by O M Brack Jr. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 415–16.
4042. Sharma, Amiya Bhushan. “Dr. Johnson: An Economic Perspective.” PhD thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1983.
4043. Sharma, Amiya Bhushan. “Samuel Johnson and the Art of Social Comfort.” Indian Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 1, no. 2 (Winter 1986): 16–35.
4044. Sharma, Amiya Bhushan. “Samuel Johnson’s Image of India.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 121–39.
      A consideration of Johnson’s knowledge of, and opinions about, Indian culture.
4045. Sharma, Amiya Bhushan. “The Fowkes and the Lawrences: Biographical Notes on Samuel Johnson’s Friends in India.” Indian Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 1, no. 1 (June 1986): 29–35.
4046. Sharma, Mahanand. “Dr. Johnson and Babu Shyam Sunder Dass as Lexicographers.” In Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, edited by T. R. Sharma, 75–84. India: Shalabh, 1986.
4047. Sharma, Mridula. “Thales as a Social Commentator.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 1 (March 2021): 28–32.
4048. Sharma, O. P. “Samuel Johnson’s Lung Disease.” Journal of Medical Biography 7, no. 3 (August 1999): 171–74.
4049. Sharma, Susheel Kumar. “Samuel Johnson’s Moral Views in Life of Milton.” In Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, edited by T. R. Sharma, 104–8. India: Shalabh, 1986.
4050. Sharma, T. R. “Dr. Johnson and Defeudalization of Literature.” In Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, edited by T. R. Sharma, 109–18. India: Shalabh, 1986.
4051. Sharma, T. R., ed. Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson. India: Shalabh, 1986.
4052. Sharma, V. C. “‘Profitable Wickedness’: Samuel Johnson and the Indian Affair.” Rajasthan University Studies in English 19 (1987): 27–32.
4053. Sharp, Richard. “The Religious and Political Character of the Parish of St. Clement Danes.” In Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, edited by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill, 44–54. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
4054. Sharp, Ronald A. “Friendship, Modernity, and Elegiac Tradition.” Yale Review 101, no. 4 (October 2013): 56–66. https://doi.org/10.1111/yrev.12074.
4055. Sheidlower, Jesse. “Defining Moment: On Its Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, a Look Back at Doctor Johnson’s Exhaustive Dictionary [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch, and Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” BookForum: The Review for Art, Fiction, & Culture 12, no. 3 (October 2005): 5–7.
4056. Shelston, Alan. “Johnson, Watts and Wesley.” New Rambler D:2, no. 2 (1986): 4–5.
4057. Shenker, Israel. “A Samuel Johnson Celebration Recalls His Wit and Wisdom.” Smithsonian 15 (December 1984): 60–68.
4058. Shepherd, W. G. “A Latin Poem by Samuel Johnson.” Agenda 26, no. 3 (September 1988): 42–44.
      On “Gnothi Seauton.”
4059. Sheppard, Barrie. “John Law, Dr Johnson, and Money, Trade and Gambling.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 6 (2002): 30–35.
4060. Sheppard, Barrie. “John Law and Dr Johnson: On Money, Trade and Gambling.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 11 (2009): 47–58.
4061. Sheppard, Barrie. “Johnson, Adam Smith, and Peacock Brains.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 3 (1999): 15–25.
4062. Sheppard, Barrie. “Johnson and Metaphor.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 12 (2010): 49–60.
4063. Sheppard, Barrie. “Johnson and the Cucumber.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 2, no. 2 (1998): 9–14.
4064. Sheppard, Barrie. “Time — Now and Then, with Particular Reference to Johnson’s Attitude to the Keeping of It.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 5 (2001): 21–26.
4065. Sher, Richard B. “Boswell on Robertson and the Moderates: New Evidence.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 11 (2000): 205–15.
4066. Sher, Richard B. Review of James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, by Donald J. Newman. Albion 28 (1996): 496–97.
4067. Sher, Richard B. Making Boswell’s “Life of Johnson”: An Author-Publisher and His Support Network, Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections. Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
      Abstract: This Element throws new light on James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson by investigating its early publication history. Despite precarious psychological and financial circumstances and other limitations, Boswell was both author and publisher of the two-volume quarto edition that appeared in 1791. This study utilizes little-known documents to explore the details and implications of Boswell’s risky undertaking. It argues that the success of the first edition was the result not only of Boswell’s biographical genius but also of collaboration with a devoted support network, including the bookseller Charles Dilly, the printer Henry Baldwin and his employees, several newspaper and magazine editors, Boswell’s ‘Gang’ (Edmond Malone, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and John Courtenay) and other members of The Club, and Sir William Forbes. Although the muddled second edition (1793) suffered from Boswell’s increasing dysfunction in the years before his death in 1795, the resilient Boswellian network subsequently secured the book’s exalted reputation.
      Reviews:
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of Making Boswell’s “Life of Johnson”: An Author-Publisher and His Support Network, Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections, by Richard B. Sher. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 57, no. 1 (2024): 57–63.
4068. Sher, Richard B. “Scottish Divines and Legal Lairds: Boswell’s Scots Presbyterian Identity.” In New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” edited by Greg Clingham and David Daiches, 28–55. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-444-88864-8.50146-1.
4069. Sher, Richard B. “‘Something That Put Me in Mind of My Father’: Boswell and Lord Kames.” In Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, edited by Irma S. Lustig, 64–86. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
4070. Sherbo, Arthur. The Birth of Shakespeare Studies: Commentators from Rowe (1709) to Boswell–Malone (1821). East Lansing: Colleagues Press, 1986. Reviews:
      • Fleeman, J. D. Review of The Birth of Shakespeare Studies: Commentators from Rowe (1709) to Boswell–Malone (1821), by Arthur Sherbo. Modern Philology 86, no. 1 (August 1988): 90–92.
      • Kinney, Arthur F. Review of The Birth of Shakespeare Studies: Commentators from Rowe (1709) to Boswell–Malone (1821), by Arthur Sherbo. Philological Quarterly 68 (1989): 443–64.
4071. Sherbo, Arthur. “Four Scraps of Johnsoniana.” Notes and Queries 51 [249], no. 1 (March 2004): 59–60. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/51.1.59.
4072. Sherbo, Arthur. “From Bibliotheca Boswelliana, the Sale Catalogue of the Library of James Boswell, the Younger.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 97, no. 3 (September 2003): 367–78. https://doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.97.3.24295758.
4073. Sherbo, Arthur. “From the Sale Catalogue of the Library of James Boswell, the Younger (1778–1822): Did Boswell Play the Pianoforte?” Notes and Queries 51 [249], no. 1 (March 1, 2004): 60–63. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/510060.
4074. Sherbo, Arthur. “Johnson’s Shakespeare: The Man in the Edition.” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 17, no. 1 (1990): 53–65.
4075. Sherbo, Arthur. “The Longmans Milton and the 1778 Johnson–Steevens Variorum.” Notes and Queries 53, no. 1 (2006): 75–78. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjj137.
      Abstract: Professor Hyder E. Rollins, editor of the New Variorum ‘Sonnets’ and ‘Poems’, list Malone’s 1780 ‘Supplement’ to the 1778 ‘Shakespeare’ and Malone’s 1790 Shakespeare, and also the 1821 Boswell–Malone edition. He does not, however, lists the 1778 Johnson–Stevens edition, and as a result, misses a small body of notes by Malone and others, which might have enriched his commentary.
4076. Sherbo, Arthur. “More Johnsoniana from the Gentleman’s Magazine.” Notes and Queries 52 [250], no. 3 (September 2005): 376–77. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gji326.
4077. Sherbo, Arthur. “More of Samuel Johnson’s Critical Opinions.” Notes and Queries 45 [243], no. 4 (December 1998): 474–75. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/45.4.474.
4078. Sherbo, Arthur. “Nil Nisi Bonum: Samuel Johnson in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1785–1800.” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 16, no. 2 (March 1989): 168–81.
4079. Sherbo, Arthur. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Review of English Studies 44 (November 1993): 586–87.
4080. Sherbo, Arthur. Review of Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. Shakespeare Quarterly 47, no. 1 (1996): 92–94.
4081. Sherbo, Arthur. “Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare, Milton, Rowe, and Otway: Some Resurrected Notes.” Notes and Queries 40 [238], no. 3 (September 1993): 330–31.
4082. Sherbo, Arthur. Samuel Johnson’s Critical Opinions: A Reexamination. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1995. Reviews:
      • Hinnant, Charles H. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Critical Opinions: A Reexamination, by Arthur Sherbo. JEGP 96, no. 2 (April 1997): 279–80.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Critical Opinions: A Reexamination, by Arthur Sherbo. Notes and Queries 44 [242], no. 1 (March 1997): 123–24.
      • Nicholls, Graham. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Critical Opinions: A Reexamination, by Arthur Sherbo. New Rambler D:10, no. 10 (1994): 66–67.
      • Wiltshire, John. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Critical Opinions: A Reexamination, by Arthur Sherbo. English Language Notes 34, no. 1 (September 1996): 98–104.
4083. Sherbo, Arthur. Shakespeare’s Midwives: Some Neglected Shakespeareans. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992.
4084. Sherbo, Arthur. “A Small Addition to the Works of Sir Thomas More.” Notes and Queries 50 [248], no. 4 (December 2003): 386–386. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/50.4.386.
4085. Sherbo, Arthur. Studies in the Johnson Circle. West Cornwall, Conn.: Locust Hill Press, 1998. Reviews:
      • Dille, Catherine. Review of Studies in the Johnson Circle, by Arthur Sherbo. Review of English Studies 51, no. 201 (February 2000): 135–37.
4086. Sherbo, Arthur. “Thomas Holt-White on Johnson’s Lives of Prior and Milton.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 13, no. 3 (June 2000): 24–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/08957690009598109.
4087. Sherman, Stuart. “Cats [Review of Lily & Hodge & Dr. Johnson, by Yvonne Skargon].” Johnsonian News Letter 51, no. 4 (March 1991): 9–10. Reviews:
      • Sherman, Stuart. “Cats [Review of Lily & Hodge & Dr. Johnson, by Yvonne Skargon].” Johnsonian News Letter 51, no. 4 (March 1991): 9–10.
4088. Sherman, Stuart. “Diurnal Dialectic in the Western Islands.” In Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660–1785, 185–222. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
4089. Sherman, Stuart. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Johnsonian News Letter 51 (September 1991): 10–12.
4090. Sherman, Stuart. “Samuel Johnson.” In Teaching British Literature: A Companion to “The Longman Anthology of British Literature, edited by David Damrosch, 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 2003.
4091. Sherman, Stuart. Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine Neale Parke. JEGP 93 (October 1994): 585–88.
4092. Sherman, Stuart. Review of The Dream of My Brother: An Essay on Johnson’s Authority, by Fredric V. Bogel. Johnsonian News Letter 50, no. 3 (September 1990): 8–9.
4093. Sherman, Stuart. “‘The Future in the Instant’: Johnson, Garrick, Boswell, and the Perils of Theatrical Prolepsis.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 15–32. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
4094. Sherman, Stuart. “Wollstonecraft and Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 51, no. 4 (March 1991): 11–15.
4095. Shibagaki, Shigeru. “The Samuel Johnson Club of Japan.” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 1 (March 2009): 30–33.
      A short update on the activities of the Japanese society, with summaries of two lectures, Zenji Inamura’s “Johnson’s Views on Biography” and Marlies Danziger’s “James Boswell in Tokyo.”
4096. Shields, Juliet. “From English Empire to British Atlantic World.” In Nation and Migration: The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765–1835, 21–39. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190272555.003.0002.
      Abstract: Rhetorical comparisons between the Celtic peripheries and American colonies appear frequently in the debates surrounding American Independence. British writers such as Edmund Burke and Samuel Johnson regarded England’s political relationships with its Celtic peripheries as precedents that might help to resolve Parliament’s conflicts with the American colonies, and as models of how to balance imperial and local forms of government. In the years following independence, American writers including John Jay and Alexander Hamilton again looked to the British archipelago as an example of a multinational state as they sought to define the balance of power between federal and state governments in the new United States. By tracing comparisons between the Celtic peripheries and the American colonies or states from the prewar to the postwar period, this chapter illuminates the unsettling of an Anglocentric British Atlantic world, as non-English regions found potential sources of strength in their shared secondariness.
4097. Shilling, Daniel Dale. “Rhetorical Strategy in Samuel Johnson’s ‘Rambler’ Essays.” PhD thesis, Arizona State University, 1987.
4098. Shilling, Jane. “Dr Johnson, a Very Fine Lost Literary Giant Indeed [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography by Peter Martin].” The Times, July 25, 2008.
4099. Shinagel, Michael. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Harvard Review, no. 20 (2001): 161–63.
4100. Shinagel, Michael. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Harvard Review 16 (1999): 165–66.
4101. Shivel, G. Review of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment, by Philip Smallwood. Choice 42, no. 8 (April 2005): 4518.
4102. Shivel, G. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791, by Freya Johnston. Choice 43, no. 3 (November 2005): 1418.
4103. Short, Edward. “C. S. Lewis and Samuel Johnson: A Study in Affinity.” CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 48, no. 1 (2017): 1–12.
4104. Sider Jost, Jacob. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, by Richard B. Sher. Eighteenth-Century Studies 57, no. 2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2024.a916861.
4105. Sider Jost, Jacob. Review of Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell, by Paul Tankard. Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 56–57.
4106. Sider Jost, Jacob. “From Initiate to Individual: Grand Tour Narrative and Lejeunian Autobiography.” Lifewriting Annual: Biographical and Autobiographical Studies 3 (2012): 95–118.
4107. Sider Jost, Jacob. “The Gentleman’s Magazine, Samuel Johnson, and the Symbolic Economy of Eighteenth-Century Poetry.” Review of English Studies 66, no. 277 (2015): 915–35.
      Abstract: Between 1733 and 1736, Edward Cave offered a series of eight poetry contests in his newly founded Gentleman’s Magazine . These competitions varied widely in theme and scale, ranging from an offer of free back issues for the best set of epigrams to a substantial £50 prize for the best poem, in English or Latin, on a weighty devotional topic. Taken as a whole, Cave’s contests were an attempt to appropriate and supplant incumbent sources of literary prestige, particularly the traditional model of courtly and aristocratic patronage. Just as Richard Savage set himself up in the 1730s as a ‘volunteer laureate’, the Gentleman’s Magazine offered itself to English elites as a volunteer patron and would-be tastemaker. This attempt to assert the magazine’s critical authority by adapting traditional patronage models and appealing to the Whiggish Hanoverian court was a failure; even today, the critical judgements and canonical consecrations of opposition figures like Pope are dominant. I close by suggesting that Cave’s contests may have a further legacy as an influence on the career of the young Samuel Johnson.
4108. Sider Jost, Jacob. “Johnson on Torture: A Legal Footnote to the Life.” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 1 (March 2009): 44–47.
      On Johnson’s comment that “Torture in Holland is considered as a favour to an accused person,” which Sider Jost says is more than talking for victory.
4109. Sider Jost, Jacob. “Johnson’s Eternal Silences.” In Prose Immortality, 1711–1819, 133–51. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015.
4110. Sider Jost, Jacob. Review of New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, by Anthony W. Lee. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 34, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 47–49.
4111. Sider Jost, Jacob. “The Variety of Human Wishes.” In Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century: Hervey, Johnson, Smith, Equiano. Charlottesville, 2020.
      Abstract: Can a single word explain the world? In the British eighteenth century, interest comes close: it lies at the foundation of the period’s thinking about finance, economics, politics, psychology, and aesthetics. Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century provides the first comprehensive account of interest in an era when a growing national debt created a new class of rentiers who lived off of interest, the emerging discipline of economics made self-interest an axiom of human behavior, and booksellers began for the first time to market books by calling them “interesting.” Sider Jost reveals how the multiple meanings of interest allowed writers to make connections — from witty puns to deep structural analogies — among different spheres of eighteenth-century life. Challenging a long and influential tradition that reads the eighteenth century in terms of individualism, atomization, abstraction, and the hegemony of market-based thinking, this innovative study emphasizes the importance of interest as an idiom for thinking about concrete social ties, at court and in families, universities, theaters, boroughs, churches, and beyond. To “be in the interest of” or “have an interest with” another was a crucial relationship, one that supplied metaphors and habits of thought across the culture. Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century recovers the small, densely networked world of Hanoverian Britain and its self-consciously inventive language for talking about human connection.
      Reviews:
      • Walker, Robert G. Review of Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century: Hervey, Johnson, Smith, Equiano, by Jacob Sider Jost. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 35, no. 2 (2021): 32–36.
4112. Siebenschuh, William R. “Cognitive Processes and Autobiographical Acts.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 12, no. 2 (Spring 1989): 142–53. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2010.0534.
      Abstract: In an autobiography or any text heavily dependent upon its author’s memory, the normal operation of the common cognitive processes of memory and perception may be the cause of literary effects we are used to attributing to “artistic choice” or an author’s intention. Use of selected knowledge from the cognitive sciences may significantly enhance our ability to explain and interpret autobiographical texts and may even provide new insight into the creative process.
4113. Siebenschuh, William R. “Dr. Johnson and Hodge the Cat: Small Moments and Great Pleasures in the Life.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 388–99. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
4114. Siebenschuh, William R. “Johnson’s Lives and Modern Students.” In Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, edited by David Wheeler, 133–51. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
4115. Siebenschuh, William R. “Samuel Johnson’s Special Appeal in the Seventies and Eighties.” CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 49, no. 2–4 (December 6, 2001): 50–59.
4116. Siebert, Donald T. “Bubbled, Bamboozled, and Bit: ‘Low Bad’ Words in Johnson’s Dictionary.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 26, no. 3 (June 1986): 485–96. https://doi.org/10.2307/450575.
4117. Sills, Adam. “This Old House and Samuel Johnson’s Scotland.” In Against the Map: The Politics of Geography in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021.
4118. Silva, Penny. “Johnson and the OED.” International Journal of Lexicography 18, no. 2 (June 2005): 231–42. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/eci023.
4119. Silver, Bruce. “Boswell on Johnson’s Refutation of Berkeley: Revisiting the Stone.” Journal of the History of Ideas 54, no. 3 (July 1993): 437–48. https://doi.org/10.2307/2710022.
4120. Silver, Sean R. “Pale Fire and Johnson’s Cat: The Anecdote in Polite Conversation.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 53, no. 2 (Spring 2011): 241–64.
4121. Simmons, Thomas. “The Text of the Missed Encounter: Mentorship as Absence in Smart, Johnson, Bate, and Trilling.” In Mentoring in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 171–90. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.
4122. Simmons, Tracy Lee. “Johnson’s Canon: On The Trail of the Great Lexicographer [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Weekly Standard, May 29, 2006.
4123. Simon, Denis. “’Familiarising the Ancients’-Imitation and Verse Satire: A Literary Genre as Repository of Cultural Knowledge.” In Gattungstheorie Und Gattungsgeschichte, edited by Marion Gymnich, Birgit Neumann, and Ansgar Nünning, 153–72. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT), 2007.
4124. Simon, Irène. “Poets, Lexicographers, and Critics.” Cahiers de l’Institut de Linguistique de Louvain 17, no. 1–3 (1991): 163–79. https://doi.org/10.2143/CILL.17.1.2016704.
4125. Simon, Irène. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Attitude to the Arts, by Morris R. Brownell. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 72, no. 3 (1991): 277–80.
4126. Simon, Irène. Review of The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets,” by Martin Maner. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 72, no. 3 (1991): 280–83.
4127. Simons, Thomas R. “Being and the Imaginary: An Introduction to Aesthetic Phenomenology and English Literature from the Eighteenth Century to Romanticism.” PhD thesis, Boston College, 2010.
4128. Simpson, David. “Rasselas by the Ilissus.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 20 (2010): 1–9.
4129. Simpson, John. “What Johnson Means to Me.” Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 1 (March 2005): 6–7.
4130. Sims, Michael. “Dr. Johnson and His Many Maladies: Two New Biographies Testify to the Talents and Suffering of the 18th Century’s Most Celebrated Wit [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” Washington Post, December 21, 2008.
4131. Singh, Brijraj. “‘Only Half of His Subject’: Johnson’s The False Alarm and the Wilkesite Movement.” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 42, no. 1–2 (1988): 45–60. https://doi.org/10.2307/1347435.
4132. Singh, Brijraj. “‘Only Half of His Subject’: Johnson’s The False Alarm and the Wilkesite Movement.” In Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, edited by Nalini Jain, 47–66. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991.
4133. Sisk, John P. “Doctor Johnson Kicks a Stone.” Philosophy and Literature 10, no. 1 (April 1986): 65–75. https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.1986.0052.
4134. Sisman, Adam. Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000.
      Abstract: James Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. Yet Boswell himself has generally been considered little more than an idiot and condemned by posterity as a lecher and drunk. How could such a fool have written such a book? With great wit, Adam Sisman here tells the story of Boswell’s presumptuous task — the making of the greatest biography of all time. Sisman traces the friendship between Boswell and Samuel Johnson, his great mentor, and provides a fascinating account of Boswell’s seven-year struggle to write The Life of Samuel Johnson.
      Reviews:
      • Allen, Brooke. “Boswell’s Turn [Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin, and Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” Hudson Review 54, no. 3 (2001): 489–97.
      • Bathurst, Bella. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. TLS, November 3, 2000, 36.
      • Brown, Allan. “The Making of Boswell [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman, According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge, and Boswell’s Edinburgh Journals, 1767–1786].” The Sunday Times, September 16, 2001.
      • Calder, Angus. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Scotland on Sunday, November 5, 2000.
      • Dirda, Michael. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Washington Post, August 19, 2001.
      • The Economist. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. October 28, 2000.
      • Eder, Richard. “Turning the Tables on a Groundbreaking Biographer [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman].” New York Times, August 2, 2001.
      • Goldring, Elizabeth. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. New Rambler E:4 (2000): 91–93.
      • Hart, Kevin. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 416–20.
      • Hawtree, Christopher. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. The Independent, November 6, 2000.
      • Hensher, Philip. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. The Spectator, November 4, 2000.
      • Hoffert, Barbara. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Library Journal 127, no. 1 (2002): 52.
      • Holmes, Richard. “Triumph of an Artist [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman, and A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin].” New York Review of Books 48, no. 14 (September 20, 2001): 28–32.
      • Hutchinson, Roger. “Biographer Who Stayed True to Life [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” The Scotsman, November 4, 2000.
      • Johnson, Greg. “A Sympathetic Look at the Making of a Masterpiece [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, September 2, 2001.
      • Jones, Robert C. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Library Journal 126, no. 11 (June 15, 2001): 82.
      • Kanter, Peter. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Johnsonian News Letter 54, no. 1 (September 2003): 66–69.
      • Kemp, Arnold. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Guardian, November 5, 2000.
      • Kirsch, Adam. “The Biographer’s Tale [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” Newsday, August 26, 2001, 9.
      • McGrath, Charles. “The First Real Biographer [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman].” New York Times Book Review, August 19, 2001.
      • McLynn, Frank. “How the Real Boswell Stands Up [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” The Herald (Glasgow), November 4, 2000.
      • Miller, Roger K. “The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel: Celebrating the One Inimitable Achievement of the Incorrigible Boswell [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” Boston Herald, September 2, 2001.
      • Mullan, John. “A biografia moderna foi inventada em 1791 [review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” Translated by José dos Santos. O Estado de S. Paolo, January 14, 2001.
      • Mullan, John. “Dreaming Up the Doctor [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” Guardian, November 11, 2000.
      • O’Hagan, Andrew. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. London Review of Books 22, no. 19 (2000): 7–8.
      • Olson, Ray. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Booklist 97, no. 21 (July 2001): 1971.
      • Quinn, Anthony. “Gospel According to James [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman].” The Sunday Times, October 29, 2000.
      • Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Atlantic Monthly 288, no. 2 (2001): 140.
      • Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 2001.
      • Seymour, Miranda. “Bozzy’s Life: A Dazzling Portrait of James Boswell as a Literary Artist [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” The Atlantic Monthly, September 2001.
      • Tankard, Paul. “Everyone in This Society Should Read This Book [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” The Southern Johnsonian 3 (September 2001): 6–7.
4135. Sisman, Adam. “Madness and the Mistress [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” The Observer, August 26, 2001.
4136. Sitter, John. “Academic Responsibility and the Climate of Posterity.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 21, no. 1 (Winter 2014): 164–73.
4137. Sitter, John. Review of Samuel Johnson among the Modernists, by Anthony W. Lee. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 26 (2021): 263–65. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684483242-017.
4138. Sitter, John. “Sustainability Johnson.” In New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 111–30. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.
4139. Skargon, Yvonne. Lily & Hodge & Dr. Johnson. Cambridge: Silent Books, 1991.
      Wood engravings by Yvonne Skargon, with text by Samuel Johnson.
4140. Slimp, Stephen. “A Poet’s Apprenticeship: Samuel Johnson’s School Translations.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 109–32.
4141. Slimp, Stephen Robert. “Samuel Johnson’s Christian Humanist Poetry.” PhD thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996.
4142. Sloan, Kay. “Boswell for the Defence/Boswell’s London Journal.” Eighteenth-Century Life 16, no. 2 (May 1992): 142–44.
4143. Slung, Michelle. “At Home with Dr. Johnson.” Victoria 13, no. 3 (March 1999): 120–21.
      On Johnson’s Gough Square house.
4144. Small, Ian C. “Yeats and Johnson on the Limitations of Patriotic Art.” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 63, no. 252 (1974): 379–88.
4145. Smallwood, Philip. “After Guillory: Professing Johnson’s Criticism.” Johnsonian News Letter 76, no. 1 (March 2025): 42–52.
4146. Smallwood, Philip. “Annotated Immortality: Lonsdale’s Johnson [Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale].” Eighteenth-Century Life 31, no. 3 (September 2007): 76–84. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2007-004.
4147. Smallwood, Philip. Critical Occasions: Dryden, Pope, Johnson, and the History of Criticism. AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century 65. New York: AMS Press, 2011.
      Abstract: Examines the relations between selected critical texts of Dryden, Pope, and Johnson, and the theoretical problems that arise in writing the history of the critical past. It is a book about three great Augustan critics and about the theory and philosophy of history in its application to criticism.
      Reviews:
      • Kickel, Katherine. Review of Critical Occasions: Dryden, Pope, Johnson, and the History of Criticism, by Philip Smallwood. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 46, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 157–59.
      • Vilmar, Christopher. Review of Critical Occasions: Dryden, Pope, Johnson, and the History of Criticism, by Philip Smallwood. Choice 49, no. 6 (February 2012): 3142.
      • Vilmar, Christopher. Review of Critical Occasions: Dryden, Pope, Johnson, and the History of Criticism, by Philip Smallwood. CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 45, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 251–58.
4148. Smallwood, Philip. “Emotion.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 599–616. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: This essay examines the province of emotion in Johnson’s experience, and illustrates the significant place of feelings in the writings of the eighteenth-century’s great literary rationalist: emotional energy figures centrally when Johnson is evaluating the tragedies of Shakespeare and is a test of sincerity in Johnson’s Lives of the Poets. Poignant as well as powerful emotion energizes Johnson’s own creative work, in Rasselas and in his poetry, while emotional pain is held at a bearable distance by his neo-Latin verses. Distress and the capacity for pleasure are forces in the personal life of Johnson and generate deep psychic tensions. The essay explores the grief Johnson endured on the death of his wife, and on news of the second marriage of Mrs Thrale; the latter is felt as a moment of betrayal on which subject Samuel Beckett once projected a play.
4149. Smallwood, Philip. “Ironies of the Critical Past: Historicizing Johnson’s Criticism.” In Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, edited by Philip Smallwood, 114–33. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001.
4150. Smallwood, Philip. Review of Johnson and Boswell: a biography of friendship, by John B. Radner. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 40, no. 1 (2017): 153–54.
4151. Smallwood, Philip. “Johnson and Stendhal: A French Connection.” In Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment, 275–90. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2024.
4152. Smallwood, Philip. “Johnson and the Essay.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 27–40. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
4153. Smallwood, Philip. “Johnson and Time.” In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, 11–23. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0002.
4154. Smallwood, Philip. Review of Johnson in Japan, by Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki. Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 2 (September 2021): 57–61.
4155. Smallwood, Philip. “Johnson on Truth, Fiction, and ‘Undisputed History.’” In The Ways of Fiction: New Essays on the Literary Cultures of the Eighteenth Century, edited by Nicholas J. Crowe, 198–212. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
4156. Smallwood, Philip, ed. Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001.
      Abstract: How far does Johnson’s mind touch the critical consciousness of the present day, and how far is the modern experience of his writings a form of historical knowledge? This volume of essays by British and American scholars seeks to answer these questions from a sequence of argued perspectives that looks both to the past and to the potential future of Johnson’s reputation. Johnson’s axial position is examined initially in the grounding discussion by Greg Clingham of the present moment in Johnsonian scholarship. Clement Hawes then investigates Johnson’s involvement in the cultural and political construction of an “English” literature that is not narrowly nationalistic. Essays by James G. Basker and Jaclyn Geller develop the discussion of the liminal aspects of Johnson’s thought by exploring his intuitions on race and gender. In the final phase of the volume, an essay by Danielle Insalaco reveals hitherto uninvestigated resonances in Johnson’s idea of history; Philip Smallwood analyzes the ways in which Johnson’s criticism has itself been historicized, while in the concluding essay Tom Mason and Adam Rounce take readers back to the first responses to Johnson’s literary judgments on poetry, and emphasize their power to stir controversy then and now. Johnson Re-Visioned persuasively demonstrates that in the current debates about scholarship, nationalism, race, gender, history, criticism, and poetry, the discomforting counter-complacency of Samuel Johnson carries a radical authority across the years in between.
      Reviews:
      • Baines, Paul. Review of Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, by Philip Smallwood. Modern Language Review 98, no. 4 (2003): 968.
      • Berglund, Lisa. Review of Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, by Philip Smallwood. Newsletter of the Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California 17, no. 200 (n.d.).
      • Hitchings, Henry. Review of Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, by Philip Smallwood. TLS, January 25, 2002, 31.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, by Philip Smallwood. Choice 39, no. 7 (March 2002): 3831.
      • Tomarken, Edward. Review of Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, by Philip Smallwood. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 405–8.
4157. Smallwood, Philip. “Johnson’s Critical Humanism.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1989, 41–50.
4158. Smallwood, Philip. Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson remains one of the most frequently discussed and cited of the eighteenth-century critics; but historians of criticism have invariably interpreted his work within conventions that have allowed for little evaluative commerce between the needs of the critical present and the voices of the critical past. Smallwood’s argument is that Johnson’s alienation from the modern critical scene stems in part from historians’ tendency to tell the story of criticism as a narrative of improvement. The image of Johnson conceived by his antagonists in the eighteenth century has been perpetuated by romanticism, by nineteenth-century representational routines and mediated to the present day, most recently, by varieties of ‘radical theory’. In Johnson’s Critical Presence Smallwood offers a new account of Johnson’s major critical writings conceived according to a different kind of historical potential. He suggests that the historicization of eighteenth-century criticism can best be understood in the light of the ‘dialogic’ and ‘translational’ historiographies of Collingwood, Gadamer and Ricoeur, and that the explanatory contexts of Johnson’s criticism must include poetry in addition to theory; in this his study seeks to displace both the history of ideas as the leading paradigm for the history of criticism and to question the developmental narrative on which it relies. By in-depth analysis of Johnson’s response to Shakespeare’s plays and to the poetry of Abraham Cowley, Smallwood constructs a non-reductive context of emotional experience for Johnson’s criticism. This embraces the dynamic satirical caricatures by James Gillray of Johnson as critic, the irony of Johnson’s critical affinities with the major romantics, and is set against twentieth-century responses to the literary ‘canon’. Smallwood argues that not only Johnson’s emotional sensitivities, but also the ironic voices within the critical text itself, must be fully appreciated before Johnson’s current relevance, or even his historical value, can be grasped.
      Reviews:
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment, by Philip Smallwood. New Rambler E:7 (2003): 79–81.
      • Nokes, David. Review of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment, by Philip Smallwood. TLS, July 2, 2004, 27.
      • Scherwatzky, Steven D. Review of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment, by Philip Smallwood. Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 1 (March 2005): 48–51.
      • Shivel, G. Review of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment, by Philip Smallwood. Choice 42, no. 8 (April 2005): 4518.
      • Syba, Michelle. Review of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment, by Philip Smallwood. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 19 (2009): 301–7.
4159. Smallwood, Philip. “Johnson’s Criticism and ‘Critical Global Studies.’” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 18 (2007): 151–71.
4160. Smallwood, Philip. “Johnson’s Criticism and the Passage of Theory.” New Rambler E:7 (2003): 3–11.
4161. Smallwood, Philip. “Johnson’s Criticism, the Arts, and the Idea of Art.” In Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, edited by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood, 163–85. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
4162. Smallwood, Philip. “Literary and Aesthetic Theory.” In The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought, edited by Frans De Bruyn, 205–26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
      Abstract: This chapter surveys the origins of aesthetics in eighteenth-century literary criticism, as major poets were examined in the light of concepts such as ‘beauty’. The treatment of art as a topic for moral thought gave a more polite, philosophical turn to the hitherto raucous and satirical character of early eighteenth-century critical practice. The chapter examines the development of thought about form and psychology encouraged by seventeenth-century French critics, followed by Addison, Shaftesbury, and later thinkers such as Burke, who presaged the gothic. Particular attention is given to Hume, Alison and Gerard, together with other Scots theorists of ‘belles lettres’. The discussion charts the increasing influence on criticism of such terms as ‘sublime,’ ‘taste,’ ‘genius,’ ‘originality,’ ‘imagination, and ‘art’ itself. An important element is the place of creative writers as aesthetic theorists, such as Pope, Joseph Warton, and Edward Young....
4163. Smallwood, Philip. “Literary Criticism.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 234–42. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
4164. Smallwood, Philip. “Mirrored Minds: Johnson and Shakespeare.” In A Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 3–21. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684483549-003.
4165. Smallwood, Philip. “On Being Johnsonian in Beijing: A Week at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, December, 2019.” Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 2 (September 2020): 49–53.
4166. Smallwood, Philip. “Petty Caviller or ‘Formidable Assailant’? Johnson Reads Dennis.” Cambridge Quarterly 46, no. 4 (2017): 305–24.
      Abstract: Given John Dennis’s prominence as a Dunciad dunce courtesy of the satire of Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson in his own critical work gave a surprisingly generous quantity of attention to Dennis’s literary criticism. Dennis was notorious in the eighteenth century as “The Critic,” and this essay suggests that Johnson’s lively critical reaction to Dennis was more complicated than we might expect. For all the pettiness and irrepressible ill-temper of his predecessor, Johnson recognised, albeit with undisguised reservations, that Dennis sometimes had much of formidable good sense to say — on Shakespeare, on Addison and particularly on Pope.
4167. Smallwood, Philip. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791, by Freya Johnston. New Rambler E:9 (2005): 79–80.
4168. Smallwood, Philip. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. New Rambler E:3 (1999): 50–52.
4169. Smallwood, Philip. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 40, no. 2 (2017): 299–300. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12403.
4170. Smallwood, Philip. “Shakespeare: Johnson’s Poet of Nature.” In The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 143–60. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.011.
4171. Smallwood, Philip, ed. “Sir, Said Dr. Johnson”: The Johnson Quotation Book, Based on the Collection of Chartres Byron. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1989.
4172. Smallwood, Philip. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 21, no. 1 (1998): 91–92.
4173. Smallwood, Philip. “The Johnsonian Monster and the Lives of the Poets: James Gillray, Critical History and the Eighteenth-Century Satirical Cartoon.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 25, no. 2 (2002): 217–45.
4174. Smallwood, Philip. The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
      Abstract: For Samuel Johnson, poetical judgments were no mere exercise in dry evaluation; rather, they reflected deep emotional responsiveness. In this provocative study, Philip Smallwood argues for experiencing Johnson’s critical texts as artworks in their own right. The criticism, he suggests, often springs from emotional sources of great personal intensity and depth, inspiring translation of criticism into poetry and channelling prose’s poetic potential. Through consideration of other critics, Smallwood highlights singularities in Johnson’s judgments and approach, showing how such judgments are irreducible to philosophical doctrines. “Ideas,” otherwise the material of criticism’s propensity to systems and theories, exist for Johnson as feelings that “slumber in the heart.” Revealing Johnson’s humour and intellectual reach, Smallwood frames his criticism in unresolved ironies of time and forms of historical change.
      Reviews:
      • Adams, Michael. Review of The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought, by Philip Smallwood. Modern Philology 122, no. 2 (2024): 36–39. https://doi.org/10.1086/731745.
      • Kraft, Elizabeth. Review of The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought, by Philip Smallwood. Choice 61, no. 11 (2024): 1149.
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought, by Philip Smallwood. New Rambler G:5 (2022): 64–82.
4175. Smallwood, Philip. “Two Ways of Being Wise: Shakespeare and the Johnsonian Montaigne.” Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies 84 (2015): 55–76.
      Abridged in The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson Forms of Artistry and Thought.
4176. Smallwood, Philip. “Voice and Laughter in Johnson’s Criticism.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 15 (2008): 293–314.
4177. Smith, Adam. Adam Smith Reviews Samuel Johnson’s “A Dictionary of the English Language” (1755): The Fifty-Ninth Annual Dinner of the Johnsonians; The Twenty-Second Annual Dinner of the Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California. Edited by Robert DeMaria Jr. Los Angeles: Privately printed for the Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California, 2005.
      Includes a facsimile of Smith’s review in The Edinburgh Review
4178. Smith, Christopher Shawn. “‘The Prophecy of Autumn’: Hawthorne’s Augustan Sensibility.” PhD thesis, University of Dallas, 2002.
4179. Smith, Duane H. “Repetitive Patterns in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 36, no. 3 (June 1996): 623–39. https://doi.org/10.2307/450802.
4180. Smith, Frederik N. “Johnson, Beckett, and the ‘Choice of Life.’” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 187–200.
      A pioneering account of Samuel Beckett’s interest in Johnson’s life and works.
4181. Smith, Frederik N. “My Johnson Fantasy.” In Beckett’s Eighteenth Century, 110–31. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002. Reviews:
      • Johnston, Freya. Review of Beckett’s Eighteenth Century, by Frederik N. Smith. New Rambler E:5 (2001): 71–73.
4182. Smith, Frederik N. “‘Pituitous Defluxion’: Samuel Johnson and Beckett’s Philosophic Vocabulary.” Romance Studies 6, no. 1 (June 1988): 86–95. https://doi.org/10.1179/026399088786621302.
4183. Smith, Giles. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Independent, February 23, 1992.
4184. Smith, Hannah. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Royal Stuart Review, 2006, 20–23.
4185. Smith, J. F. “Boswell in Search of Boswell: A Quest for Self-Definition.” Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association 5 (1986): 188–96.
4186. Smith, J. Mark. “De Quincey, Dictionaries, and Casuistry.” ELH: English Literary History 84, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 689–713.
4187. Smith, Joseph H. “Samuel Johnson and Stories of Childhood.” Thought 61 (March 1986): 105–17.
4188. Smith, K. E. “Despair and Its Antidotes in Cowper and Johnson.” New Rambler E:1 (1997): 33–40.
4189. Smith, K. E. “Johnson and Fanny Burney.” New Rambler D:7, no. 7 (1991): 3–4.
4190. Smith, K. E. “‘The Present Hour Alone Is Man’s’: Johnson’s Poetry and the Redemption of Time.” New Rambler E:12 (2008–9).
4191. Smith, K. E. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. New Rambler E:3 (1999): 52–54.
4192. Smith, Ken. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. Los Angeles Times, October 23, 2005.
4193. Smith, Ken Edward. “Johnson as Storyteller.” New Rambler D:4, no. 4 (1988): 14–27.
4194. Smith, M. van Wyk. “Father Lobo, Ethiopia, and the Transkei; or, Why Rasselas Was Not a Mpondo Prince.” Journal of African Travel-Writing 4 (1998): 5–16.
4195. Smith, Nicholas. “Jacopo Sannazaro’s Eclogae Piscatoriae (1526) and the ‘Pastoral Debate’ in Eighteenth-Century England.” Studies in Philology 99, no. 4 (2002): 432–50.
4196. Smith, Tania S. “Learning Conversational Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Hester Thrale Piozzi and Her Mentors Collier and Johnson.” RHETOR: Journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric/Revue de La Société Canadienne Pour L’Etude de La Rhétorique 2 (2007): 1–32.
4197. Smith, Victoria. “Libertines Real and Fictional in the Works of Rochester, Shadwell, Wycherley, and Boswell.” PhD Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009.
4198. Snead, Jennifer. “Disjecta Membra Poetae: The Aesthetics of the Fragment and Johnson’s Biographical Practice in the Lives of the English Poets.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 37–56.
4199. Snead, Jennifer. “‘Men of Print’: Pope, Young, Johnson, and the Augustan ‘Man of Letters.’” PhD thesis, Duke University, 2002.
4200. Snead, Jennifer. “Sermons.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 337–42. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
4201. Snead, Jennifer. “The Mind in Motion.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 48, no. 2 (June 2007): 173–79. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecy.2007.0011.
      On SJ’s biographical practice in the Lives, and his attention to the “minute details of daily life” described in Rambler 60. Snead draws on Kirkley’s Biographer and Work.
4202. Sneed, Adam. “Misreading Skepticism in the Long Eighteenth Century: Studies in the Rhetoric of Assent.” PhD thesis, University of Michigan, 2018.
      Abstract: “Misreading Skepticism in the Long Eighteenth Century: Studies in the Rhetoric of Assent” revisits the intellectual historical conditions that contributed to the widespread internalization of skepticism as an error-reduction strategy during the Enlightenment. To do so, it abandons a longstanding emphasis the special philosophical tradition of epistemological skepticism associated with the Scottish philosopher David Hume and pursues an alternative intellectual history of Enlightenment skepticism centered on the Anglophone tradition of “constructive skepticism” that informed not only Hume’s skeptical habits but those of other influential Anglophone Enlightenment thinkers more often set in opposition to Hume. “Misreading Skepticism” draws on this tradition of constructive skepticism to generate a much different picture of the character of Enlightenment skepticism than the one extrapolated from radical Humean skepticism: one that is not anxious but assured, not theoretical but pragmatic, not preoccupied with the threat of “radical uncertainty” but resolved to attaining “moral certainty” sufficient to justify belief and action despite irreducible uncertainty. Readings of the philosophy of John Locke, Thomas Reid, David Hume, Samuel Johnson, and Dugald Stewart recover the broader Enlightenment project of practical rationality that encouraged the widespread internalization and instrumentalization of constructive skepticism. Readings of eighteenth-century rhetorical and legal treatises trace how this constructive skeptical ethos was disseminated beyond epistemology and embraced within a generalized theory of assent. “Misreading Skepticism” approaches this broader “misreading” in the modern intellectual history of skepticism through the special lens of Romantic literary studies, where scholars have traditionally framed the rise of British Romanticism as a response to a supposed epistemological “crisis” posed by Humean skepticism. “Misreading Skepticism” argues that, to understand the Romantic literary reaction to Enlightenment skepticism, we need to approach the intellectual history of British Romanticism not through Humean skepticism but through constructive skepticism. Readings of Romantic works by William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and other authors demonstrate how these Romantic writers use literary form to interrogate the confident embrace of constructive skepticism within the Enlightenment as a means for managing uncertainty, often by dramatizing or the matizing elements of subjectivity and error that skepticism fails to detect or discipline. Drawing insight from the constructive skeptical tradition as well as Romantic literary critiques of that tradition, “Misreading Skepticism” develops a revisionary account of skepticism that attends to the rhetorical and social dimensions that complicate any epistemological account of skepticism.
4203. Snell, Cheryl Rae. “The Religious Design of Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas.” MA thesis, Central Washington University, 1988.
4204. Soden, Oliver. Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat: A Biography. Gloucestershire: History Press, 2020.
      Abstract: Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written. This book combines meticulous research with passages of dazzling invention to recount the life of the cat praised as ‘a mixture of gravity and waggery.’ The narrative roams from the theatres and bordellos of Covent Garden to the cell where Smart was imprisoned for mania. At once whimsical and profound, witty and deeply moving, Soden’s biography plays with the genre like a cat with a toy. It tells the story of a poet and a poem, while setting Jeoffry’s life and adventures against the roaring backdrop of eighteenth-century London.
      Reviews:
      • Chisholm, Kate. Review of Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat: A Biography, by Oliver Soden. Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 1 (March 2021): 48–50.
4205. Solberg, Daniel Arnold. “The Ladies and the Lion: The Bluestockings and Samuel Johnson.” PhD thesis, University of South Florida, 1995.
4206. Soliman, Soliman Y. “Rasselas: Certain Aspects of Technique.” Journal of Education and Science (University of Mosul, Iraq) 3 (1981): 5–15.
4207. Solomon, Harry M. “Johnson’s Silencing of Pope: Trivializing An Essay on Man.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 247–80.
4208. Solomon, Stanley J. “Parting from Dr. Johnson.” Profession, 2002, 130–39. https://doi.org/10.1632/074069502X85167.
4209. Soltman, Mary Katherine. “Critical Responses to Samuel Johnson’s Attack on John Milton’s Lycidas.” MA thesis, Central Washington University, 1988.
4210. Sommerlad, Joe. “Who Was Samuel Johnson, What Did He Do, Why Is He so Important?” The Independent, September 18, 2017.
      Abstract: Today’s Google Doodle celebrates a colossus of English literature.
4211. Sommerlad, Joe. “Who Was Samuel Johnson, What Did He Do, Why Is He so Important?” The Independent, September 18, 2017.
4212. Sommerville, John. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. American Historical Review 94, no. 1 (February 1989): 133–34.
4213. Sorel, Nancy Caldwell. “First Encounters.” The Atlantic Monthly, March 1993.
4214. Sorel, Nancy Caldwell. “When John Wilkes Met Dr. Samuel Johnson.” The Independent, July 6, 1996.
4215. Sorel, Theresa Anne. “Scottish Cultural Nationalism, 1760–1832: The Highlandization of Scottish National Identity.” MA thesis, University of Guelph, 1998.
      Chapter 3, Boswell and Johnson’s Highland Tour
4216. Sorensen, David R. “Carlyle, Boswell’s Life of Johnson and the ‘Conversation’ of History.” Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism 16, no. 2 (1993): 27–40.
4217. Sorensen, Janet. “‘As the Vulgar Call It’: Henry Fielding and the Language of the Vulgar.” Philological Quarterly 100, no. 3/4 (Summer/Fall 2021): 421–42.
      Abstract: Eighteenth-century Britain saw efforts to establish a national vernacular in print. The dictionaries and novels that helped institutionalize that vernacular were sometimes wide-ranging and inclusive in their approach. This article situates the work of Henry Fielding within this context and argues that Fielding, particularly in his Jonathan Wild and “Modern Glossary” resists such efforts. The article tracks Fielding’s response to contemporary narrative techniques representing fictional character and his use of verbal irony to illuminate the terms of his rejection of the idea of an inclusive print vernacular that might represent the nation.
4218. Sorensen, Janet. “Dr. Johnson Eats His Words: Figuring the Incorporating Body of English Print Culture.” Language Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Forum 22, no. 3 (July 2000): 295–314. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0388-0001(00)00008-5.
4219. Sorensen, Janet. The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
      Abstract: This study examines the complex role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature. Focusing in particular on the relationship between England and one of its ‘Celtic colonies’, Scotland, Janet Sorensen explores the tensions which arose during a period when the formation of a national standard English coincided with the need to negotiate ever widening imperial linguistic contacts. Close readings of poems, novels, dictionaries, grammars and records of colonial English instruction reveal the deeply conflicting relationship between British national and imperial ideologies. Moving from Scots Gaelic poet Alexander MacDonald to writers such as Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, and Tobias Smollett, Sorensen analyses British linguistic practices of imperial domination, including the enforcement of English language usage. The book also engages with the work of Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen to offer a wider understanding of the ambivalent nature of English linguistic identity.
4220. Sorensen, Janet. “‘Wow’ and Other Cries in the Night: Fergusson’s Vernacular, Scots Talking Heads, and Unruly Bodies.” In “Heaven-Taught Fergusson”: Robert Burns’s Favourite Scottish Poet, edited by Robert Crawford, 117–31. Tuckwell, 2003.
4221. Soupel, Serge. Review of Samuel Johnson: Pictures and Words: Papers Presented at a Clark Library Seminar, 23 October 1982, by Paul K. Alkon and Robert Folkenflik. Études Anglaises 39, no. 2 (April 1986): 218–19.
4222. Soupel, Serge. “‘The True Culprit Is the Mind Which Can Never Run Away from Itself’: Samuel Johnson and Depression.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 44, no. 1 (March 2011): 43–62. https://doi.org/10.1353/sli.2011.0006.
4223. Spacks, Patricia Meyer. “Reading Dr. Johnson: A Confession.” In Under Criticism: Essays for William H. Pritchard, edited by David Sofield and Herbert F. Tucker, 167–81. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998.
4224. Spacks, Patricia Meyer. “The Subtle Sophistry of Desire: Dr. Johnson and The Female Quixote.” Modern Philology 85, no. 4 (May 1988): 532–42. https://doi.org/10.1086/391661.
4225. Spacks, Patricia Meyer. “Vacuity, Satiety, and the Active Life: Eighteenth-Century Men.” In Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind, 31–59. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
4226. Spears, Monroe K. “William James as Culture Hero.” Hudson Review 39 (1986): 15–32.
4227. Speck, W. A. Review of James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795, by Frank Brady. Literature and History 12, no. 1 (1986): 114–16.
4228. Spector, Robert D. Samuel Johnson and the Essay. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
      Abstract: When Samuel Johnson is discussed as an essayist, his and Idler are generally the works that are considered. This is the first study to take account of the effect of Johnson’s essayistic talents on the entirety of his writing. Setting forth the particular characteristics of the genre that are present in Johnson’s contributions to the political controversies of his time, this analysis examines those qualities of Johnson’s thought and methods that naturally led to his dependence on the essay form in polemical engagements throughout his career. In detail, Spector’s study then goes on to explore the manner in which Johnson employed the essay not only in forms normally related to the genre, but in literary types ordinarily considered remote from it. The Rambler and Idler, along with Johnson’s periodical essays in the Adventurer, are themselves looked at from a fresh point of view — the ways in which Johnson the professional writer, without regard for posterity, addressed the interests of the common reader of his century.
      Reviews:
      • Abbott, John L. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Essay, by Robert D. Spector. South Atlantic Review 63, no. 1 (1998): 90–93.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Essay, by Robert D. Spector. Choice 35 (October 1997): 795.
      • Review of Samuel Johnson and the Essay, by Robert D. Spector. Year’s Work in English Studies 78 (2000): 451.
      • Tankard, Paul. “Not Complicated, Not Controversial, Not Enough [review of Samuel Johnson and the Essay, by Robert D. Spector], by Robert D. Spector. The Southern Johnsonian 5, no. 4 (August 1998): 8.
4229. Spencer, Charles. “Samuel Johnson’s Life in Black and White [Review of Resurrection, by Maureen Lawrence].” Daily Telegraph, May 13, 1996.
4230. Spencer, Charmaine. “A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM.” The Independent, May 20, 1996.
4231. Spens, M. P. “Samuel Johnson and Jacobitism: A Response to Donald Greene.” TLS, September 8, 1995, 17.
4232. Spurr, David. “Authorial Gestures: Joshua Reynolds’ Literary Portraits.” In Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays for Allen Reddick, edited by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner, and Olga Timofeeva, 207–25. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2021.
4233. Squibbs, Richard. “Essays.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 137–52. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: This chapter examines Johnson’s achievements as an essayist in relation to the established conventions of the periodical essay. With the Rambler, Johnson restored the periodical essay to its once-prominent place in English literary culture by elevating its moral seriousness and emphasizing its aptness as a vehicle for literary criticism. The success of the series spurred a revival of the genre at mid-century, albeit largely in reaction to the Rambler’s relative gravity and ponderous diction. After doubling down on the Rambler’s style with his contributions to the Adventurer, Johnson experimented with a more playful approach to the periodical essay in the Idler. The mixed critical reception of his efforts near the end of the century often associated his essays more with the moralist and critic Johnson had become than with the genre in which he first enjoyed popular success, an enduring perspective that this chapter aims to qualify.
4234. Srodes, James. Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin. Washington Times, January 25, 2009.
4235. Srodes, James. “The Gargantuan and Terrifying Lexicographer [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World by Henry Hitchings, and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers].” Washington Times, January 25, 2006.
4236. Stack, Robert. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Times Higher Education Supplement, no. 731 (1986): 15.
4237. Stafford, Basil. “Johnson and Painting.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 9 (August 2007): 63–76.
4238. Stafford, Fiona. “Dr Johnson and the Ruffian: New Evidence in the Dispute between Samuel Johnson and James Macpherson.” Notes and Queries 36 [234], no. 1 (March 1989): 70–77. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/36-1-70.
4239. Stark, Jack. “Adventures in Literary Sleuthing: An Old Edition of Samuel Johnson’s Works.” Wisconsin Academy Review 43, no. 4 (1997): 18–21.
4240. Stark, Jack. “Learning from Samuel Johnson about Drafting Statutes.” Statute Law Review 23, no. 3 (2002): 227–33.
4241. Starr, William W. Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster: Traveling through Scotland with Boswell and Johnson. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2011.
      Abstract: Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster is a memoir of a twenty-first-century literary pilgrimage to retrace the famous eighteenth-century Scottish journey of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, two of the most celebrated writers of their day. An accomplished journalist and aficionado of fine literature, William W. Starr enlivens this crisply written travelogue with a playful wit, an enthusiasm for all things Scottish, the boon and burden of American sensibility, and an ardent appreciation for Boswell and Johnson — who make frequent cameos throughout these ramblings. In 1773 the sixty-three-year-old Johnson was England’s preeminent man of letters, and Boswell, some thirty years Johnson’s junior, was on the cusp of achieving his own literary celebrity. For more than one hundred days, the distinguished duo toured what was then largely unknown Scottish terrain, later publishing their impressions of the trip in a pair of classic journals. In 2007 Starr embarked on a three-thousand-mile trek through the Scottish Lowlands and Highlands, following the path — though in reverse — of Boswell and Johnson. Starr tracked their route as closely as the threat of storms, distractions of pubs, and limitations of time would allow. Like his literary forebears, he recorded a wealth of keen observations on his encounters with places and people, lochs and lore, castles and clans, fables and foibles. Starr couples his contemporary commentary with passages from Boswell’s and Johnson’s published accounts, letters, and diaries to weave together a cohesive travel guide to the Scotland of yore and today, comparing reflections from two centuries ago to his own modern-day perspectives. The tour begins and ends in Edinburgh and includes along the way visits to Glasgow, Inverness, Loch Ness, Culloden, Auchinleck, the Isles of Iona and Skye, and many more destinations. In addition Starr expands his course to include two of the farthest reaches of Scotland where eighteenth-century travelers dared not tread: the Outer Hebrides and the Orkney Islands, remarkable regions shaped by distinctive weather, history, and isolation. Blending biography, intellectual and cultural history, and comic asides into his travelogue, Starr crafts an inviting vantage point from which to view aspects of Scotland’s storied past and complex present through an illuminating literary lens. The well-read globetrotter and the armchair adventurer will each benefit from this compendium of fascinating revelations about Scotland’s colorful, volatile heritage; its embrace of myth and legends; its flirtations with both tradition and commercialization; and its legacy as more than a source of single malts, bagpipes, and kilted genealogies.
4242. Starr, William W., Kilts Whisky, and Loch Ness Monster. Traveling through Scotland with Boswell and Johnson. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2011.
4243. Stavans, Ilan. “‘Clean, Fix, and Grant Splendor’: The Making of Diccionario de Autoridades.” International Journal of Lexicography 35, no. 2 (2022): 261–71. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecab025.
      Abstract: Hailed as the foundation of modern Spanish-language lexicography, the Diccionario de Autoridades was developed over a period of thirteen years. While it is a window to appreciate the impact of Enlightenment ideas in Spain, it also showcases some of the country’s most entrenched phobias, both within and throughout its colonies across the Atlantic. This essay looks at its planning, structure, and publication in political, cultural, and linguistic terms. It analyses its legacy over the Dicionario de la Lengua Española, which is the organ of the Real Academia Española and on other Spanish-language lexicons. And it compares it with the work of Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language and Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language. The xenophobic motto of the Real Academia Española, ‘Clean, Fix, and Grant Splendor’, long a subject of controversy, is the philosophy behind Autoridades.
4244. Stavans, Ilan. “What Johnson Means to Me: Dr. Johnson and I.” Johnsonian News Letter 56, no. 2 (September 2005): 7–9.
4245. Stavisky, Aaron. “Johnson and the Noble Savage, Friend of Goodness.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1993): 165–203.
4246. Stavisky, Aaron. “Johnson’s Poverty: The Uses of Adversity.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 131–43.
4247. Stavisky, Aaron. “Johnson’s ‘Vile Melancholy’: A Response to Bundock.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 11 (2000): 187–203.
4248. Stavisky, Aaron. “Johnson’s ‘Vile Melancholy’ Reconsidered Once More.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 1–24.
4249. Stavisky, Aaron. “Samuel Johnson and the Market Economy.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 13 (2002): 69–101.
      A survey of Johnson’s interest in economics.
4250. Stavisky, Aaron. Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 10 (1999): 302–28.
4251. Steckel, Michael. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Libraries & Culture: A Journal of Library History 29 (1994): 233–35.
4252. Steele, Peter. Flights of the Mind: Johnson and Dante. Melbourne: Privately printed for the Johnson Society of Australia, 1997.
      The David Fleeman Memorial Lecture, 1996.
4253. Steen, J. E. “Samuel Johnson and Aspects of Anglicanism.” PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992.
4254. Steen, Jane. “Literally Orthodox: Dr. Johnson’s Anglicanism.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 303 (1992): 449–52.
4255. Steen, Jane. “The Creation of Character.” In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, 109–19. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0010.
4256. Stein, Gabriele. “Word-Formation in Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language.” Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 6 (1985): 66–112.
4257. Stein, Jacob A. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. Wilson Quarterly 24, no. 4 (2000): 130–130.
4258. Steinberg, Jonathan. Samuel Johnson, the “Harmless Drudge.” Audio CD. Vol. 6. 18 vols. European History and European Lives, 1715–1914. Chantilly, Va.: Teaching Co., 2003.
4259. Stern, Rachel Michelle. “Fantasies of Choosing in Rasselas.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 55, no. 3 (Summer 2015): 523–36.
      Abstract: Although Samuel Johnson’s theme of “the choice of life” in Rasselas has received plentiful scholarly attention, few accounts have pursued the possibility that this idea, rather than being the premise of Johnson’s exploration of human experience, is in fact the principal object of his critique. I argue that Johnson’s treatment of “the choice of life” in Rasselas is consistent with his presentation of the other dire examples of pernicious fantasy that abound throughout his oeuvre. He presents the fantasy of an ultimate “choice” as, in fact, a mode of deferral and even as an abdication of agency.
4260. Stern, Tiffany. “‘I Do Wish That You Had Mentioned Garrick’: The Absence of Garrick in Johnson’s Shakespeare.” In Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson, edited by Eric Rasmussen and Aaron Santesso, 71–96. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
      “Garrick is not merely ‘forgotten’ in Johnson’s Shakespeare; Garrick, and the need not to mention his performances or use his books, determines the content and layout of the Shakespeare text and notes. Thus Johnson’s Shakespeare is shaped by the absence of David Garrick.”
4261. Stevenson, John Allen. “Savage Matters.” In The Real History of Tom Jones, 47–75. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
4262. Stewart, Charlotte A. “Johnson and Boswell: The Rippey Collection at McMaster.” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 69, no. 2 (1987): 320–23.
4263. Stewart, Charlotte A. “The Life of a Johnson Collection.” American Book Collector 7, no. 6 (June 1986): 9–17.
4264. Stewart, Keith. “Samuel Johnson and the Ocean of Life: Variations on a Commonplace.” Papers on Language and Literature 23, no. 3 (June 1987): 305–17.
4265. Stewart, Maaja A. “Nabokov’s Pale Fire and Boswell’s Johnson.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 30, no. 2 (June 1988): 230–45.
4266. Stewart, Mary Margaret. “William Collins, Samuel Johnson, and the Use of Biographical Details.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 28, no. 3 (June 1988): 471–82. https://doi.org/10.2307/450597.
4267. Stillman, Whit. “Jane Austen: Whither or Whence?” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 61, no. 4 (2019): 451–54.
4268. Stock, R. D. “Johnson Ecclesiastes.” Christianity and Literature 34, no. 4 (1985): 15–24.
4269. Stock, R. D. “Samuel Johnson and the Snares of Poverty.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 11 (2000): 21–36.
4270. Stock, R. D. Review of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 393–97.
4271. Stockdale, Percival. Samuel Johnson and His Disgrace to English Literature. Edited by Howard D. Weinbrot. Iowa City: Windhover Press, University of Iowa, 1988.
4272. Stojić, Svetlana R. “Rečnik Samjuela Džonsona.” Philologia: Naučno-stručni časopis za jezik, književnost i kulturu/Academic Journal for Language, Literature and Culture 7 (2009): 59–65.
4273. Stoker, David. “Robert Potter’s Attack on Doctor Johnson.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 16, no. 2 (September 1993): 77–83.
4274. Stokes, Roy Bishop. “Diminutive Observations”: The Book-World of Dr. Johnson: Being the 1984 Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Lecture, Delivered on 24 October in the Recital Hall of the Music Building at the University of British Columbia. Vancouver: Department of English, University of British Columbia, 1985.
4275. Stone, Harry. Dr Johnson’s House and the National Fire Service during the War. Beaminster: Thomas Harmsworth, 1998.
4276. Stone, John. “Being Boswell’s Brother.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 23 (2015): 205–38.
4277. Stone, John. “The Common-Law Model for Standard English in Johnson’s Dictionary.” MA thesis, McGill University, 1995.
4278. Stone, John. “John Cowell’s Interpreter: Legal Tradition and Lexicographical Innovation.” SEDERI: Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies 10 (1999): 121–29.
4279. Stone, John. Review of Johnson in Japan, by Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 28 (2023): 292–95.
4280. Stone, John. “Law and the Politics of Johnson’s Dictionary.” European English Messenger 12, no. 1 (2003): 54–58.
4281. Stone, John. “The Law, the Alphabet, and Samuel Johnson.” In Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott, 147–59. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
4282. Stone, John. “On the Trail of Early Rambler and Idler Translations in France and Spain.” Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 34–41.
4283. Stone, John. “Seventeenth-Century Jurisprudence and Eighteenth-Century Lexicography: Sources for Johnson’s Notion of Authority.” SEDERI: Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies 7 (1996): 79–92.
4284. Stone, John. “Seventeenth-Century Jurisprudence and Eighteenth-Century Lexicography: Sources for Johnson’s Notion of Authority.” In Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers, Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century, edited by Anne C. McDermott, 125–38. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.
4285. Stone, John. “Translations.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 38–44. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
4286. Stone, John. Review of Viaje a las Islas Occidentales de Escocia, by Agustín Coletes Blanco. Johnsonian News Letter 59, no. 1 (March 2008): 47–53.
4287. Strabone, Jeff. “Samuel Johnson: Standardizer of English, Preserver of Gaelic.” ELH: English Literary History 77, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 237–65. https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.0.0077.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson’s hostility towards Scotland and the Scots English dialect of the Lowlanders is well-known. Not so, however, his support for the preservation of Scottish Gaelic. A seeming contradiction, Johnson’s position on Gaelic is essential for what it reveals about language, dialect, and national identity in the eighteenth century. Although Johnson believed in preserving all languages, he opposed diversity of dialect within languages. For him, Gaelic was a language of its own, but Scots English was an impure, corrupted dialect of a language.
4288. Stratta, Isabel. “Johnson, Boswell, Borges, Bioy.” Rassegna Iberistica 91 (April 2010): 71–75.
4289. Strauss, Albrecht B. “Thomas Wolfe and Samuel Johnson: An Unlikely Pair.” Southern Literary Journal 31, no. 2 (March 1999): 1–11.
4290. Strauss, Gerald H. Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking. Magill’s Literary Annual, n.d., 2:2459-62.
4291. Strawhorn, John. “Master of Ulubrae: Boswell as Enlightened Laird.” In Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, edited by Irma S. Lustig, 117–34. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
4292. Strawn, Morgan W. “‘A Species of Despotism’: Catholicism and Benevolent Authoritarianism in Boswell’s Account of Corsica.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 22 (2012): 97–122.
4293. Strickland, Peter. “Samuel Johnson the Poet.” New Rambler D:12, no. 12 (1996): 46–51.
4294. Stroganova, M. V. “Zhar propovedi v tvorchestve angliĭskikh literatorov XVIII veka: Svift, Dzhonson, Stern.” Izvestiia Akademii Nauk, Seriia Literatury i Iazyka 67, no. 1 (2008): 63–70.
4295. Stuhr, R. Review of A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1986–1998, by Jack Lynch. Choice 38, no. 8 (April 2001): 4208.
4296. Stuhr-Rommereim, R. Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. Choice 34, no. 4 (December 1996): 1935.
4297. Stuprich, Michael. “Johnson and Biography: Recent Critical Directions.” In Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, edited by David Wheeler, 152–66. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
4298. Stuprich, Michael Charles. “Residual Grandeur: Samuel Johnson’s Development as Biographer.” PhD thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1986.
4299. Stuttaford, Genevieve. Review of Boswell: The English Experiment, 1785–1789, by Irma S. Lustig and Frederick A. Pottle. Publishers Weekly 230, no. 13 (1986): 64.
4300. Suarez, Michael F. S.J. Review of A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM, by Anne C. McDermott. Times Higher Education Supplement, July 12, 1996, 12.
4301. Suarez, Michael F. S.J. “Another Tiny Boswell [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author by Lawrence Lipking].” TLS, August 6, 1999, 8.
4302. Suarez, Michael F. S.J. “Book Trade.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 134–42. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
4303. Suarez, Michael F. S.J. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. TLS, December 15, 1995, 11–12.
4304. Suarez, Michael F. S.J. “Johnson’s Christian Thought.” In The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 192–208. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.013.
4305. Suarez, Michael F. S.J. Malone Contra Hawkins: A Keepsake to Mark the 292nd Birthday of Samuel Johnson & the 55th Annual Dinner of the Johnsonians. New Haven: Privately printed by the James Marshall & Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, 2001.
4306. Suarez, Michael F. S.J. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Eighteenth-Century Studies 26 (1993): 514–17.
4307. Suarez, Michael F. S.J. “’The Odious, Canting, Worthless Author of This Book’: Edmond Malone’s Annotations to Sir John Hawkins’ Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787).” Yale University Library Gazette 77 (October 2002): 22–38.
4308. Suarez, Michael F. S.J. “Uncommon Reader [Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria, Jr.].” Review of English Studies 46 (August 1995): 415–17.
4309. Sudan, Rajani. “Chilling Allahabad: Climate Control and the Production of Anglicized Weather in Early Modern India.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 8, no. 2 (September 2008): 56–73. https://doi.org/10.2979/JEM.2008.8.2.56.
      Abstract: March 1775 proved to be an exciting time for Sir Robert Barker, stationed in India, traveling between Allahabad and Calcutta. Suffering as many British East India Company members did from the extreme heat and other forms of climatological discomfort produced by seasonal monsoons, Barker wrote to the fellows of the Royal Society begging permission to offer his observations on the manufacture of ice in India. Barker’s interest had as much to do with the availability of comfortable refreshment as it did with the prospects of climate control, of making alien Indian weather English. Drawing on local knowledge, Barker’s interest in Indian techne demonstrates the ways in which Enlightenment science and British colonialism were negotiated through the incorporation of “Asiatic” study. Barker’s aims, however, were primarily in the interests of anglicizing the weather rather than promoting Indian science. In much the same way that Samuel Johnson’s dictionary provided a template for fixing the meaning of what it meant to be English, Barker’s study capitalizes on fantasies of climate control that dominated the Little Ice Age.
4310. Sudan, Rajani. “Foreign Bodies: Contracting Identity in Johnson’s London and the Life of Savage.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 34 (1992): 173–92.
4311. Sudan, Rajani. “Institutionalizing Xenophobia: Johnson’s Project,” in Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720–1850, 24–64. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
4312. Sudan, Rajani. “Lost in Lexicography: Legitimating Cultural Identity in Johnson’s Preface to the Dictionary.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 39, no. 2 (June 1998): 127–46.
4313. Sudan, Rajani. “Mud, Mortar, and Other Technologies of Empire.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 45, no. 2 (June 2004): 147–69.
4314. Sugimoto, Bunshiro. “Uses of Knowledge: Samuel Beckett and Samuel Johnson.” Journal of The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Tokyo Medical and Dental University 45 (2015): 31–40. https://doi.org/10.11480/kyoyobukiyo.45.0_PAGE31.
4315. Sun, Yongbin. “A Comment on Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson.” Foreign Literature Studies 106 (2004): 153–57.
4316. Sunday Business Post. Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin. September 14, 2008.
4317. Sunday Telegraph. “Boxing: Dr Johnson’s Plea Rings Out over Another Lull in Boxing.” October 10, 1993.
4318. Sunderland, John. “Samuel Johnson and History Painting.” In The Virtuoso Tribe of Arts and Sciences: Studies in the Eighteenth-Century Work and Membership of the London Society of Arts, edited by D. G. C. Allan and John L. Abbott, 183–94. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
4319. Sushko, S. A. “Samuel Johnson as Moralist.” Soviet Studies in Philosophy 25, no. 1 (1986): 87–104.
      Translation of “Semiuel Dzhonson kak moralist.”
4320. Sushko, S. A. “Semiuel Dzhonson kak moralist.” Voprosy filosofii, no. 9 (1985): 129–36.
4321. Sutherland, John. “Say It Again, Sam [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Guardian, August 10, 2008.
4322. Sutherland, Kathryn. “Different Gaols [Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock].” TLS, no. 5861 (2015): 8–9.
4323. Sutherland, Kathryn. “Samuel Johnson and the Origins of Writing.” In Why Modern Manuscripts Matter, 59–84. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192856517.001.0001.
      Abstract: A study of the cultural value of literary manuscripts that explores why they are traded, conserved, and coveted. It focuses on the history of manuscript collection from the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century, and the emerging strains of commercial, aesthetic, and heritage value driving it.
4324. Sutton, Ray. “The Lichfield Two and a Man from Stratford.” BMInsight 1 (2000).
4325. Suwabe, Hitoshi. “A Trio in the Age of Transition: Johnson, Boswell, and Hume.” Indian Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 1, no. 2 (December 1986): 8–15.
4326. Suwabe, Hitoshi. “Boswell’s Meetings with Johnson, A New Count.” In Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, edited by Irma S. Lustig, 246–57. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
4327. Suwabe, Hitoshi. “Johnson’s Final Words: With Particular Reference to Boswell’s Dirty Deed on Sastres.” In Johnson in Japan, edited by Kimiyo Ogawa, Mika Suzuki, and Greg Clingham, 145–54. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
4328. Suwabe, Hitoshi. Jonson to bozueru = Samuel Johnson and James Boswell: Jijitsu no shuhen. Hachioji: Chuodaigakushuppanbu, 2009.
4329. Suzuki, Mika. “Johnson the Tea Poet: A Scholarly Role Model and a Literary Doctor in Modernizing Japan.” In Johnson in Japan, edited by Kimiyo Ogawa, Mika Suzuki, and Greg Clingham, 74–87. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
4330. Svitavsky, W. L. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. Choice 41, no. 3 (December 2003): 1888.
4331. Swanson, Doug. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: An Anthology, by David Crystal. Edmondton Journal, February 5, 2006.
4332. Swenson, Rivka. “Writing Revolution as Essential Recovery: Samuel Johnson’s Return to Scotland after Ossian.” In Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832, 111–39. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2016.
4333. Swidzinski, Joshua. “Poetic Numbers: Measurement and the Formation of Literary Criticism in Enlightenment England.” PhD thesis, Columbia University, 2015.
      Abstract: This dissertation examines the importance of the concept of measurement to poets and literary critics in eighteenth-century England. It documents attempts to measure aspects of literary form, especially prosodic phenomena such as meter and rhythm, and it explores how these empirical and pseudo-empirical experiments influenced the writing and reading of poetry. During the Enlightenment, it argues, poets and critics were particularly drawn to prosody’s apparent objectivity: through the parsing of lines and counting of syllables, prosody seemed to allow one to isolate and quite literally measure the beauty and significance of verse. Inquiries into the social and historical functions of literature routinely relied on this discourse, exploring questions of style, politics, and philosophy with the help of prosodic measurement. By drawing on works and artifacts ranging from dictionaries and grammars to mnemonic schemes and notional verse-making machines, and through close readings of poet-critics such as John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray, and Samuel Johnson, “Poetic Numbers” contends that the eighteenth century’s fascination with prosody represents a foundational moment in the history of literary criticism: a moment whose acute self-consciousness about literary critical methods, as well as about whether and how these methods can aspire to count and account for aspects of literary experience, anticipates many of the methodological questions that mark our own time.
4334. Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Character and Opinions of Dr. Johnson: A Unique Wiseian Assemblage of Swinburne Materials Later Separated at the British Museum and Now Reconstructed by William B. Todd for the Annual Dinner of the Johnsonians to Commemorate Johnson’s Two-Hundred and Seventy Sixth Birthday. New York: Privately printed for The Johnsonians, 1985.
      250 copies of a facsimile of the 1918 edition [item 10/6:167] and the author’s MS printed 20 Sept. 1985.
4335. Swords, Stephen. “Emerson and the Ghost of Doctor Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1993): 99–130.
      On Ralph Waldo Emerson’s interest in, and knowledge about, Johnson, with othe reflections on American Transcendentalism.
4336. Swords, Stephen Robert. “Emerson and the Ghost of Dr. Johnson: Heritage, Reading, and an American Life of Letters.” PhD thesis, University of Colorado Boulder, 1991.
4337. Syal, Rajeev. “Dr Johnson’s Black Servant ‘Proved to Be My Ancestor.’” Sunday Telegraph, April 18, 1999.
      On Dennis Barber, a descendant of Francis Barber.
4338. Syal, Rajeev. “Dr Johnson’s House Needs Urgent Repairs.” Sunday Telegraph, December 2000.
4339. Syba, Michelle. Review of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment, by Philip Smallwood. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 19 (2009): 301–7.
4340. Ta. “The Next Generation of Johnsonians.” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 1 (March 2022): 4–7.
4341. Talbot, John. “Johnson’s Classical Mottoes.” Essays in Criticism 53, no. 4 (October 2003): 323–44. https://doi.org/10.1093/eic/53.4.323.
4342. Talukdar, Sudip. “Dr. Johnson’s Extraordinary Venture: The Dictionary.” In Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, edited by T. R. Sharma, 51–57. India: Shalabh, 1986.
4343. Tambling, Kirsten. Hodge’s History of Cats: A History of Cats’ Varying Fortunes Illustrated with Examples from Shakespeare to Johnson. Cirencester: Printed by Tyburn Tree for Dr Johnson’s House Trust, 2014.
      Abstract: Hodge the cat has developed a cult following to rival his owner, Samuel Johnson. His likeness stands outside Johnson's house in Gough Square and attracts visitors from all over the world. This book covers what we know for sure about the enigmatic Hodge, and then moves on to expertly assess what wlse we might surmise. In the process it tracks an anecdotal history of cats and catkeeping up to Johnson's day — when our relationship with cats stood on the threshold of a profound change.
4344. Tankard, Paul. “Anonymity and the Press: The Case of Boswell.” In Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, edited by Donald J. Newman, 32–48. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
4345. Tankard, Paul. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. The Southern Johnsonian 7, no. 4 (November 2000): 6.
4346. Tankard, Paul. Review of A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating His Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, by J. D. Fleeman. Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 25, no. 3 (2001): 121–27.
4347. Tankard, Paul. Review of A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson’s Notes for the “Life of Pope,” by Harriet Kirkley. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 381–86.
4348. Tankard, Paul. “Boswell, George Steevens, and the Johnsonian Biography Wars.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 22 (2012): 73–95.
4349. Tankard, Paul. “Chapter and Verse [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch].” The Age (Melbourne, Australia), September 28, 2002, sec. Saturday Extra.
4350. Tankard, Paul. “Contexts for Johnson’s Dictionary.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 35, no. 2 (June 2002): 253–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-35-2-253.
4351. Tankard, Paul. “A Clergyman’s Reading: Books Recommended by Samuel Johnson.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 11 (2000): 125–43.
      An extensively annotated list of books Johnson recommended to a young clergyman.
4352. Tankard, Paul. Review of Dr. Johnson’s Doorknob: And Other Significant Parts of Great Men’s Houses, by Liz Workman. Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 2 (September 2015): 60–61.
4353. Tankard, Paul. “Essays.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 191–99. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
4354. Tankard, Paul. “Everyone in This Society Should Read This Book [Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman].” The Southern Johnsonian 3 (September 2001): 6–7.
4355. Tankard, Paul. “George Psalmanazar: The Fabulous Formosan.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 10 (August 2008): 39–53.
      Includes a section on Johnson.
4356. Tankard, Paul. “Hester Piozzi’s Annotations to the Adventurer and Johnson’s Rambler: Beyond the Case Study.” In Marginal Notes: Social Reading and the Literal Margins, edited by Patrick Spedding and Paul Tankard, 85–113. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
4357. Tankard, Paul. “Insulting Words in Johnson’s Dictionary [Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch].” The Southern Johnsonian 13, no. 48 (August 2006): 8.
4358. Tankard, Paul. “James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson.” In C. S. Lewis’s List: The Ten Books That Influenced Him Most, edited by David Werther, Susan Werther, and David C. Downing, 157–80. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015.
4359. Tankard, Paul. “Johnson and Boswell in the 1940’s: Wartime Snap-Shots from ‘Britain in Pictures.’” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 1 (March 2018): 37–47.
4360. Tankard, Paul. “Johnson (and Boswell) in the Lists: A View of Their Reputations, 1933–2018.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 24 (2021): 78–120.
4361. Tankard, Paul. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. Colloquy 1 (1996): 87–88.
4362. Tankard, Paul. “Johnson and Browne on Living Rich.” Notes and Queries 58 [256], no. 3 (September 2011): 422–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjr130.
4363. Tankard, Paul. “Johnson and the Hot Potato: Scholarship and the ‘Science of Fables.’” In New Windows on a Woman’s World: Essays for Jocelyn Harris, edited by Colin Gibson and Lisa Marr, 1:336–50. Dunedin, N.Z.: Department of English, University of Otago, 2005.
4364. Tankard, Paul. “Johnson and the Walkable City.” Eighteenth-Century Life 32, no. 1 (December 2008): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2007-009.
      “Johnson sees himself fundamentally as a walker, and walking is deeply implicated in his sense of the city. . . . Johnson sees and is disturbed by the growing size of the metropolis. . . . Johnson presents and models walking as the exemplary means of negotiating urban topographies, and he regards the urban street not as a conduit but a location. Walking is a means by which to connect with nature, society, and the body.”
4365. Tankard, Paul. Review of Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings, by O M Brack Jr. and Robert DeMaria Jr. Notes and Queries 67 [265], no. 4 (2020): 576.
4366. Tankard, Paul. “Johnson on the English Language.” The Southern Johnsonian 16, no. 57 (March 2009): 2.
4367. Tankard, Paul. “Johnsoniana: Johnson at Baretti’s Trial.” Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 2 (September 2007): 15–18.
      Includes SJ’s testimony at the trial from the records of the Old Bailey.
4368. Tankard, Paul. “Johnsoniana: ‘Sam’s Black Dog.’” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 1 (March 2019): 57–58.
4369. Tankard, Paul. “Journalism.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 103–19. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: In the eighteenth century newspapers and the new medium of magazines were of vital importance in British metropolitan culture; this chapter considers Johnson’s engagement with both modes of publication. Much of Johnson’s work — poems, moral essays, political writings and parliamentary reports – first appeared in the periodical press, but not all of this can be considered journalism. Many of his newspaper pieces were written as an invited spokesman for various publications, holding journalists to high standards, and insisting their work be valued by readers and publishers. Of his work for magazines, which was the medium he clearly preferred, the “early lives” for the Gentleman’s Magazine and the book reviews for the Literary Magazine are most closely examined. They deal with topics in which he may be presumed to have an interest, and he energetically tests these workaday genres, attending to method, ascertaining the facts and drawing conclusions only from evidence.
4370. Tankard, Paul. “Let Me Introduce You to Johnson’s Dictionary [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Otago Daily Times, August 20, 2005.
4371. Tankard, Paul. Review of Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 30, no. 2 (March 2007): 220–24.
4372. Tankard, Paul. Review of Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch. Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 1 (March 2007): 49–52.
4373. Tankard, Paul. “Maecenas and the Ministry: Johnson and His Publishers, Patrons and the Public.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 1 (1997): 1–9.
4374. Tankard, Paul. “‘My Journal Goes Charmingly On’: Boswell Reedited [Review of London Journal, 1762–1763, by Gordon Turnbull].” Eighteenth-Century Life 38, no. 3 (Fall 2014): 111–14. https://doi.org/10.1215/000982601-2774037.
4375. Tankard, Paul. “New Edition of Johnson’s Essays a ‘Must’ for the Newcomer.” The Southern Johnsonian 12, no. 46 (December 2005): 3.
4376. Tankard, Paul. “Nineteen More Johnsonian Designs: A Supplement to ‘“That Great Literary Projector.”’” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 23 (2015): 141–58.
4377. Tankard, Paul. “Not Complicated, Not Controversial, Not Enough [review of Samuel Johnson and the Essay, by Robert D. Spector],” by Robert D. Spector. The Southern Johnsonian 5, no. 4 (August 1998): 8.
4378. Tankard, Paul. “Novel Treatment of Johnson [Review of According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge].” The Southern Johnsonian 2 (August 2002): 6–7.
4379. Tankard, Paul. “Obscure Johnson Work Re-Activates Yale Edition.” The Southern Johnsonian 14, no. 50 (January 2007): 6–7.
4380. Tankard, Paul. “A Petty Writer: Johnson and the Rambler Pamphlets.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 10 (1999): 67–87.
4381. Tankard, Paul. Review of A Preface to Samuel Johnson, by Thomas M. Woodman. The Southern Johnsonian 3, no. 2 (March 1996): 7.
4382. Tankard, Paul. Review of A Preliminary Handlist of Books to Which Dr. Samuel Johnson Subscribed, by D. D. Eddy and J. D. Fleeman. Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 18, no. 1 (1994): 56–58.
4383. Tankard, Paul. “Reading The Rambler: Johnson’s Engagement with the Anxieties of Authorship.” MA thesis, Monash University, 1994.
4384. Tankard, Paul. “Reference Point: Samuel Johnson and the Encyclopaedias.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 11 (2009): 11–26.
4385. Tankard, Paul. “Reference Point: Samuel Johnson and the Encyclopedias: The David Fleeman Memorial Lecture, 2007.” Eighteenth-Century Life 33, no. 3 (September 2009): 37–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2009-003.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson was interested in encyclopedias, and in his own lifetime, encyclopedias were interested in him. This essay examines five eighteenth-century encyclopedias: Rees’s revision of Chambers’ Cyclopaedia (1778–86), Kippis’s revised Biographia Britannica (1777–93), and the first three editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1768–71, 1777–84, 1788–97). In these five works, I have located 121 articles in which Johnson is mentioned or quoted as an authority; by giving a sense of the character of his presence, the essay traces the evolution of his reputation. The essay also draws attention to a number of curious details, including early critiques of Johnson’s work, and mentions of Johnsonian publications or attributions that have been sometimes overlooked. The whole is intended to be a contribution to the understanding of Johnson’s near-contemporary reception and reputation.
4386. Tankard, Paul. “Samuel Johnson in His ‘Meridian Splendour’: The Genealogy of a Metaphor.” Notes and Queries 67 [265] (2019): 252–55.
4387. Tankard, Paul. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Review of English Studies 68, no. 287 (2017): 1002–7.
4388. Tankard, Paul, ed. Samuel Johnson’s “Designs”: A Facsimile of the Manuscript, with a New Transcription & an Introductory Essay by Paul Tankard: With Newly Discovered Text. New York: Privately printed by Ron Gordon at the Oliphant Press for the Johnsonians, 2008.
      An attractive facsimile, printed in an edition of 225 copies, with facsimiles, transcriptions, and commentary, of the MS of Johnson’s “Designs” for works he hoped to write.
4389. Tankard, Paul. “Samuel Johnson’s History of Memory.” Studies in Philology 102, no. 1 (December 2005): 110–42.
4390. Tankard, Paul. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript, by J. D. Vander Meulen and G. Thomas Tanselle. Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 19, no. 2 (1995): 123–25.
4391. Tankard, Paul. “‘That Great Literary Projector’: Samuel Johnson’s Designs, or Projected Works.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 13 (2002): 103–80.
      An important survey of works Johnson planned but never wrote.
4392. Tankard, Paul. Review of The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the “Life of Johnson,” by Marshall Waingrow. The Southern Johnsonian 10, no. 3 (October 2003): 6–7.
4393. Tankard, Paul. “The Great Cham and the English Aristophanes: Samuel Johnson and Foote.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 6 (2002): 7–13.
4394. Tankard, Paul. “The ‘Great Cham’ and the ‘English Aristophanes’: Samuel Johnson, Samuel Foote, and Harmless Pleasure.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 83–96.
4395. Tankard, Paul. “The Moral Writer and the Struggle with Selfhood: Lewis’s ‘Screwtape’ and Johnson’s ‘Mr. Rambler.’” In The Fantastic Self: Essays on the Subject of the Self, edited by Janeen Webb and Andrew Enstice, 206–13. Perth: Eidolon, 1999.
4396. Tankard, Paul. “The Next Generation of Johnsonians.” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 1 (March 2022): 4–7.
4397. Tankard, Paul. “The Rambler’s Second Audience: Johnson and the Paratextual ‘Part of Literature.’” Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 24, no. 4 (2000): 239–56.
4398. Tankard, Paul. Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. The Southern Johnsonian, November 1998, 6.
4399. Tankard, Paul. “The Samuel Johnson Prize.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 2 (September 2017): 52–54.
4400. Tankard, Paul. “‘Try to Resolve Again’: Johnson and the Written Art of Everyday Life.” In New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 217–34. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.
4401. Tankard, Paul. “‘A Very Agreeable Way of Thinking’: Devotion and Doctrine in Boswell’s Religion.” In Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism, edited by Melvyn New and Gerard Reedy, 237–54. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2012.
4402. Tankard, Paul, and Michael Cop. “To Explain, to Commend, to Correct: Johnson on Notes and on Shakespeare, in The Tempest and the Dictionary.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 25 (2025): 42–71.
4403. Tankard, Paul, and Anthony Tedeschi. Samuel Johnson 1709–2009: Life & Afterlife. Dunedin, N.Z.: Dunedin Public Libraries, 2009.
4404. Tate, J. O. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. National Review, February 27, 1987.
4405. Tayler, Christopher. “Blame It on Boswell: A New Life of Johnson Fills in the Gaps of His First Biographer [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin].” Guardian, August 9, 2008.
4406. Taylor, Charlotte. “Random Thoughts on Rasselas.” New Rambler C:24, no. 23 (1982): 22–24.
4407. Taylor, David. “Hessell, Literary Authors, Parliamentary Reporters.” Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture and Criticism 21, no. 1 (2015): 101–3. https://doi.org/0.3366/rom.2015.0217.
4408. Taylor, David Francis. “Johnson’s Textual Landscape.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 59, no. 1 (2018): 65–83.
      Abstract: Early in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) Johnson describes crossing the Hardmuir, the putative site of Macbeth’s first meeting with the weird sisters. For Johnson, this is Macbeth not as a text to be read or a play to be seen but as an environment, rich in resonances, to be inhabited and travelled. The longer first part of this essay argues that Johnson’s marking of this landscape as “classic ground” is freighted with particular cultural values and judgments. On the one hand, through Shakespeare Johnson tethers himself to the familiar — to culture and use-value — at the very moment he feels civilization suddenly to recede from view. Macbeth marks for Johnson a boundary that is at once topographical, historical, and political. On the other hand, Johnson’s interest in Macbeth is soldered to his enduring fascination with the supernatural, and the play thereby facilitates his openness both to affective forms of engagement and to the idea of mystery...
4409. Taylor, Donald S. “Johnson on the Metaphysicals: An Analytic Efficacy of Hostile Presuppositions.” Eighteenth-Century Life 10, no. 3 (October 1986): 186–203.
4410. Taylor, Paul. Review of Resurrection, by Maureen Lawrence. The Independent, May 14, 1996.
4411. Taylor, Robert. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Boston Globe, September 11, 1994.
4412. Taylor, T. M. “On Definition and Explanation in the Preface to Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language.” Modern Language Review 111, no. 2 (2016): 311–32.
4413. Teachout, Terry. “Disasters, Artists and the Perils of Grandiosity.” Wall Street Journal, 2012.
      Abstract: Not long after 9/11, I found myself thinking that artists would do well to heed the advice given in “Reading in Wartime,” a poem about World War II in which Edwin Muir suggests that such classics as James Boswell’s Life of Johnson and Leo Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Ilych say “more about life, / The meaning and the end / Of our familiar breath, / Both being personal, / Than all the carnage can, / Retrieve the shape of man, / Lost and anonymous.”
4414. Tedeschi, Anthony. “Extra-Illustration As Exemplified in A. H. Reed’s Copy of Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 36, no. 1 (2012): 42–52.
4415. Tekcan, Rana. The Biographer and the Subject: A Study on Biographical Distance. Studies in English Literatures. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2012.
      Abstract: A good biography is a well-staged illusion. It creates — on paper — a vivid, rounded, and immediate sense of lived life. In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography writing does not allow total freedom to the biographer in the creative act. Ideally, a biography’s backbone is formed by accurate historical facts. But its soul lies elsewhere. Since the concern is life, something more is needed: Nothing dry, cold or dead, but a vibrant impression of life that is left in the air after one turns over the last page. But how does a biographer do it?
4416. Temmer, Mark J. Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
      Abstract: European literary history teems with prejudices. Nowhere perhaps is bias more evident than in the field of Anglo-French relations of the eighteenth century. In England looms the formidable figure of Samuel Johnson, while the French-speaking world is dominated by Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot. Samuel Johnson thought little of Voltaire and never mentioned Diderot. That he wanted to banish Rousseau to the American colonies is well known. All three men were, in Johnson’s mind, infidels to the Christian order of society. In Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels, Mark Temmer reevaluates dogmatic views and critical commonplaces that have encrusted these relationships by comparing representative works of the three Continental authors to corresponding works and realities embodied and created by Samuel Johnson. After reviewing existing harmonies and dissonances between France and England, Temmer turns to the lives of Johnson and Rousseau, interpreting them as ontological masterpieces made visible mainly in Rousseau’s Confessions and in biographies of Johnson by James Boswell and Hester Piozzi, both of whom insist on remarkable affinities between the two men. In the words of Mrs. Piozzi, they were “alike as sensations of frost and fire.” Despite their opposing doctrines, Temmer reveals a pietism in Rousseau that often matches in intensity Johnson’s otherworldly yearnings. Temmer moves from this comparison into a discussion of Candide and Rasselas, works published within months of each other in 1759. Integrating Voltaire’s satire and Johnson’s moral tale into the philosophical history of the age, Temmer goes on to uncover shared moments of laughter and music, ringing out against the gray background of a life in which, for both men, “much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.” Finally, exploring Johnson’s Life of Richard Savage and Diderot’s Le Neveu de Rameau, Temmer suggests the strong possibility that Diderot’s masterpiece may have been influenced by Johnson’s biography as well as by Savage’s own An Author to be Lett. In this book, Temmer moves beyond the boundaries that have traditionally defined eighteenth-century scholarship on either shore of the English Channel. Creating a cross-cultural conversation bounded only by the lives and interests of his subjects, Temmer relates Johnson to Continental literature and defines his innovative role in a tradition that leads to Hegel, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche.
      Reviews:
      • Basney, Lionel. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 1, no. 2 (1989): 156–58.
      • Hume, Robert D. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 28, no. 3 (1988): 521–22.
      • Mason, Haydn. “Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot.” French Studies 44, no. 1 (January 1990): Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography.
      • May, Gita. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. Comparative Literature 43 (1991): 195–96.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. Johnsonian News Letter 48, no. 1–2 (March 1988): 2.
      • Morvan, Alain. “Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot.” Revue de littérature comparée 64, no. 1 (January 1990): 142–44.
      • Neubauer, John. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. Comparative Literature Studies 29, no. 1 (1992): 94–96.
      • Niklaus, Robert. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 13, no. 2 (1990): 253–54.
      • Parke, Catherine N. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 473–77.
      • Wagoner, M. S. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. Choice 25 (1988): 1559.
      • Waldinger, Renee. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. Philosophy and Literature 13, no. 1 (1989): 188–90.
4417. Temple, Kathryn. “Johnson and Macpherson: Cultural Authority and the Construction of Literary Property.” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 5 (1993): 355–87.
4418. Temple, Kathryn. “Ossian’s Embrace: Johnson, Macpherson, and the Public Domain.” In Scandal Nation: Law and Authorship in Britain, 1750–1832, 73–120. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.
4419. Temple, Kathryn. Scandal Nation: Law and Authorship in Britain, 1750–1832. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501717628.
      Abstract: Kathryn Temple argues that eighteenth-century Grub Street scandals involving print piracy, forgery, and copyright violation played a crucial role in the formation of British identity. Britain’s expanding print culture demanded new ways of thinking about business and art. In this environment, print scandals functioned as sites where national identity could be contested even as it was being formed.Temple draws upon cases involving Samuel Richardson, Samuel Johnson, Catharine Macaulay, and Mary Prince. The public uproar around these controversies crossed class, gender, and regional boundaries, reaching the Celtic periphery and the colonies. Both print and spectacle, both high and low, these scandals raised important points of law, but also drew on images of criminality and sexuality made familiar in the theater, satirical prints, broadsides, even in wax museums. Like print culture itself, the “scandal” of print disputes constituted the nation-and resistance to its formation. Print transgression destabilized both the print industry and efforts to form national identity. Temple concludes that these scandals represent print’s escape from Britain’s strenuous efforts to enlist it in the service of nation.
4420. Terry, Richard. “Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.” In Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past, 1660–1781, 216–51. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
4421. Terry, Richard. “Rejoinder to Professors Miller and Siskin in the February 1997 Issue.” Eighteenth-Century Life 21, no. 3 (November 1997): 79–82.
4422. Terry, Richard. “‘The Sound Must Seem an Eccho to the Sense’: An Eighteenth-Century Controversy Revisited.” Modern Language Review 94, no. 4 (October 1999): 940–54. https://doi.org/10.2307/3737229.
4423. The Atlantic Monthly. “John Wilkes, Esq., and Dr. Samuel Johnson.” March 1993.
4424. The Economist. Review of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman. October 28, 2000.
4425. The Economist. “Dr. Johnson’s Dog.” December 26, 1987.
4426. The Economist. “Subversive Facts: Describing Language Objectively Need Not Meaning Doing so Dispassionately.” March 17, 2017.
4427. The Economist. “The Gobblies at the Gate.” November 21, 1992.
4428. The Economist. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. May 9, 1992.
4429. The Herald (Glasgow). “Dr. Johnson’s Regard for Truth.” February 17, 1996.
4430. The Herald (Glasgow). “Dr. Johnson’s Zeal for Gaelic.” February 26, 1996.
4431. The Herald (Glasgow). Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. August 11, 1999.
4432. The Hindu. “Regulating Language.” October 3, 2004.
4433. The Independent. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. October 3, 1993.
4434. The Independent. “Dr Johnson Relic May Be Replaced.” March 11, 1991.
4435. The Independent. “Guests Outside Dr Samuel Johnson’s House at 17 Gough Square, off Fleet Street, for Its Reopening.” May 24, 1990.
4436. The Independent on Sunday. “London’s Not All Johnson Says (Samuel or Boris).” 2015.
4437. “‘The Mantle of Johnson Descends on Gisbourne’: Samuel Johnson and Some Controversies of the 1820’s.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1991, 29–33.
4438. “‘The March of Intimacy’: Dr. Burney and Dr. Johnson.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 1 (Autumn 2019): 23–24.
4439. The Observer. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. November 26, 1995.
4440. The Observer. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. January 29, 1994.
4441. The Spectator. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. September 24, 1994.
4442. The Sunday Herald. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. October 24, 2004.
4443. The Sunday Mail (South Australia). Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. June 26, 2005.
4444. The Times. “Boswell Find.” June 6, 1985.
      Two newly discovered letters — one by Johnson, one by Boswell — in Canberra National Library.
4445. Thell, Anne M. “Johnson and Travel.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 191–203. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
4446. Theroux, Alexander. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1994.
4447. Theroux, Marcel. Strange Bodies. London: Faber & Faber, 2013.
      Abstract: A dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far North Whatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead. In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen, failed husband and impoverished Samuel Johnson scholar. Slopen has been dead for months. Yet nothing can make this man change his story. What begins as a tale of apparent forgery, involving unseen letters by the great Dr. Johnson, grows to encompass a conspiracy between a Silicon Valley mogul and his Russian allies to exploit the darkest secret of Soviet technology: the Malevin Procedure. With echoes of both Jorge Luis Borges and Philip K. Dick, Marcel Theroux's Strange Bodies takes the reader on a dizzying speculative journey that poses questions about identity, authenticity, and what it means to be truly human.
4448. Theroux, Paul. The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
      Abstract: A collection of writings from Paul Theroux’s fifty years of travel. Included are writings from other travelers such as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway and many others.
4449. Theroux, Paul. “Travel Wisdom of Samuel Johnson.” In The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road, 75–77. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
4450. Thirriard, Maryam. “Virginia Woolf’s ‘New School of Biographies’ and Eighteenth-Century Life-Writing: A Sense of Kinship.” Sillages Critiques 37 (2024). https://doi.org/10.4000/13198.
      Abstract: Woolf was often critical of the way biographers practiced their art and the instances of her commendation of them are rare. However, in the 1920s, it became clear to her that a stark change had come over the way lives were being written. This resulted in her 1927 essay “The New Biography” in which she praises Harold Nicolson as well as Lytton Strachey for making it new. Woolf brings these life-writers together in what she calls a “new school of biographies” (“The New Biography”). At the same time, her essay provides a lengthy history of the genre and Woolf takes her readers back in time to Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson, connecting him to the New Biographers and their narrative techniques. This paper explores the way in which Woolf, Lytton and Nicolson describe, through their criticism of biography, the eighteenth century as being a golden age for biography, in accordance with the principles Woolf set in her essay “The New Biography.” The assessment of the relation these New Biographers maintained with the previous centuries shows that their hostility towards the Victorian age was not an indiscriminate loathing of the past. On the contrary, as can be perceived in Woolf’s essay on the revolution in biography, she and her fellow modernist biographers intend to draw a bridge between the art of biography of their time and that of the eighteenth century. This paper examines the dynamic of instability the New Biographers created between old and new forms in modernist life-writing.
4451. Thomas, Charles. “Johnson in Love.” Unpublished play, 2001. Reviews:
      • Cavendish, Dominic. “Doctor Needs a Better Script [Review of ‘Johnson in Love,’ by Charles Thomas].” Daily Telegraph, January 9, 2001.
      • Gardner, Lyn. “Sammy and Rosie Get Laid: Dr Johnson’s Brothel Antics Leave Lyn Gardner Unconvinced [Review of ‘Johnson in Love,’ by Charles Thomas].” Guardian, January 6, 2001.
      • Gross, John. “Our Lady Is Still Abseiling Theatre [Review of ‘Johnson in Love,’ by Charles Thomas].” Sunday Telegraph, January 7, 2001.
4452. Thomas, Claudia. “Samuel Johnson and Elizabeth Carter: Pudding, Epictetus, and the Accomplished Woman.” South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 9, no. 4 (December 1992): 18–30. https://doi.org/10.2307/3189478.
4453. Thomas, Claudia. “‘Th’ Instructive Moral, and Important Thought’: Elizabeth Carter Reads Pope, Johnson, and Epictetus.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 4 (1991): 137–69.
4454. Thomas, Donald. “Samuel Johnson’s Arabia.” Journal of English 15 (September 1987): 1–14.
4455. Thomas, P. D. G. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. English Historical Review 112, no. 446 (June 1997): 778.
4456. Thompson, J. W. M. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. The Times, July 15, 1993.
4457. Thompson, James. “Teaching as Cultural Quietism: English 66: ‘Poetry and Prose of the Classical Period (3). Dryden, Addison, Steele, Swift, Pope, and Johnson, Boswell, and Gray.’” In Styles of Cultural Activism: From Theory and Pedagogy to Women, Indians, and Communism, edited by Philip Goldstein, 48–63. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1994.
4458. Thompson, Peggy. “Habit and Reason in Samuel Johnson’s Rambler.” In Beyond Sense and Sensibility: Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth, edited by Peggy Thompson and Timothy Erwin, 109–24. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2015.
4459. Thompson, Spurgeon. “Writing the Fringe: Eighteenth-Century Accounts of the Western Islands of Scotland.” In Beyond the Floating Islands: An Anthology, edited by Stephanos Stephanides and Susan Bassnett, 106–14. Bologna: University of Bologna, 2002.
4460. Thomson, Alice. “Arsonists Wreck Dr Johnson’s Retreat.” The Times, March 11, 1991.
      On the destruction of the Thrales’ Streatham house.
4461. Thomson, Ian. “Fopdoodles, Dandiprats, and Jibes and the Scots [Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings].” Evening Standard, April 18, 2005.
4462. Thomson, Ian. “From Lexicon to Liberty [Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock].” New Statesman, May 22, 2015.
4463. Thomson, Ian. “Grub Street’s Finest [Review of Samuel Johnson: A Life by David Nokes].” Irish Times, October 10, 2009.
4464. Thomson, R. J. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. Fest Magazine, August 11, 2007.
4465. Thrale, Richard. Review of Dr. Johnson’s “Own Dear Master”: The Life of Henry Thrale, by Lee Morgan. New Rambler E:1 (1997): 74–75.
4466. Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. “Dr. Johnson and the Auxiliary Do.” Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 33 (1988): 22–39.
4467. Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. “Dr Johnson and the Auxiliary DO.” Folia Linguistica Historica: Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae 10, no. 1–2 (1989): 145–62. https://doi.org/10.1515/flih.1989.10.1-2.145.
4468. Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid, and Randy Bax. “Of Dodsley’s Projects and Linguistic Influence: The Language of Johnson and Lowth.” Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics 2 (2002).
4469. Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. “Social Network Theory and Eighteenth-Century English: The Case of Boswell.” In English Historical Linguistics 1994, edited by Derek Britton, 327–37. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.135.23tie.
4470. Tierney, Thomas. “Samuel Johnson: Beast Fabulist and Satirist on Mankind.” Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society 4 (May 1992): 55–65. https://doi.org/10.1075/bestia.4.04tie.
4471. Time Out. Review of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings. June 1, 2005.
4472. The Times. “Boswell Johnson’s Scottish Road.” October 7, 2020.
4473. The Times. “Bozzy and the Birth of Biography Are Celebrated on Day He Met Dr Johnson.” 2013.
4474. The Times. “Tired of Life? Johnson and Boswell’s Castle Could Be Your Escape.” June 1, 2016.
4475. Timko, Mike. “Samuel Johnson, Neglected Lexicographer.” The World & I 31, no. 2 (February 2016).
4476. Tintner, Adeline R. “A Bibliographical Note: Henry James’s Markings in Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” Henry James Review 20, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 291–98. https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.1999.0020.
4477. Tisdall, Nigel. “Travel: There’s Life in the Old Girl Yet: Lichfield’s Most Famous Son Would Enjoy This Week’s Festivities.” Daily Telegraph, July 13, 1996.
4478. Todd, Brian. “A Man Led by a Bear: Dr Johnson’s Relationship with Boswell’s Wife Margaret Montgomery.” New Rambler D:11, no. 11 (1995): 23–28.
4479. Todd, Janet. Review of Dr Johnson’s Women, by Norma Clarke. TLS, April 13, 2001, 33.
4480. Toledano, Ralph. “Dr. Johnson Revisited: Samuel Johnson and the Evolution of Language.” National Review, July 8, 1991.
      Comments on Redford’s edition of the Letters.
4481. Toma, Ichitaro. “Hawthorne’s Pilgrimage to Uttoxeter and Afterwards.” Fōramu/Forum: Nihon Nasanieru Hōsōn Kyōkai/Journal of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society of Japan 3 (April 1995): 25–37.
4482. Tomarken, Edward. Review of Boswell’s “Life of Johnson”: New Questions, New Answers, by John A. Vance. South Atlantic Quarterly 86, no. 2 (1987): 186–89.
4483. Tomarken, Edward. A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1994. Reviews:
      • Brack, O M, Jr. Review of A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson, by Edward Tomarken. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (1995): 169–74.
      • Hiltscher, Michael. Review of A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson, by Edward Tomarken. Shakespeare Jahrbuch 131 (1995): 263–65.
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson, by Edward Tomarken. Notes and Queries 43 [241], no. 1 (March 1996): 92–93.
      • Mitchell, Sebastian. Review of A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson, by Edward Tomarken. English 47 (1998): 242–45.
      • Nakanishi, Wendy Jones. Review of A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson, by Edward Tomarken. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 77, no. 3 (May 1996): 286–87.
      • Review of A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson, by Edward Tomarken. Year’s Work in English Studies 75 (1997): 362–63.
4484. Tomarken, Edward. Johnson, “Rasselas,” and the Choice of Criticism. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989.
      Abstract: Although Rasselas has received more critical commentary than almost any other work by Samuel Johnson, Edward Tomarken’s book is the first full length study to focus on his tale of the Prince of Abyssinia. This anomaly arises, as Tomarken shows, because Rasselas has remained resistant to the customary critical approaches of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, consistently eliciting new kinds of insights and raising new sorts of problems. Tomarken’ s contribution is a new methodology to explain this phenomenon. He sees Johnson’s early writings, London and Irene, as instances of the writer trying with only partial success to achieve what he first realized in The Vanity of Human Wishes, a means of permitting literary form to refer to conduct. Later works, such as The Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, are viewed as further developments of this method, which achieved its fullest expression in Rasselas and the Life of Pope. Such a reading of Johnson develops an aesthetic that operates on the margins between the literary and the extra-literary. Although Johnson’s own critical view was unable to accommodate such a position, Tomarken shows that in practice he moved toward it by a process of trial and error manifest in his poetry and narratives. When raised to the level of critical method, this approach goes beyond the assumptions not only of Johnson’s day but also of our own. Tomarken’s theoretical coda demonstrates how the choices of current critical theory, like those in the marriage debate in Rasselas, can be understood to interact with one another. Specifically, he proposes a dialectical relationship for two approaches hermeneutics and structuralism-usually seen as opposed to one another. This innovative study will interest not only Johnson scholars but all those concerned with critical theory.
      Reviews:
      • Grundy, Isobel. Review of Johnson, “Rasselas,” and the Choice of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 3, no. 4 (1991): 377–79.
      • Probyn, Clive. Review of Johnson, “Rasselas,” and the Choice of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. Modern Language Review 87, no. 2 (1992): 434–35.
      • Reddick, Allen. Review of Johnson, “Rasselas,” and the Choice of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 4 (1991): 424–28.
      • Zomchick, John P. Review of Johnson, “Rasselas,” and the Choice of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. South Atlantic Review 56, no. 3 (September 1991): 114–17.
4485. Tomarken, Edward. Review of Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After, by Philip Smallwood. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 405–8.
4486. Tomarken, Edward. “A Metacritical Perspective: Accuracy and Ideology.” Eighteenth-Century Life 16, no. 2 (May 1992): 144–46.
4487. Tomarken, Edward. “Perspectivism: The Methodological Implications of ‘The History of Imlac’ in Rasselas.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 262–90.
4488. Tomarken, Edward. Review of Samuel Johnson after Deconstruction: Rhetoric and “The Rambler,” by Steven Lynn. South Atlantic Review 58, no. 3 (September 1993): 112–16.
4489. Tomarken, Edward. Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
      Abstract: Since the first appearance of Samuel Johnson’s edition of Shakespeare’s drama in 1765, its Preface has often been published separately, while the Notes have been treated as miscellaneous and fragmentary. As a result, few modern readers realize that the Notes in fact contain coherent interpretations of most of the plays and that many portions of the Preface are generalizations related to those readings. Scholars who have examined the Notes carefully have almost always used them in studies of larger issues, such as Johnson’s morality or rhetoric. In this book, Edward Tomarken provides the first full-length study of the Notes to Shakespeare, showing how they raise issues of direct concern to modern critics and theoreticians. While referring to Johnson’s notes on all the Shakespearean dramas, Tomarken focuses on eight plays — Henry IV, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, The Tempest, Hamlet, and Macbeth — to demonstrate the range of Johnson’s editorial and critical abilities. Each chapter, devoted to a single play, moves from the particular to the general-from specific remarks about the play in the Notes, to related theoretical statements in the Preface, and finally to an axiom of literary theory. Ranging from a formulation concerning ideology in criticism to a reconsideration of aesthetic empathy, these axioms are, Tomarken contends, essential to literary criticism as a discipline and manifest Johnson’s relevance to modernity.
      Reviews:
      • Brack, O M, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (December 1997): 169–74.
      • Gondris, Joanna. “Of Poets and Critics [Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker, and Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken].” Johnsonian News Letter 51, no. 4 (March 1991): 4–7.
      • Hall, M. L. Review of Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. Philosophy and Literature 17, no. 1 (April 1993): 130–32.
      • McDermott, Anne. Review of Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 17, no. 2 (Autumn 1994): 219–20.
      • Sherbo, Arthur. Review of Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. Shakespeare Quarterly 47, no. 1 (1996): 92–94.
      • Venturo, David F. Review of Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 20 (2001): 509.
4490. Tomarken, Edward. “The Method of Theory: Samuel Johnson and Critical Integrity [Review of ‘Steel for the Mind’: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant].” Papers on Language and Literature 32, no. 2 (March 1996): 217–23.
4491. Tomarken, Edward L. Samuel Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets”: Ethical Literary Criticism. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61842-0.
      Abstract: This open access book seeks to explain how the literary commentary of the Lives of the Poets speaks to us today because of its ethical goals. Edward Tomarken elucidates this element of Johnson’s literary criticism by using Ralph Cohen’s genre method, the topic of Chapter One, “Why Genre.” Chapters two to five address the most prevalent genres of the Lives: tragedy, metaphysical poetry, the epic, the pastoral elegy, and the mock epic. Chapter six considers the rise of literary criticism as a genre. Chapter Seven demonstrates how ethical genre criticism relates literature to life. And the final chapter explains why, although Johnson considers “moral” and “ethical” as nearly interchangeable terms, Tomarken prefers “ethical” because it relates genre criticism to present problems in literary and non-literary worlds.
4492. Tomkinson, Neil. “Johnson’s ‘Saintdom’ Continued.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1989, 81–82.
4493. Tomkinson, Neil. “The Christian Faith and Practice of Samuel Johnson, Thomas De Quincey, and Thomas Love Peacock.” Esp. Part I (1992): 1–149.
4494. Torné, Gonzalo. Usos, costumbres y definiciones de las palabras que conforman la lengua inglesa: incluye términos que aparecen en Shakespeare y otros grandes autores de la literatura británica. Barcelona: Debate, 2019.
4495. “Tour the Western Isles: Two Erudite Friends Set Off to See the Once Remote Hebrides.” British Heritage 22, no. 3 (April 2001): 52–58.
4496. Trautmann, Thomas R. “Dr. Johnson and the Pandits: Imagining the Perfect Dictionary in Colonial Madras.” In Land, Politics, and Trade in South Asia, edited by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, 186–215. New Delhi & New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
4497. Trautmann, Thomas R. “Dr. Johnson and the Pandits: Imagining the Perfect Dictionary in Colonial Madras.” Indian Economic & Social History Review 38, no. 4 (2004): 375–97.
4498. Tree, Michael. “Johnson and the Anglican Tradition.” New Rambler D:2, no. 2 (1986): 6–15.
4499. Trickett, Rachel. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, by Isobel Grundy. New Rambler D:2, no. 2 (1986): 24–25.
4500. Trikha, Manorama B. “Christian Ethos in Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes.” In Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, edited by T. R. Sharma, 35–42. India: Shalabh, 1986.
4501. Trillin, Calvin. “Uncivil Liberties: Gout.” The Nation, March 27, 1982.
      Humor column.
4502. Tripathi, Jagannath. “Dr. Samuel Johnson and Acharya Pt. Ram Chandra Skukla: The Epoch-Making Critics.” In Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, edited by T. R. Sharma, 58–62. India: Shalabh, 1986.
4503. Trosman, Harry. “Boswell’s Life of Johnson: The Shaping of a Self and Object World.” Psychoanalytic Review 95, no. 6 (2008): 997–1016. https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2008.95.6.997.
4504. Trumpener, Katherine Maria. “The Voice of the Past: Anxieties of Cultural Transmission in Post-Enlightenment Europe: Tradition, Folklore, Textuality, History.” PhD thesis, Stanford University, 1990.
4505. Trumpener, Katie. “The End of an Auld Sang: Oral Tradition and Literary History.” In Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire, 67–127. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
4506. Truss, Lynne. “Dr Johnson, We Presume.” The Times, October 28, 1993.
4507. Tscherny, Nadia. “Likeness in Early Romantic Portraiture.” Art Journal 46 (1987): 193–99.
4508. Tscherny, Nadia. “Reynolds’s Streatham Portraits and the Art of Intimate Biography.” Burlington Magazine 128 (January 1986): 4–11.
4509. Tull, Patrick, and Alexander Spenser. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Audiocassette. Charlotte Hall, MD: Recorded Books, 1988. Reviews:
      • Jaeger, Ernest. Review of A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland [read by Patrick Tull and Alexander Spenser], by Samuel Johnson. Library Journal 114, no. 20 (December 1989): 200.
4510. Tull, Patrick, and Alexander Spencer. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Charlotte Hall, MD: Recorded Books, 1999.
4511. Tumim, Stephen. “A Bicentenary.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1991, 8–18.
4512. Tumim, Stephen. “An Aspect of Dr Johnson.” New Rambler D:11, no. 11 (1995): 18–23.
4513. Tung, Shirley F. Review of Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, by Donald J. Newman. Journal of British Studies 62, no. 1 (2023): 257–59. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2022.183.
4514. Tung, Shirley F. “Dead Man Talking: James Boswell, Ghostwriting, and the Dying Speech of John Reid.” Huntington Library Quarterly 77, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 59–78. https://doi.org/10.1525/hlq.2014.77.1.59.
4515. Tung, Shirley F. “‘An Isthmus Which Joins Two Great Continents’: Johnson, Boswell, and the Character of the Travel Writer in An Account of Corsica.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 23 (2015): 21–32.
4516. Tung, Shirley F. “A Self-Reflexive Journey: Imagining Identity in the Eighteenth-Century Travel Narrative.” PhD Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 2015.
      Abstract: “A Self-Reflexive Journey” examines real-life, published accounts of popular eighteenth-century travelers as a novel form of creative autobiography in which lived experience is translated as narrative experiment. As a subset of life-writing, the travelogue provides the occasion for authors to self-fashion their identities as traveling subjects and attempt to reconcile their personal and national identities with constant exposure to foreign customs and modes of thought. I argue that figurative and literal landscapes in eighteenth-century travel accounts function as a crucial site for the mediation of narrative identity, enabling the internal contestations of the evolving self to be enacted upon a global stage. The introduction elaborates upon the critical approach of the dissertation and discusses how Joseph Addison’s meditation on Virgilian poetical “landskips” in Remarks on Italy (1705) anticipates his eponymous persona in The Spectator (1711–1712) by reconciling the literary past with the literal present. Chapter two examines the letters Lady Mary Wortley Montagu composed during her eighteenth-month sojourn to Turkey beginning in 1716, posthumously published as Turkish Embassy Letters (1763), and her correspondence relating to her residence in Italy from 1739 to 1762. I interrogate how Montagu’s depiction of Turkey as the Elysian Fields in 1717, and her recapitulation of this metaphor to describe her departure for Italy twenty-two years later, serves as a paradigm for leaving behind her former English life and identity. In the third chapter I analyze James Boswell’s use of the geographical feature of the isthmus to stand in for his intermediary identity as a post-Union Scot in An Account of Corsica (1768) and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785). The dissertation concludes by exploring Mary Wollstonecraft’s conflation of embosomed arboreal landscapes and the female breast in Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) to politicize her identity as a mother and travel writer within the Radical context of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).
4517. Turnbull, Gordon. “Boswell and Belle de Zuylen: Language and Legislation.” Yale University Library Gazette 6, no. [Supplement] (December 2004): 87–100.
4518. Turnbull, Gordon. “Boswell and Sympathy: The Trial and Execution of John Reid.” In New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” edited by Greg Clingham and David Daiches, 104–15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1360-1_15.
4519. Turnbull, Gordon. “Boswell and the Insistence of the Letter.” In Contesting the Subject: Essays in the Postmodern Theory and Practice of Biography and Biographical Criticism, edited by William H. Epstein, 43–52. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1991.
4520. Turnbull, Gordon. “Boswell’s London Journal, 1762–1763, and Frances Sheridan’s The Discovery: Imagining the Maternal.” In Imagining Selves: Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks, edited by Rivka Swenson and Elise Lauterbach, 190–206. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008.
4521. Turnbull, Gordon. “Criminal Biographer: Boswell and Margaret Caroline Rudd.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 26, no. 3 (Summer 1986): 511–35. https://doi.org/10.2307/450577.
4522. Turnbull, Gordon. “‘Generous Attachment’: Filiation and Rogue Biography in the Journals of James Boswell.” PhD thesis, Yale University, 1986.
4523. Turnbull, Gordon. “‘Generous Attachment’: The Politics of Biography in the Tour to the Hebrides.” In Dr. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, edited by Harold Bloom, 227–38. Modern Critical Views: New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
4524. Turnbull, Gordon. “Johnsoniana: David Astle, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 October 2015.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 26–28.
4525. Turnbull, Gordon. “Johnsoniana: Message with a Flyer for a Play by James Runcie.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 1 (March 2016): 24.
4526. Turnbull, Gordon. “James Boswell and John Trail (1700–1774).” Notes and Queries 68 [266], no. 4 (December 1, 2021): 427–29. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjab161.
4527. Turnbull, Gordon. “James Boswell and Rousseau in Môtiers: Re-inscribing Childhood and Its (Auto)biographical Prospects.” In Romanticism, Rousseau, Switzerland: New Prospects, edited by Angela Esterhammer, Diane Piccitto, and Patrick Vincent, 101–16. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Cultures of Print. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137475862.
4528. Turnbull, Gordon. “James Boswell and the Rev. William Harper (1693–1765).” The Scriblerian and the Kit Cats 57, no. 1 (2024): 7–10. https://doi.org/10.5325/scriblerian.57.1.0007.
4529. Turnbull, Gordon. “James Boswell: Biography and the Union.” In The History of Scottish Literature, II: 1660–1800, edited by Andrew Hook and Cairns Craig, 157–73. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3665-2_15.
4530. Turnbull, Gordon. “Johnsoniana: Rules for Visiting.” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 2 (September 2023): 54–55.
4531. Turnbull, Gordon. “Johnsoniana: ‘Sirrah.’” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 2 (September 2015): 37.
4532. Turnbull, Gordon. “Not a Woman in Sight: In His Last Years, Samuel Johnson Was Surrounded by Fractious, Quarelling Women: But Who Was at His Bedside When He Died?” TLS 5568–69 (December 18, 2009): 19–21.
      A painstaking reconstruction of Johnson’s deathbed scene, arguing (against most biographers) that “John Desmoulins, not his mother, was on hand with Frank Barber when Miss Morris came in for Johnson’s blessing.” He then speculations on the reasons for Boswell’s error, suggesting that “His unfamiliarity with John, and the earlier frequency with which he had written “Mrs.’ Desmoulins, may explain a lapsus calami.” He concludes, “It is extraordinary that the general field of Johnsonian scholarship should have overlooked the sheer improbability . . . of having a woman . . . in the grim intimacy of the dying Johnson’s chamber.”
4533. Turnbull, Gordon. “Samuel Johnson (1709–1784).” In Eighteenth-Century British Literary Biographers, edited by Steven Serafin, 170–215. Thomson Gale, 1994.
4534. Turnbull, Gordon. “Samuel Johnson, Francis Barber, and ‘Mr Desmoulins[’] Writing School.’” Notes and Queries 61 [259], no. 4 (December 2014): 483–86. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gju184.
4535. Turnbull, Gordon. “Samuel Johnson’s Shakespearean Exit: Emendation and Amendment.” In Editing Lives, edited by Jesse G. Swan, 93–105. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2014.
4536. Turnbull, Gordon. “The Boswell Editions.” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 1 (March 2023): 19–21.
4537. Turnbull, Gordon. “The Samuel Johnson Dictionary Puzzle, No. 5.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 53.
4538. Turnbull, Gordon. “The Samuel Johnson Dictionary Puzzle, No. 6.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 2 (September 2015): 46–48.
4539. Turnbull, Gordon. “The Samuel Johnson Dictionary Puzzle, No. 7.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 1 (March 2016): 50–52.
4540. Turnbull, Gordon. “The Samuel Johnson Dictionary Puzzle, No. 8.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 51–53.
4541. Turnbull, Gordon. “The Samuel Johnson Dictionary Puzzle, No. 9.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 38–39.
4542. Turnbull, Gordon. “The Samuel Johnson Dictionary Puzzle, No. 10.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 2 (September 2017): 59–61.
4543. Turnbull, Gordon. “The Samuel Johnson Dictionary Puzzle, No. 11.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 1 (March 2018): 62–63.
4544. Turnbull, Gordon. “The Samuel Johnson Dictionary Puzzle, No. 12.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 2 (March 2018): 60–62.
4545. Turnbull, Gordon. “The Samuel Johnson Dictionary Puzzle, No. 13.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 1 (March 2019): 59.
4546. Turnbull, Gordon. “The Samuel Johnson Dictionary Puzzle, No. 14.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 2 (September 2019): 53–54.
4547. Turnbull, Gordon. “Yale Boswell Edition Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 21–23.
4548. Turnbull, Gordon. “Yale Boswell Edition Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 2 (September 2006): 17–21.
4549. Turnbull, Gordon. “Yale Boswell Edition Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 59, no. 1 (March 2008): 17–23.
      Miscellaneous notes. Includes a previously unknown letter from Thomas David Boswell to Robert Boswell, announcing James Boswell’s death. Also a discussion of an article on Boswell’s health by David M. Purdie and Neil Gow.
4550. Turnbull, Gordon. “Yale Boswell Editions Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 2 (September 2009): 21–27.
      Miscellaneous notes. Includes comments on James Smithson and notices of several recent publications.
4551. Turnbull, Gordon. “Yale Boswell Editions Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 30–34.
4552. Turnbull, Gordon. “Yale Boswell Editions Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 2 (September 2015): 38–42.
4553. Turnbull, Gordon. “Yale Boswell Editions Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 67, no. 2 (September 2016): 29–32.
4554. Turnbull, Gordon. “Yale Boswell Editions Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 2 (September 2017): 47–51.
4555. Turnbull, Gordon. “Yale Boswell Editions Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 20–22.
4556. Turnbull, Gordon. “Yale Boswell Editions Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 1 (March 2018): 24–28.
4557. Turnbull, Gordon. “Yale Boswell Editions Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 69, no. 2 (September 2018): 33–37.
4558. Turnbull, Gordon. “Yale Boswell Editions Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 1 (March 2019): 46–49.
4559. Turnbull, Gordon. “Yale Boswell Editions Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 2 (September 2019): 35–37.
4560. Turnbull, Gordon. “Yale Boswell Editions Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 71, no. 1 (March 2020): 27–36.
4561. Turnbull, Gordon. “Yale Boswell Editions Notes.” Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 1 (March 2021): 41–45.
4562. Turnbull, Gordon, and Maija Jansson. “Boroughmongering, Biography, and the Reform of Parliament: James Boswell and the Earl of Lonsdale.” In Realities of Representation: State Building in Early Modern Europe and European America, 63–73. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230603653_4.
      Abstract: This chapter assesses James Boswell’s private diary records of his tumultuous political association in the late 1780s with James Lowther, first Earl of Lonsdale, the ruthless boroughmonger from northwest England, who at the height of his power controlled nine seats in the House of Commons. It argues that Boswell’s swerve from his own rather erratic and misguided aspirations to a seat in parliament, to the dissemination of an implied parliamentary vision instead in a literary biography (The Life of Johnson) aligns him subtly with the post-1760s move for a reform of parliament more usually associated with Radicalism.
4563. Turner, James Grantham. “‘Illustrious Depravity’ and the Erotic Sublime.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 1–38.
4564. Turner, Katherine. “Critical Reception to 1900.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 45–53. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
4565. Turner, Katherine. Review of Designing the “Life of Johnson”: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2, by Bruce Redford. Essays in Criticism 53, no. 2 (April 2003): 184–91.
4566. Turner, Katherine. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. Review of English Studies 204 (November 2000): 655–57.
4567. Turner, Katherine. Review of Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill. Essays in Criticism 53, no. 2 (April 2003): 184–91.
4568. Turner, Katherine. “The ‘Link of Transition’: Samuel Johnson and the Victorians.” In The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition, edited by Francis O’Gorman and Katherine Turner, 119–43. Farnham: Ashgate, 2004.
4569. Ty, Eleanor. “Cowper’s Connoisseur 138 and Samuel Johnson.” Notes and Queries 33 [231], no. 1 (March 1986): 63–64.
4570. Tyagi, Pratibha. “Dr. Johnson’s Criticism of Shakespeare.” In Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, edited by T. R. Sharma, 85–95. India: Shalabh, 1986.
4571. Uglow, Jenny. “Big Talkers [Review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch].” New York Review of Books 66, no. 9 (May 23, 2019): 26.
4572. Uglow, Jenny. Dr Johnson, His Club and Other Friends. London: National Portrait Gallery, 1998.
      Abstract: Dr Johnson, man of powerful intellect, quick tongue and bullish stubbornness, created a position for himself in eighteenth-century London society with stern determination. With his friends, who included historical greats such as Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick and James Boswell, Johnson formed an exclusive ‘Club’ and revolutionised the capital’s cultural life in the process. Bringing together the literary, artistic and political giants of the period, Johnson’s Club was a focus for intellectual rivalry and debate, but also for conversation, friendship and support. Jenny Uglow’s book provides a fascinating insight into the personalities of Johnson’s circle, and the force that bound them together: the mighty Dr Johnson himself.
      An illustrated volume in the NPG Character Sketches series, showing portraits (some in color) of Johnson and his circle.
4573. Uglow, Jenny. “Jenny Uglow on Dr Johnson (1709–1784): Postcard Biographies from the National Portrait Gallery.” The Independent, November 30, 1997.
      Brief biography commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to accompany the 1756 Reynolds portrait.
4574. Ulin, David L. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, by Jack Lynch. Los Angeles Times, September 9, 2003.
4575. Ullendorff, Edward. Review of A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Joel J. Gold. History Today 36 (January 1986): 58.
4576. Uphaus, Robert W. “Cornelia Knight’s Dinarbas: A Sequel to Rasselas.” Philological Quarterly 65, no. 4 (September 1986): 433–46.
4577. Uphaus, Robert W. “The Fear of Fiction.” In Man, God, and Nature in the Enlightenment, edited by Donald C. Mell, Theodore E. D. Braun, and Lucia M. Palmer, 183–90. East Lansing: Colleagues Press, 1988.
4578. Urdang, Laurence. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Verbatim 20 (1993): 8–9.
4579. Urdang, Laurence. Review of The Making of Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick. Verbatim 20, no. 2 (1993): 8–10.
4580. Utz, Hans. “A Genevan’s Journey to the Hebrides in 1807: An Anti-Johnsonian Venture.” Studies in Scottish Literature 27 (1992): 47–71.
4581. Valenza, Robin. “How Literature Becomes Knowledge: A Case Study.” ELH: English Literary History 76, no. 1 (March 2009): 215–45. https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.0.0037.
      Abstract: The first section of the essay inquires, “Is literature a special kind of knowledge?”; the second, “Is literary criticism a special kind of knowledge?” Through an analysis of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary, the essay shows how a literary work’s status as an object of knowledge can be determined by its use. The essay proposes that the eighteenth-century notion of “index-learning”— reading a text by way of its index — and its more recent incarnation — “search engine learning” — combined with techniques of close reading can yield a new kind of literary-critical knowledge that might be called “slow reading.”
4582. Valiunas, Algis. “The Mind of the Moralist [Review of Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings, by David Womersley].” Claremont Review of Books 20, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 87.
4583. Van Anglen, Kevin P. “‘The Tories, We . . .’: Samuel Johnson and Unitarian Boston.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1993): 75–97.
4584. Van de Merghel, Geneviève. “Brute Compassion: The Ambivalent Growth of Sympathy for Animals in English Literature and Culture, 1671–1831.” PhD thesis, University of California, Irvine, 2005.
      Abstract: This dissertation explores the marked growth of sympathy for animals in the long eighteenth century, with particular focus on the hesitation and conflict surrounding considerations of animal welfare in poetry, novels, periodicals, and Parliamentary debates. Though compassion for animals was a popular topic in eighteenth-century publishing, and middle-class citizens were noticing and becoming uncomfortable with institutional and recreational cruelties towards animals, social reform did not necessarily manifest in direct and obvious ways. The trajectory of sympathy has never been sure; advances in one area seem to be counterbalanced by sacrifices on other sides. Chapter one explores hunting as an already ambivalent site that becomes a battleground between England’s ascending, theriophilic middle-class and its landed gentry. Compassion for animals becomes a platform which both sides deploy successfully; by the time England’s first anti-cruelty legislation is passed, the sport of hunting is more accessible than ever before, and the sum total of actual benefit to hunted or persecuted animals is minimal. Works by Sir John Denham, William Somerville, Alexander Pope, Oliver Goldsmith, James Thomson, William Cowper, William Windham, Lord Erskine, and Richard Martin are considered. Chapter two argues that the sensibility movement proves ambivalent on the subject of animals, often sacrificing animals for the furthered interests of human actors. Works studied are Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey, Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling, Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, Eliza Haywood’s The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Frances Burney’s Evelina, Sarah Scott’s A Description of Millenium Hall, and Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman. Chapter three explores ambivalence in the sub-genre of circulation novels. Within these theriophilic, didactic works written primarily for children, traditional exploitations of both animals and subordinate people jar against moments of progressive sympathy for animals. The fourth and final chapter focuses on Samuel Johnson’s writings about and personal encounters with animals. Examining his public contributions to discourse about animals beside his private life as a fond pet-keeper and avid naturalist creates a multi-layered picture of the ambivalence felt by the middle-class as individuals and as a collective who were compassionate, socially ambitious, and eager to reform English society.
4585. Van der Sterre, Jan Pieter. “Belle en Boswell.” Lettre de Zuylen et du Pontet: Bulletin Genootschap Belle de Zuylen Association Isabelle de Charriére 27 (August 2002): 20–21.
4586. Van Dyke, Richard Kenneth. “Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Limits of Post/Modernism.” PhD thesis, University of Rhode Island, 2002.
      See chapter 3, “Traces of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing and the Reproduction of Knowledge(s).”
4587. Van Tassel, Mary M. “Johnson’s Elephant: The Reader of The Rambler.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 28, no. 3 (June 1988): 461–69. https://doi.org/10.2307/450596.
4588. Vance, John A. “Boswell After 200 Years: A Review Essay.” South Atlantic Review 58, no. 1 (January 1993): 101–9.
4589. Vance, John A., ed. Boswell’s Life of Johnson: New Questions, New Answers. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
      Abstract: When it first appeared in 1985, Boswell’s Life of Johnson brought together the most recent and most lively assessments of the literary merit and historical accuracy of Boswell’s biography. In an invigorating exchange placed at the center of the collection, Donald Greene’s description of the Life as a fictionalized biography that screens the real, complex Johnson from view is challenged by Frederick Pottle’s defense of Boswell’s biographical method, of his sturdy compilation of detail that presents the factual rather than the fictional Johnson. Other essays explore the effect of Johnson’s humor on the shaping of his image in the Life, the recent developments in literary criticism and the effect they have had on eighteenth-century studies, and the continuing interest of Boswell’s Life as a showcase for members of Johnson’s famous circle. The volume concludes with an assessment of the Boswellian problem — of the difficulties the Life presents to readers, scholars, and teachers.
      Reviews:
      • Clayton, Paul. Review of Boswell’s “Life of Johnson”: New Questions, New Answers, by John A. Vance. Notes and Queries 34, no. 4 (December 1, 1987): 548–49. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/ns-34.4.548.
      • Clingham, Greg. “Boswell’s Literary Biography [Review of Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: New Questions, New Answers, by John A. Vance].” English 36 (1987): 168–78.
      • Tomarken, Edward. Review of Boswell’s “Life of Johnson”: New Questions, New Answers, by John A. Vance. South Atlantic Quarterly 86, no. 2 (1987): 186–89.
4590. Vance, John A. “James Boswell (1740–1795).” In Eighteenth-Century British Literary Biographers, edited by Steven Serafin, 30–46. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 1994.
4591. Vance, John A. “Johnson and Hume: Of Like Historical Minds.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 15 (1986): 241–56.
4592. Vance, John A. “Johnson’s Historical Reviews.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 63–84. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
4593. Vance, John A. “Samuel Johnson and Thomas Warton.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 9, no. 2 (March 1986): 95–111. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2010.0792.
      Abstract: Few of Samuel Johnson’s relationships have been as misunderstood and little appreciated as his friendship with Thomas Warton. The evidence suggests that the relationship was among the most emotional of Johnson’s life and that what lessened the spirit of the friendship after the mid-1750s was not a difference in personality or literary taste, as had been been commonly thought, but rather it was Johnson’s realization that his emotional stake in the relationship had been too high.
4594. Vance, John A. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays, by Isobel Grundy. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 2 (1989): 492–98.
4595. Vance, John A. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 20 (2001): 437–39.
4596. Vance, John B. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. South Atlantic Review 58 (1993): 101–9.
4597. Vancil, David. “Some Observations about the Samuel Johnson Miniature Dictionaries in the Cordell Collection.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 19, no. 1 (2006): 167–78.
4598. Vander Meulen, David L. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 442–52.
4599. Vanoflen, Laurence. “Belle de Zuylen / Isabelle de Charrière et l’incrédulité: De la correspondance à la fiction.” L’Atelier du Centre de recherches historiques 4 (2009). https://doi.org/10.4000/acrh.1255.
      Abstract: Existe-t-il une incrédulité pensable et dicible pour une femme de milieu cultivé, au siècle des Lumières? C’est la question que soulève la correspondance, puis la fiction d’Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805). Vers 1764, la jeune fille de l’aristocratie hollandaise fait l’expérience des difficultés et des limites de la liberté intellectuelle, et de l’exercice de sa raison face au puritain John Boswell, puis à son compatriote Van Pallandt. Dans ses fictions et sa correspondance ultérieures, elle prend de plus en plus de recul vis-à-vis de dogmes religieux ou de convictions dont elle n’est plus bien sûre, d’ailleurs, qu’ils influent sur les conduites. Sans pour autant réhabiliter la «femme esprit fort» dans son roman Caliste (1785), comme le l’affirme C. Cazenobe, la femme mûre s’approche de plus en plus d’un nécessitarisme à relents matérialistes, avec pour seul bémol l’affirmation du pouvoir instructif de l’expérience. / Incredulity is not an easy or evident posture for a woman, even in the middle of the eighteenth century. This is what Isabelle de Charrière’s (1740–1805) correspondence and fiction suggest. Towards 1764, the young woman, raised in Dutch aristocracy, tested the gender boundaries of intellectual freedom and the exercise of reason, in matter of religion. She preferred pyrrhonism to the reputation of an «esprit fort», be it with regards to the Puritain James Boswell, her fellow countryman Adolf van Pallandt, or Constant d’Hermenches. This is underlined by what we learned from the recent publication of inedits by Kees van Strien. She takes greater distance from protestant dogmas and religious convictions after 1784 when she became a novelist. While she does not quite rehabilitate the woman’s «esprit fort» in her novel Calista (1785), as C. Cazenobe asserts, her letters show how she is quite close to materialist views about human freedom, even though the lessons of experience can mitigate her «fatalism».
4600. Varhus, Sara B. “The Life of Samuel Johnson: Overview.” In Reference Guide to English Literature, edited by D. L. Kirkpatrick, 2nd ed. Chicago: St. James Press, 1991.
4601. Varhus, Sara B. “The ‘Solitary Philosopher’ and ‘Nature’s Favourite’: Gender and Identity in The Rambler.” In Gender, Culture, and the Arts: Women, the Arts, and Society, edited by Ronald Dotterer and Susan Bowers, 61–73. Selinsgrove, Penna.: Susquehanna University Press, 1993.
4602. Varney, Andrew. “Johnson’s Juvenalian Satire on London: A Different Emphasis.” Review of English Studies 40, no. 158 (May 1989): 202–14. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/XL.158.202.
4603. Vaughn, Anthony. “Strangled with a Bowstring: A Clear Case of Character Assassination.” New Rambler C:24, no. 23 (1982): 21–22.
4604. Veitch, Greg. “Johnson and the Industrial Revolution.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 3 (1999): 68–79.
4605. Venturo, David F. “Adjusting the Accents: Samuel Johnson’s Prosody in Theory and Practice.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 171–87.
4606. Venturo, David F. “Fideism, the Antisublime, and the Faithful Imagination in Rasselas.” In Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, edited by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood, 95–111. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
4607. Venturo, David F. “Formal Verse Imitation and the Rhetorical Principles of Imitation in the Neo-Latin Poetry of Samuel Johnson.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 33, no. 2 (September 2000): 71–86.
4608. Venturo, David F. Review of Johnson and Detailed Representation: The Significance of the Classical Sources, by William Edinger. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 443–48.
4609. Venturo, David F. “Johnson the Poet.” PhD thesis, Harvard University, 1986.
4610. Venturo, David F. Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999.
      Abstract: Johnson the Poet is the first book to deal comprehensively with the poetry of Samuel Johnson. It provides critical commentary on Johnson’s long and versatile poetic career as novice poet, formal verse imitator and satirist, playwright, moralist, neo-Latinist, elegist, prologuist, and writer of impromptu drawing-room verse while setting his verse in eighteenth-century political, theological, moral, and literary contexts. The book includes an appendix with texts and the author’s translations of Johnson’s Latin poems.
      The most thorough and authoritative study of Johnson’s poetry, surveying both the major and minor poems, in English, Latin, and Greek.
      Reviews:
      • Alkon, Paul. “Déjà Vu All Over Again: Three More Books on Samuel Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking; Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo; and Samuel Johnson’s “General Nature”: Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse, by Scott D. Evans].” Review 23 (2001): 175–86.
      • Guilhamet, Leon. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 421–25.
      • Ingram, Allan. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. Yearbook of English Studies 32, no. 1 (January 2002): 298–99.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. Choice 37, no. 5 (January 2000): 2667.
      • McDermott, Anne. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. Review of English Studies 52, no. 206 (May 2001): 262–64.
      • McKenzie, Alan T. “Making the Wisdom Figure [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking; Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo; Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt; Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart; and The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay].” Eighteenth-Century Studies 34, no. 3 (Spring 2001): 466–70.
      • Pedreira, Mark. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. Essays in Criticism 51, no. 4 (2001): 450–57.
      • Rounce, Adam. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 24, no. 2 (2001): 229–32.
      • Scanlan, J. T. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. Albion 32, no. 4 (2000): 656–58.
      • Scherwatzky, Steven D. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 8 (2003): 366–69.
      • Schwartz, Michael. “Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson.” The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 25 (2003): 475–77.
      • Smith, K. E. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. New Rambler E:3 (1999): 52–54.
      • Strickland, Peter. “Samuel Johnson the Poet.” New Rambler D:12, no. 12 (1996): 46–51.
      • Wiltshire, John. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. English Language Notes 39, no. 3 (March 2002): 92–100.
4611. Venturo, David F. “Organizing a Life and the ‘Lives’: Samuel Johnson and the Yale Edition of Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 24 (2021): 175–90. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684483044-010.
4612. Venturo, David F. “Poetry.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 294–302. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
4613. Venturo, David F. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791, by Freya Johnston. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 2 (September 2006): 50–52.
4614. Venturo, David F. “Samuel Johnson, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes.” In A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry, edited by Christine Gerrard, 252–64. Maldon, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006.
4615. Venturo, David F. Review of Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 20 (2001): 509.
4616. Venturo, David F. Review of The Complete Poems of Samuel Johnson, by Robert D. Brown and Robert DeMaria Jr. Johnsonian News Letter 76, no. 1 (March 2025): 75–79.
4617. Venturo, David F. “The Poetics of Samuel Johnson’s Epitaphs and Elegies and ‘On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet.’” Studies in Philology 85, no. 1 (December 1988): 73–91.
4618. Venturo, David F. “Verse.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 120–36. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson wrote verse from his adolescence in the 1720s to weeks before he died in December 1784, his poetic reputation secured early by his imitations of Juvenal: London (1738) and The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749). Johnson was a versatile poet, at home in many genres. Besides the political London and religious and philosophical Vanity, he wrote outstanding theatre prologues and an epilogue, poignant elegies and epitaphs, and playful and satiric drawing-room verse. Johnson became the foremost British critic of verse of his time, editing the Works of Shakespeare (1765) and concluding his career with the fifty-two biographical and critical essays now known as The Lives of the Poets (1779–81). Although often regarded as an “Augustan” or “neoclassical” poet, the directness and simplicity, as well as the expressive intimacy of his later poetry, make Johnson a surprising forebear of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge.
4619. Vergé-Franceschi, Michel. Review of État de la Corse; suivi de Journal d’un voyage en Corse et mémoires de Pascal Paoli, by Jean Viviès. E-Rea: Revue d’Études Anglophones 18, no. 1 (2020). https://doi.org/10.4000/erea.11107.
4620. Vermeule, Blakey. “The Kindness of Strangers: Johnson’s Life of Savage and the Culture of Altruism.” In The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 119–53. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
4621. Vermeule, Blakey. Review of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay. Wordsworth Circle 31, no. 4 (2000): 190–91.
4622. Vicentini, Alessandra. “In Johnsons’ Footsteps: Baretti’s English Grammar and the Spread of the English Language in Italy during the Eighteenth Century.” Textus: English Studies in Italy 19, no. 1 (2006): 179–202.
4623. Vickers, Brian. “Samuel Johnson Biographies.” TLS 5565 (November 27, 2009): 6.
      A follow-up letter to the editor on Jackson’s review of Martin’s biography of Johnson.
4624. Vickers, Ilse. “An Account of a Journey to Ethiopia: The Mysterious Land of Rasselas.” New Rambler E:10 (2006): 34–40.
4625. Village Voice Literary Supplement. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. February 1995.
4626. Vilmar, Christopher. Review of Critical Occasions: Dryden, Pope, Johnson, and the History of Criticism, by Philip Smallwood. Choice 49, no. 6 (February 2012): 3142.
4627. Vilmar, Christopher. Review of Critical Occasions: Dryden, Pope, Johnson, and the History of Criticism, by Philip Smallwood. CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 45, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 251–58.
4628. Vilmar, Christopher. “Johnson’s Criticism of Satire and the Problem of the Scriblerians.” Cambridge Quarterly 38, no. 1 (2009): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfn032.
      Abstract: This essay examines Samuel Johnson as a critic of satire. In his judgements on satires as different as those written by Butler, Dryden, Swift, Gay, and Pope, Johnson demonstrates his sensitivity to its variety of forms. The Scriblerian manner he finds especially problematic. Yet on close examination, his criticism of Scriblerian texts is found to share certain characteristics of that manner. By tempering this satiric inheritance with his essential humanity, Johnson suggests a way of solving this problem. His mature critical manner therefore reveals Johnson as a masterful critic, but also a masterful practitioner, of satire.
4629. Vilmar, Christopher. “Polemic.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 226–43. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      Abstract: This chapter challenges readings of Johnson as empathetic, arguing instead that polemic forms a crucial and habitual aspect of his characteristic style. The polemical qualities of his conversation are analyzed in examples drawn from the biographical. The bulk of the chapter consists of close analysis of his Parliamentary Debates, which are seen in dialogue with other aspects of print and manuscript culture, and argues that the printed form of these debates may be best described as “concatenated polemic.” The conclusion turns to further examples drawn from Johnson’s late political writing as well as his literary criticism. In sum, Johnson arrives at some of his most significant insights in the heat of controversy, frequently engaging in dialogue with other texts that is deliberately aggressive and unsparing.
4630. Vilmar, Christopher. Review of The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 30 (2025).
4631. Vilmar, Christopher Stephen. “Samuel Johnson and the Chronotope of Satire.” PhD thesis, Emory University, 2005.
4632. Vindedal, Ole-Jacob. “En bedre mann.” Vagant 2 (2000): 45–49.
4633. Vișan, Ruxandra. “Johnson’s Dictionary, Conversation, Recontextualisation and Organisation.” Romanian Journal of English Studies 5 (2008): 240–48.
4634. Visan, Ruxandra. “Labels in the History of Lexicography: From Bailey to Johnson.” Studii Şi Cercetări Linguistice 72, no. 1 (June 2021): 55–70.
4635. Vitelli, Tom, Jr. “Memorialist/Diarist: The Autobiographies of Casanova and Boswell.” L’Intermédiaire Des Casanovistes 3 (1986): 1–10.
4636. Viviès, Jean. Review of An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, by James T. Boulton and T. O. McLoughlin. Revue de La Société d’études Anglo-Américaines Des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles 66 (2009): 296–97.
4637. Viviès, Jean. “L’Angleterre et la Corse: Le Voyage de James Boswell (1765).” In L’Angleterre et le monde Méditerranéen, edited by N.-J. Rigaud, 21–32. Aix-en-Provence: Presses universitaires de Provence, 1987.
4638. Viviès, Jean. “Boswell, la Corse et l’Encyclopédie.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 245 (1986): 467–73.
4639. Viviès, Jean. “Changing Places; or, Johnson Boswellised.” In Mapping the Self: Space, Identity, Discourse in British Auto/Biography, edited by Frédéric Regard and Geoffrey Wall, 157–70. Saint-Etienne: Université de Saint-Etienne, 2003.
4640. Viviès, Jean. English Travel Narratives in the Eighteenth Century: Exploring Genres. Translated by Claire Davison. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.
      Abstract: The eighteenth century, commonly described as the age of the novel, is also the golden age of travel narratives. In this English edition of Le Récit de voyage en Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle, the genre of the travel narrative receives a treatment based on its development in close relationship with fiction. The book provides a survey of famous travel narratives: James Boswell’s journal of a tour to Corsica and account of his trip to Scotland with Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne’s enigmatic Sentimental Journey, Tobias Smollett’s Travels through France and Italy. Negotiating between inventory and invention, these texts invite a reconsideration of conventional generic distinctions. They open up a literary space in which the full significance of the real and fictional journey motif can be explored.
4641. Viviès, Jean. “James Boswell and Scotland in An Account of Corsica.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 305 (1992): 1651–53.
4642. Viviès, Jean. “Une Vie à écrire: The Life of Johnson de James Boswell (1791).” In La Biographie littéraire en Angleterre (XVIIe — XXe siècles): Configurations, reconfigurations du soi artistique, edited by Frédéric Regard, 63–78. Saint-Etienne: Publications de Université de Saint-Étienne, 1999.
4643. Voogd, Peter Jan de. “‘The Great Object of Remark’: Samuel Johnson and Laurence Sterne.” In Essays on English and American Literature and a Sheaf of Poems, edited by J. Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d. Vriesenaerde, and J. C. van Meurs, 65–74. Costerus 63. Amsterdam: Brill, 1987.
4644. Vries, Catharina Maria. In the Tracks of a Lexicographer: Secondary Documentation in Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary of the English Language” (1755). Leiden: Led, 1994.
4645. Vries, Gerard de. “Pale Fire and Doctor Johnson.” The Nabokovian 66 (March 2011): 21–30.
4646. Vuillermin, Daniel. “Boswell’s and Reynolds’s Conflicting Diagnoses and the Nineteenth Century Genre Paintings of Dr Johnson.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 12 (2010): 37–48.
4647. Wagner, Éve-Marie. “Les ‘Johnsoniana’ de Mrs Thrale, devenue Mrs Piozzi.” In L’Anecdote: Actes du colloque de Clermont-Ferrand (1988), edited by Alain Montandon, 227–42. Nouvelle série. Clermont-Ferrand: Association des publications de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines de l’Université Blaise-Pascal, 1990.
4648. Wagoner, M. S. Review of Samuel Johnson: An Analysis, by Charles H. Hinnant. Choice 26, no. 1 (September 1988): 135.
4649. Wagoner, M. S. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. Choice 25 (1988): 1559.
4650. Wahba, Magdi, ed. Samuel Johnson: Commemorative Lectures: Delivered at Pembroke College, Oxford. Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1986. Reviews:
      • Lurcock, A. F. T. Review of Samuel Johnson: Commemorative Lectures: Delivered at Pembroke College, Oxford, by Magdi Wahba. Notes and Queries 35 [233] (1988): 379–80.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of Samuel Johnson: Commemorative Lectures: Delivered at Pembroke College, Oxford, by Magdi Wahba. Johnsonian News Letter 46, no. 2–47, 2 (June 1986): 4–5.
4651. Wain, John. “Birthplace Museum, Lichfield, Staffordshire and 17 Gough Square, London EC4.” In Writers and Their Houses, edited by Kate Marsh, 225–37. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1993.
4652. Wain, John. Johnson Is Leaving: A Monodrama. London: Pisces Press, 1994.
4653. Wain, John. Samuel Johnson. Revised ed. London: Papermac, 1988.
4654. Wain, William. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 16 (1993): 84.
4655. Wakazawa, Yusuke. “Writing the Global: The Scottish Enlightenment as Literary Practice.” PhD Thesis, University of York, 2018.
      Abstract: This thesis presents the Scottish Enlightenment as a literary practice in which Scottish thinkers deploy diverse forms of writing — for example, philosophical treatise, essay, autobiography, letter, journal, and history — to shape their ideas and interact with readers. After the unsuccessful publication of A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), David Hume turns to write essays on moral philosophy, politics and commerce, and criticism. I argue that other representatives of the Scottish Enlightenment such as Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, and William Robertson also display a comparable attention to the choice and use of literary forms. I read the works of the Scottish Enlightenment as texts of eighteenth-century literature rather than a context for that literature. Since I argue that literary culture is an essential component of the Scottish Enlightenment, I include James Boswell and Tobias Smollett as its members. In diverse literary forms, Scottish writers refer to geographical difference, and imagine the globe as heterogenous and interconnected. These writers do not treat geography as a distinctive field of inquiry. Instead, geographical reference is a feature of diverse scholarly genres. I suggest that literary experiments in the Scottish Enlightenment can be read as responding to the circulation of information, people, and things beyond Europe. Scottish writers are interested in the diversity of human beings, and pay attention to the process through which different groups of people in distant regions encounter each other and exchange their sentiments as well as products. The geographical scope of writing in the Scottish Enlightenment encompasses the whole surface of the earth. And Scottish writers explore the emergence and consequences of global interconnection. The construction of this global vision is evident across genres and it is a constitutive element of the Scottish Enlightenment.
4656. Wal, Marijke J. van der. “Tweede-taalverwerving van 18de-eeuws Nederlands: Natuurlijke methode versus grammatica en woordenboek?” Tydskrif vir Nederlands en Afrikaans 5, no. 2 (December 1998): 181–95.
4657. Wal, Marijke van der. “James Boswell Practising French and Learning Dutch in the Netherlands.” In Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms, edited by Luisella Caon, Marion Elenbaas, and Janet Grijzenhout, 93–106. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.
4658. Walchester, Kathryn. “The Servant in Travel Writing.” In Travelling Servants: Mobility and Employment in British Travel Writing 1750–1850, 36–65. London: Routledge, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429293771-3.
      Abstract: This chapter argues that servants were integral to journeys not only in practical and material ways but also in their narrative productions. It considers the representation of servants in a range of travel writing from the early eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, charting the different ways in which servants are employed in the narration of their employers’ journeys, and how their presence, and absence, signals larger concerns about the significance of class, and language. Travel writing about journeys to the Continent, often educative journeys describing Grand Tour destinations, was largely impersonal and factual in style. Servants came to be more visible in travel writing about the Home Tour later in the century, as travellers strove to represent the social milieu in which they found themselves and which often included local servants. In the absence of Barber, it is James Boswell’s servant Joseph who accompanies the two men on their tour of Scotland.
4659. Walder, Chris. “What Dr Johnson Really Thought about Patriotism.” Quadrant 59, no. 3 (March 1, 2015): 88–89.
      Abstract: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” These words are quoted in newspaper letters, columns and blogs too numerous to mention. Writers of a leftist persuasion, when they wish to mock expressions of patriotism, national pride and love of country, often reach for Samuel Johnson’s aphorism to give a veneer of literary and cultural respectability to their jeering.
4660. Waldinger, Renee. Review of Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, by Mark J. Temmer. Philosophy and Literature 13, no. 1 (1989): 188–90.
4661. Waldron, Mary. “Mentors Old and New; Samuel Johnson and Hannah More.” New Rambler D:11, no. 11 (1995): 29–37.
4662. Walker, Eric C. “Charlotte Lennox and the Collier Sisters: Two New Johnson Letters.” Studies in Philology 95, no. 3 (1998): 320–32.
4663. Walker, Keith. Review of Johnson, by Pat Rogers. TLS, September 24, 1993, 26.
4664. Walker, Keith. “Some Notes on the Treatment of Dryden in Johnson’s Dictionary.” Yearbook of English Studies 28 (1998): 106–9. https://doi.org/10.2307/3508759.
4665. Walker, Keith. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Yearbook of English Studies 30 (2000): 312–14.
4666. Walker, Robert G. “Addenda and Corrigenda to the Annotations of the Bailey Edition of Boswell’s Hypochondriack.” English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 91, no. 3 (May 2010): 274–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138380903355155.
4667. Walker, Robert G. “Addenda to the Documentation of Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell.” Notes and Queries 67, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 506–10. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjaa144.
4668. Walker, Robert G. “Annotation and Scholarly Conversation: The Musings of a Non-Editor Annotator.” In Notes on Footnotes: Annotating Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Melvyn New and Anthony W. Lee, 185–202. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271094328-014.
4669. Walker, Robert G. “Boswell and Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz.” Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 25, no. 3 (October 2011): 1–3.
4670. Walker, Robert G. “Boswell and the Graunt–Petty Authorship Controversy.” Notes and Queries 66, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 581–84. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjz139.
4671. Walker, Robert G. “Boswell’s Reference to Erasmus on His Fear of Death.” Notes and Queries 62 [260], no. 2 (June 2015): 302–302. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjv033.
4672. Walker, Robert G. “Boswell’s ‘The Cub’ and the Shadow of Augustan Satire.” Studies in Scottish Literature 47, no. 1 (2021): 91–104.
4673. Walker, Robert G. “A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality; or, Essay on Man (A Translation from the French).” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 39, no. 1 (2006): 56–58.
4674. Walker, Robert G. “Boswell’s Mistaken Saint: A Note to Hypochondriack No. 47.” Notes and Queries 58, no. 3 (September 1, 2011): 425–27. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjr132.
4675. Walker, Robert G. “Boswell’s Reference to Erasmus on His Fear of Death.” Notes and Queries 62, no. 2 (2015): 302. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjv033.
4676. Walker, Robert G. “Notes on Boswell Laird of Auchinleck, 1778–1782.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 22 (2012): 123.
4677. Walker, Robert G. “Boswell’s Use of ‘Ogden on Prayer’ in Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 19 (2009): 53–68.
      References to Samuel Ogden’s Sermons on the Efficacy of Prayer and Intercession were removed from the published Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, but Walker calls it “one of the most important in the aesthetic shaping of the work.”
4678. Walker, Robert G. Review of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, by Anthony W. Lee. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 34, no. 2 (October 2020): 22–28.
4679. Walker, Robert G. “Ernest Borneman’s Tomorrow Is Now (1959): Thoughts about a Lost Novel, with Glances toward Samuel Johnson and Other Modernists.” In Samuel Johnson among the Modernists, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 213–38. Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2019.
4680. Walker, Robert G. “‘Fact’ or ‘Invention’? James Boswell and the Legend of a Boswell-Sterne Meeting.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 45, no. 2 (2013): 207.
4681. Walker, Robert G. “Fugitive Allusions in Boswell in Search of a Wife; or, The Charming Mr. Boswell.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 22 (2015): 93–111.
4682. Walker, Robert G. “Further Addenda and Corrigenda to Annotations of Boswell’s Hypochondriack.” The Scriblerian and the Kit Cats 55, no. 1–2 (2022): 160–68.
4683. Walker, Robert G. Review of Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century: Hervey, Johnson, Smith, Equiano, by Jacob Sider Jost. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 35, no. 2 (2021): 32–36.
4684. Walker, Robert G. “John Armstrong’s ‘Finer Souls’ in an Early Boswell Journal.” Notes and Queries 63 [261], no. 1 (2016): 86–87. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjv243.
      Abstract: James Boswell’s Journal of My Jaunt Harvest 1762, sometimes referred to as his Harvest Jaunt, occupies a curious spot in the canon. The immediate forerunner of the most famous of all Boswell’s journals, the London Journal, it has been printed only twice, most recently in a deluxe, numbered edition (1050 copies), edited by Frederick A. Pottle in 1951.
4685. Walker, Robert G. “Johnson and Moral Argument: ‘We Talked of the Casuistical Question ...’.” In Swiftly Sterneward: Essays on Laurence Sterne and His Times in Honor of Melvyn New, edited by W. B. Gerard, E. Derek Taylor, and Robert G. Walker, 47–71. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011.
4686. Walker, Robert G. Review of A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson, by Nicholas Hudson. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 38, no. 3 (2015): 425–35. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2015.0040.
4687. Walker, Robert G. “Quakers, Shoemakers, and Thomas Cumming.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 34, no. 1 (March 2021): 31–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2019.1637708.
4688. Walker, Robert G. “Sale’s Universal History, Samuel Johnson, and ‘Scrap[s] of Literary Intelligence.’” Johnsonian News Letter 74, no. 1 (March 2023): 13–18.
4689. Walker, Robert G. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship, by A. D. Cousins. Johnsonian News Letter 76, no. 1 (March 2025): 79–83.
4690. Walker, Robert G. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 38, no. 3 (2015): 425–35.
4691. Walker, Robert G. Review of Samuel Johnson: Selected Works, by Robert DeMaria Jr., Stephen Fix, and Howard D. Weinbrot. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 54, no. 1–2 (2021): 166–69. https://doi.org/10.5325/scriblerian.54.1-2.0166.
4692. Walker, Robert G. “Samuel Johnson, William Moore, and the Gordon Riots, or ‘There Goes the Neighborhood!’” Johnsonian News Letter 73, no. 1 (March 2022): 34–40.
4693. Walker, Robert G. “The Intellectual Background to Johnson’s Life of Browne: A Study of Johnsonian Construction.” In Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism, edited by Melvyn New and Gerard Reedy, 91–111. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2012.
4694. Walker, Robert G. Review of The Johnson Circle: A Group Portrait, by Lyle Larsen. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 32, no. 2 (2018): 9–11.
4695. Walker, Robert G. Review of The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by John Hawkins. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 33, no. 2 (Spring 2010): 397–400.
4696. Walker, Robert G. Review of The Lives of the Poets, a Selection, by Roger Lonsdale and John Mullan. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 44/45, no. 2 (2012): 119–20.
4697. Walker, Robert G. Review of The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, by Greg Clingham. East-Central Intelligencer 37, no. 1 (March 2023): 25–32.
4698. Walker, Robert G. Review of The Reformist Ideas of Samuel Johnson, by Stefka Ritchie. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 236. https://doi.org/10.1353/scb.2020.0015.
4699. Walker, Robert G. “The Social Life of Thomas Cumming, or ‘Clubbing’ with Johnson’s Friend, the Fighting Quaker.” In A Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 90–102. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2vt04f0.10.
      Abstract: The penultimate item in the last volume to appear of the Yale edition of Samuel Johnson’s works, Johnson on Demand, is “General Rules of the Essex Head Club (1783),” a significant inclusion not because it is compelling reading — unless one is fascinated by specific dictates of how reckonings should be made and attendance enforced — but because it serves as a useful reminder that, even as he neared the end of his life, Johnson valued his friendships, both formal and informal, to the extent that he would devote his attention to these rules for his newly formed club in the...
4700. Walker, Robert G. “Three Notes to Boswell in Extremes, 1776–1778.” Notes and Queries 58 [256], no. 3 (September 2011): 422–25.
4701. Walker, Robert G. “Using Used Books: Preserving Readerly Reactions by Preserving Books.” Johnsonian News Letter 76, no. 1 (March 2025): 22–29.
4702. Wall, Cynthia. “London.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 243–50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
4703. Wallace, Tara Ghoshal. “‘Guarded with Fragments’: Body and Discourse in Rasselas.” South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 9, no. 4 (December 1992): 31–45. https://doi.org/10.2307/3189479.
4704. Walle, Taylor. “Boswell’s Dictionary and the Status of Scots Dialect in the Eighteenth Century.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 60, no. 3 (2020): 485–506.
      Abstract: This article examines James Boswell’s still-unpublished “Dictionary of the Scots Language,” contextualizing it within eighteenth-century debates about Scots and emphasizing the ways that it diverges from the work of Boswell’s peers. While Samuel Johnson’s dictionary follows literary precedent, and the work of the Scottish literati encourages readers to minimize the Scottishness of their speech and writing, Boswell’s dictionary features a surprisingly familiar and conversational form of the Scots language. As such, the dictionary both highlights Boswell’s own interest in the vernacular and points to an alternative thread in eighteenth-century thinking about Scots.
4705. Walle, Taylor Fontaine. “Viva Voce: Speech and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Literature.” PhD Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 2016.
      Abstract: This dissertation traces an alternative history of an understudied and often-maligned eighteenth-century genre: speech. Conventional narratives of the eighteenth century have tended to emphasize the increasing dominance of print, but my project recovers an active interest and confidence in spoken language. Despite a perception in the period that speech was transient, mutable, and vulnerable to corruption, I show that, paradoxically, eighteenth-century authors consistently turn to speech — both as a formal device and a conceptual trope — in order to legitimize their writing. Biographer and compulsive journal-writer James Boswell pursues self-knowledge through transcribed conversation; letter-writing lovers (Swift and Stella, Sterne and Eliza, Thrale Piozzi and Conway) establish intimacy through the trope of the “talking” letter; and female grammarians and lexicographers assert linguistic authority through their mastery of spoken language. These examples demonstrate that questions about the value of speech were at the crux of many pivotal eighteenth-century debates, including where to locate the authentic self, how best to standardize the English language, and what kinds of knowledge should matter or “count.” Moreover, these examples point to the role of speech in shaping four quintessential genres of the Enlightenment: the journal, the biography, the letter, and the dictionary or grammar. In looking at how spoken language influences writing, my work makes clear that the eighteenth-century debate about speech sets up a false dichotomy between these two categories; in fact, speech and writing are far more intimately connected than modern critics have allowed.
4706. Waller, J. F. Boswell and Johnson: Their Companions and Contemporaries. Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism 184. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
      Abstract: Boswell and Johnson are two names that may well be placed together: a great artist and his great subject; indeed the name of the one ever recalls that of the other. If Boswell owes all the permanency of his fame to Johnson, Johnson owes not a little of his to Boswell. The finest and the wisest table-talk that English literature possesses has been preserved by the faithfullest and ablest of chroniclers. This volume attempts no new life of either. The author’s aim has been to accomplish a pleasant and instructive picture of the great man of the Eighteenth Century — of his mind, his manners, his habits — his intercourse with, and influence upon, his friends, his companions, and his contemporaries.
4707. Walsh, Marcus. “Fragments and Disquisitions: Johnson’s Shakespeare in Context.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 157–72. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
4708. Walsh, Marcus. Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769, by Richard Cargill Cole, Peter S. Baker, and Rachel McClellan. Review of English Studies 47, no. 185 (1996): 98–99.
4709. Walsh, Marcus. Review of Johnson’s Milton, by Christine Rees. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 23 (2015): 347–49.
4710. Walsh, Marcus. “Mimesis and Understanding in Samuel Johnson’s Notes to Shakespeare (1765).” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 24 (2021): 15–31.
4711. Walsh, Marcus. Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of “The Life of Johnson,” by Greg Clingham. Review of English Studies 44 (1993): 428–29.
4712. Walsh, Marcus. “Samuel Johnson on Poetic Lice and Fleas.” Notes and Queries 36 [234], no. 4 (December 1989): 470–470. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/36.4.470-a.
4713. Walsh, Sheilagh. “Johnson as a Critic of Richardson.” New Rambler E:8 (2004): 35–45.
4714. Wang, Orrin N. C. “The Politics of Aphasia in Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 36, no. 1 (December 1994): 73–100.
4715. Ward, James. “Lost Cause: Hume, Causation, and Rasselas.” In Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Shaun Regan, 149–65. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2013.
4716. Ward, John K. W. “Samuel Johnson: ‘A Poor Diseased Infant, Almost Blind.’” New Rambler E:6 (2002): 51–60.
4717. Warner, William B. “Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 40 (2000): 572–73.
4718. Waterhouse, William C. “Boswell, Joseph Warton, and Servius.” Notes and Queries 52, no. 3 (2005): 374–374. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gji324.
4719. Waterhouse, William C. “The Louse Is Better: Heinsius and Johnson.” Notes and Queries 41 [239], no. 2 (June 1994): 199–199. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/41-2-199a.
4720. Waterhouse, William C. “Paoli Misremembering Cicero.” Notes and Queries 55 [253], no. 4 (December 2008): 435–435. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjn183.
4721. Waterhouse, William C. “A Source for Johnson’s ‘Malim Cum Scaligero Errare.’” Notes and Queries 50 [248], no. 2 (June 2003): 222–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/50.2.222.
4722. Watkin, Amy. “Charlotte Brontë Refashions Rasselas.” In The Ways of Fiction: New Essays on the Literary Cultures of the Eighteenth Century, edited by Nicholas J. Crowe, 213–30. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
4723. Watkin, Amy S. “Rewriting ‘Rasselas’: Mary Wollstonecraft, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Elizabeth Pope Whately, and Charlotte Brontë Intertextualize the Choice of Life.” PhD thesis, University of North Dakota, 2007.
4724. Watkins, Susan. “‘My Dear Dr. Johnson’: The Link between Jane Austen and Dr. Samuel Johnson.” New Rambler D:10, no. 10 (1994): 14–21.
4725. Watson, Anne. Review of The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers. Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1997, 47–48.
4726. Watson, Nicola J. “Household Effects: Johnson’s Coffee-Pot and Twain’s Effigy.” In The Author’s Effects: On Writer’s House Museums. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Reviews:
      • Clarke, Stephen. Review of Household Effects: Johnson’s Coffee-Pot and Twain’s Effigy, by Nicola J. Watson. Johnsonian News Letter 72, no. 1 (March 2021): 55–60.
4727. Watson, Nicola J. “Mrs Thrale’s Teapot, and Other Ways of Making Dr Johnson at Home.” New Rambler F:18 (2014): 66–82.
4728. Watt, James. “‘What Mankind Has Lost and Gained’: Johnson, Rasselas, and Colonialism.” In Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Shaun Regan, 21–36. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2013.
4729. Watts, Carol. “Lunacy in the Cosmopolis (1759): Expansion and Imperial Recoil.” In The Cultural Work of Empire: The Seven Years’ War and the Imagining of the Shandean State, 28–64. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
      A reading of the “cultural work” that accompanied Britain’s expanding empire during the Seven Years’ War. Chapter 1 considers three works of 1759: Voltaire’s Candide, Rasselas, and the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy.
4730. Wechselblatt, Martin. Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1998.
      Abstract: In this book, Martin Wechselblatt explores Samuel Johnson’s double professional self-construction as alternately Augustan sage and Grub Street hack: as the exemplary “Dr. Johnson” and as one of the many “authors to let” brought to life and just as suddenly extinguished by mass-market publishing. Unlike previous studies of Johnson and print culture, however, Bad Behavior is concerned with the reasons so many readers and critics of Johnson have been led to regularly subsume into the monumental precedent of Johnson the sage, the material conditions of modern authority expressed by self-reflections of Johnson the hack. Situating Johnson within a historical and sociological model of modernity adapted from critical theory, Dr. Wechselblatt argues that Johnson’s double self-construction as at once high-cultural sage and popular hack dramatizes tensions between learned and commercial cultures in the emerging public sphere of contemporary civil society. As Johnson was acutely aware, the great paradox of cultural criticism is that it depends for its authority on the very culture it criticizes. For this reason, it is particularly useful to read Johnson through his critics — to reconfigure, from the directions criticism has taken, criticism’s own conditions of possibility. In a version of what Horkheimer and Adorno characterize as modernity’s epistemological closure and its ritual transformation of the “unknown” into “the well-known of an equation,” Bad Behavior investigates the critical reduction of Johnson’s discourse to its maxims, and the relation of this critical practice to the peculiarly modern identification felt by fans toward celebrities. Dr. Wechselblatt finds that Johnson authority reproduces the tension between, on one hand, a stable, delegated form of knowledge, which Johnson associated with the patronage system and with Locke’s temporal duration; and on the other, the mere succession of authorities characteristic of experience in the marketplace.
      Reviews:
      • Basney, Lionel. “Dr. Johnson’s Wisdom [Review of ‘A Neutral Being between the Sexes’: Samuel Johnson’s Sexual Politics, by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer, and Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt].” Sewanee Review 107, no. 4 (1999): 110–12.
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt. Modern Philology 98, no. 3 (February 2001): 495–99.
      • Hudson, Nicholas. Review of Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 431–37.
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt. Choice 36, no. 6 (February 1999): 1067.
      • McKenzie, Alan T. “Making the Wisdom Figure [Review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, by Lawrence Lipking; Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo; Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt; Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart; and The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, by Adam Potkay].” Eighteenth-Century Studies 34, no. 3 (Spring 2001): 466–70.
      • Radner, John B. Review of Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt. Albion 31, no. 3 (1999): 491–92.
      • Rounce, Adam. Review of Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, by Martin Wechselblatt. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 23, no. 1 (2000): 117–19.
4731. Wechselblatt, Martin. “Finding Mr. Boswell: Rhetorical Authority and National Identity in Johnson’s A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.” ELH: English Literary History 60, no. 1 (March 1993): 117–48.
4732. Wechselblatt, Martin. “On the Authority of Samuel Johnson.” PhD thesis, Cornell University, 1992.
4733. Wechselblatt, Martin. “The Pathos of Example: Professionalism and Colonization in Johnson’s ‘Preface’ to the Dictionary.” Yale Journal of Criticism: Interpretation in the Humanities 9, no. 2 (September 1996): 381–403. https://doi.org/10.1353/yale.1996.0021.
4734. Weed, David M. “Manly Desire: Sexual Economy in English Narratives, 1748–1771.” PhD Thesis, Syracuse University, 1996.
      Abstract: My dissertation argues that eighteenth-century England’s emergence as a commercial and a bourgeois society creates a crisis in masculinity, especially in connection with male sexual desire, which is reflected in central literary works. In contrast to current understandings, I suggest that commercial and bourgeois ideologies are concerned at once with legitimating and with elucidating specific moral limits to men’s “passions.” This new vision of English manliness arises in part out of difficulties associated with men’s relationship to commerce and to consumerism. In pre-capitalist classical, Christian, and civic humanist discourses, the virtuous man severely limits his desires both economically and sexually: both the desire for material possessions and sexual desire have affinities to “luxury” and may be imagined as producing “effeminacy.” The dissertation focuses on narratives by Tobias Smollett, John Cleland, James Boswell, and Laurence Sterne, then, to contend that the intense mid-eighteenth-century debate about English manhood, which is framed primarily in terms of the constitution of the “English national character,” involves the articulation of a properly managed male sexual desire. Writers increasingly attack a range of sexual practices identified with aristocratic Englishmen and with “foreign” effeminacy as inconsistent with the masculine English character. Heterosexual men who overindulge in sexual pleasure, narcissists (particularly the consumer of foreign fashions), and sodomites, for example, are regarded as effeminate. Sexual aggression toward women, though manly, is viewed as a remnant of a less civilized stage of the English past. Mid-eighteenth-century male writers, therefore, define an exclusively heterosexual male desire that is neither aggressive and “barbaric,” nor overindulgent and effeminate, which softens, refines, even “feminizes” men without rendering them effeminate in a commercial and a “civilized” society. By creating a status-based taxonomy of eighteenth-century male identities, then, I argue that the emergence of a new category of Englishman, marked as exclusively heterosexual and capable of regulating the sexual desire that signifies his virility, signals an important shift in the social construction of masculinity and a narrowing of the range of acceptable masculine styles.
4735. Weed, David M. “Sexual Positions: Men of Pleasure, Economy, and Dignity in Boswell’s London Journal.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 31, no. 2 (1997): 215–34. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.1998.0003.
4736. Weinbrot, Howard D. Review of A Preliminary Handlist of Books to Which Dr. Samuel Johnson Subscribed, by D. D. Eddy and J. D. Fleeman. Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 9 (1994): 80–84.
4737. Weinbrot, Howard D. Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005.
      Abstract: Howard D. Weinbrot’s Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics collects earlier and new essays on Johnson’s varied achievements in lexicography, poetry, narrative, and prose style. It considers Johnson’s uses of the general and the particular as they relate to the reader’s role in the creative process, his complex approach to the concept of literary genre, and his resolutely un-Humean view of skepticism. It examines the ways in which Johnson’s reputation as a critic and biographer was challenged and affirmed after his death, and it demonstrates that Johnson was known and admired in eighteenth-century France until Boswell’s portrait of Mr. Oddity replaced Dictionary Johnson. The book concludes with four essays concerning the vexed controversy regarding Johnson and Jacobitism and Johnson’s political affiliation in Hanoverian Britain. Aspects of Samuel Johnson consolidates old ground and breaks new ground during the 250th anniversary of the appearance of his Dictionary of the English Language.
      Reviews:
      • Burke, John J., Jr. “Reconfiguring the Idea of Eighteenth-Century Literature in a New Epoch: Moving from the Augustan to the Menippean [Review of Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot].” Eighteenth-Century Life 31, no. 2 (March 2007): 83–95. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2006-015.
      • Box, M. A. Review of Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Notes and Queries 56, no. 1 (2009): 155.
      • Hudson, Nicholas. Review of Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot. CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 36, no. 1 (2006): 135–39, 152.
      • Lee, Anthony W. “Quo Vadis? Samuel Johnson in the New Millennium [Review of The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757–1763, by David Hankins and James J. Caudle; Loving Dr. Johnson, by Helen Deutsch; Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.; A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man: A Translation from the French, by O M Brack, Jr.; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale; The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch; Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the ‘Dictionary of the English Language’: A Facsimile Edition, by Allen Reddick; and Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot].” Modern Philology 104, no. 4 (May 2007): 529–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/519192.
      • Lock, F. P. Review of Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 2 (September 2006): 46–49.
      • MacKenzie, Niall. Review of Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Studia Neophilologica 79, no. 1 (2007): 96–100.
4738. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Censoring Johnson in France: Johnson and Suard on Voltaire: A New Document.” Review of English Studies 45, no. 178 (May 1994): 230–33.
4739. Weinbrot, Howard D. Eighteenth-Century Satire: Essays on Text and Context from Dryden to Peter Pindar. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1988. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511553561.
4740. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Hearts of Darkness: Swift, Johnson, and the Narrative Confrontation with Evil.” In “But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man”: Literature and Theodicy, edited by Rudolf Freiburg, Susanne Gruss, Simone Broders, and Katharina Lempe, 205–24. Stauffenburg, 2004.
4741. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Hodge Lives: Percival Stockdale, Samuel Johnson, and the Reclamation of a Ninth Life.” Johnsonian News Letter 58, no. 2 (September 2007): 31–34.
      On Stockdale’s elegy to SJ’s cat Hodge, reprinted here, with evidence for Hodge’s dates. Weinbrot adds to “the literature of the domestic feline.”
4742. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Johnson and Jacobite Wars XLV [Review of Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, by J. C. D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill].” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 307–40.
4743. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Johnson and Jacobitism Redux: Evidence, Interpretation, and Intellectual History.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997): 89–125.
      Weinbrot argues against Clark and Erskine-Hill, insisting that Johnson was not a Jacobite.
4744. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Johnson and the Jacobite Truffles.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 273–90.
      A late entry in the argument over Johnson’s putative Jacobitism.
4745. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Johnson and the Modern: The Forward Face of Janus.” In Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, edited by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood, 55–72. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
4746. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Johnson, Jacobitism, and Swedish Charles: The Vanity of Human Wishes and Scholarly Method.” ELH: English Literary History 64, no. 4 (December 1997): 945–81. https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.1997.0040.
4747. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Johnson, Jacobitism, and the Historiography of Nostalgia.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 7 (1996): 163–212.
      Weinbrot’s first contribution on Johnson’s politics, in response to Clark and Erskine-Hill.
4748. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Johnson, Oxford, Oaths, and Historical Evidence.” In Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, 312–39. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005.
4749. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Johnson Rebalanced: The Happy Man, The Supportive Family, and His Social Religion.” In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, 195–207. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0016.
4750. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Johnson’s Irene and Rasselas, Richardson’s Pamela Exalted: Contexts, Polygamy, and the Seraglio.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 23 (2015): 89–140.
4751. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Johnson’s London and Juvenal’s Third Satire: The Country as ‘Ironic’ Norm.” In Eighteenth-Century Satire: Essays on Text and Context from Dryden to Peter Pindar, 164–71. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
4752. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Johnson’s London and Juvenal’s Third Satire: The Country as ‘Ironic’ Norm.” In Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, 92–104. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005.
4753. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Johnson’s Poetry.” In The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 34–50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.004.
4754. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Meeting the Monarch: Johnson, Boswell, and the Anatomy of a Genre.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 18 (2007): 131–50.
4755. Weinbrot, Howard D. “No ‘Mock Debate’: Questions and Answers in The Vanity of Human Wishes.” In Eighteenth-Century Satire: Essays on Text and Context from Dryden to Peter Pindar, 172–85. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
4756. Weinbrot, Howard D. “No ‘Mock Debate’: Questions and Answers in The Vanity of Human Wishes.” In Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, 105–24. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005.
4757. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Notes Toward New Johnsonian Contexts.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 1–12. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
4758. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Samuel Johnson after Three Hundred Years, and Beyond.” Harvard Library Bulletin 20, no. 3 (2009): 1–8.
4759. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Samuel Johnson and Jacobites.” TLS 5791 (March 28, 2014): 6.
4760. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Samuel Johnson and the Domestic Metaphor.” In Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, 127–63. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999.
4761. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Samuel Johnson and the Domestic Metaphor.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 10 (1999): 127–63.
4762. Weinbrot, Howard D., ed. Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
      Abstract: This wide-ranging volume examines the theoretical and scholarly contexts of Johnson’s work as a lexicographer, moralist, poet, political commentator, sermon writer, periodical essayist, biographer, literary critic, and theorist. In addition to Johnson’s more familiar works, the contributors address his poetry, political writings, sermons, and personal correspondence.
      Reviews:
      • Clarke, Stephen. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 1 (March 2015): 58–64.
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 29, no. 1 (2015): 43–50.
      • Lee, Anthony W. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Choice 52, no. 5 (January 2015): 804.
      • Pedreira, Mark A. “Revisiting Johnson [Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot].” Eighteenth-Century Life 40, no. 3 (2016): 103–7.
      • Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Forum for Modern Language Studies 51, no. 1 (2015): 89. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqu080.
      • Smallwood, Philip. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 40, no. 2 (2017): 299–300. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12403.
      • Tankard, Paul. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Review of English Studies 68, no. 287 (2017): 1002–7.
      • Walker, Robert G. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, by Howard D. Weinbrot. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 38, no. 3 (2015): 425–35.
4763. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Samuel Johnson, Percival Stockdale, and Brick-Bats from Grubstreet: Some Later Response to the Lives of the Poets.” Huntington Library Quarterly 56, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 105–34.
4764. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Samuel Johnson, Percival Stockdale, and Brick-Bats from Grubstreet: Some Later Response to the Lives of the Poets.” In Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, 241–69. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005.
4765. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Samuel Johnson: Process, Progress, and the Beatus Ille.” Johnsonian News Letter 60, no. 1 (March 2009): 7–17.
      The address to the Johnsonians, Chicago, 19 September 2008. Weinbrot acknowledges the validity of many claims that Johnson was deeply unhappy, but adds, “his demonstrable troubles were the part and not the whole. . . . Except for traumatic times, and often with the help of the Thrales, Johnson generally could keep those troubles more or less and bay and produce literature of astounding variety, quality, and quantity.”
4766. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Samuel Johnson’s Charity Sermon during War: St Paul’s Cathedral 2 May 1745.” Review of English Studies 70, no. 297 (2019): 890–910.
      Abstract: Samuel Johnson’s first ghost-written sermon was for Henry Hervey Aston at the annual Sons of the Clergy Festival on 2 May 1745. Hervey Aston was the fourth son of the Earl of Bristol, long knew Johnson, and entertained him in Lichfield and Johnson and Tetty in London. Hervey paid £12 interest on Johnson’s mother’s home in Lichfield and was, Johnson said, ‘a vicious man but very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey, I shall love him’. He learned nothing at Christ Church, Oxford, during 18 raucous months, performed poorly as an army officer before selling his commission, and was ordained as a last hope in 1743 by the Bishop of Ely. Henry’s father the Earl of Bristol appointed him Rector of Shotley, in Suffolk, which he soon abandoned for London. Why was such a man asked to present an important sermon at England’s most impressive venue, before the Archbishop of Canterbury, eight other bishops, and many of the Great and the Good in order to raise funds for the widows and orphans of deceased Anglican clergy? This essay suggests reasons for that choice and how Johnson’s early practical sermon is part of his body of sermons. It also shows how Johnson establishes Hervey Aston’s credibility in the pulpit when he had no credibility in life, and how Johnson blends sublime theology with the quotidian. Along the way, he alludes to and politely censures the unpopular War of the Austrian Succession.
4767. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Samuel Johnson’s Practical Sermon on Marriage in Context: Spousal Whiggery and the Book of Common Prayer.” Modern Philology 114, no. 2 (2016): 310–36.
4768. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Sermons.” In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, 209–25. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
4769. Weinbrot, Howard D. “The Gensis of a Controversy: The Politics of Johnson and the Johnson of Politics.” In Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, 301–11. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005.
4770. Weinbrot, Howard D. Review of The Life of Mr Richard Savage, by Helen Wilcox and Nicholas Seager. Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 58–61.
4771. Weinbrot, Howard D. “The New Eighteenth Century and the New Mythology.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 353–407.
4772. Weinbrot, Howard D. “The Poetry of Samuel Johnson.” In Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, 72–91. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.004.
4773. Weinbrot, Howard D. “The Politics of Formal Verse Satire, 1598–1808: Juvenal, Boileau, Johnson and Cottreau.” In Changing Satire: Transformations and Continuities in Europe, 1600–1830, edited by Cecilia Rosengren, Per Sivefors, and Rikard Wingård, 37–59. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526146120.00008.
      Abstract: This chapter provides a broad perspective on verse satire throughout almost the entire time span of the collection. The chapter demonstrates how classical imitation persisted even to the very end of the period. It also demonstrates the extent of parallel developments in England and on the continent, with ancient Rome transmogrified into the Paris of Boileau and the London of Johnson, each with their own political and aesthetic bias. Satire in the period recalibrates the age-old satirical dichotomy of urban and rural, Juvenalian and Horatian, in new and surprising ways. The chapter ranges from continental Renaissance scholarship over the changes of formal verse satire in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries down to a little-known text by Jean-Baptiste Hugues Nelson Cottreau, a nominal imitation from 1808 of Samuel Johnson’s imitation of Juvenal. The chapter thus emphasises that despite the extensive changes satire underwent in the period, it was also characterised by certain thematic and formal continuities.
4774. Weinbrot, Howard D. “The Politics of Samuel Johnson and the Johnson of Politics: An Innocent Looks at a Controversy.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 8 (2003): 3–26.
4775. Weinbrot, Howard D. “The Thirtieth of January Sermon: Swift, Johnson, Sterne, and the Evolution of Culture: The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies James L. Clifford Lecture, 2008.” Eighteenth-Century Life 34, no. 1 (Winter 2010): 29–55.
4776. Weinbrot, Howard D. “The Vanity of Human Wishes Part I: Who Said He Was a Jacobite Hero? The Political Genealogy of Johnson’s Charles of Sweden.” In Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, 340–76. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005.
4777. Weinbrot, Howard D. “The Vanity of Human Wishes Part II: Reading Charles of Sweden in the Poem, Reading Johnson’s Politics.” In Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics, 377–400. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005.
4778. Weinbrot, Howard D. “‘Tis Well an Old Age Is Out’: Johnson, Swift, and His Generation.” In Reading Swift: Papers from the Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, edited by Kirsten Juhas, Hermann J. Real, and Sandra Simon, 595–620. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2013.
4779. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Tis Well an Old Age Is Out’: Johnson, Swift, and His Generation.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 47–68. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
4780. Weinbrot, Howard D. “‘’Tis Well an Old Age Is Out’: Johnson, Swift, and His Generation.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century, edited by Howard D. Weinbrot, 47–68. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2014.
4781. Weinbrot, Howard D. Review of Vies des poètes anglais, by Denis Bonnecase and Pierre Morère. XVII–XVIII: Revue de La Société d’études Anglo-Américaines Des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles 73 (2016): 309–12. https://doi.org/10.4000/1718.787.
4782. Weinbrot, Howard D. Review of Vies des poètes anglais, by Denis Bonnecase and Pierre Morère. Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 58–61.
4783. Weinbrot, Howard D. “What Johnson’s Illustrative Quotations Illustrate: Language and Viewpoint in the Dictionary.” In Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott, 42–60. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
4784. Weinbrot, Howard D. “What Johnson’s Illustrative Quotations Illustrate: Language and Viewpoint in the Dictionary.” In Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s “Dictionary,” 53–71. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005.
4785. Weinbrot, Howard D. “Who Said He Was a Jacobite Hero?: The Political Genealogy of Johnson’s Charles of Sweden.” Philological Quarterly 75, no. 4 (1996): 411–50.
      Further consideration of Johnson’s politics, focusing on the interpretation of the passage in The Vanity of Human Wishes about Charles XII of Sweden.
4786. Weiner, Joshua J. “Timothy Erwin, Textual Vision.” Modern Philology 114, no. 2 (2016): E105–7.
4787. Weinsheimer, Joel. “Fiction and the Force of Example.” In The Idea of the Novel in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Robert W. Uphaus, 1–19. East Lansing: Colleagues Press, 1988.
4788. Weinsheimer, Joel. Review of This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Psychological Theory, by Gloria Sybil Gross. JEGP 92, no. 4 (1993): 556–58.
4789. Wells, Alan. “Dr. Johnson’s Morphic Guide to Physiks.” New Scientist, February 6, 1993.
4790. West, Katherine N. “The Treatment of Johnson’s Shakespeare by Modern Editors: The Case of Henry V.” In Lumen: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Travaux Choisis de La Société Canadienne d’étude Du Dix-Huitième Siècle, 13:179–86, 1994.
4791. Western Daily Press (Bristol). Review of Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master, by Jack Lynch. December 24, 2005.
4792. Wetherall-Dickson, Leigh. “Syphilis and Sociability: The Impolite Bodies of Two Gentlemen, James Boswell (1740–1795) and Sylas Neville (1741–1840).” In The Male Body in Medicine and Literature, edited by Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea, 177–93. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018.
4793. Wharton, T. F. “Johnson, Authorship, and Hope.” In Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, edited by Prem Nath, 150–66. Troy: Whitston, 1987.
4794. Wharton, T. F. Review of Samuel Johnson: An Analysis, by Charles H. Hinnant. South Atlantic Review 55, no. 1 (January 1990): 142–44.
4795. Wharton, T. F. Samuel Johnson and the Theme of Hope. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984. Reviews:
      • Lynn, Steven. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Theme of Hope, by T. F. Wharton. South Atlantic Review 51, no. 1 (January 1986): 128–31.
      • Pittock, Joan H. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Theme of Hope, by T. F. Wharton. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 9, no. 1 (1986): 105–6.
4796. Whatley, Christopher A. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb: Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate, by Nellie Pottle Hankins and John Strawhorn. Scottish Historical Review 79, no. 207 (2000): 130–31. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2000.79.1.130.
4797. Whatley, Christopher A., Jane Rendall, and Mark C. Wallace, eds. Association and Enlightenment Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700–1830. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684482702.
      Abstract: Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to sociability. The essays in this volume — the first full-length study of the subject in fifty years — examine the complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. Contributors address attitudes toward associations, their meeting-places and rituals, their links with the growth of the professions and with literary culture, and the ways in which they were structured by both class and gender. By widening the context in which societies are set, this volume offers a new framework for understanding them, bringing together the inheritance of the Scottish past, the unique and cohesive polite culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.
4798. Wheeler, David. “Crosscurrents in Literary Criticism, 1750–1790: Samuel Johnson and Joseph Warton.” South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 4, no. 1 (March 1987): 24–42. https://doi.org/10.2307/3189600.
4799. Wheeler, David. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays, by Isobel Grundy. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 9, no. 2 (1986): 254–56.
4800. Wheeler, David, and James L. Battersby. Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
      Abstract: Biography was Samuel Johnson’s favorite among literary genres, and his Lives of the Poets is often regarded as the capstone of his career. The central place of biography in his oeuvre is explored in this collection of nine original essays by leading Johnson scholars. Varied in their focus and approach, the essays range from a philosophical overview of Johnson’s notion of the relation between life and art, to a detailed reading of the Life of Milton, to a speculation on the value of the Lives in the classroom. merging clearly in the essays are the dual concerns — artistic and intellectual...
      Reviews:
      • Hume, Robert D. Review of Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, by David Wheeler. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 28, no. 3 (1988): 521–22.
      • Korshin, Paul J. Review of Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, by David Wheeler. Eighteenth-Century Studies 22 (1988): 105–8.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, by David Wheeler. Johnsonian News Letter 48, no. 1–2 (March 1988): 2–3.
      • Parke, Catherine N. Review of Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, by David Wheeler. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 3 (1990): 473–77.
      • Review of Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, by David Wheeler. Virginia Quarterly Review 64, no. 1 (1988): 8–9.
      • Scanlan, J. T. Review of Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, by David Wheeler. South Atlantic Review 55, no. 1 (January 1990): 136–39.
      • Seymour-Smith, Martin. Review of Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, by David Wheeler. TLS, January 27, 1989, 92.
4801. Wheeler, Edward T. Review of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, by Richard Holmes. Commonweal 121, no. 19 (November 4, 1994): 32.
4802. Wheeler, Elizabeth. “Great Burke and Poor Boswell: Carlyle and the Historian’s Task.” Victorian Newsletter 70 (Fall 1986): 28–31.
4803. Wheeler, Roxann. “‘My Savage,’ ‘My Man’: Color, Gender, and Nation in Eighteenth-Century British Narratives.” PhD thesis, Syracuse University, 1996.
4804. White, Brian Douglas. “Samuel Johnson’s ‘Preface to the Preceptor’ and Its Context.” MA thesis, Arizona State University, 1994.
4805. White, R. S. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Shakespeare Survey Annual 43 (1990): 219–35.
4806. White, R. S. Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker. Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft-West, Jahrbuch, 1990, 283.
4807. Whitebrook, Peter. Review of Resurrection, by Maureen Lawrence. The Scotsman, April 18, 1996.
4808. Whitham, Caroline. Review of Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, by Stewart Lee. Edfest Magazine, August 8, 2007.
4809. Whitlock, Marilyn. “The Elusiveness of Johnsonian Friendship.” MA thesis, California State University, 1990.
4810. Whittemore, Reed. “—And the Boswell Connection.” In Pure Lives: The Early Biographers, 123–30. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
4811. Whittemore, Reed. “Johnson on Biography.” In Pure Lives: The Early Biographers, 147–50. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
4812. Whittemore, Reed. “Poetry: Captured Again — But Died on the Way to the Zoo.” Sewanee Review 106, no. 1 (1998): 172–76.
4813. Whittemore, Reed. “Samuel Johnson.” In Pure Lives: The Early Biographers, 101–22. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
4814. Wickman, Matthew Farr. “The Allure of the Improbable: Evidence and Romance in the Scottish Highlands, 1746–1790.” PhD thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000.
4815. Wierzbicki, James. “‘Execrable Music’ for an ‘Exquisitely Bad’ Play: Samuel Johnson’s ‘Most Sublime’ Hurlothrumbo.” Musical Quarterly 99, no. 3/4 (2017): 386–432.
4816. Wilcox, Lance E. “Designing the ‘Life of Johnson’: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 10 (2004): 389–92.
4817. Wilcox, Lance E. Review of Dr Johnson’s Women, by Norma Clarke. History 65, no. 3 (2003): 751–52.
4818. Wilcox, Lance E. “Edifying the Young Dog: Johnson’s Letters to Boswell.” In Sent as a Gift: Eight Correspondences from the Eighteenth Century, edited by Alan T. McKenzie, 129–49. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993.
4819. Wilcox, Lance E. “Healing the Lacerated Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Strategies of Consolation.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 7 (2002): 193–208.
4820. Wilcox, Lance E. “Imitation and Biography: Richard Savage and the Misreading of London.” In Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment, 107–20. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2024.
4821. Wilcox, Lance E. “In the First Circle: The Four Narrators of the Life of Savage.” In Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle, edited by Anthony W. Lee, 132–52. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019.
4822. Wilcox, Lance E. “Interwoven Lives: The Letters of Samuel Johnson.” PhD thesis, University of Minnesota, 1989.
4823. Wilcox, Lance E. “Johnson’s Life of Savage as Romance, Antiromance, and Novel.” In The Ways of Fiction: New Essays on the Literary Cultures of the Eighteenth Century, edited by Nicholas J. Crowe, 231–56. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
4824. Wilcox, Lance E. Review of Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists, by Anthony W. Lee. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 53, no. 2 (2021): 234–37.
4825. Wilcox, Lance E. “Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property.” The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 25 (2003): 446–47.
4826. Wilcox, Lance E. Review of Samuel Johnson’s “General Nature”: Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse, by Scott D. Evans. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 25 (2003): 436–37.
4827. Wilcox, Lance E. “The Religious Psychology of Samuel Johnson.” Ultimate Reality and Meaning 21, no. 3 (September 1998): 160–76.
4828. Wild, Kate. “Johnson’s Prescriptive Labels — a Reassessment.” Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 30, no. 1 (2009): 108–18. https://doi.org/10.1353/dic.2009.0003.
4829. Wild, Kate. “Ludicrous Exaggerations and Colloquial Licenses: ‘Prescriptive’ Labels in Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language.” In “Cunning Passages, Contrived Corridors”: Unexpected Essays in the History of Lexicography, edited by Michael Adams, 165–85. Monza, Italy: Polimetrica, 2010.
4830. Wild, Min. “Johnson, Ethics, and Living.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 14–26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
4831. Wild, Min. “No Cabbage [review of Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, by Lynda Mugglestone].” TLS 5889 (February 12, 2016): 26.
4832. Wild, Min. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. Review of English Studies 53, no. 210 (May 2002): 268–69.
4833. Wildermuth, Mark. “Samuel Johnson and the Aesthetics of Complex Dynamics.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 48, no. 1 (March 2007): 45–60. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecy.2007.0006.
      Wildermuth works “in the wake of postmodernism, to contextualize Johnson’s double focus on order and disorder, on universal global norms and localized deviance — at least with particular regard to his literary criticism and lexicography, wherein we find his most lucid discussion of an uncertainty principle informing his epistemology and aesthetics. Within the context of eighteenth-century and postmodern conceptions of complex dynamic systems, we can see that Johnson is neither a dogmatist nor a nihilist, but is instead an early modern chaologist, a student of chaos whose response to the perturbations introduced by science and philosophy in the eighteenth century lead him to describe in his aesthetics a complex mimetic system tracing emergent structures in the field of literary criticism implicated by the interplay between classical tradition and the new empirical skepticism.”
4834. Wildermuth, Mark E. “Johnson’s Prose Style: Blending Energy and Elegance in The Rambler.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1993): 205–35.
4835. Wildermuth, Mark E. Print, Chaos, and Complexity: Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Media Culture. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008.
      Abstract: This book describes how eighteenth-century awareness of the interplay between fixity and instability in printed texts demonstrates the role print played in developing Samuel Johnson’s awareness of print culture’s impact on human beings ethically, politically, and aesthetically. The study traces the evolution and continuity of Johnson’s ideas in these areas by describing the importance of print mediation for Johnson’s approach to solving related epistemological and ethical dilemmas facing his generation from the Restoration to the late eighteenth century. Print, Chaos, and Complexity shows how Johnson’s non-fiction prose allows him to suggest that categories of truth and virtue may be stabilized when the orderly disorder of texts is properly conceptualized and used to inform the theory and practice of mimesis. Thus Johnson helps shape ideas on mediation, epistemology, ethics, and politics in the Age of Johnson in Great Britain (1755–84).
      Reviews:
      • Lynch, Jack. Review of Print, Chaos, and Complexity: Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Media Culture, by Mark E. Wildermuth. Choice 46, no. 7 (2008): 3714.
4836. Wildermuth, Mark Edwin. “Energy and Elegance: The Style and Context of Samuel Johnson’s Moral Prose.” PhD thesis, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1991.
4837. Wilentz, Amy. “Mr. Los Angeles, Samuel Johnson.” Los Angeles Times, June 7, 2009.
      “Johnson, I concluded, could have lived happily in Los Angeles. . . . Johnson’s dictionary was his era’s Wikipedia, its Google, and Johnson himself was the 18th century equivalent of a blogger.”
4838. Wilkinson, Greg. “James Boswell: The Hypochondriack, His Melancholy, and Dr Johnson’s Cognitive-Behavioural Remedy — Psychiatry in History.” British Journal of Psychiatry 213, no. 4 (2018): 573. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2018.158.
      Abstract: At 19 years of age, he studied at the University of Glasgow where, despite a Calvinist and Presbyterian upbringing, he decided to convert to Catholicism and become a monk. Pottle said ‘His greedy draughts of venal pleasure had brought him that distemper with which Venus, when cross, takes it into her head to plague her votaries (another of his own elegant euphemisms), the distemper had developed into what he calls a nervous fever, and he was ill and abashed’. In 1762, he passed his oral law exam, after which his father raised his allowance to £200 per year and permitted him to return to London.
4839. Willan, Alexander Claude Nazzari Di Calabiana. “The Seizure of Literary History in the Eighteenth Century.” PhD thesis, Stanford University, 2015.
      Abstract: “The Seizure of Literary History in the Eighteenth Century” argues that Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson established the dominant modes of reading and writing literature in the eighteenth century. It first uncovers the modes of reading and writing that Pope and Johnson displaced, and then traces the history of Pope and Johnson’s success at recasting literary value. The animating irony of the project is that these displaced modes provided Pope and Johnson with the very tools they used to achieve their domination. This literary genealogy traces the development of literary forms as tools for political cultures, and then shows how those forms were latterly repurposed to serve purely literary ends. The political cultures I analyze both developed in reaction to the political upheaval surrounding the Revolution of 1688/9. They are Jacobite manuscript poetry and Whig non-fiction prose.Jacobite manuscript poets deployed formal devices and de-sacralized typologies to form a community of cognoscenti who could decipher the true meaning of a text. Recovering this tradition and understanding it on its own terms allows us to reconsider some of our pre-received ideas about the value and function of literature. Jacobite manuscript poetry inculcated a private readerly sensibility as a way to develop and support readers” intuitions about, and future actions in, public, political life.Whig non-fiction prose taught readers that public virtue and order should govern private actions. Writers like John Dennis, Jospeh Addison, Shaftesbury and William Derham showed that this order corresponded to governing systems of science, morality, physico-theology, and aesthetic appreciation. Whig non-fiction prose writers developed solidarity between the reader and the state, with the prospect of reform of future, readers.Whether these political attitudes appealed to Pope as politics is not a question I treat. I argue that Pope severed both literary cultures from their political origins and used their strategies for purely literary ends. Jacobite poetry offered a way to argue that, by reading and endorsing the writer, the reader was made better; Whig prose, to argue that the nation was made better. Pope used both. From the beginning of his career until the 1717 publication of his Works, I argue, Pope used the strategies of Whig non-fiction prose writers and Jacobite manuscript poets to place himself at the forefronts of literary production and of literary judgement. Pope used Jacobite de-sacralized ciphering and plausibly deniable reference in An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, The Key to the Lock, and Windsor Forest, while also encroaching on Whig territory of aesthetic and moral instruction.In the 1730s, I contend, Pope refined his use of these strategies to make a similar claim on a larger scale. In his Essay on Man, ethic epistles, and Horatian imitations, Pope opposed alternative modes of literary value, such as that espoused by James Thomson, and argued that the ability to read well and to accept Pope’s moral teaching was itself a guarantor of national stability. Pope made the value and stability of his readers’ private and public selves interdependent, and wrote poetry that was didactic on both counts.Johnson’s engagement with Pope took several forms. In his London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, Johnson specifically referred to Pope in order to frame the earlier poet as a forerunner and predecessor. In these poems and throughout his prose, Johnson also used Jacobite and Whiggish techniques, cultivating “Loyal” readers while retaining a strong link between moral probity and national standing. Johnson pioneered a prose couplet form to engage formally with Pope’s verse, and through his satire manqué achieved a more plausible kind of moral didacticism precisely because Johnson did not mark himself as exceptional. Johnson also exceeded Pope by producing a far more extensive and durable apparatus of literary and linguistic taste-making in the Dictionary, the Preface to his edition of Shakespeare, and his Lives of the Poets. By the close of this dissertation, I demonstrate the arrogation of standards of literary production and reception by Pope and Johnson. And I show the two competing literary ecosystems which provided Pope and Johnson with the tools for that arrogation, and were discarded in their wake. This dissertation cannot be a complete account of the self-fashioning ambitions of either writer. It does, however, suggest that neither Pope nor Johnson can be fully or fairly considered in future without reference to the complex matrix of influence and development unfolded here.
4840. Willan, Claude. “Samuel Johnson’s Struggle with Pope.” In Literary Authority: An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy, 193. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503630864.003.0006.
4841. Williams, Carolyn D. “Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot: Rational Piety in The Rambler.” New Rambler E:4 (2000): 27–38.
4842. Williams, Nicholas. “The Discourse of Madness: Samuel Johnson’s ‘Life of Collins.’” Eighteenth-Century Life 14, no. 2 (May 1990): 18–28.
4843. Williams, Walter Jon. “Incarnation Day.” In Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space, edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, 239–84. Garden City, N.Y.: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006.
      A short story in which SJ figures.
4844. Williams, Walter Jon. “Incarnation Day.” In The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois, 266–94. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007.
      A short story in which SJ figures.
4845. Williamson, Bethany. “Orienting Virtue: Morals, Markets, and Global Modernity in English Literature, 1660–1800.” PhD thesis, Southern Methodist University, 2015.
      Abstract: “Orienting Virtue contends that Enlightenment “virtue” functioned as a strategy for encoding and responding to the contradictions of global modernity. Early modern England’s entry into a vibrant global economy catalyzed a shift in perceptions about the basis and proof of “virtue” — Birth to merit, land to credit, chivalry to civility — that was praised by progressive advocates of trade such as Daniel Defoe and criticized by conservative thinkers such as Jonathan Swift. While world historians and some literary critics have challenged Anglo-centric assumptions about the world economy before 1800, resituating seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature within its Asia-dominant context, there has been little reconsideration of the fundamental rhetoric of national “virtue” as it both reflected and reordered England’s global milieu. Scholars who do address virtue generally focus on a specific type (political, economic, or gendered) and emphasize its shifting meaning across the long eighteenth century from an aristocratic to a cosmopolitan and then to a domestic quality. I argue, in contrast, that English writers throughout the period deployed a complex and often contradictory notion of virtue to address what they saw as a series of moral failures and material crises, from the Civil War to the South Sea Bubble. The problem of defining virtue hinged on the difficulty of articulating absolute values amidst dynamic spatial and temporal networks. Whereas postcolonial critics emphasize Britain’s increasingly exploitative power over global resources, I argue that writers from Henry Neville to Samuel Johnson to Jemima Kindersley saw in Eastern societies economic strength, political order, and moral integrity that put England to shame. To rediscover what Swift’s Gulliver calls England’s “pure native virtues” and to construct models of virtue that might enable present action and future success, writers developed a tripartite definition of virtue — human excellence, moral purity, and divine efficacy — that allowed them to articulate distinctly modern and ostensibly English qualities of “progress,” “liberty,” “chastity,” and “duty.” They did so, however, by drawing on examples of virtue from the ancient past and from Eastern empires, seeing in these other times and places models to simultaneously emulate and dismiss. In response to England’s tenuous position on the world stage, writers represented virtue alternately as a future ideal, the action required to bring that ideal to fruition, and the originary or transcendent power driving that action. Rather than a simple mode of judgment, virtue offered an epistemological paradigm that allowed writers to imagine a future in which England’s moral and material worth remained intact despite weakness and corruption.
4846. Williamson, Bethany. “Rasselas’s ‘Conscious Virtue’: Cosmopolitan Civics in Johnson and Ellis Cornelia Knight.” In Orienting Virtue: Civic Identity and Orientalism in Britain’s Global Eighteenth Century, 168–94. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2w8kbkb.9.
4847. Williamson, Gillian. British Masculinity in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731 to 1815. Genders and Sexualities in History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
      Abstract: Launched in 1731, the monthly Gentleman’s Magazine was the dominant periodical of the eighteenth century, drawing its large readership from across the literate population of Great Britain and the English-speaking world. Its readers were highly responsive. By the 1740s their letters, poems and family announcements, especially obituaries, filled at least half its pages, sitting alongside articles by a circle that included Samuel Johnson. It was a Georgian social network as readers engaged in a continuous dialogue with each other, but not all these readers were as comfortably established as gentlemen as the title implied. This study traces how, from launch to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the magazine developed as a vehicle for the creation and national dissemination of a new middling-sort masculine gentlemanliness in a Britain that was increasingly commercial, fluid and open. It was an accessible gentlemanliness based on an ideology of merit through occupational success allied to personal probity. From the close of the Seven Year’s War in 1763 the magazine used the merit of the self-made man to challenge the aristocratic ruling class. It was therefore a major contributor to the development of Victorian middle-class identity. Indeed, the meritorious self-made man remains one of the bulwarks of Conservative thought today.
4848. Williamson, Karina. “The Emergence of Privacy: Letters, Journals and Domestic Writing.” In The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707–1918), edited by Ian Brown, Thomas Owen Clancy, Susan Manning, and Murray G. H. Pittock, 57–70. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
      Abstract: On Saturday, 10 January 1784, James Boswell recorded in his diary a ‘very agreeable dream’ about David Hume, which fastened so strongly on his mind that he ‘could not for some time perceive that it was only a fiction’. He dreamt that he had found a diary kept by the philosopher, ‘from which it appeared that though his vanity made him publish treatises of scepticism and infidelity, he was in reality a Christian and a very pious man.’ It is not altogether strange that, seven years after Hume’s death, Boswell should still be troubled by the thought of Hume’s ‘infidelity.’
4849. Williamson, Karina. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Scottish Literary Journal 39 (1994): 12–14.
4850. Wills, Jack C. “The Theme of Education and Communication in Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.” Bulletin of the West Virginia Association of College English Teachers 11 (Fall 1989): 82–92.
4851. Wilson, A. N. “A Difficult Time for Doctor Johnson.” Daily Telegraph, December 28, 2000.
      On Christmas.
4852. Wilson, Bee. “Conspicuous Consumption.” New Statesman, April 19, 1999.
      On Johnson’s eating habits and table manners.
4853. Wilson, Bee. “Defining Tastes.” New Statesman, April 9, 1999.
      On definitions of foods in the Dictionary.
4854. Wilson, Carol Shiner. Review of In a Fast Coach with a Pretty Woman: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson, by Gloria Sybil Gross. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 388–93.
4855. Wilson, Frances. “Demonised Barber of Fleet Street [Review of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir, by Michael Bundock].” The Spectator 328, no. 9743 (2015): 42.
4856. Wilson, Frances. Review of Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Johnson’s “Dear Mistress,” by Ian McIntyre. The Sunday Times, November 2, 2008.
4857. Wilson, G. A., and J. G. Ravin. “Blinking Sam: The Ocular Afflictions of Dr Samuel Johnson.” Archives of Ophthalmology 9 (September 2004): 1370–74.
      Abstract: The poor health of Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) has fascinated the public for more than 200 years. The illnesses of few famous men, with the possible exception of Napoleon, have attracted more speculation. Johnson was an outstanding 18th-century literary figure, an essayist, novelist, and poet, and is particularly famous as the creator of the first important dictionary of the English language. His writings and those of his physicians and friends, particularly his biographer, James Boswell, provide an intimate account of a cultural icon.
4858. Wilson, Jennifer Preston. “The Embodied Mind of Boswell’s The Hypochondriack and the Turn-of-the-Century Novel.” In Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, edited by Donald J. Newman, 128–43. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
4859. Wilson, Richard. “‘The Science of Musical Sounds’ for Voice and Piano.” Johnsonian News Letter 68, no. 1 (September 2017): 16–19.
4860. Wilson, Ross. “The Enigma of Port and Dr. Johnson.” New Rambler C:25, no. 25 (1984): 30–32.
4861. Wilson-Smith, Timothy. Samuel Johnson. London: Haus, 2004. Reviews:
      • DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson, by Timothy Wilson-Smith. Johnsonian News Letter 57, no. 1 (March 2006): 64.
4862. Wiltenburg, Joy. “Laughter as Social Commodity: Hester Thrale and Friends.” In Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit, 147–68. London: Routledge, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003247517-8.
      Abstract: Hester Lynch Thrale is best known to literary scholars for her friendship (and later break) with the formidable Samuel Johnson, but Thrale was also an author in her own right. Her extended project in self-writing, the Thraliana, began as a collection of anecdotes and finished as a diary. She archly referred to it as a “jestbook”; laughter provided the frame and impetus for preserving her life’s memories. In the course of it, she also drew up a remarkable table rating her acquaintances for their various qualities, giving numerical value to each. Wit and humor had special prominence in this assessment of social performance. Her friend Arthur Murphy, author of highly successful comedies and assiduous student of laughter-as witness his enormous compilation of laughter lore-also topped the ranks of wit in Hester’s social scale. She and James Boswell not only enjoyed Johnson’s company, but each turned Johnson’s witty sayings to account in literary productions of their own. Part of a social circle tied to the literary marketplace, Thrale and her circle show the gendered impact of laughter’s increasing status as a commodity, both in actual sales and in social currency.
4863. Wiltshire, John. “All the Dear Burneys, Little and Great.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 2, no. 2 (1998): 15–24.
4864. Wiltshire, John. “Fanny Burney, Boswell and Johnson.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 10 (August 2008): 55–65.
4865. Wiltshire, John. “‘From China to Peru’: Johnson in the Traveled World.” In The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham, 209–23. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052155411X.014.
4866. Wiltshire, John. “In Bed with Boswell and Johnson.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 3 (1999): 27–36.
4867. Wiltshire, John. Jane Austen’s “Dear Dr. Johnson”: The David Fleeman Memorial Lecture, 2000. Melbourne: Johnson Society of Australia/Vagabond Press, 2001.
4868. Wiltshire, John. “Johnson and Garrick: The Really Impossible Friendship.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 4 (2000): 31–36.
4869. Wiltshire, John. “Johnson and Garrick: The Really Impossible Friendship (Part II).” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 5 (2001): 13–19.
4870. Wiltshire, John. Review of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, by David F. Venturo. English Language Notes 39, no. 3 (March 2002): 92–100.
4871. Wiltshire, John. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. English Language Notes 39, no. 3 (2002): 92–100.
4872. Wiltshire, John. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, by Kevin Hart. English Language Notes 39, no. 3 (March 2002): 92–100.
4873. Wiltshire, John. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, by John Ashton Cannon. English Language Notes 34, no. 1 (September 1996): 98–104.
4874. Wiltshire, John. Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Reviews:
      • Black, J. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Literature and History 1, no. 2 (1992): 112–13.
      • Bracegirdle, Brian. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Endeavour 15, no. 3 (1991): 146.
      • Enright, D. J. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. London Review of Books 13, no. 12 (1991): 14–15.
      • Gray, James. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Dalhousie Review 71 (1991): 120–21.
      • Gross, Gloria Sybil. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 5 (1992): 439–44.
      • Hunter, Katherine Montgomery. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Literature and Medicine 11, no. 2 (1992): 344–47.
      • Johannisson, Karin. “Medicin pa samhallsschenen [review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire].” Lychnos, 1993.
      • Middendorf, John H. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Eighteenth-Century Studies 26 (1993): 517–21.
      • Padnos, Peg. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Wilson Library Bulletin 66, no. 5 (January 1992): 121.
      • Pailler, Albert. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Études Anglaises 46, no. 1 (1993): 85–86.
      • Pettit, Alexander. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Eighteenth-Century Studies 26, no. 1 (1992): 124–26.
      • Probyn, Clive. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Modern Language Review 88 (January 1993): 163–64.
      • Redford, Bruce. “Case History [Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire].” Johnsonian News Letter 51, no. 4 (March 1991): 7–9.
      • Rousseau, S. “Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 29, no. 3 (July 1993): 265–68.
      • Rusnock, Andrea. “Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient.” Isis 83, no. 2 (June 1992): 332–33.
      • Scholtz, Gregory. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Choice 29, no. 2 (October 1991): 804.
      • Schwartz, Richard B. “Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient.” American Scientist 81 (March 1993): 200.
      • Sherbo, Arthur. Review of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire. Review of English Studies 44 (November 1993): 586–87.
      • Ziegler, Robert. “Recent Books on Johnson and Boswell [Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of ‘The Life of Johnson,’ by Greg Clingham; The Politics of Samuel Johnson, 2nd Ed., by Donald Greene; Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan; A Dr. Johnson Chronology, by Norman Page; Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker; The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick; The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford; and Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire].” Papers on Language and Literature 28, no. 4 (September 1992): 457–75.
4875. Wiltshire, John. “Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 2 (1997): 17–23.
4876. Wiltshire, John. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. English Language Notes 34, no. 1 (September 1996): 98–104.
4877. Wiltshire, John. Review of Samuel Johnson’s Critical Opinions: A Reexamination, by Arthur Sherbo. English Language Notes 34, no. 1 (September 1996): 98–104.
4878. Wiltshire, John. “The Doctor and the Patient: A Reply to S. Rousseau.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 29, no. 3 (July 1993): 268.
4879. Wiltshire, John. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. Cambridge Quarterly 23, no. 4 (1994): 358–68.
4880. Wiltshire, John. Review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin. English Language Notes 39, no. 3 (March 2002): 92–100.
4881. Wiltshire, John. The Making of Dr. Johnson: Icon of Modern Culture. Hastings: Helm Information, 2009. Reviews:
      • Hudson, Nicholas. Review of The Making of Dr. Johnson: Icon of Modern Culture, by John Wiltshire. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 20 (2010): 331–34.
      • Scanlan, J. T. Review of The Making of Dr. Johnson: Icon of Modern Culture, by John Wiltshire. New Rambler E:12 (2008–9).
4882. Wiltshire, John. “Women Writers.” In Samuel Johnson in Context, edited by Jack Lynch, 400–406. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
4883. Wiltshire, John, and Daniel Vuillermin. “Facing up to Johnson.” Johnson Society of Australia Papers 11 (2009): 75–84.
4884. Winnett, A. R. “The Problem of Evil in the 18th Century: Dr. Johnson and Soame Jenyns.” New Rambler D:3, no. 3 (1987): 46–47.
4885. Winterton, John. “‘A Wonder of a Man’: Fergusson on Johnson.” Johnsonian News Letter 70, no. 2 (September 2019): 11–17.
4886. Winton, Calhoun. “Living Skeptically and Dying Well [Review of Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, by Stephen Miller].” Sewanee Review 111, no. 4 (2003): R116–19.
4887. Winton, Calhoun. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 84 (June 1990): 182–85.
4888. Wishna, Victor. “Words, Words, Words: Two-and-a-Half Centuries after the Publication of Samuel Johnson’s Landmark Dictionary, a New Critical Edition Illuminates His Best Intentions [Review of Johnson on the English Language, by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.].” Humanities 6 (October 2005): 26–29.
4889. Witek, Catherine. The Trial of Misella Cross: A Novel. Plainfield, Ill.: Sky Parlour Press, 2012.
      Abstract: Inspired by two of Samuel Johnson’s essays from his essay series, The Rambler, the author tells the fictional story of Misella Cross, from her sale at age 12 to a wealthy estate owner, to her escape into a life of prostitution on the streets of 18th century London, to her imprisonment in London’s Newgate Prison for murder.
4890. Witek, Catherine A. “Samuel Johnson’s Alchemy: Fusing Aristotelian Invention into Eighteenth Century Rhetoric.” PhD thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1992.
4891. Witek, Katherine. “The Rhetoric of Smith, Boswell and Johnson: Creating the Modern Icon.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 24, no. 3–4 (June 1994): 53–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/02773949409391018.
4892. Witty, Michael. “The Deipnosophists and Dr Johnson.” Lexicographica: International Annual for Lexicography/Revue internationale de lexicographie/Internationales Jahrbuch für Lexikographie 36 (2020): 311–24.
4893. Wolf, Manfred. “The Aphorism.” Etc 51 (1994): 432–39.
4894. Wollen, Douglas. “Dr Johnson in Wesley’s Letters and Journals.” New Rambler D:4, no. 4 (1988): 3–5.
4895. Womack, Peter. “Secularizing King Lear: Shakespeare, Tate, and the Sacred.” Shakespeare Survey: An Annual Survey of Shakespearean Studies and Production 55 (2002): 96–105.
4896. Womersley, David. Review of A Preface to Samuel Johnson, by Thomas M. Woodman. Review of English Studies 46 (August 1995): 454–55.
4897. Womersley, David. Review of The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756–1795, by Thomas Crawford. Review of English Studies 50, no. 198 (1999): 247–48. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/50.198.247.
4898. Womersley, David. Review of Designing the “Life of Johnson”: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2, by Bruce Redford. Review of English Studies 54, no. 213 (February 2003): 129–31.
4899. Womersley, David. Review of Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson, by Leopold Damrosch Jr. Review of English Studies 43 (1992): 274–75.
4900. Womersley, David. Review of James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, by Marshall Waingrow, Bruce Redford, and Thomas F. Bonnell. Review of English Studies 48 (1997): 114–16.
4901. Womersley, David. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. Review of English Studies 40 (1989): 274–75.
4902. Womersley, David. Review of Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia, by Pat Rogers. Review of English Studies 48 (1997): 114–16.
4903. Womersley, David. “Johnson and the Past Tense.” Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1991, 19–28.
4904. Womersley, David. Review of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Review of English Studies 39, no. 153 (1988): 113–14.
4905. Womersley, David. Review of Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by J. D. Fleeman. Review of English Studies 38, no. 149 (1987): 82–83.
4906. Womersley, David. Review of Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan. Review of English Studies 39 (November 1988): 559–60.
4907. Womersley, David. Review of Rasselas and Other Tales, by Gwin J. Kolb. Review of English Studies 43, no. 172 (November 1992): 605.
4908. Womersley, David. Review of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Nicholas Hudson. Review of English Studies 41, no. 162 (1990): 253–54.
4909. Womersley, David. Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Review of English Studies 49, no. 196 (November 1998): 519–21.
4910. Womersley, David. Review of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Historical Journal 39, no. 2 (June 1996): 511–20.
4911. Womersley, David. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. Review of English Studies 45, no. 180 (November 1994): 577–78.
4912. Womersley, David. Review of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Kaminski. Review of English Studies 40, no. 158 (1989): 274–75.
4913. Womersley, David. Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, by Robert DeMaria Jr. Review of English Studies 49, no. 196 (November 1998): 519–21.
4914. Wood, Nigel. “Johnson’s Revisions to His Dictionary.” New Rambler D:3, no. 3 (1987): 23–28.
4915. Wood, Nigel. “‘The Tract and Tenor of the Sentence’: Conversing, Connection, and Johnson’s Dictionary.” Yearbook of English Studies 28 (1998): 110–27. https://doi.org/10.2307/3508760.
4916. Wood, Nigel, and Chauncey Brewster Tinker, eds. Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1989.
      “Selection based on the 1912 edition of Chauncey Brewster Tinker.”
4917. Woodall, James. “Travel: A Taste of Scotch and the Rocks: James Woodall Follows Johnson and Boswell to the West Coast.” Daily Telegraph, November 7, 1992.
4918. Woodman, Thomas M. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 18 (1995): 92–94.
4919. Woodman, Thomas M. Review of “Steel for the Mind”: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, by Charles H. Hinnant. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 19, no. 1 (1996): 113–14.
4920. Woodman, Thomas M. Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 19, no. 1 (1996): 113–14.
      Abstract: It begins with a detailed biography and chronological survey of his main work and then considers Johnson’s religious and political attitudes and his place in intellectual history, demonstrating how he reformulated traditional ideas for a new world of science and commercialism. It provides a sketch of the 18th-century literary schemes, discussing Johnson’s extensive involvement in the literary life of his time, both as a professional writer and literary critic and it includes a detailed analysis of representatives passages and concludes with a reference section of biographies of significant figures in his life and work, places to visit and further reading.
4921. Woodman, Thomas M. A Preface to Samuel Johnson. London: Longman, 1993. Reviews:
      • Fleeman, J. D. Review of A Preface to Samuel Johnson, by Thomas M. Woodman. Notes and Queries 41 [239] (September 1994): 395–96.
      • Review of A Preface to Samuel Johnson, by Thomas M. Woodman. Year’s Work in English Studies 75 (1997): 361.
      • Tankard, Paul. Review of A Preface to Samuel Johnson, by Thomas M. Woodman. The Southern Johnsonian 3, no. 2 (March 1996): 7.
      • Womersley, David. Review of A Preface to Samuel Johnson, by Thomas M. Woodman. Review of English Studies 46 (August 1995): 454–55.
4922. Woodmansee, Martha. “On the Author Effect: Recovering Collectivity.” Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 10, no. 2 (1992): 279–92.
4923. Woodruff, James F. “The Background and Significance of The Rambler’s Format.” Publishing History 4 (1978): 113–33.
4924. Woodruff, James F. “The Development of Boswell’s Technique of the ‘Epiphany’ in the London Journal.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 305 (1992): 1399–1401.
4925. Woodruff, James F. Review of Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, by Prem Nath. University of Toronto Quarterly 58, no. 3 (1989): 419–20.
4926. Woodruff, James F. Review of Johnson after Two Hundred Years, by Paul J. Korshin. University of Toronto Quarterly 58, no. 3 (1989): 419–20.
4927. Woodruff, James F. “Two More Johnson Pieces in the Universal Chronicle?” New Rambler E:1 (1997): 59–70.
4928. Woods, Samuel H., Jr. Review of Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays, by Isobel Grundy. Yearbook of English Studies 18 (1988): 326–27.
4929. Woods, Samuel H., Jr. Review of The Oxford Authors: Samuel Johnson, by Donald J. Greene. Yearbook of English Studies 18 (1988): 327–29.
4930. Woodward, Branson Lee, Jr. “Rhetorical Dimensions of Samuel Johnson’s Rambler.” PhD thesis, Middle Tennessee University, 1982.
4931. Workman, Liz. Dr. Johnson’s Doorknob: And Other Significant Parts of Great Men’s Houses. New York: Rizzoli, 2007.
      Abstract: Behind every great man are his objects and daily possessions, defined as much by the minutiae of domesticity as by the great works of the man himself. Dr. Johnson’s Doorknob, inspired by Liz Workman’s National Heritage Revisited series published in England in 2002, is a situationist’s catalog of overlooked and highly amusing personal objects from the most famous households in history. From the mantelpieces in the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the crockery in Washington Irving’s Sunnyside home and the banisters in the William Morris Gallery, Workman peeked over the velvet ropes and turned an ironic eye on some of the most important historic homes in England and America. Each of the nine chapters in this charming, slipcased package is an anthology in itself, a collection of photographs that celebrate the unsung features of “great” men’s homes: there are door handles and banisters from the hallways of Charles Dickens and Jules Verne; the ashtray that held Freud’s cigarette butts; and chairs sat on by Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Jefferson. From her photos of Washington’s four-poster to John Keats’s desk chair and Winston Churchill’s floral prints, Dr. Johnson’s Doorknob breathes new life into the inhabitants of these homes.
      Reviews:
      • Tankard, Paul. Review of Dr. Johnson’s Doorknob: And Other Significant Parts of Great Men’s Houses, by Liz Workman. Johnsonian News Letter 66, no. 2 (September 2015): 60–61.
4932. Woudhuysen, H. R. “Arguing with Samuel Johnson.” New Rambler E:4 (2000): 69–73.
4933. Woudhuysen, H. R. “Dr. Johnson’s Books.” TLS, July 6, 1990, 729.
4934. Woudhuysen, H. R. Review of The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, by Roger Lonsdale. New Rambler E:9 (2005): 69–78.
4935. Woudhuysen, H. R. Review of Rasselas and Other Tales, by Gwin J. Kolb. TLS, September 13, 1991, 24.
4936. Woudhuysen, H. R. “Reconstituted Boswell [Review of Designing the ‘Life of Johnson’: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2, by Bruce Redford].” TLS, August 30, 2002, 21.
4937. Woudhuysen, H. R. “Some Early Collectors and Owners of Samuel Johnson’s Books and Manuscripts.” Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies 89–90 (2018): 83–97.
4938. Woudhuysen, H. R. Review of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, by Paul J. Korshin. TLS, June 22, 1990, 677.
4939. Wright, Alex. “From Francis Bacon’s Historia Literarum to Samuel Johnson’s Literary History: The Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae (1743–1745).” In Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600–1900, edited by Annika Bautz and James Gregory, 139–54. London: Routledge, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429489600-9.
      Abstract: The chapter is an account of Samuel Johnson’s role compiling the sale catalogue of the printed books owned by Robert and Edward Harley. It takes seriously Johnson’s claim in the preface that the catalogue was a work of literary history by studying his debts to the early modern genre of historia literaria pioneered by Francis Bacon and thereafter systematised by a series of mostly German scholars. Particularly, it concentrates on what Johnson learnt from the catalogues-all printed towards the end of the seventeenth century-of the libraries owned by Cardinal Francesco Barberini, the French parliamentarian and historian Jacques Auguste de Thou, and the Dutch textual critic Nicholas Heinsius.
4940. Wright, Julia M. “‘Dire Reverse’: Poetic Structure and Historic Catastrophe.” English Studies in Canada 44, no. 3 (September 2018): 3–9.
4941. Wright, Nicole M. “‘A More Exact Purity’: Legal Authority and Conspicuous Amalgamation in Early Modern English Law Guides and the Oxford Law Lectures of Sir Robert Chambers and Samuel Johnson.” University of Toronto Quarterly 82, no. 4 (Fall 2013): 864–88.
      Abstract: This paper finds that early modern and later texts explaining legal vocabulary and history to non-professionals bring into focus two vying conceptions of enforcing narrative and terminological purity (a notion inextricably bound up with the authority to produce legal narratives): decontamination, according to one perspective, and enrichment to strengthen an essence, according to another view. The lexicons generally promote a notion of “purity” that does not connote the removal of contaminants or foreign matter but rather depends on adulteration and heterogeneous additions. This paper argues that legal guide writers believed that cultivating impressions, and even illusions, of corporate authorship was key to attracting readers, who (the writers expected) perceived conspicuous reliance on numerous, diverse (foreign as well as domestic) sources as a mark of legitimacy.
4942. Xu, Xiaodong. “A Defense of Literary Forgeries in the Age of Samuel Johnson.” Foreign Literature Studies 36, no. 2 (2014): 95–103.
4943. Yahav, Amit S. “In Praise of Idling: Johnson, Austen, and Literary Leisure.” Modern Language Quarterly 84, no. 1 (2023): 1–25.
      Abstract: This essay examines the theory of leisure that Samuel Johnson presents in his Idler series and that Jane Austen engages in her novel Mansfield Park. Just as productivity and vigilance are becoming unassailable values, Johnson and Austen publish popular works designed to insert breaks into the culture of ceaseless striving. Their theory of leisure revalues idling as a state of beneficial, albeit transient, mindlessness and develops forms of representation that, instead of cultivating an edifying point of view — of refined knowledge, judgment, or feeling — promotes an occasional letting go. Johnson uses the proliferation and Austen the suspension of points of view to defend the value of reading materials that solicit relaxation and afford cheap pleasures for the many, or at least the many more. Both the Idler and Mansfield Park advocate for the redistribution of leisure in time rather than across classes of persons, thus transforming idling from a characterological deficiency ...
4944. Yardley, Jonathan. “Amazingly Enough, the First Great Dictionary Was Basically the Work of One Man.” Washington Post, November 13, 2005.
4945. Yarrow, Bill. Review of Johnson and “The Letters of Junius”: New Perspectives on an Old Enigma, by Linde Katritzky. East-Central Intelligencer 12 (September 1998): 26–28.
4946. Yarrow, William Paul. “‘Casts a Kind of Glory Round It’: Metaphor and the Life of Johnson.” In Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, edited by Irma S. Lustig, 158–83. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
4947. Yeager, Myron D. “Hawkins’s The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., and Modern Biographers.” In Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins’s “Life of Johnson,” edited by Martine W. Brownley, 89–98. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2012.
4948. Yeager, Myron D. “Johnson Redux: Two Tercentenary Biographies.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 23, no. 1 (December 2010): 61–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/08957690903496259.
4949. Yerkes, David. Review of Catalogue of the Papers of James Boswell at Yale University: For the Greater Part Formerly the Collection of Lieut.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, by Marion S. Pottle, Claude Colleer Abbott, and Frederick A. Pottle. Text (New York) 9 (1996): 474–76.
4950. Yerkes, David. “Putting Out, Adding, and Correcting [Review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford].” Text: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies 7 (1994): 478–87.
4951. Yıldırım, Tamer. “Samuel Jonhson ve Mutluluğu Aramak: Habeşistan Prensi Rasselas Bir Hikâye Üzerine Bir İnceleme.” Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi (SAUIFD) 26, no. 50 (2024): 574–89. https://doi.org/10.17335/sakaifd.1526234.
      Abstract: Habeşistan Prensi Rasselas Bir Hikâye, Dr. Samuel Johnson’ın (1709–1784) eserlerinin en popüler olanlarından biridir. Eserin ilk okuyucuları onu felsefî ve pratik açıdan önemli bir eser olarak görmüş ve bir roman olarak sınıflandırmanın zor olduğunu düşünmüştür. Johnson, eserini yaklaşık 250 yıl önce yazmasına rağmen bugün de okuyucuya hayatın, ölümün, evliliğin, öğrenmenin, eyleme karşı eylemsizliğin anlamını ve diğer birçok konuyu keşfettirmeye çalışmaktadır. Johnson, ahlak teorilerinden hareketle mutluluğu ele almamaktadır. Ahlakî failin kendisinden, insandan ve insanın yaşadığı hayat ve bunun koşullarından hareketle konuyu anlatmaktadır. Mutluluk anlamında temele alınacak olan fail ve onun içinde bulunduğu şartları değerlendirmektedir. Mutluluk, elde edilenden veya elde etmekten çok arama ve başarmada bulunabilir. Habeşistan Prensi, Voltaire’in (1694–1778) iyimserlik sistemini çürütmek için yazdığı Candide adlı esere, planı ve yapısı bakımından benzerlik göstermektedir. Fakat vardıkları sonuç birbirlerinden oldukça farklıdır. İnsanların mutluluğu bulmayı düşündükleri hemen her unsur ele alınıp bunların istenileni veremeyeceğinin belirtildiği Habeşistan Prensi, yöneticilerden hizmetçilere, yaşlılardan gençlere, bilgelerden cahillere varıncaya kadar her kesimden insanı örneklemektedir. Bütün olaylar mutluluk umuduyla başlamış fakat hayal kırıklığıyla sona ermiştir. Sonuçta romanda kurgusal bir yolculuk aracılığıyla ahlakî bir gerçeklik ortaya konulmaya çalışılmıştır. Johnson, Türkiye’de çok fazla tanınmadığı için makalenin giriş kısmında hayatı ve eserlerinin Habeşistan Prensi ile ilgili olan yönlerine kısaca değindik. Çalışmada yöntem olarak nitel araştırmanın imkanlarından yararlanılmış, literatür ve doküman analizi metotları kullanılarak Habeşistan Prensi’nde mutluluk, kötümserlik, iyimserlik konuları incelenmiştir.
4952. Yoder, Edwin M., Jr. “Cauldron Bubble: Macbeth Minus Its Supernatural Elements Could Not Have Mattered So Much to Lincoln and Dr. Johnson-and Should Not Matter to Us.” The American Scholar 78, no. 1 (December 2009): 111–17.
4953. Yong, Heming, and Jing Peng. A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022.
      Abstract: A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography traces the evolution of British English dictionaries from their earliest roots to the end of the 20th century by adopting both sociolinguistic and lexicographical perspectives. It attempts to break out of the limits of the dictionary-ontology paradigm and set British English dictionary making and research against a broader background of socio-cultural observations, thus relating the development of English lexicography to changes in English, accomplishments in English linguistics, social and cultural progress, as well as advances in science and technology. It unfolds a vivid, coherent and complete picture of how English dictionary making develops from its archetype to the prescriptive, the historical, the descriptive and finally to the cognitive model, how it interrelates to the course of the development of a nation’s culture and the historical growth of its lexicographical culture, and how English lexicography spreads from British English to other major regional varieties through inheritance, innovation and self-perfection. This volume will be of interest to students and academics of English Lexicography, English Linguistics and world English lexicography.
4954. Yoshihiro Ishii. 希望の本質: サミュエル・ジョンソンの思想と文学 / Kibō no honshitsu: Samyueru Jonson no shisō to bungaku, 広島修道大学学術選書 = Hiroshima shūdō daigaku gakujutsu sensho 79. Yokohama: Shunpūsha, 2021.
4955. Yoshino, Yuri. “Jane Austen and the Reception of Samuel Johnson in Japan: The Domestication of Realism in Soseki Natsume’s Theory of Literature (1907).” In Johnson in Japan, edited by Kimiyo Ogawa, Mika Suzuki, and Greg Clingham, 62–73. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
4956. Young, Gary Ramsey. “The Controversy Surrounding Samuel Johnson’s Late Conversion.” PhD thesis, University of Texas at Arlington, 1985.
4957. Yung, Kai Kin, and Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson, 1709–1784: A Bicentenary Exhibition. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984. Reviews:
      • Pittock, Joan H. Review of Samuel Johnson, 1709–1784: A Bicentenary Exhibition, by Kai Kin Yung. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 9, no. 1 (1987): 105–6.
4958. Zachs, William. Review of Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, by Irma S. Lustig. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 10 (1996): 16–18.
4959. Zachs, William. “The Boswells and Platina’s Lives of the Popes.” Yale University Library Gazette 70, no. 3–4 (April 1996): 143–52.
4960. Zachs, William. Collecting and Recollecting James Boswell, 1740–1795. New York: Grolier Club, 1995.
4961. Zachs, William. Review of James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, by Donald J. Newman. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 10 (1996): 16–18.
4962. Zachs, William. Review of James Boswell: The Life of Johnson, by Greg Clingham. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 7 (1993): 30–31.
4963. Zaleski, Carol. “Doctor Johnson’s Failures.” The Christian Century 133, no. 4 (February 17, 2016): 37.
4964. Zaretsky, Robert. Boswell’s Enlightenment. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.
      Abstract: Throughout his life, James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might, he could not reconcile the truths of his era with those of his religious upbringing. Boswell’s Enlightenment examines the conflicting credos of reason and faith, progress and tradition that pulled Boswell, like so many eighteenth-century Europeans, in opposing directions. In the end, the life of the man best known for writing Samuel Johnson’s biography was something of a patchwork affair. As Johnson himself understood: “That creature was its own tormentor, and I believe its name was BOSWELL.”
      Reviews:
      • Donoghue, Steven. Review of Boswell’s Enlightenment, by Robert Zaretsky. Christian Science Monitor, March 30, 2015.
      • Guardian. Review of Boswell’s Enlightenment, by Robert Zaretsky. June 15, 2015.
      • Review of Boswell’s Enlightenment, by Robert Zaretsky. Kirkus Reviews 83, no. 1 (2015).
      • Scott, John T. Review of Boswell’s Enlightenment, by Robert Zaretsky. Southwest Review 94, no. 3 (2009): 349–65.
4965. Zaretsky, Robert. “A Grand Tour.” Virginia Quarterly Review 90, no. 1 (December 2014): 196–202.
4966. Zaretsky, Robert. “Upon the Rock.” Southwest Review 97, no. 2 (2012): 244–56.
4967. Zaretsky, Robert, and John T. Scott. The Philosophers’ Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300156249.
      Abstract: The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the Channel. As the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume unraveled, a volley of rancorous letters was fired off, then quickly published and devoured by aristocrats, intellectuals, and common readers alike. Everyone took sides in this momentous dispute between the greatest of Enlightenment thinkers. In this lively and revealing book, Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott explore the unfolding rift between Rousseau and Hume. The authors are particularly fascinated by the connection between the thinkers’ lives and thought, especially the way that the failure of each to understand the other — and himself — illuminates the limits of human understanding. In addition, they situate the philosophers’ quarrel in the social, political, and intellectual milieu that informed their actions, as well as the actions of the other participants in the dispute, such as James Boswell, Adam Smith, and Voltaire. By examining the conflict through the prism of each philosopher’s contribution to Western thought, Zaretsky and Scott reveal the implications for the two men as individuals and philosophers as well as for the contemporary world.
4968. Zaretsky, Robert, and John T. Scott. “The Wild Philosopher.” In The Philosophers’ Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding, 8. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
      Abstract: The peaks of the Swiss Jura were sheathed in snow, but the road bordering the eastern foothills was bare and hard. Among its travelers early on the morning of December 3, 1764, was a young Scot, James Boswell. Boswell had set out from the town of Neuchâtel, cradled between the frozen sliver of lake that took its name from the city and the mountains rising behind it. As his horse ‘s hooves echoed against the frozen ground of the high mountain valley called the Val de Travers, the twenty-four-year-old heir of an ancient Scottish family whistled a brisk French tune.
4969. Zarobila, Charles. “Boswell and Johnson at Blithedale: A Source for Hawthorne’s Romance.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 14, no. 1 (Spring 1988): 6–9.
4970. Zeitz, Lisa M. “Writing Boswell: Form, Text, and Identity in the London Journal.” In Man and Nature: Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, edited by Josiane Boulad-Ayoub, Michael Cartwright, Michel Grenon, and William Kinsley, 227–38. London, Ont.: Published for the Society by the Faculty of Education, the University of Western Ontario, 1991.
4971. Zezima, Katie. “A Samuel Johnson Trove Goes to Harvard’s Library.” New York Times, March 18, 2004.
      On the Hyde Collection’s move to the Houghton.
4972. Zickler, Elaine Perez. “Boswell’s London Journal: Binding a Life.” In James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, edited by Donald J. Newman, 33–50. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
4973. Ziegler, Robert. “Recent Books on Johnson and Boswell [Review of New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of ‘The Life of Johnson,’ by Greg Clingham; The Politics of Samuel Johnson, 2nd Ed., by Donald Greene; Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, by Alvin B. Kernan; A Dr. Johnson Chronology, by Norman Page; Johnson’s Shakespeare, by G. F. Parker; The Making of Johnson’s ‘Dictionary,’ 1746–1773, by Allen Reddick; The Letters of Samuel Johnson, by Bruce Redford; and Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient, by John Wiltshire].” Papers on Language and Literature 28, no. 4 (September 1992): 457–75.
4974. Zigarovich, Jolene. Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature 10. New York: Routledge, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203082959.
4975. Zimmer, William. “Johnson and Boswell Are Reunited at Yale.” New York Times, May 26, 1991.
4976. Zionkowski, Linda. “Celebrity Violence in the Careers of Savage, Pope and Johnson.” In Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750–1850, edited by Tom Mole, 168–85. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
4977. Zionkowski, Linda. “‘I Also Am a Man’: Johnson’s Lives and the Gender of the Poet.” In Men’s Work: Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660–1784, 171–203. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
4978. Zionkowski, Linda. “Territorial Disputes in the Republic of Letters: Canon Formation and the Literary Profession.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 31, no. 1 (March 1990): 3–22.
4979. Zomchick, John P. Review of Johnson, “Rasselas,” and the Choice of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken. South Atlantic Review 56, no. 3 (September 1991): 114–17.
4980. 叶丽贤. 重返昨日世界: 从塞缪尔·约翰逊到亚当·斯密,一群塑造时代的人 / cong Saimiu’er Yuehanxun dao Yadang Simi, yi qun su zao shi dai de ren. Guiling: Guangxi shi fan da xue chu ban she, 2022.
4981. 叶丽贤 Ye Lixian. 塞缪尔·约翰逊《诗人传》对英诗经典的建构 = Samuel Johnson’s formation of a poetic canon in the Lives of the Poets / Sai mou er Yue han xun shi ren chuan dui ying shi jing dian de jian gou = Samuel Johnson’s formation of a poetic canon in the Lives of the Poets. Shamen: 厦门: 厦门大学出版社, 2020: Sha men da xue chu ban she, 2020.
      Abstract: 本书以约翰逊的《诗人传》为考察对象,从诗歌批评史的角度来检视这位18世纪大文豪的批评观如何塑造和影响《诗人传》某些传主的经典地位.本书讨论的是《诗人传》中的弥尔顿,德莱顿,蒲柏,还有两大诗人群体— — “玄学派"诗人和十八世纪中期诗人.Ben shu yi yue han xun de shi ren chuan wei kao cha dui xiang,Cong shi ge pi ping shi de jiao du lai jian shi zhei wei 18 shi ji da wen hao de pi ping guan ru he su zao he ying xiang shi ren chuan mou xie chuan zhu de jing dian di wei.Ben shu tao lun de shi shi ren chuan zhong de mi er dun,De lai dun,Pu bo,Hai you liang da shi ren qun ti"xuan xue pai"shi ren he shi ba shi ji zhong qi shi ren.
4982. 孙勇彬. “灵魂的冲突——鲍斯威尔《约翰生传》研究.” Qilu Xue Kan/Qilu Journal 2 (2003): 142–44.
4983. 渡辺 邦男 [Watanabe, Kunio]. “現代注釈本にみるジョンソンのシェイクスピア注： 『ジュリアス・シーザー』の場合.” Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 139, no. 6 (September 1993): 12–15.
4984. 王亞倫. George Allen. “個「不道德的道德家」及其傳承:賽彌爾強森, 修身, 與十八世紀英國的文字印刷 = The ‘Vicious Moralist’ and His Legacy: Samuel Johnson, Self-Improvement, and the Printed Word in Eighteenth Century Britain.” PhD thesis, National Cheng Kung University Department of Foreign Languages & Literature, 2008.
4985. 石井善洋. 希望の本質: サミュエル・ジョンソンの思想と文学 / Kibō no honshitsu: Samyueru Jonson no shisō to bungaku. 広島修道大学学術選書 = Hiroshima shūdō daigaku gakujutsu sensho 79. Yokohama: Shunpūsha, 2021.
4986. (英) 约翰生(Samuel Johnson), and Cai Tianming. 传记奇葩: 萨维奇评传和考利评传 / Zhuan ji qi pa: Sa wei qi ping chuan he kao li ping chuan. 约翰生书系列.约翰生书系列: Yue han sheng shu xi lie. Beijing: 北京: 国际文化出版公司: 第1版: Guo ji wen hua chu ban gong si, 2013.
      Abstract: 本书分为译者序;萨维奇评传;考利评传;附录;后记五部分, 内容包括:国外约翰生学概况;约翰生家乡见闻.Ben shu fen wei yi zhe xu; sa wei qi ping chuan; kao li ping chuan; fu lu; hou ji wu bu fen, nei rong bao gua: guo wai yue han sheng xue gai kuang; yue han sheng jia xiang jian wen.
4987. 范存忠. “中国的思想文化与约翰逊博士.” Wen Xue Yi Chan/Literary Heritage 2 (1986): 93–99.
4988. 蔡田明 = Cai tian ming. 走近约翰生 = Approaching Samuel Johnson / Zou jin yue han sheng = Approaching samuel Johnson. Beijing: 北京: 社会科学文献出版社, 2018: She hui ke xue wen xian chu ban she, 2018.
      Abstract: 本书汇集作者十余篇文论,分别介绍和约翰生小说,约翰生与启蒙运动,约翰生的诗学观及其政治,宗教,哲学和全球化思想.国外约翰生学研究概况,呈现英美澳的研究进展和学习活动常态.Ben shu hui ji zuo zhe shi yu pian wen lun,Fen bie jie shao yue han sheng chuan he yue han sheng xiao shuo xing fu gu,Yue han sheng yu qi meng yun dong,Yue han sheng de shi xue guan ji qi zheng zhi,Zong jiao,Zhe xue he quan qiu hua si xiang.Guo wai yue han sheng xue yan jiu gai kuang,Cheng xian ying mei ao de yan jiu jin zhan he xue xi huo dong chang tai.
4989. 蔡田明 Tianming. 约翰生评传 / Yue han sheng ping chuan. Beijing: 北京: 国际文化出版公司, 2022: Guo ji wen hua chu ban gong si, 2022.
      Abstract: 本书采纳十余种流行且有影响的约翰生传记资源,分阶段叙述介绍约翰生一生及各位传记作者对其人其思想的评价,极力反映出不同时期尤其当代的约翰生传记写作和研究现况,提供较为完整的理解约翰生著书立说,知行同一的智慧人生画面,试图揭示约翰生何以成为谈不完的话题.Ben shu cai na shi yu zhong liu xing qie you ying xiang de yue han sheng chuan ji zi yuan,Fen jie duan xu shu jie shao yue han sheng yi sheng ji ge wei chuan ji zuo zhe dui qi ren qi si xiang de ping jia,Ji li fan ying chu bu tong shi qi you qi dang dai de yue han sheng chuan ji xie zuo he yan jiu xian kuang,Ti gong jiao wei wan zheng de li jie yue han sheng zhu shu li shuo,Zhi xing tong yi de zhi hui ren sheng hua mian,Shi tu jie shi yue han sheng he yi cheng wei tan bu wan de hua ti.
4990. 贝特 Bate Walter Jackson, and Yi. Zhou,Peiheng. 约翰生传 = Samuel Johnson: a biography / Yue han sheng chuan. Guilin: 桂林: 广西师范大学出版社, 2022: Guang xi shi fan da xue chu ban she, 2022.
      Abstract: 本书讲述塞缪尔·约翰生的生平,性格和作品.展现出这位伟人的优点与缺点,他内心的动荡与叛逆,他内心中独立与依赖,敌意与内疚的分裂,刻画出约翰生强烈的痛苦与勇气.Ben shu jiang shu sai mou er·Yue han sheng de sheng ping,Xing ge he zuo pin.Zhan xian chu zhei wei wei ren de you dian yu que dian,Ta nei xin de dong dang yu pan ni,Ta nei xin zhong du li yu yi lai,Di yi yu nei jiu de fen lie,Ke hua chu yue han sheng qiang lie de tong ku yu yong qi.
4991. 陈西军. Johnson Samuel, and Chen Xijun. 追寻幸福: 拉赛拉斯王子漫游人生记 / Zhui xun xing fu: Lasailasi wang zi man you ren sheng ji (Rasselas). Nanjing Shi: 南京市: 译林出版社: 第1版: Yi lin chu ban she, 2012.
4992. 鲍斯韦尔 Boswell James, and Cha tu. Pu,Long. 约翰生传: 全译本 = The life of Samuel Johnson / Quan yi ben = The life of Samuel Johnson. Shanghai: 上海: 上海译文出版社有限公司: Shang hai yi wen chu ban she you xian gong si, 2023.
      Abstract: 本书记述了十八世纪著名英国诗人,散文家,批评家和英语词典编纂家约翰生的一生,并介绍了其代表作等.Ben shu ji shu le shi ba shi ji zhu ming ying guo shi ren,San wen jia,Pi ping jia he ying yu ci dian bian zuan jia yue han sheng de yi sheng,Bing jie shao le qi dai biao zuo la sai la si> deng.
4993. 龚龑 Gong. 塞缪尔·约翰逊的道德关怀 / Sai mou erYue han xun de dao de guan huai. Beijing: 北京: 中国社会科学出版社, 2015: Zhong guo she hui ke xue chu ban she, 2015.
      Abstract: 本书将约翰逊的观点置于当时相应的历史背景中, 主要聚焦于约翰逊的社会道德观, 政治观念和文学批评, 偶尔论及他的宗教思想.从文字上把握原文主旨, 尽可能利用较新的传记研究材料和18世纪历史, 政治, 文学和社会的研究成果, 证明约翰逊伦理思想同英国现代化情境的相关性.Ben shu jiang yue han xun de guan dian zhi yu dang shi xiang ying de li shi bei jing zhong, Zhu yao ju jiao yu yue han xun de she hui dao de guan, Zheng zhi guan nian he wen xue pi ping, Ou er lun ji ta de zong jiao si xiang. Cong wen zi shang ba wo yuan wen zhu zhi, Jin ke neng li yong jiao xin de chuan ji yan jiu cai liao he 18 shi ji li shi, Zheng zhi, Wen xue he she hui de yan jiu cheng guo, Zheng ming yue han xun lun li si xiang tong ying guo xian dai hua qing jing de xiang guan xing.