Samuel Johnson

Since I wrote my dissertation on Johnson and I maintain other pages devoted to the eighteenth century, I'm now piecing together this page, your place for one-stop-shopping for Johnson and his circle on the Internet. Suggestions are always welcome.

Guide

Electronic Texts

By Johnson

• The Life of Savage (I've also prepared a slightly abridged edition, about two thirds of the original, for teaching)
• Review of Soame Jenyns, Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil
• An Account of the Harleian Library
• London (1738)
• Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)
• Vanity of Human Wishes (1755)
• On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
• Review of Jonas Hanway's Journal of Eight Days' Journey (1757) in which he defends tea drinking
• Idler, no. 60 (9 June 1759)
• Idler, no. 61 (16 June 1759)
• Rasselas
• The Plan of an English Dictionary
• The Preface to the Dictionary
• The Life of Ascham
• The Life of Browne
• The Life of Pope (and an abridged version)
• The Life of Collins
• The Life of Gray
• Selections from the Prayers and Meditations
• Selected Opinions of Samuel Johnson from Boswell's Life (from a course of mine, "The Age of Reason?")
• The Rambler and the Adventurer (selections) (Virginia)
• Selections from The Rambler (Virginia)
• Quotations from Columbia's 1901 Bartlett's
• Robert Folkenflik's Encyclopedia Britannica Entry (available only to subscribers to the EB service)
• A Short Song of Congratulation (WWU)
• Selected Annotations on Hamlet
• Excerpt from "Notes on Shakespeare" (Berkeley)
• Johnson's last Will and Testament

By Others

• Boswell's Life of Johnson (in progress -- now through 1763)
• Macaulay's review of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life (1831) -- I hope to work on an abridged version to provide along with the complete text
• Frances Burney, Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney (Virginia)
• Sir Leslie Stephen, Samuel Johnson (CMU)
• Doctor Johnson's Page (mostly quotations; SFSU)
• Samuel Johnson (Tourette's Syndrome pages)
• Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum, Lichfield
• The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page

Scholarship

• Johnsonian Bibliography, 1986-1998
• The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual
• Johnson Society of Australia
• Jack Lynch, "Studied Barbarity: Johnson, Spenser, and Literary Progress," delivered April 1995 at ASECS in Tucson
• Samuel Johnson bibliography (Johnson Society of London)

Books on Johnson

• O M Brack, The Early Biographies of Samuel Johnson (Univ. of Chicago Press)
• J. C. D. Clark, Samuel Johnson (Cambridge Univ. Press)
• Charles H. Hinnant, Steel for the Mind
• Alvin Kernan, Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print (Princeton Univ. Press)
• Alvin Kernan, Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print (Princeton Univ. Press)
• Catherine Parke, Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking (Missouri)
• Bruce Redford, The Letters of Samuel Johnson (Princeton)
• Richard B. Schwartz, Samuel Johnson and the New Science (Princeton Univ. Press)

The Club...

• "Sons of Ayrshire" on Boswell and Burns (Tom Kinsella, Stockton)
• Boswell's encounter with Louisa in the London Journal.
• James Boswell biography (Edinburgh)
• Adam Smith biography (Edinburgh)

... and Beyond

• Hume Archives (Univ. of Tennessee at Martin)
• The Voltaire Foundation (Oxford)

Quotations (from a 1901 edition of Bartlett's at Columbia)

• Samuel Johnson
• Edmund Burke
• Earl of Chesterfield
• David Garrick
• Edward Gibbon
• Oliver Goldsmith
• Thomas Percy
• Hester Thrale Piozzi
• Thomas Warton

Query Search Engines for "Samuel Johnson"

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