- John L. Abbott, "Defining the Johnsonian Canon: Authority,
Intuition, and the Uses of Evidence," Modern Language
Studies, 18:1 (Winter 1988), 89-98.
- John L. Abbott, "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, ed. D. G. C. Allan and John L. Abbott (Athens: Univ.
of Georgia Press, 1992), pp. 7-17.
- J. L. Abbott 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. Reprinted
in The Virtuoso Tribe of Arts and Sciences: Studies in the
Eighteenth-Century Work and Membership of the London Society of
Arts, ed. D. G. C. Allan and John L. Abbott (Athens: Univ.
of Georgia Press, 1992), pp. 18-37.
- Henry Abelove, "John Wesley's Plagiarism of Samuel Johnson
and Its Contemporary Reception," Huntington Library
Quarterly, 59:1 (1997), 73-79.
- James Eli Adams, "The Economies of Authorship: Imagination
and Trade in Johnson's Dryden," SEL, 30:3 (Summer 1990),
467-86.
- Katherine H. Adams, "A Critic Formed: Samuel Johnson's
Apprenticeship with Irene, 1736-1749," in Fresh
Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy:
Whitston, 1987), pp. 183-200.
- Denise Adamucci, "The Final Decision: Lover or Friends?"
M.A. Thesis, Arizona State Univ. 1993 (not seen).
- M. D. Aeschliman, "The Good Man Speaking Well: Samuel
Johnson," National Review, 37 (11 Jan. 1985), 49-52.
- Saleem Ahmed, "Dr. Johnson's Rasselas: The Choice of
Life," in Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, ed. T. R. Sharma
(Meerut, India: Shalabh, 1986), pp. 43-50.
- Muhsin Jassim Ali, "Rasselas as a Colonial
Discourse," Central Institute of English & Foreign
Languages Bulletin, 8:1 (June 1996), 47-60.
- Paul Alkon, "Johnson and Time Criticism," Modern
Philology, 85:4 (May 1988), 543-57.
- [Add to item 11/1:10] Paul Alkon and Robert
Folkenflik, Samuel Johnson: Pictures and Words: Papers
Presented at a Clark Library Seminar, 23 October 1982 (Los
Angeles: Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1985). Reviews:
- Stephen Fix, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 21
(Summer 1988), 521-26;
- Serge Soupel, Etudes
anglaises, 39:2 (April-June 1986), 218-19.
- Denna Allen, "How the TV Play of Johnson and Boswell Is Set
to Spark an Outcry North of the Border," The Mail on
Sunday, 10 Oct. 1993, pp. 48-49.
- Julia Allen, "'Hateful Practices' and 'Horrid Operations':
Johnson's Views on Vivisection," Transactions of the Johnson
Society (Lichfield), (1993), 20-29.
- Brenda Ameter, "Samuel Johnson's View of America: A Moral
Judgment, Based on Conscience, Not Compromise," in Approaches
to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, ed. David R.
Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New York: MLA, 1993), pp. 71-77.
- Sadrul Amir, "Some Aspects of Johnson as a Critic," Dhaka
University Studies Part A, 42:1 (1985), 40-58.
- Hugh Amory, Dreams of a Poet Doomed at Last to Wake a
Lexicographer (Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Library, 1986).
Pp. 8. 250 copies printed for the Johnsonians.
- David R. Anderson, "Johnson and the Problem of Religious
Verse," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 4 (1991),
41-57.
- David R. Anderson, "Classroom Texts: The Teacher, the
Anthology," in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel
Johnson, ed. David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New York:
MLA, 1993), pp. 3-7.
- David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb, eds., Approaches to
Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson (New York: MLA, 1993).
Pp. x + 152. Reviews:
- A. F. T. Lurcock,
N&Q, 42:3 (Sept. 1995), 402-403.
- Eric Anderson, "Robert Anderson: Johnson's Other Scottish
Biographer," Transactions of the Johnson Society
(Lichfield), (1992), 1-7.
- Christopher Andreae, "Exaggerate, Said Dr. Johnson," The
Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 1985, p. 34.
- [Anon.], 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.: Univ. of Western Ontario, 1985).
- [Anon.], "Boswell Find," The Times, 6 June 1985, p.
5h. Two newly discovered letters -- one by Johnson, one by
Boswell -- in Canberra National Library.
- [Anon.], "Dr. Johnson by Mrs. Thrale: The 'Anecdotes' of
Mrs. Piozzi in Their Original Form," The New Yorker, 61
(30 Dec. 1985), 80.
- [Anon.], "Boswell on Johnson on Conversation," The
Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 1986, p. 42.
- [Anon.], "Dr. Johnson's Dog," The Economist, 26 Dec.
1987, p. 7.
- [Anon.], "Samuel Johnson's Tics," FDA Consumer, 22
(Sept. 1988), 29.
- [Anon.], Samuel Johnson, Writer, 1709-1784 (Falls
Church, Va.: Landmark Films, 1988). Videocassette.
- [Anon.], Samuel Johnson, 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 and Los
Angeles: Rasselas Press & the USC Fine Arts Press, 1988).
Pp. 33.
- [Anon.], "Guests Outside Dr Samuel Johnson's House at 17
Gough Square, off Fleet Street, for its Reopening," The
Independent, 24 May 1990, p. 6.
- [Anon.], "Down into Egypt," Philosophy, 65:254 (Oct.
1990), 395-97. Editorial.
- [Anon.], "Dr Johnson Relic May Be Replaced," The
Independent, 11 March 1991, p. 2.
- [Anon.], "'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.
- [Anon.], "The Gobblies at the Gate," The Economist,
325:7786 (21 Nov. 1992), 104.
- [Anon.], "John Wilkes, Esq., and Dr. Samuel Johnson," The
Atlantic, 271:3 (March 1993), 87.
- [Anon.], "Boxing: Dr Johnson's Plea Rings Out over Another
Lull in Boxing," The Sunday Telegraph, 10 Oct. 1993, p.
5.
- [Anon.], "On the Road with Johnson & Boswell & Co.,"
Telegraph Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, 11 Sept.
1993, p. 36.
- [Anon.], "Samuel Johnson, Man of the Theater," New
York, 28:19 (8 May 1995), 83.
- [Anon.], "Dr. Johnson's Regard for Truth," The Herald
(Glasgow), 17 Feb. 1996, p. 14.
- [Anon.], "Dr. Johnson's Zeal for Gaelic," The Herald
(Glasgow), 26 Feb. 1996, p. 12.
- [Anon.], "Johnson's Bestiary," Transactions of the
Johnson Society (Lichfield), (1997), 24-29. Humorous piece
on Dictionary definitions on animals.
- [Anon.], "An Original 'Fame' School," Leicester
Mercury, 16 June 1998, p. 4. Brief profile of the Dixie
Grammar School in Market Bosworth.
- Kelly Anspaugh, "Traveling to the Lighthouse with Woolf and
Johnson," Virginia Woolf Miscellany, 45 (Spring 1995),
4-5.
- Jonathan Arac, "The Media of Sublimity: Johnson and Lamb on
King Lear," Studies in Romanticism, 26:2 (Summer
1987), 209-20.
- Helen Ashmore, introd., Frances Reynolds and Samuel
Johnson: A Keepsake to Mark the 286th Birthday of Samuel Johnson
and the 49th Annual Dinner of the Johnsonians (Cambridge:
Houghton Library, 1995). Pp. 28. At Harvard University, 15 Sept.
1995.
- Helen Ashmore, "'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.
- James Atlas, "Dr. Johnson's Open House," House &
Garden, 159 (Dec. 1987), 12.
- James Atlas, "Holmes on the Case," The New Yorker,
70:29 (19 Sept. 1994), 57-65. On Holmes's Dr. Johnson and Mr.
Savage.
- James Atlas, "Over the Sea to Skye," Condé Nast
Traveler, 31 (June 1996), 120-29.
- Amad Awwad, "Samuel Johnson and the Issue of Holy
Matrimony," M.A. Thesis, California State University, Hayward,
1986 (not seen).
- Bernard Bailyn, "Does a Freeborn Englishman Have a Right to
Emigrate?" American Heritage, 37 (1986), 24-31.
- Paul Baines, "'Putting a Book out of Place': Johnson, Ossian
and the Highland Tour," Durham University Journal, 53:2
(July 1992), 235-48.
- Paul Baines, "Chatterton and Johnson: Authority and
Filitation in the 1770s," in Thomas Chatterton and Romantic
Culture, ed. Nick Groom (New York: St. Martin's, 1999), pp.
172-87.
- John D. Baird, "'A Louse and a Flea': A Source for Johnson's
Rejoinder," N&Q, 37:3 (Sept. 1990), 312.
- Russell Baker, "Typical American Noises," New York
Times, 146 (29 March 1997), 19(L).
- Barry Baldwin, "Samuel Johnson and the Classics," Hellas:
A Journal of Poetry and the Humanities, 2:2 (Fall 1991),
227-38.
- Barry Baldwin, "Samuel Johnson and Vergil," Prudentia,
24 (1992), 37-63.
- Barry Baldwin, "Johnson's Conglobulating Swallows,"
N&Q, 41:2 (June 1994), 199-206.
- Barry Baldwin, "The Mysterious Letter 'M' in Johnson's
Diaries," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 6
(1994), 131-46.
- Barry Baldwin, "A Classical Source for Johnson on Augustus
and Lord Bute," N&Q, 42:4 (Dec. 1995), 467-68.
- Barry Baldwin, "Samuel Johnson and Petronius," Petronian
Society Newsletter, 25 (1995), 14-15.
- Barry Baldwin, "Plautus in Johnson: An Unnoticed Quotation,"
N&Q, 43 (Sept. 1996), 305-306.
- Laura Bandiera, Settecento e malinconia: saggi di
letteratura inglese (Bologna: Patron Editore, 1995). Pp.
168. In Italian.
- A. Banerjee, "Dr. Johnson's Daughter: Jane Austen and
Northanger Abbey," English Studies, 71 (April
1990), 113-24.
- Michel Baridon, "On the Relation of Ideology to Form in
Johnson's Style," in Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson,
ed. Prem Nath (Troy: Whitston, 1987), pp. 85-105.
- Brooke Ann Barker, "The Representation of Prostitutes in
Eighteenth-Century British Literature," Dissertation
Abstracts International, 53 (1993), 2377A.
- Carol Barnett, Elegy: An Epitaph on Claudy Phillips, a
Musician (1988). Music by Carol Barnett, with words by
Samuel Johnson. Holograph score at New York Public Library.
- Louise K. Barnett, "Dr. Johnson's Mother: Maternal Ideology
and the Life of Savage," Studies on Voltaire and the
Eighteenth Century, 304 (1992), 856-59.
- Joseph F. Bartolomeo, "Johnson, Richardson, and the Audience
for Fiction," N&Q, 33:4 (Dec. 1986), 517.
- Joseph F. Bartolomeo, A New Species of Criticism:
Eighteenth-Century Discourse on the Novel (Newark: Univ. of
Delaware Press, 1994), chapter 2 ("Cracking Facades of
Authority: Richardson, Fielding, and Johnson"), pp. 47-87.
- Philip Edward Baruth, "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.
- Philip Edward Baruth, "Positioning the (Auto)Biographical
Self: Ideological Fictions of Self in Boswell, Johnson, and John
Bunyan," Dissertation Abstracts International, 54:3
(Sept. 1993), 936A. Univ. of California, Irvine.
- James G. Basker, "Dancing Dogs, Women Preachers and the Myth
of Johnson's Misogyny," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 3 (1990), 63-90.
- James G. Basker, "Scotticisms and the Problem of Cultural
Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain," Eighteenth-Century
Life, 15:1-2 (Feb.-May 1991), 81-95; reprinted in
Sociability and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
(Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1993).
- James G. Basker, "Resisting Authority; Or, Johnson and the
Wizard of Oz," in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel
Johnson, ed. David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New York:
MLA, 1993), pp. 28-34.
- James G. Basker, "Samuel Johnson and the American Common
Reader," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 6
(1994), 3-30.
- James Basker, "Samuel Johnson and the African-American
Reader," The New Rambler, D:10 (1994-95), 47-57.
- James G. Basker, "Coming of Age in Johnson's England:
Adolescence in the Rambler," in Les Ages de la vie en
Grande-Bretagne au XVIIIe siècle, ed. Serge Soupel
(Paris: Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1995), pp. 197-212.
- James G. Basker, "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, ed. D. E. D. Beales
and H. B. Nisbet (Boydell Press, 1996), pp. 131-44.
- James G. Basker, "Radical Affinities: Mary Wollstonecraft
and Samuel Johnson," in Tradition in Transition: Women
Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon,
ed. Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1996), pp. 41-55.
- James G. Basker, "An Eighteenth-Century Critique of
Eurocentrism: Samuel Johnson and the Plight of Native
Americans," in La Grande-Bretagne et l'Europe des
Lumières, ed. Serge Soupel (Paris: Presses de la
Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1996), pp. 207-20.
- James G. Basker, "Samuel Johnson," in Britain in the
Hanoverian Age 1714-1837, ed. Gerald Newman et al.
(New York: Garland, 1997), pp. 378-80.
- James G. Basker, "Myth upon Myth: Johnson, Gender, and the
Misogyny Question," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 8 (1997), 175-87.
- Lionel Basney, "'His Proper Business': Johnson's Adjustment
to Society," Texas Studies in Literature and Language,
32:3 (Fall 1990), 397-416.
- Lionel Basney, "Prudence in the Life of Savage,"
ELN, 28:2 (Dec. 1990), 17-24.
- Lionel Basney, "Narrative and Judgment in the Life of
Savage," Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly,
14:2 (Spring 1991), 153-64.
- Jonathan Bate, "Johnson and Shakespeare," The New
Rambler, C:25 (1985-86), 11-13.
- Jonathan Bate, "Johnson, Garrick and Macbeth," The New
Rambler, D:9 (1993-94), 8-12.
- Walter Jackson Bate, A Life of Allegory (Savannah,
Armstrong State College, 1995). Videocassettes of the Conrad
Aiken Video Lectures Series. Separate parts: "Samuel Johnson's
Four Great Themes," "Samuel Johnson: The Dark Years"; "Johnson,
Psychology & English Prose Style"; "Samuel Johnson: The
Final Years"; "Boswell" (not seen).
- Walter Jackson Bate, Samuel Johnson, 2nd ed.
(Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1998). Pp. xxii + 646.
Reviews:
- Bernice Grohskopf, The
Virginian-Pilot, 13 Sept. 1998, p. J2.
- James L. Battersby, "Life, Art, and the Lives of the
Poets," in Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the
Art of Biography, ed. David Wheeler (Lexington: Univ. Press
of Kentucky, 1987), pp. 26-56.
- James L. Battersby, "The 'Lame and Impotent' Conclusion to
The Vanity of Human Wishes Reconsidered," in Fresh
Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy:
Whitston, 1987), pp. 227-55.
- John Beer, "Coleridge, Wordsworth and Johnson," Journal
of the English Language and Literature (Seoul), 33 (1987),
25-42.
- Michele A. Beilman, "Anthropological Particulars: Johnson's
Ambivalent Pastoral Dream," Wascana Review of Contemporary
Poetry and Short Fiction, 27:1 (Spring 1992), pp. 73-89.
- V. I. Berezkina, "Iz istorii zhanra esse v angliiskoi
literature XVIII v.: K probleme istoricheskoi poetiki zhanra,"
Filologicheskie Nauki, 4 (1991), pp. 49-61. In Russian.
- Lisa Berglund, "Learning to Read The Rambler,"
Dissertation Abstracts International, 56:4 (Oct. 1995),
1363A. University of Virginia.
- Lisa Berglund, "Writing to Mr. Rambler: Samuel Johnson and
Exemplary Autobiography," Studies in Eighteenth-Century
Culture, 29 (1999), 241-59.
- Gina Berkeley, "Verses after Dr. Johnson," The New
Rambler, D:10 (1994-95), 64.
- Kevin J. Berland, "'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.
- Carol Ray Berninger, "Across Celtic Borders: Johnson,
Boswell, Piozzi, Scott," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 54 (1994), 4099A. Drew University.
- A. M. Berrett, "Francis Barber's Marriage and Children: A
Correction," N&Q, 35 (June 1988), 193.
- James Biester, "Samuel Johnson on Letters,"
Rhetorica, 6:2 (Spring 1988), 145-66.
- Anne Bindslev, "'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, 25-27 September 1986, ed. Ishrad
Lindblad and Magnus Ljung, 2 vols. (Stockholm: Almqvist &
Wiskell, 1987), pp. 519-31.
- Harold Bloom, ed., Modern Critical Interpretations: James
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (New York: Chelsea House,
1986). Pp. viii + 160. A collection of previously published
essays.
- Harold Bloom, ed. Modern Critical Views: Dr. Samuel
Johnson and James Boswell( New York: Chelsea House, 1986). A
collection of previously published essays. Pp. viii + 280.
Reviews:
- Steven Lynn, South Atlantic
Review, 55:2 (May 1990), 143-46.
- Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of
the Ages (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994), pp. 183-202.
- Ronald Blythe, ed., The Pleasures of Diaries: Four
Centuries of Private Writing (New York: Pantheon Books,
1989). Pp xi + 388. Includes selections from and discussions of
Johnson's diaries.
- Fredric Bogel, "Johnson and the Role of Authority," in
The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English
Literature, ed. Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown (New York:
Methuen, 1987), pp. 189-209. Reviews:
- Howard
Weinbrot, "The New Eighteenth Century and the New Mythology,"
The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 3 (1990),
353-407.
- Fredric V. Bogel, The Dream of My Brother: An Essay on
Johnson's Authority (Victoria, B.C.: Univ. of Victoria,
1990). Pp. 94. Reviews:
- Stuart Sherman,
Johnsonian News Letter, 50:3-51:3 (Sept. 1990-Sept.
1991), 8-9.
- Gary Boire, "'Wide-wasting Pest': Social History in The
Vanity of Human Wishes," Eighteenth-Century Life,
12:2 (May 1988), 73-85.
- Thomas F. Bonnell, "John Bell's Poets of Great
Britain: The 'Little Trifling Edition' Revisited," Modern
Philology, 85:2 (Nov. 1987), 128-52.
- Thomas F. Bonnell, "Bookselling and Canon-Making: The Trade
Rivalry over the English Poets, 1776-1783," Studies in
Eighteenth-Century Culture, 19 (1989), 53-69.
- Thomas F. Bonnell, "The Jenyns Review: 'Leibnitian
Reasoning' on Trial," in Approaches to Teaching the Works of
Samuel Johnson, ed. David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New
York: MLA, 1993), pp. 92-98.
- Thomas F. Bonnell, "Patchwork and Piracy: John Bell's
'Connected System of Biography' and the Use of Johnson's
Prefaces," Studies in Bibliography, 48 (1995), 193-228.
- William Brian Booth, "Samuel Johnson and Work,"
Dissertation Abstracts International, 51:11 (May 1991),
3750A.
- [James Boswell], Boswell's London Journal (Princeton:
Films for the Humanities, 1987). One videocassette (not seen).
- James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (Ashland,
Oregon: Classics on Tape, 1988-90). Read by Jim Killavey.
Recording on 24 audio cassettes (not seen).
- James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
(Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1990). Pp. xvii + 618.
- James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, ed. and
abr. by John Canning (London: Methuen, 1991). Pp. xviii + 366.
- James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London:
David Campbell, 1992). Pp. xlix + 613.
- James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, translated
(into Hebrew) by Tova Rozen (Jerusalem: Carmel, 1992).
- James Boswell, Samuel Johnson's Life and the Most
Meaningful Events of His Times (Gloucester: Gloucester Art,
1993).
- James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, with an
introduction by Claude Rawson (New York: Everyman's Library,
1993).
- James Boswell, James Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition
of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, I: 1709-1765,
vol. 1 ed. Marshall Waingrow (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1994);
vol. 2, ed. Bruce Redford (New Haven: Yale Univ.
Press, 1999). Pp. xxxix + 518; xviii + 303. Reviews:
- John L. Abbott, Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 10
(1996), 14;
- Linda Colley, London Review of Books,
17:18 (1995), 14-15 (with another work);
- Henry
Hitchings, TLS, 26 Nov. 1999, p. 33;
- Alan Ingram,
Yearbook of English Studies, 28 (1998), 319-20;
- Allen
Reddick, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 8 (1997),
405-14;
- Michael F. Suarez, S.J., TLS, 15 Dec. 1995,
pp. 11-12;
- David Womersley, Review of English Studies,
48 (1997), 114-16.
- James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
[abridgment] (London: Naxos AudioBooks, Ltd., 1994). Two audio
CDs read by Billy Hartman (not seen).
- James Boswell, From the Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D
[abridgment] (Edinburgh: Akros, 1995). Pp. 16. Limited edition
of 130 numbered copies.
- James Boswell, La vida del doctor Samuel Johnson, tr.
and abr. by Antonio Dorta, with a preface by Fernando Savater,
2nd ed. (Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1998). Pp. 265.
- Ann Bowden and William B. Todd, "Scott's Commentary on
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel
Johnson," Studies in Bibliography, 48 (1995),
229-48.
- James T. Boulton, "The Wisdom of Samuel Johnson,"
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), (1997),
11-23.
- Toni O'Shaughnessy Bowers, "Maternal Ideology and
Matriarchal Authority: British Literature and the Making of
Middle-Class Motherhood, 1680-1750," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 52:9 (March 1992), 3289A. Stanford
University.
- Toni O'Shaughnessy Bowers, "Critical Complicities: Savage
Mothers, Johnson's Mother, and the Containment of Maternal
Difference," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 5
(1992), 115-46.
- Gay W. Brack, "Tetty and Samuel Johnson: The Romance and the
Reality," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 5
(1992), 147-78.
- Gay Wilson Brack, "Sir John Hawkins, Biographer of Johnson:
A Rhetorical Analysis," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 53:3 (Sept. 1992), 815A. Arizona State
University.
- O M Brack, Jr., "Samuel Johnson and the Epitaph on a
Duckling," Books at Iowa, 45 (Nov. 1986), 62-79.
- O M Brack, Jr., "Surviving as a Professional Author: The
Case of Samuel Johnson," The New Rambler, D:2 (1986-87),
19-21.
- O M Brack, Jr., "Samuel Johnson Bicentenary Exhibitions and
Catalogues," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 1
(1987), 451-65.
- O M Brack, 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, 40 (1987), 140-46.
- O M Brack, Jr., "Johnson's Life of Admiral Blake and
the Development of a Biographical Technique," Modern
Philology, 85:4 (May 1988), 523-31.
- O M Brack, Jr., "Johnson's Use of Sources in the Life of
Sir Francis Drake," Rocky Mountain Review of Language and
Literature, 42 (1988), 197-215.
- O M Brack, 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). Pp. 8.
- O M Brack, 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, 21:3-4 (1991), pp. 12-39.
- O M Brack, Jr., ed., Samuel Johnson and Thomas
Maurice (Privately printed, 1992). Pp. 14. For the Samuel
Johnson Society of Southern California, 1991, and the Johnson
Society of the Central Region, 1992.
- O M Brack, Jr., "Samuel Johnson and the Preface to
Abbé Prevost's Memoirs of a Man of Quality,"
Studies in Bibliography, 47 (1994), 155-64.
- O M Brack, Jr., "Samuel Johnson and the Translations of Jean
Pierre de Crousaz's Examen and Commentaire,"
Studies in Bibliography, 48 (1995), 60-84.
- O M Brack, Jr., comp., Samuel Johnson in New Albion: A
Descriptive Census of Rare and Useful Johnson Books and
Manuscripts and Johnsoniana Now Located in California, with
an introduction by Loren Rothschild (New York: The Johnsonians;
Los Angeles: The Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California,
1997). Pp. 98.
- O M Brack, Jr., and Mary Early, "Samuel Johnson's Proposals
for the Harleian Miscellany," Studies in
Bibliography, 45 (1992), 127-30.
- Susan D. Bradley, "Cognitive Subjectivity and the Modern
Informal Essay: A Study of Montaigne and Johnson," M.A. Thesis,
Witchita State University, 1994 (not seen).
- Geoffrey W. Brand, "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.
- Richard Braverman, "The Narrative Architecture of
Rasselas," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual,
3 (1990), 91-111.
- Peter M. Briggs, "'News from the Little World': A Critical
Glance at Eighteenth-Century British Advertising," Studies in
Eighteenth-Century Culture, 23 (1993), 29-45.
- Adrian Bristow, ed., Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale's Tour in
North Wales 1774 (Wrexham: Bridge Books, 1995). Pp. 147.
- J. Brody, "Constantes et modeles de la critique
anti-'manieriste' à l'age 'classique,'" Rivista di
itterature moderne e comparate, 40:2 (1987), 95-121.
- Bertrand H. Bronson and J. M. O'Meara, eds., Selections
from Johnson on Shakespeare (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press,
1986). Pp. xxxvii + 373. Reviews:
- John H.
Middendorf, Johnsonian News Letter, 462-47:2 (June
1986-June 1987), 4;
- Howard Mills, English, 39:163
(Spring 1990), 65-70 (with other works);
- J. D. Fleeman,
N&Q, 35 (March 1988), 98-99.
- Christopher Brooks, "Johnson's Insular Mind and the Analogy
of Travel: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland,"
Essays in Literature, 18:1 (Spring 1991), pp. 21-36.
- Christopher Brooks, "Nekayah's Courage and Female Wisdom,"
College Language Association Journal, 36:1 (Sept. 1992),
52-72.
- Anthony E. Brown, Boswellian Studies: A Bibliography,
3rd ed. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1991). Pp. xiii +
176. Reviews:
- Pat Rogers, The New Rambler,
D:7 (1991-92), 40-41.
- Morris R. Brownell, "Johnson and Mauritius Lowe," The Age
of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 1 (1987), 111-126.
- Morris R. Brownell, "'Dr. Johnson's Ghost': Genesis of a
Satirical Engraving," Huntington Library Quarterly, 50:4
(Autumn 1987), 338-57.
- Morris R. Brownell, Samuel Johnson's Attitude to the
Arts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989). Pp. xvii + 195.
Reviews:
- Charles A. Knight, JEGP, 90:2
(1991), 245-46;
- A. F. T. Lurcock, N&Q, 38:1
(1991), 113-14;
- P. D. McGlynn, Choice, 27:4 (Dec.
1989), 1967;
- Carey McIntosh, The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 4 (1991), 404-408;
- John H. Middendorf,
Johnsonian News Letter, 49:3-50:2 (Sept. 1989-June 1990),
20;
- Ronald Paulson, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 23:3
(Spring 1990), 358-65;
- Claude Rawson, London Review of
Books, 13:15 (1991), 15-17;
- Irène Simon,
English Studies, 72:3 (1991), 277-80;
- Terry Skeats,
Library Journal, 114:5 (15 March 1989), 17;
- David
Womersley, Review of English Studies, 42 (1991),
120-21.
- Morris R. Brownell, "A Bull in the China Shop of Taste:
Johnson's Prejudice against the Arts Illustrated," The New
Rambler, D:6 (1990-91), 28-31.
- Martine Watson Brownley, "The Antagonisms and Affinities of
Johnson and Gibbon," Studies in Eighteenth-Century
Culture, 16 (1986), 183-95.
- Mary Bryden, "Samuel Johnson and Beckett's Happy
Days," N&Q, 40:4 (Dec. 1993), 503-504.
- Anthony Burgess, "The Dictionary Makers," Wilson
Quarterly, 17:3 (1993), 104-10.
- John J. Burke, Jr., "The Documentary Value of Boswell's
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides," in Fresh
Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy:
Whitston, 1987), pp. 349-72.
- John J. Burke, 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.
- John J. Burke, Jr., "The Originality of Boswell's Version of
Johnson's Quarrel with Lord Chesterfield," in New Light on
Boswell, ed. Greg Clingham (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
Press, 1991), pp. 143-61.
- John J. Burke, 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, ed. Kevin L. Cope
(Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1992), pp. 65-79.
- John J. Burke, Jr., "Boswell and the Text of Johnson's
Logia," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 9
(1998), 25-46. See also Greene, "'Beyond Probability': A
Boswellian Act of Faith."
- [Add to item 10/6:376] John J. Burke, Jr., and Donald
Kay, eds., The Unknown Samuel Johnson (Madison: Univ. of
Wisconsin Press, 1983). Reviews:
- Frederick M.
Keener, Yearbook of English Studies, 17 (1987), 299-300;
- Steven Lynn, South Atlantic Review, 51:1 (Jan. 1986),
128-30 (with other works).
- Robert Burrowes, Essay on the Stile of Doctor Samuel
Johnson, ed. Frank H. Ellis (New York: AMS Press, 1992). Pp.
xxii + 56. Reviews:
- Greg Clingham, British
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 9 (1986),
248-49.
- Jamie Bush, "Authorial Authority: Johnson's Life of
Savage and Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol,"
Biography, 19:1 (Winter 1996), 19-40.
- A. J. L. Busst, "Scottish Second Sight: The Rise and Fall of
a European Myth," European Romantic Review, 5:2 (1995),
149-77.
- Annette Cafarelli, "Narrative, Sequence, and Biography:
Johnson and Romantic Prose," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 46:9 (March 1986), pp. 2697A-2698A.
- Annette Wheeler Cafarelli, "Johnson's Lives of the
Poets and the Romantic Canon," The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 1 (1987), 403-35.
- Annette Cafarelli, Prose in the Age of Poets: Romanticism
and Biographical Narrative from Johnson to De Quincey
(Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1990). Pp. vi +
301.
- Annette Wheeler Cafarelli, "Johnson and Women:
Demasculinizing Literary History," The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 5 (1992), 61-114.
- Michael Caldwell, "Dr. Clark and Mr. Holmes: Speculation in
Johnsonian Biography," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 8 (1997), 133-48.
- Craig R. Callen, "Comments: Kicking Rocks With Dr. Johnson:
A Comment on Professor Allen's Theory," Cardozo Law
Review, 13:2-3 (Nov. 1991), 423.
- Charles Leo Campbell, "Image and Symbol in Rasselas:
Narrative Form and 'The Flux of Life,'" English Studies in
Canada, 16:3 (Sept. 1990), 263-77.
- Charles Campbell, "Johnson's Arab: Anti-Orientalism in
Rasselas," Abhath al-Yarmouk, 12:1 (1994), 51-66.
- Ian Campbell, "Boswell's Life of Johnson," Transactions
of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), (1996), 1-10.
- John Ashton Cannon, Samuel Johnson and the Politics of
Hanoverian England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994). Pp. vii
+ 326. Reviews:
- Jeremy Black, N&Q, 42
(Dec. 1995), 499-500;
- O M Brack, Jr., Rocky Mountain
Review of Language and Literature, 49:2 (1995), 169-74 (with
other works);
- Linda Colley, TLS, 4 Aug. 1995, pp. 6-7
(with another work);
- H. T. Dickinson, British Journal for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 19:2 (Autumn 1996), 220;
- M.
Fitzpatrick, History Today, 46:5 (May 1996), 60 (with
another work);
- E. H. Gould, Journal of Modern
History, 69:4 (Dec. 1997), 828-29 (with another work);
- Donald J. Greene, "The Double Tradition of Samuel Johnson's
Politics," Huntington Library Quarterly, 59:1 (1997),
105-23 (with another work);
- Nicholas Hudson, The Age of
Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 9 (1998), 337-47;
- Thomas
Kaminski, Philological Quarterly, 76:1 (Winter 1997),
101-104;
- G. Lamoine, Etudes Anglaises, 49:1
(Jan.-March 1996), 90-91;
- Jack Lynch, Choice, 33:1
(Sept. 1995), 110;
- J. Phillips, Albion, 28:1 (Spring
1996), 109-11;
- Murray G. H. Pittock, JEGP, 95:4 (Oct.
1996), 558-60;
- Christopher Reid, The New Rambler,
D:11 (1995-96), 62-63;
- James J. Sack, American Historical
Review, 101:3 (June 1996), 847-48;
- P. D. G. Thomas,
English Historical Review, 112 (June 1997), 778;
- John
Wiltshire, English Language Notes, 34:1 (Sept. 1996),
98-104 (with another work).
- Erik Carlquist, "Samuel Johnson före Boswell,"
Kulturtidskriften Horisont, 34:2 (1987), 10-11. In
Swedish.
- Geoffrey Carnall, "A Conservative Mind under Stress: Aspects
of Johnson's Political Writings," in Re-Viewing Samuel
Johnson, ed. Nalini Jain (Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991),
pp. 30-46.
- Wallace Chafe, "Cowper's Connoisseur #138 and Samuel
Johnson," Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and
Linguistics, (1985), pp. 214-25.
- Sir Robert Chambers, A Course of Lectures on the English
Law: Delivered at the University of Oxford 1767-1773, ed.
Thomas M. Curley, 2 vols. (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press,
1986). Pp. xix + 483; xv + 445. Reviews:
- John L.
Abbot, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 2 (1989),
498-503;
- David Ibbetson, N&Q, 35 (1988), 540-41;
- Jeffrey Hackney, Review of English Studies, 39 (Nov.
1988), 561-62;
- John H. Middendorf, Johnsonian News
Letter, 46:2-47:2 (June 1986-June 1987), 1-2.
- David Chandler, "John Henry Colls and the Remarks on the
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides," N&Q, 42:4
(Dec. 1995), 469-71.
- Naresh Chandra, "Dr. Johnson and the English Language," in
Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, ed. T. R. Sharma (Meerut,
India: Shalabh, 1986), pp. 5-24.
- Chester Chapin, "Religion and the Nature of Samuel Johnson's
Toryism," Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian
Tradition, 29:2 (May 1990), 38-54.
- Chester Chapin, "Samuel Johnson, Anthropologist,"
Eighteenth-Century Life, 19 (Nov. 1995), 22-37.
- Chester Chapin, "Samuel Johnson and the Locke-Stillingfleet
Controversy," N&Q, 44:2 (June 1997), 210-11.
- Chester Chapin, "Samuel Johnson, Samuel Clarke and the
Toleration of Heresy," Enlightenment and Dissent, 16
(1997), 136-50.
- James Aaron Chapman, "The Foundation of Samuel Johnson's
Morality," M.A. Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1995
(not seen).
- Warren Chernaik, "Johnson and the Imagination," The New
Rambler, E:1 (1997-98), 42-49.
- Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Who and Why Was Samuel
Johnson (Akron: Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society, 1991).
Pp. iv + 19. With a preface by Robert A. Tibbetts. Keepsake
volume of the text of a 1911 speech by Chesnutt.
- Leslie A. Chilton, "Samuel Johnson and the Adventures of
Telemachus," Transactions of the Johnson Society
(Lichfield), (1993), 8-13.
- Chung-Ho Chung, "The Great Cham and the Mirror: An Essay on
the Multiple Perspectives in Samuel Johnson's Literary
Criticism," Dissertation Abstracts International, 48:9
(March 1988), 2342A.
- Jonathan Clark, "The Heartfelt Toryism of Dr. Johnson,"
TLS, 14 Oct. 1994, pp. 17-18.
- J. C. D. Clark, Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and
English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to
Romanticism (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994). Pp.
xiv + 270. Reviews:
- O M Brack, Jr., Rocky
Mountain Review of Language and Literature, 49:2 (1995),
169-74 (with other works);
- John Cannon, The English
Historical Review, 112:446 (April 1997), 491-93;
- Matthew
M. Davis, Modern Age, 39:1 (Winter 1997), 73-76;
- Paul
Dean, "Augustans and Romantics," English Studies, 77:1
(Jan. 1996), 81-85 (with other works);
- M. Fitzpatrick,
History Today, 46:5 (May 1996), 60 (with another work);
- Mark Goldie, Political Studies, 43:4 (Dec. 1995),
777;
- E. H. Gould, Journal of Modern History, 69:4
(Dec. 1997), 828-29 (with another work);
- Donald Greene, "The
Double Tradition of Samuel Johnson's Politics," Huntington
Library Quarterly, 59:1 (1997), 105-23 (with another work);
- John Gross, Sunday Telegraph, 13 Nov. 1994, p. 10;
- H. C. Kraus, Historische Zeitschrift, 263:1 (Aug.
1996), 233-34;
- R. B. Levis, Church History, 66:4
(Dec. 1997), 845-46;
- P. Monod, American Historical
Review, 102:1 (Feb. 1997), 103-104;
- David Nokes,
TLS, 25 Nov. 1994, pp. 8-9;
- J. T. Scanlan,
Religion & Literature, 29:1 (Spring 1997), 95-101;
- John Wiltshire, English Language Notes, 34:1 (Sept.
1996), 98-104 (with another work);
- David Womersley, The
Historical Journal, 39:2 (June 1996), 511-20 (with other
works).
- J. C. D. Clark, "The Politics of Samuel Johnson," The Age
of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 7 (1996), 27-56.
- J. C. D. Clark, "The Cultural Identity of Samuel Johnson,"
The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 8 (1997), 15-70.
- J. C. D. Clark, "Religious Affiliation and Dynastic
Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century England: Edmund Burke, Thomas
Paine and Samuel Johnson," ELH, 64:4 (Winter 1997),
1029-67.
- E. J. Clery, "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, ed. Valeria Tinkler-Villani, Peter Davidson, and
Jane Stevenson (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995), pp. 65-74.
- [Add to item 3:250] James L. Clifford, Dictionary
Johnson: Samuel Johnson's Middle Years (New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1979). Reviews:
- Garry Wills, The
New Republic, 182 (2 Feb. 1980), 36-37.
- Dorothy Peake Cline, "The Word Abused: Problematic Religious
Language in Selected Prose Works of Swift, Wesley, and Johnson,"
Dissertation Abstracts International, 52:9 (March 1992),
3290A. University of Delaware.
- Greg Clingham, "Johnson on Dryden and Pope," Ph.D.
Dissertation, University of Cambridge, 1986.
- Greg Clingham, "Johnson's Use of Two Restoration Poems in
his 'Drury-Lane' Prologue," The New Rambler, D:1
(1985-86), 45-50.
- G. J. Clingham, "'The Inequalities of Memory': Johnson's
Epitaphs on Hogarth," English: The Journal of the English
Association, 35:153 (Autumn 1986), 221-32.
- Greg Clingham, "A Minor Source for Johnson's 'Life of
Pope,'" Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield),
(1986-87), 53-54.
- G. J. Clingham, "'Himself that Great Sublime': Johnson's
Critical Thinking," Etudes Anglaises: Grande-Bretagne,
Etats-Unis, 41:2 (April-June 1988), 165-78.
- Gregory J. Clingham, "Johnson's Criticism of Dryden's Odes
in Praise of St. Cecilia," Modern Language Studies, 18:1
(Winter 1988), 165-80.
- Greg Clingham, "Johnson, Homeric Scholarship, and 'The
Passes of the Mind,'" The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 3 (1990), 113-70.
- Greg Clingham, "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.
- Greg Clingham, ed., New Light on Boswell: Critical and
Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of "The
Life of Johnson" (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991).
Pp. xix + 235. Reviews:
- Paul K. Alkon,
Newsletter of the Samuel Johnson Society of Southern
California, (1991), 5;
- Philip E. Baruth,
Biography, 16 (1993), 59-64;
- Fredric Bogel, Modern
Philology, 91 (May 1994), 517-23;
- Alan Bold, Herald
Weekender, 29 June 1991;
- English Studies, 73
(1992), 537-38;
- Forum for Modern Language Studies,
28:3 (1992), 292-93;
- James Gray, Dalhousie Review, 71
(1991-92), 502-507;
- Irma S. Lustig, The Age of
Johnson, 5 (1992), 447-51;
- P. D. McGlynn, Choice,
29:6 (Feb. 1992), 3178;
- William B. Ober, Verbatim,
18:4 (Spring 1992), 13-14;
- John B. Radner,
Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 6 (1992), 15-16;
- Claude
Rawson, London Review of Books, 29 Aug. 1991, p. 17;
- Angus Ross, Scottish Literary Journal, 39 (1994),
9-12;
- Stuart Sherman, Johnsonian News Letter, 51
(Sept. 1991), 10-12;
- John B. Vance, South Atlantic
Review, 58 (1993), 101-109;
- William Wain, British
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 16 (1993), 84;
- Marcus Walsh, Review of English Studies, 44 (1993),
428-29;
- Robert Ziegler, Papers on Language &
Literature, 29 (1993), 457-49.
- Greg Clingham, "Truth and Artifice in Boswell's Life of
Johnson," in New Light on Boswell, ed. Greg Clingham
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 207-29.
- Greg Clingham, James Boswell: The Life of Johnson
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992). Pp. xviii + 131.
Landmarks of World Literature Series. Reviews:
- Gene Blanton, South Atlantic Review, 59 (Spring
1994), 125-29;
- John J. Burke, Jr., 1650-1850: Ideas,
Aesthetics, & Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 3
(1997), 409-16;
- English Studies, 75 (1994), 555-56;
- A. E. Jones, Choice, 30:9 (May 1993), 4836;
- Thomas E. Kinsella, The Age of Johnson, 5 (1992),
452-56;
- Laurence Urdang, Verbatim, 20 (Autumn 1993),
8-9 (with another work);
- Karina Williamson, Scottish
Literary Journal, 39 (1994), 12-14;
- Thomas Woodman,
British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 18
(1995), 92-94;
- William Zachs, Eighteenth-Century
Scotland, 7 (1993), 30-31.
- Greg Clingham, "Boswell's Historiography," Studies on
Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 307 (1993), 1765-69.
- Greg Clingham, "Another and the Same: Johnson's Dryden," in
Literary Transmission and Authority: Dryden and Other
Writers, ed. Jennifer Brady and Earl Miner (Cambridge
University Press, 1993), pp. 121-59.
- Greg Clingham, "Double Writing: The Erotics of Narrative in
Boswell's Life of Johnson," in James Boswell:
Psychological Interpretations, ed. Donald J. Newman (New
York: St. Martin's, 1995), pp. 189-214.
- Greg Clingham, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Samuel
Johnson (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997). Pp. xx +
266. Reviews:
- Contemporary Review, 1584 (1
Jan. 1998), 54;
- Peter Barry, English, 47 (Spring
1998), 81-87;
- Matthew M. Davis, The New Rambler, D:12
(1996-97), 56-57;
- Robert Devens, British Journal for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 21:2 (1998), 233-34;
- Kathleen
Kemmerer, East-Central Intelligencer, 13:2 (May 1999),
19-21;
- G. Lamoine, Etudes anglaises, 51:3 (July-Sept.
1998), 347-48 (in French);
- Jack Lynch, Choice,
35:11-12 (July-Aug. 1998), 6080;
- Jack Lynch, Essays in
Criticism, 49:1 (Jan. 1999), 75-81;
- Alvaro Ribeiro, S.J.,
The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 10 (1999),
292-302.
- Greg Clingham, "Life and Literature in Johnson's Lives of
the Poets," in The Cambridge Companion to Samuel
Johnson, ed. Greg Clingham (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
Press, 1997), pp. 161-91.
- G. J. Clingham and N. Hopkinson, "Johnson's Copy of the
Iliad at Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk," The Book
Collector, 37:4 (Winter 1988), 503-21.
- Martin Clout, "Hester Thrale and the Globe Theatre," The
New Rambler, D:9 (1993-94), 34-50.
- Hamilton E. Cochrane, Boswell's Literary Art: An
Annotated Bibliography of Critical Studies, 1900-1985 (New
York: Garland, 1992). Pp. ix + 162.
- S. G. Cohen, "Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British Poet,
Critic, Essayist, and Lexicographer," Allergy and Asthma
Proceedings, 17:1 (Jan.-Feb. 1996), 52-55.
- Frank Collings, "Dr. Johnson and his Medical Advisers,"
The New Rambler, C:25 (1984), 3-18.
- Michael Dennis Collins, "Taxation No Tyranny: Samuel
Johnson, Barrister to the Crown," M.A. Thesis, California State
University, Northridge, 1989 (not seen).
- Syndy M. Conger, "Three Unlikely Fellow Travellers: Mary
Wollstonecraft, Yorick, Samuel Johnson," Studies on Voltaire
and the Eighteenth Century, 305 (1992), 1667-68.
- Donald N. Cook, "The History of Dr. Johnson's Summer-House,"
The New Rambler, C:24 (1983), 49-58.
- Robert Cooperman, "Boswell on Dr. Johnson's Friend Mrs. Anna
Williams," Antigonish Review, 64 (Winter 1986), 101. Poem
on Anna Williams.
- Kevin L. Cope, "Rational Hope, Rational Benevolence, and
Johnson's Economy of Happiness," Eighteenth-Century Life,
10:3 (Oct. 1986), 104-21.
- Kevin L. Cope, "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.
- Robert Cording, "Dr. Johnson: From the Western Isles,"
Sewanee Review, 94:4 (Oct.-Dec. 1986), 519-20. Poem.
- John Craig, "Numeracy and Dr Johnson," The New
Rambler, D:11 (1995-96), 47-54.
- Thomas Crawford, "Boswell and the Rhetoric of Friendship,"
in New Light on Boswell, ed. Greg Clingham (Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 11-27.
- André Crépin, "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 (Paris:
Didier, 1987), 7-10. In French.
- Mary Jane Burbank Crotty, "Images of Women: Boswell's
Scotland Tour with Johnson Revisited," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 49:12 (June 1989), 3730A.
- Robin N. Crouch, "Samuel Johnson on Drinking," Dionysos:
The Literature and Addiction TriQuarterly, 5:2 (Fall 1993),
19-27.
- E. Cruikshanks, "Samuel Johnson and Jacobitism: A Response
to Donald Greene," TLS, 8 Sept. 1995, p. 17.
- Marisol Cuevas Segarra, "Samuel Johnson's Rasselas
and Voltaire's Candide: A Comparation [sic]," M.A.
Thesis, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1986 (not seen).
- Paul K. Cuneo, "Another Odd Couple: Dr. Samuel Johnson and
David Garrick," Biblio, 3:6 (June 1998), 22.
- Thomas M. Curley, "Samuel Johnson and Sir Robert Chambers: A
Creative Partnership in English Law," Indian Journal for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1:1 (Summer 1986), 1-16 (not
seen).
- Thomas M. Curley, "Johnson's Last Word on Ossian:
Ghostwriting for William Shaw," in Aberdeen and the
Enlightenment, ed. Jennifer J. Carter (Aberdeen: Aberdeen
Univ. Press, 1987), pp. 375-431.
- Thomas M. Curley, "Johnson's Tour of Scotland and the Idea
of Great Britain," British Journal for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, 12 (1989), 135-44.
- Thomas M. Curley, "Johnson and Burke: Constitutional
Evolution versus Political Revolution," Studies on Voltaire
and the Eighteenth Century, 263 (1989), 265-68.
- Thomas M. Curley, "Samuel Johnson and India," in
Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, ed. Nalini Jain (Bombay:
Popular Prakashan, 1991), pp. 9-29.
- Thomas M. Curley, "Johnson and America," The Age of
Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 6 (1994), 31-74.
- Thomas M. Curley, "Johnson No Jacobite; or, Treason Not Yet
Unmasked," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 7
(1996), 137-62.
- Thomas M. Curley, "Johnson No Jacobite; or, Treason Not Yet
Unmasked: Part II, A Quotable Rejoinder from A to C," The Age
of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 8 (1997), 127-31.
- M. A. Curr, "Anchoring the Imagination: A Study of Dr
Johnson's Latin Poetry," Index to Theses, 44:4 (1995),
1436. University of London.
- Leopold Damrosch, Jr., Fictions of Reality in the Age of
Hume and Johnson (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1989).
Pp. ix + 262. Reviews:
- David Womersley, Review
of English Studies, 43 (1992), 274-75.
- Leopold Damrosch, Jr., ed., Major Authors on CD-ROM:
Samuel Johnson and James Boswell (Woodbridge, Conn.: Primary
Source Media, 1997). Complete works of Johnson; near-complete
works of Boswell. Reviews:
- Cheryl LaGuardia, Library
Journal, 123:20 (Dec. 1998), 168.
- Stephen C. Danckert, ed., The Quotable Johnson: A Topical
Compilation of His Wit and Moral Wisdom (San Francisco:
Ignatius Press, 1992). Pp. 148. With a foreword by Joseph
Sobran.
- Joel Allan Dando, "The Poet as Critic: Byron in His Letters
and Journals: Case Studies of Shakespeare and Johnson,"
Dissertation Abstracts International, 46:7 (Jan. 1986),
1947A.
- Marlies K. Danziger, "Self-Restraint and Self-Display in the
Authorial Comments in The Life of Johnson," in New
Light on Boswell, ed. Greg Clingham (Cambridge: Cambridge
Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 162-73.
- Robertson Davies, Why I Do Not Intend to Write an
Autobiography (Toronto: Harbourfront Reading Series, 1993).
Pp. 15. 500 copies. Fiction based on Johnson.
- Ross Davies, "Bless You, Dr. Johnson," Connoisseur,
214 (Sept. 1984), 36.
- Bertram Hylton Davis, Thomas Percy: A Scholar-Cleric in
the Age of Johnson (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania
Press, 1989). Pp. xi + 361.
- Matthew M. Davis, "'The Most Fatal of All Faults': Samuel
Johnson on Prior's Solomon and the Need for Variety,"
Papers on Language & Literature, 33:4 (Fall 1997),
422-37.
- Philip Davis, In Mind of Johnson: A Study of Johnson the
Rambler (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1989). Pp. 318.
Reviews:
- Isobel Grundy, The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 5 (1992), 444-46;
- Charles A. Knight,
JEGP, 90:2 (1991), 243-45;
- P. D. McGlynn,
Choice, 27:2 (Oct. 1989), 798;
- John H. Middendorf,
Johnsonian News Letter, 48:3-49:2 (Sept. 1988-June 1989),
21-22.
- Philip Davis, "Extraordinarily Ordinary: The Life of Samuel
Johnson," in The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson,
ed. Greg Clingham (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), pp.
4-17.
- Robert Adams Day, "Psalmanazar's 'Formosa' and the British
Reader (Including Samuel Johnson)," in Exoticism in the
Enlightenment, ed. G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter
(Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 1989), pp. 197-221.
- Merrowyn Deacon, "Dr. Johnson and Music," Johnson Society
of Australia Papers, 2:1 (1998), 1-7.
- Tim Dean, "Psychopoetics of Lexicography: Johnson with
Lacan," Literature and Psychology, 37:4 (1991), 9-28.
- Frank Delaney, A Walk to the Western Isles: After Boswell
& Johnson (London: HarperCollins, 1993). Pp. xii + 308.
- Lillian De La Torre, The Return of Dr. Sam. Johnson,
Detector: As Told by James Boswell (New York: International
Polygonics, 1985). Pp. 191. Fiction.
- Lillian De La Torre, The Exploits of Dr. Sam Johnson,
Detector: Told as if by James Boswell (New York:
International Polygonics, 1987). Pp. 220. Fiction.
- Lillian De La Torre, Dr. Sam Johnson, Detector
(Charlotte Hall, Md.: Recorded Books, 1989). Sound recording of
fiction on 5 cassettes.
- Robert DeMaria, Jr., Johnson's Dictionary and the
Language of Learning (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina
Press, 1986). Pp. xii + 303. Reviews:
- N. F.
Blake, Lore and Language, 7:1 (1988), 113-14;
- Philip
Mahone Griffith, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual,
3 (1990), 453-55;
- Isobel Grundy, Yearbook of English
Studies, 18 (1988), 324-26;
- Elizabeth Hedrick, "Reading
Johnson's Dictionary," Annals of Scholarship, 7
(1990), 91-101;
- James McLaverty, N&Q, 35:2
(1988), 239-41;
- John H. Middendorf, Johnsonian News
Letter, 462-47:2 (June 1986-June 1987), 3;
- Albert
Pailler, Etudes anglaises, 40:2 (April-June 1987),
216-17;
- Murray G. H. Pittock, British Journal for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 12 (1989), 111-12;
- Allen
Reddick, Modern Philology, 86:3 (1989), 312-16;
- Pat
Rogers, London Review of Books, 9:1 (1987), 13-14;
- Robert Stack, Times Higher Education Supplement, 731
(1986), 15;
- Keith Walker, TLS, 30 Jan. 1987, p. 123;
- David Womersley, Review of English Studies, 39:153
(1988), 113-14.
- Robert DeMaria, Jr., "The Politics of Johnson's
Dictionary," PMLA, 104:1 (Jan. 1989), 64-74.
- Robert DeMaria, Jr., "Samuel Johnson and the Reading
Revolution," Eighteenth-Century Life, 16:3 (Nov. 1992),
86-102.
- Robert DeMaria, 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, I & II, ed. Claudia Blank and
Patrick Selim Huck (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1992), I, 20-36.
- Robert DeMaria, Jr., The Life of Samuel Johnson: A
Critical Biography (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993). Pp. xviii +
356. Reviews:
- Kate Chisholm, Times Educational
Supplement, 4015 (11 June 1993), S10;
- Nicholas Hudson,
Modern Philology, 93:2 (Nov. 1995), 263-67;
- Allan
Ingram, Yearbook of English Studies, 25 91995), 296-97
(with another work);
- Paul J. Korshin, Modern
Philology, 93:2 (Nov. 1995), 267-71;
- A. F. T. Lurcock,
N&Q, 42:1 (March 1995), 98-99;
- David Nokes, The
Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 7 (1996), 495-500;
- Joseph Rosenblum, Library Journal, 118:5 (15 March
1993), 76-77;
- Michael F. Suarez, "Uncommon Reader," Review
of English Studies, 46 (Aug. 1995), 415-17;
- J. O. Tate,
National Review, 39 (27 Feb. 1987), p. 54;
- J. W. M.
Thompson, The Times, 15 July 1993, Features;
- Keith
Walker, TLS, 24 Sept. 1993, p. 26;
- David Womersley,
Review of English Studies, 49:196 (Nov. 1998), 519-21;
- The Observer, 29 Jan. 1994, p. 20 (not seen).
- Robert DeMaria, Jr., "Latter-Day Humanists and the Pastness
of the Past," Common Knowledge, 3 (1993), 67-76.
- Robert DeMaria, Jr., Samuel Johnson and the Life of
Reading (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997). Pp.
xviii + 270. Reviews:
- Biblio, 3:7 (July
1998), 73;
- James Gray, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 10 (1999), 285-92;
- T. G. Kass, Cithara,
37:2 (May 1998), 44-45;
- Jack Lynch, Choice, 35:3
(Nov. 1997), 1365;
- Michael F. Suarez, S.J., TLS, 5
Sept. 1997, p. 36;
- David Womersley, Review of English
Studies, 49:196 (Nov. 1998), 519-21.
- Robert DeMaria, Jr., "Johnson's Dictionary," in
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, ed. Greg
Clingham (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), pp. 85-101.
- 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, 48
(1995), 121-34.
- Robert DeMaria, Jr., and Gwin J. Kolb, "Johnson's
Dictionary and Dictionary Johnson," Yearbook of
English Studies, 28 (1998), 19-43.
- Ralph De Toledano, "Dr. Johnson Revisited: Samuel Johnson
and the Evolution of Language," National Review, 43:12 (8
July 1991), 44. Comments on Redford's edition of the
Letters.
- Helen Elizabeth Deutsch, "'The Confines of Distinction':
Horace, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson and the Making of the
Literary Career," Dissertation Abstracts International,
51:9 (March 1991), 3080A-81A. University of California,
Berkeley.
- Helen Deutsch, "'The Name of an Author': Moral Economics in
Johnson's Life of Savage," Modern Philology, 92
(Feb. 1995), 328-45.
- Helen Deutsch, "Doctor Johnson's Autopsy, or Anecdotal
Immortality," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and
Interpretation, 40:2 (Summer 1999), 113-27.
- Peter Jan De Voogd, "'The Great Object of Remark': Samuel
Johnson and Laurence Sterne," Essays on English and American
Literature and a Sheaf of Poems, ed. J. Bakker, J. A.
Verleun, and J v. d. Vriesenaerde (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987)
[i.e., Costerus, vol. 63], pp. 65-74.
- Gerard De Vries, "Pale Fire and The Life of
Johnson: The Case of Hodge and Mystery Lodge," The
Nabokovian, 26 (Spring 1991), 44-49.
- Bernd Dietz, "Tenerife en las letras inglesas: Posibles
antecedentes de un texto de Samuel Johnson," in Serta
Gratulatoria in Honorem Juan Regulo, I: Filologia, ed. Ana
Regulo Rodriguez and Maria Regulo Rodriguez (La Laguna: Univ. de
La Laguna, 1985), pp. 223-30. In Spanish.
- R. J. Dingley, "Johnson's 'Reply to Impromptu Verses by
Baretti': A Clue to Dating," N&Q, 42:4 (Dec 1995),
468.
- J. H. Dirckx, "The Death of Samuel Johnson: Was It Hastened
by Digitalis Intoxication?" American Journal of
Dermatopathology, 6:6 (Dec. 1984), 531-36.
- G. M. Ditchfield, "Dr. Johnson and the Dissenters,"
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library, 68:2
(Spring 1986), 373-409.
- G. M. Ditchfield, "Some Unitarian Perceptions of Dr.
Johnson," Transactions of the Unitarian Historical
Society, 19:3 (1989), 139-52.
- G. M. Ditchfield, "Dr Johnson at Oxford, 1759,"
N&Q, 36:1 (March 1989), 66-68.
- G. M. Ditchfield, "Dr. Johnson's Derbyshire Connections,"
The New Rambler, D:8 (1992-93), 30-42.
- G. M. Ditchfield, "A Deathbed Anecdote of Dr. Johnson,"
N&Q, 42:4 (Dec. 1995), 468-69.
- John Dixon, "Tempering Ambitions: The Cultural Project of
Samuel Johnson's Moral Essays," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 52:12 (June 1996), 4784A. Boston University.
- John Converse Dixon, "Politicizing Samuel Johnson: The Moral
Essays and the Question of Ideology," College Literature,
25:3 (Fall 1998), 67-90.
- Peter Dixon, "Goldsmith and Johnson," The New
Rambler, E:1 (1997-98), 50-57.
- Francis Doherty, "Rape of the Lock: Stretching the
Limits of Allusion," Anglia: Zeitschrift fur Englische
Philologie, 111:3-4 (1993), 355-72.
- Daniel E. Doll, "'Daughters of Earth and Sons of Heaven':
Johnson on Swift on Language," Lamar Journal of the
Humanities, 17:2 (Fall 1991), 23-39.
- William Domnarski, "Samuel Johnson and the Law," The New
Rambler, C:23 (1982), 2-10.
- Ian Donaldson, "Samuel Johnson and the Art of Observation,"
ELH, 53:4 (Winter 1986), 779-99.
- Ian Donaldson, The Death of the Author and the Lives of
the Poet: The David Fleeman Memorial Lecture, 1994
(Melbourne: The Johnson Society of Australia, 1994 [i.e.,
1995]).
- Margaret Anne Doody, "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.
- Hugh Douglas, "Highlanders and Heroines: Dr Johnson's
Meeting with Flora Macdonald," The New Rambler, D:9
(1993-94), 15-20.
- William C. Dowling, "Structure and Absence in Boswell's
Life of Johnson," in Modern Essays on
Eighteenth-Century Literature, ed. Leopold Damrosch, Jr.
(Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988), pp. 355-78.
- J. A. Downie, "Swift and Johnson: The Problems of the
Life of Swift," The New Rambler, C:24 (1983),
26-27.
- Paul M. Duke, "Players on Unbroken Spinets: Thomas Wolfe and
James Boswell," The Thomas Wolfe Review, 16:2 (Fall
1992), 47-51.
- R. D. Dunn, "Samuel Johnson's Prologue to A Word to the
Wise and the Epilogue by 'A Friend,'" ELN, 25:3
(March 1988), 28-35.
- Simon During, "Waiting for the Post: Some Relations between
Modernity, Colonization, and Writing," ARIEL, 20:4 (Oct.
1989), 31-61.
- Simon During, "Waiting for the Post: Some Relations between
Modernity, Colonization, and Writing," in Past the Last Post:
Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism, ed. Ian Adam
and Helen Tiffin (Calgary: Univ. of Calgary Press, 1990), pp.
23-45.
- Simon During, "Waiting for the Post: Some Relations between
Modernity, Colonization and Writing," in History and Post-War
Writing, ed. Theo D'haen and Hans Bertens (Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 1990), pp. 227-57.
- John A. Dussinger, "Dr. Johnson's Solemn Response to
Beneficence," in Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the
Art of Biography, ed. David Wheeler (Lexington: Univ. Press
of Kentucky, 1987), pp. 57-69.
- John A. Dussinger, "'The Solemn Magnificence of a Stupendous
Ruin': Richard Savage, Poet Manqué," in Fresh
Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy:
Whitston, 1987), pp. 167-82.
- John A. Dussinger, "Hester Piozzi, Italy, and the Johnsonian
Aether," South Central Review, 9:4 (Winter 1992), 46-58.
- Robert Easting, "Johnson's Note on 'Aroint thee, witch!'"
N&Q, 35:4 (Dec. 1988), 480-82.
- Mary Hyde Eccles and Donald D. Eddy, eds., Dr Johnson
& Mrs Thrale, the End of Their Long Friendship: Letters in
the Hyde Collection (Somerville, N.J.: The Four Oaks Farm
Library, 1992). Pp. 28. 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.
- Donald D. Eddy, Sale Catalogues of the Libraries of
Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale (Mrs. Piozzi) and James
Boswell (New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Books, 1993). Pp. 328.
Facsimiles. Reviews:
- T. H. Howard Hill, Papers
of the Bibliographical Society of America, 88:1 (March
1994), 113-14.
- D. D. Eddy and J. D. Fleeman, "A Preliminary Handlist of
Books to which Dr. Samuel Johnson Subscribed," Studies in
Bibliography, 46 (1993), 187-220. Reviews:
- Kevin Berland, East-Central Intelligencer, n.s.
8:3 (Sept. 1994), 9;
- Anne McDermott, Review of English
Studies, 46:181 (Feb. 1995), 137;
- Paul Tankard, The
Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New
Zealand, 18:1 (1994), 56-58.
- William Edinger, Johnson and Detailed Representation: The
Significance of the Classical Sources (Victoria: Univ. of
Victoria, 1997). Pp. 105. ELS Monograph Series no. 72.
- William Edinger, "Eighteenth-Century Language Theory and
Imlac's Tulip," Hellas, 7:2 (1992), 171-91.
- David Edward, "Johnson, Boswell and the Conflict of
Loyalties," Transactions of the Johnson Society
(Lichfield), (1995), 1-17.
- Gavin Edwards, "Why Are Human Wishes Vain? On Reading Samuel
Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes," Proceedings of
the English Association of the North, 2 (1986), 52-62.
- Gavin Edwards, "The Illegitimation of Richard Savage,"
Sydney Studies in English, 17 (1991-92), 67-74.
- Owen Dudley Edwards, "Rambling Sam: The Dr. Johnson
Show, Southside Courtyard, Theatre," The Scotsman, 17
Aug. 1997, p. FEST9. Brief extracts from Rambling Sam.
- Margaret Eliot and P. G. Suarez, Dr. Johnson Said...
(London: Privately printed for the Trustees of Dr. Johnson's
House by Thomas Harmsworth, 1988). Pp. ???.
- Helen Yvonne Elliott, "Johnson, Nature, and Women: The Early
Years," Dissertation Abstracts International, 55:9 (March
1995), 2840A. University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
- David Ellis, "Biography and Friendship: Johnson's Life of
Savage," in Imitating Art: Essays in Biography, ed.
David Ellis (London: Pluto Press, 1993), pp. 19-35.
- Ben Elton and Richard Curtis, "Ink and Incapability,"
episode 2 of Blackadder the Third. Produced by John
Lloyd; directed by Mandie Fletcher; 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).
- Ann Engar, "Johnson in a Western Civilization Course," in
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, ed.
David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New York: MLA, 1993), pp.
64-70.
- [Add to item 10/6:380] James Engell, ed., Johnson
and His Age (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1984).
Reviews:
- Isobel Grundy, British Journal for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 10 (1987), 103-105;
- Anne
McDermott, Critical Quarterly, 27:4 (1985), 86-88;
- Pat Rogers, Prose Studies, 10:1 (1987), 111-12.
- Mark English, "Samuel Johnson: A Portrait in
OED-Antedatings," N&Q, 40:3 (Sept. 1993), 331-34.
- William H. Epstein, Recognizing Biography
(Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1987), chapter 4
("Patronizing the Biographical Subject: Johnson's Life of
Savage"), pp. 52-70; chapter 6 ("Recognizing the Biographer:
Boswell's Life of Johnson"), pp. 90-137.
- William H. Epstein, "Professing the Eighteenth Century,"
Profession (1985), pp. 10-15. On scholarly publishing,
with Johnson and Boswell as examples.
- Ruthi Roth Erdman, "Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man Thief:
Samuel Johnson and the Economics of Poverty," M.A. Thesis,
Central Washington University, 1991 (not seen).
- Howard Erskine-Hill, "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.
- Howard Erskine-Hill, "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, ed. Eveline Cruickshanks and Jeremy Black
(Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1988), pp. 161-76.
- Howard Erskine-Hill, "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.
- Howard Erskine-Hill, Poetry of Opposition and Revolution,
Dryden to Wordsworth (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996),
chapter 4 ("The Decision of Samuel Johnson"), pp. 111-38;
chapter 5 ("The Vanity of Human Wishes in Context"), pp.
139-66. Reviews:
- Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, The
Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 10 (1999), 329-37.
- Howard Erskine-Hill, "A Kind of Liking for
Jacobitism," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 8
(1997), 3-13.
- Timothy Erwin, "Johnson's Life of Savage and Lockean
Psychology," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 18
(1988), 199-212.
- Timothy Erwin, "Voltaire and Johnson Again: The Life of
Savage and the Sertorius Letter (1744)," Studies on
Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 284 (1991), 211-23.
- Timothy Erwin, "On Teaching Johnson and Lockean Empiricism,"
in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson,
ed. David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New York: MLA, 1993),
pp. 35-41.
- Hideichi Eto, "Samuel Johnson and the Gentleman's
Magazine," Musashino Bijutsu Daigaku kenkyu kiyo, 20
(1990), 109. In Japanese.
- Scott David Evans, "Samuel Johnson's 'General Nature' in Its
Context," Dissertation Abstracts International, 58:11
(1997), A4278. Arizona State University.
- David Fairer, "Thomas Warton and his Friends," The New
Rambler, D:7 (1991-92), 36-37.
- David Fairer, "Dr. Johnson's Gift to Trinity College Library
and the Dating of Letter 318," The New Rambler, D:7
(1991-92), 47-49.
- Faridoun Farrokh, "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, ed. Gerald Garmon (Carrollton, GA: Department of
English, West Georgia College, 1992), pp. 50-60.
- Stuart Feder, "Transference Attended the Birth of the Modern
Biography," American Imago, 54:4 (Winter 1997), 399-415.
On Johnson's Life of Savage.
- Jan Fergus, "The Provincial Buyers of Johnson's
Dictionary and its Alternatives," The New Rambler,
D:6 (1990-91), 3-5.
- Gillian Ferguson, "Boswell the Philanderer Rides Again,"
The Sunday Times, 8 Aug. 1993 (not seen). Interview with
John Sessions on BBC2's Tour of the Western Isles.
- W. Ferguson, "Samuel Johnson's Views on Scottish Gaelic
Culture," Scottish Historical Review, 77 (Oct. 1998),
183-98.
- Bonita Mae Ferrero, "Reconstructing the Canon: Samuel
Johnson and the Universal Visiter," Dissertation
Abstracts International, 51:8 (Feb. 1991), 2751A. University
of Connecticut.
- Bonnie Ferrero, "Samuel Johnson and Arthur Murphy: Curious
Intersections and Deliberate Divergence," ELN, 28:3
(March 1991), 18-24.
- Bonnie Ferrero, "Johnson, Murphy, and Macbeth,"
Review of English Studies, 42:166 (May 1991), 228-32.
- Bonnie Ferrero, Reconstructing the Canon: Samuel Johnson
and the Universal Visiter (New York: Peter Lang, 1993). Pp.
146.
- Bonnie Ferrero, "Samuel Johnson, Richard Rolt, and the
Universal Visiter," Review of English Studies,
44:174 (May 1993), 176-86.
- Claude Fierobe, "Rasselas: Le Decor voile de
l'impossible utopie," La Licorne, 10 (1986), 45-54. In
French.
- G. J. Finch, "Reason, Imagination and Will in
Rasselas and The Vanity of Human Wishes,"
English: The Journal of the English Association, 38:162
(Autumn 1989), 195-209.
- Stephen Fix, "The Contexts and Motives of Johnson's Life
of Milton," in Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and
the Art of Biography, ed. David Wheeler (Lexington: Univ.
Press of Kentucky, 1987), pp. 107-32.
- Stephen Fix, "Teaching Johnson's Critical Writing," in
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, ed.
David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New York: MLA, 1993), pp.
128-34.
- Stephen Fix, "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, ed. John L. Mahoney (New York: Fordham
Univ. Press, 1998), pp. 126-51.
- Richard F. Fleck, "Samuel Johnson's Rasselas: A
Perspective on Islam," Weber Studies, 10:1 (Winter 1993),
50-57.
- [Add to item 1/3:32] J. D. Fleeman, ed., A
Preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books Associated with Dr.
Samuel Johnson (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographic Society, 1984).
Reviews:
- O M Brack, Jr., The Library, 9:1
(1987);
- Isobel Grundy, The New Rambler, C:25 (1984),
48-49.
- J. D. Fleeman, "Dr. Johnson and 'Miss Fordice,'"
N&Q, 33 (March 1986), 59-60.
- David Fleeman, "Johnson's Dictionary (1755),"
Trivium, 22 (Summer 1987), 83-88.
- J. D. Fleeman, "Memorabilia," N&Q, 36:1 (March
1989), 1-5.
- J. D. Fleeman, "Johnson and Boswell in Scotland,"
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield),
(1989-90), 51-72.
- J. D. Fleeman, "Uttoxeter Commemorative Address,"
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield),
(1989-90), 77-80.
- J. D. Fleeman, The Genesis of Johnson's Dictionary
(Harlow, Essex, England: Longman, 1990). Part of the Longman
facsimile edition of Johnson's Dictionary of the English
Language.
- J. D. Fleeman, "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, ed. Harvey Ross, Wallace Kirsop, and
B. J. McMullin (Clayton, Victoria, Australia: Center for
Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash Univ., 1993), pp.
163-71.
- J. D. Fleeman, "Johnson's Shakespeare (1765): The
Progress of a Subscription," in Writers, Books, and
Trade, ed. O M Brack, Jr. (New York: AMS Press, 1994), pp.
355-65.
- J. D. Fleeman, "Johnson's Secret," The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 6 (1994), 147-50.
- J. D. Fleeman, "Michael Johnson, the 'Lichfield Librarian,'"
Publishing History, 39 (1996), 23-44.
- Susan Adele Fleming, "Mary Shelley and Samuel Johnson:
Social and Ethical Implications of the Individual's Pursuit of
Perfection," M.A. Thesis, Auburn University, 1990 (not seen).
- William Fletcher, "Dr Johnson and the Seven Provinces,"
The New Rambler D:2 (1986-87), 27-36. On Johnson and
Dutch languages, culture, and history.
- Timothy Jon Florschuetz, "An Examination of the Nile River
in Samuel Johnson's The History of Rasselas, Prince of
Abyssinia," M.A. Thesis, Arizona State University, 1991 (not
seen).
- Robert Folkenflik, "Rasselas and the Closed Field,"
Huntington Library Quarterly, 57 (1994), 337-52.
- Robert Folkenflik, "Samuel Johnson," in Encyclopædia
Britannica, 15th ed. (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica,
1995). Also available through Encyclopædia Britannica
Online.
- Robert Folkenflik, "Johnson's Politics," in The Cambridge
Companion to Samuel Johnson, ed. Greg Clingham (Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), pp. 102-13.
- Alexander Malcolm Forbes, "The Measure and the Choice:
Empiricism and Revelation in Johnson's 'Vanity of Human Wishes,'
'Rambler,' and 'Rasselas,'" Dissertation Abstracts
International, 51:4 (Oct. 1990), 1238A.
- Alexander M. Forbes, "Johnson, Blackstone, and the Tradition
of Natural Law," Mosaic, 27:4 (Dec. 1994), 81-98.
- Alexander M. Forbes, "Ultimate Reality and Ethical Meaning:
Theological Utilitarianism in Eighteenth-Century England,"
Ultimate Reality and Meaning, 18:2 (1995), 119-38.
- Helen Forsyth, "Samuel Johnson," The New Rambler,
C:25 (1984), 27. Poem.
- Helen Forsyth, "Samuel Johnson," in Fresh Reflections on
Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy: Whitston, 1987), p.
vii. Sonnet on Johnson, reprinted from above.
- Ra Foxton, "A Johnsonian Heritage: The Hussey Copy of
Boswell's Life," Eighteenth-Century News
(Melbourne), 24 (1985), 9-17.
- Roslyn Reso Foy, "Johnson's Rasselas: Women in the
'Stream of Life,'" ELN, 32:1 (Sept. 1994), 39-53.
- Peter France, "Western Civilization and Its Mountain
Frontiers," History of European Ideas, 6:3 (1985),
297-310.
- Michael Fraser, "Chaucer, Johnson, and Shakespeare on
CD-ROM," Computers & Texts, 12 (July 1996), 21-25.
Review essay on Anne McDermott's edition of the
Dictionary on CD-ROM.
- Russell Fraser, "What is Augustan Poetry?" Sewanee
Review, 98:4 (Fall 1990), 620-85.
- Ian Frazier, "Boswell's Life of Don Johnson," The New
Yorker, 62 (15 Sept. 1986), 32. Parody of Boswell's
Life about television actor Don Johnson.
- Ronald H. Fritze, "The Oxford English Dictionary: A Brief
History," Reference Services Review, 17:3 (1989), 61-70.
- Raymond-Jean Frontain, "Johnson in the British Literature
Survey Course," in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel
Johnson, ed. David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New York:
MLA, 1993), pp. 56-63.
- Tetsu Fujii, "James Boswell Reconstructed from Various
Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica," The
Bulletin of Central Research Institute: Fukuoka University,
116 (1989), 29-60. In Japanese.
- Tetsu Fujii, "Johnson's 'Roscommon' in the 18th Century,"
Sophia English Studies, 16 (1991), 3-18.
- Tetsu Fujii, "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. In Japanese.
- Tetsu Fujii, "How Samuel Johnson Has Been Described in
Successive Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica,"
Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature, ed. The
Johnson Society of Japan (Tokyo: Yusho-Do, 1996), 71-91.
- Tetsu Fujii, "A List of Johnson and Boswell Studies in
Japan: Those Published in Book Form from 1871 to 1997," The
Bulletin of Central Research Institute of Fukuoka
University, 208 (1998), 39-122. In Japanese.
- Dwight C. Gabbard, "The Drudgery of Wit -- Samuel Johnson as
an Engineer of Language," M.A. Thesis, San Francisco State
University, 1993 (not seen).
- Jose Angel Garcia Landa, "'The Enthusiastick Fit': The
Function and Fate of the Poet in Johnson's Rasselas,"
Cuadernos de investigacion filologica, 17:1-2 (1991),
103-26 (not seen).
- Howard Gaskill, "What Did James MacPherson Really Leave on
Display at His Publisher's Shop in 1762?" Scottish Gaelic
Studies, 16 (Winter 1990), 67-89.
- Genevieve Gebhart, "'A Violent Passion': Pugnacity and the
Prizefighting Phenomenon in Johnson's England -- A Montage,"
Johnson Society of Australia Papers, 3 (1999), 37-57.
- Mark Gellis, "Burke, Campbell, Johnson, and Priestley: A
Rhetorical Analysis of Four British Pamphlets of the American
Revolution," Dissertation Abstracts International, 54:7
(1993), 2555A. Purdue University.
- Christine Gerrard, The Patriot Opposition to Walpole:
Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725-1742 (Oxford:
Oxford Univ. Press, 1995), chapter 8 ("Jacobites and Patriots:
Johnson and Savage").
- R. B. Gill, "The Enlightened Occultist: Beckford's Presence
in Vathek," in Vathek and the Escape from Time:
Bicentenary Revaluations, ed. Kenneth W. Graham (New York:
AMS, 1990), pp. 131-43.
- Thomas B. Gilmore, "Implicit Criticism of Thomson's
Seasons in Johnson's Dictionary," Modern
Philology, 86:3 (Feb. 1989), 265-73.
- John Glendening, "Young Fanny Burney and the Mentor," The
Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 4 (1991), 281-312.
- John Glendening, "Northern Exposures: English Literary Tours
of Scotland, 1720-1820," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 53 (1993), 3221A.
- Christina Eleanor Godlewski, "'It Matters Not How a Man
Dies, but How He Lives': Samuel Johnson and the Rhetoric of
Consolation," M.A. Thesis, University of Maryland at College
Park, 1992 (not seen).
- Joel J. Gold, "The Failure of Johnson's Irene: Death
by Antithesis," in Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson,
ed. Prem Nath (Troy: Whitston, 1987), pp. 201-14.
- Joel J. Gold, "Literate Conversation, Scholarship, and
'Clubbability': High Spots and Low among Johnsonians of the
Midwest," Chronicle of Higher Education, 34:46 (27 July
1988), 82-83.
- Michael Goldberg, "'Demigods and Philistines': Macaulay and
Carlyle -- A Study in Contrasts," Studies in Scottish
Literature, 24 (1989), 116-28.
- Richard L. Golden, "Medicine & Numismatics: Samuel
Johnson and the Golden Angel," The Numismatist, 109:4 (1
April 1996), 411.
- James O. Goldsborough, "Summertime and a Chance to Visit One
of the World's Great Men of Letters," The San Diego
Union-Tribune, 8 July 1999, p. B13.
- Allegra S. Goodman, "Virtuous Philosophers and Chameleon
Poet: The Shakespeare of Samuel Johnson and John Keats,"
Dissertation Abstracts International, 58:7 (1997), A2667.
Stanford University.
- Stephen Goodwin, "Dr. Johnson's Gem in Peril," The
Independent, 4 Nov. 1996, p. 9. Newhailes House, praised by
Johnson as "the most learned drawing-room in Europe," threatened
with destruction.
- Scott Paul Gordon, "A Note on Reynolds's 'The Infant
Johnson,'" Johnsonian News Letter, 47:3-4 (Sept.-Dec.
1988), 16.
- Henry Gordon-Clark, "Johnson and Savage," Johnson Society
of Australia Papers, 2 (1997), 1-5.
- Henry Gordon-Clark, "Was Johnson a Thief?: Plagiarism in the
Account of the Life of Richard Savage," Johnson
Society of Australia Papers, 3 (1999), 59-67.
- James Gray, "Auctor et Auctoritas: Dr. Johnson's Views on
the Authority of Authorship," English Studies in Canada,
12:3 (Sept. 1986), 269-84.
- James Gray, "'A Native of the Rocks': Johnson's Handling of
the Theme of Love," in Fresh Reflections on Samuel
Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy: Whitston, 1987), pp. 106-22.
- James Gray, "Johnson's Portraits of Charles XII of Sweden,"
in Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of
Biography, ed. David Wheeler (Lexington: Univ. Press of
Kentucky, 1987), pp. 70-84.
- James Gray, "'The Athenian Blockheads': New Light on
Johnson's Oxford," The New Rambler, D:3 (1987-88),
30-45.
- James Gray, "Dr Johnson and the Theatre," The New
Rambler, D:4 (1988-89), 37-38.
- James Gray, "Johnson, Cromwell, and the Jacobite Cause,"
The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 2 (1989),
90-153.
- James Gray, "Some Thoughts on the Eighteenth Century
Response to Miracles," The New Rambler, D:7 (1991-92),
4-5.
- James Gray and T. J. Murray, "Dr. Johnson and Dr. James,"
The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 7 (1996),
213-46.
- Stephen Gray, "Johnson's Use of Some African Myths in
Rasselas," Standpunte, 38:2 (April 1985), 16-23.
- Jonathon Green, "Samuel Johnson: The Pivotal Moment," in
Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They
Made (New York: Henry Holt, 1996), pp. 251-83.
- Julien Green, Suite anglaise (Paris: Editions du
Seuil, 1988). Pp. 125. In French.
- Mary Elizabeth Green, "Defoe and Johnson in Scotland,"
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 20 (1990),
303-15.
- Donald Greene, "Samuel Johnson," in The Craft of Literary
Biography, ed. Jeffrey Meyers (New York: Schocken Books,
1985), pp. 9-32.
- Donald Greene, "Samuel Johnson, Psychobiographer: The
Life of Richard Savage," in The Biographer's Art: New
Essays, ed. Jeffrey Meyers (London: Macmillan, 1987),
11-30.
- [Add to item 2:44] Donald Greene, The Oxford
Authors: Samuel Johnson (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1984).
Reviews:
- Greg Clingham, "Johnson in Memoriam,"
The Cambridge Quarterly, 15 (1986), 77-84;
- Thomas
D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 1984, p. 35;
- Isobel Grundy, The New Rambler, C:25 (1984), 50-52;
- Jenny Mezciems, Review of English Studies, 39:154
(1988), 297-99;
- Albert Pailler, Etudes anglaises,
39:2 (April-June 1986), 217-18;
- Samuel H. Woods, Jr.,
Yearbook of English Studies, 18 (1988), 327-29.
- Donald Greene, "Johnsonian Punctuation," Johnsonian News
Letter, 47:3-4 (Sept.-Dec. 1988), 7-9. On the punctuation of
the letter to Chesterfield.
- Donald Greene, Samuel Johnson, updated ed. (Boston:
Twayne, 1989). Pp. xvii + 206.
- Donald Greene, The Politics of Samuel Johnson, 2nd
ed. (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1990). Pp. lxxix + 356.
Reviews:
- Alistair Boag, TLS, 24-30 Aug.
1990, p. 905;
- A. F. T. Lurcock, N&Q, 38:4 (Dec.
1991), 545-46;
- John H. Middendorf, Johnsonian News
Letter, 49:3-50:2 (Sept. 1989-June 1990), 21-22;
- Patrick
O'Flaherty, "Samuel Johnson's Politics: Some Points of
Disagreement," Dalhousie Review, 72:3 (Fall 1992),
382-98;
- Robert Ziegler, Papers on Language &
Literature, 28 (Fall 1992), 457-75.
- Donald Greene, "Housman and Johnson," Johnsonian News
Letter, 48:3-49:2 (Sept. 1988-June 1989), 24-26.
- Donald Greene, "The Logia of Samuel Johnson and the
Quest for the Historical Johnson," The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 3 (1990), 1-33.
- Donald Greene, "Johnson's Doctorate," TLS, 14-20 Sept.
1990, p. 974. See also items 574a and 892a.
- Donald Greene, "Samuel Johnson," TLS, 23 Aug. 1991, p.
13. On the authenticity of Johnson's "Opera: an Exotick and
Irrational Entertainment." See also item 755a.
- Donald Greene, "'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.
- Donald Greene, "Johnson's 'Saintdom': A Note,"
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), (1992),
43-44.
- Donald Greene, "The Myth of Johnson's Misogyny: Some
Addenda," South Central Review, 9:4 (Winter 1992), 6-17.
- Donald Greene, "Johnson on Columbus," Johnsonian News
Letter, 52:2-53:2 (June 1992-June 1993), 23-25.
- Donald Greene, "The World's Worst Biography," The
American Scholar, 62:3 (Summer 1993), 365-82.
- Donald Greene, "Progress towards Where? Conservation of
What?" The New Rambler, D:9 (1993-94), 88-102. Response
to Nagashima, "Progressive or Conservative? Two Trends in
Johnson Studies."
- Donald Greene, "Catholicism in Johnson's Lobo,"
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), (1994),
12-18.
- Donald Greene, "Was Dr Johnson Really a Jacobite?"
TLS, 18 Aug. 1995, pp. 13-14.
- Donald Greene, "Samuel Johnson and Jacobitism," TLS,
13 Oct. 1995, p. 19.
- Donald Greene, "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.
- Donald Greene, "Samuel Johnson's 'Body Language': A New
Perspective," in Enlightened Groves: Essays in Honour of
Professor Zenzo Suzuki, ed. Eiichi Hara, Hiroshi Ozawa, and
Peter Robinson (Tokyo: Shohakusha, 1996), pp. 240-62.
- Donald Greene, "Jonathan Clark and the Abominable Cultural
Mind-Set," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 8
(1997), 71-88.
- Donald Greene, "Dr Johnson's Charity," TLS, 2 May
1997, p. 17.
- Donald Greene, "'Beyond Probability': A Boswellian Act of
Faith," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 9 (1998),
47-80. A response to Burke, "Boswell and the Text of Johnson's
Logia."
- Donald Greene and John A. Vance, Chief Glories: The Life
of Samuel Johnson, on Proper Study: The Life of Alexander
Pope; and Chief Glories: The Life of Samuel Johnson
(Research Triangle Park, N.C.: National Humanities Center,
1985). Audio disk: interviews with Greene and Vance on side B.
Side A features Maynard Mack on Pope (not seen).
- Donald Greene and John A. Vance, A Bibliography of
Johnsonian Studies, 1970-1985 (Victoria: Univ. of Victoria,
1987). Pp. vi + 116. Reviews:
- Isobel Grundy,
The New Rambler, D:2 (1986-87), 25-27;
- John H.
Middendorf, Johnsonian News Letter, 47:3-4 (Sept.-Dec.
1988), 1.
- Dustin Griffin, "Johnson's Lives of the Poets and the
Patronage System," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 5 (1992), 1-33.
- Dustin Griffin, Literary Patronage in England,
1650-1800 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), chapter
9, pp. 220-45.
- Dustin Griffin, "Regulated Loyalty: Jacobitism and Johnson's
Lives of the Poets," ELH, 64:4 (Winter 1997),
1007-27.
- Robert John Griffin, "Samuel Johnson and the Act of
Reflection," Dissertation Abstracts International, 46:11
(May 1986), 3358A.
- Robert J. Griffin, "Reflection as Criterion in The Lives
of the Poets," Dr. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell,
ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea, 1986), pp. 239-62.
- Philip Mahone Griffith, "Samuel Johnson and King Charles the
Martyr: Veneration in the Dictionary," The Age of
Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 2 (1989), 235-61.
- Philip Mahone Griffith, "Boswell's Johnson and the Stephens
(Leslie Stephen and Virginia Woolf)," The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 6 (1994), 151-64.
- Gloria Sybil Gross, "Johnson and the Uses of Enchantment,"
in Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath
(Troy: Whitston, 1987), pp. 299-311.
- Gloria Sybil Gross, "'A Child Is Being Beaten': Suggestions
toward a Psychoanalytical Reading of Johnson," The Age of
Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 2 (1989), 181-218.
- Gloria Gross, "Mentoring Jane Austen: Reflections on 'My
Dear Dr. Johnson,'" Persuasions: Journal of the Jane Austen
Society of North America, 11 (16 Dec. 1989), 53-60.
- Gloria Sybil Gross, This Invisible Riot of the Mind:
Samuel Johnson's Psychological Theory (Philadelphia: Univ.
of Pennsylvania Press, 1992). Pp. x + 198. Reviews:
- O M Brack, Jr., Rocky Mountain Review of Language and
Literature, 49:2 (1995), 169-74 (with other works);
- G.
P. Brooks, Isis, 85:2 (June 1994), 339-40;
- J. R.
Griffin, Choice, 30:3 (Nov. 1992), 464;
- Isobel
Grundy, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 27:1 (1993), 174-75;
- A. F. T. Lurcock, N&Q, 43:2 (June 1996), 225;
- Anne McDermott, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, 17:2 (Autumn 1994), 219-20;
- Catherine N. Parke,
The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 6 (1994), 391-93;
- Joel Weinsheimer, JEGP, 92:4 (1993), 556-58.
- Gloria Sybil Gross, "Reading Johnson Psychoanalytically," in
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, David
R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New York: MLA, 1993), pp. 49-55.
- Isobel Grundy, ed., Samuel Johnson: New Critical
Essays (London: Vision; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1984).
Pp. 208. Reviews:
- James Gray, Dalhousie
Review, 65:2 (1985), 300-307;
- J. H. Leicester, The
New Rambler, C:25 (1984), 55-57;
- Lawrence Lipking,
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 21 (Fall 1987), 109-13;
- Albert Pailler, Etudes anglaises, 39:2 (April-June
1986), 218;
- John A. Vance, The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 2 (1989), 492-98;
- David Wheeler,
British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 9:2
(1986), 254-56;
- Samuel H. Woods, Jr., Yearbook of English
Studies, 18 (1988), 326-27.
- Isobel Grundy, "The Stability of Truth," The New
Rambler, C:25 (1984), 35-44.
- Isobel Grundy, Samuel Johnson and the Scale of
Greatness (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1986). Pp. 278.
Reviews:
- Paul Alkon, The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 1 (1987), 437-42;
- James T. Boulton,
N&Q, 35:1 (1988), 97-98;
- John Burke, South
Atlantic Review, 53:1 (Jan. 1988), 128-30;
- Greg
Clingham, Review of English Studies, 38 (1987), 394-96;
- Leopold Damrosch, Jr., MLR, 83:4 (1988), 962-64;
- Lawrence Lipking, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 21
(Fall 1987), 109-13;
- John H. Middendorf, Johnsonian News
Letter, 462-47:2 (June 1986-June 1987), 2-3;
- David
Nokes, Times Higher Education Supplement, 713 (1986), 19;
- Laura Payne, CEA Critic, 51:1 (1988), 142-46;
- Rachel Trickett, The New Rambler, D:2 (1986-87),
24-25.
- Isobel Grundy, "Samuel Johnson as Patron of Women," The
Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 1 (1987), 59-77.
- Isobel Grundy, "Swift and Johnson," The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 2 (1989), 154-80.
- Isobel Grundy, "Celebrare domestica facta: Johnson
and Home Life," The New Rambler, D:6 (1990-91), 6-14.
- Isobel Grundy, "Restoration and Eighteenth Century
(1660-1780)," in An Outline of English Literature, ed.
Pat Rogers (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992), pp. 200-49.
- Isobel Grundy, "A Note on Johnson's Charles, Shakespeare's
Caesar," The New Rambler, D:8 (1992-93), 51.
- Isobel Grundy, "'Over Him We Hang Vibrating': Uncertainty in
the Life of Johnson," in Boswell: Citizen of the
World, Man of Letters, ed. Irma S. Lustig (Lexington, KY:
Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1995), pp. 184-202.
- Isobel Grundy, "Johnson's Bookman," The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 8 (1997), 393-404. Review essay on
Studies in Bibliography, 48 (1995), ed. David L. Vander
Meulen.
- Peter Gruner, "Flocking to the Shrine of Dr Johnson, the
Great Debunker," Evening Standard, 20 Nov. 1992, p. 16.
- John Guillory, "The English Common Place: Lineages of the
Topographical Genre," Critical Quarterly, 33:4 (Winter
1991), 3-27.
- David Gunto, "Kicking the Emperor: Some Problems of
Restoration Parallel History," 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics,
and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 3 (1997), 109-27.
- John T. Guthrie, "Research: An Uncloistered Curriculum,"
Journal of Reading, 24:2 (1980), 188-89. On using
Boswell's Life in the reading classroom.
- Jean H. Hagstrum, "Samuel Johnson among the
Deconstructionists," The Georgia Review, 39:3 (Fall
1985), 537-47.
- Jean H. Hagstrum, "Samuel Johnson among the
Deconstructionists," in Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, ed.
Nalini Jain (Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991), pp. 112-24.
- Bonnie Hain and Carole McAllister, "James Boswell's Ms.
Perceptions and Samuel Johnson's Ms. Placed Friends," South
Central Review, 9:4 (Winter 1992), 59-70.
- William H. Halewood, "The Majesty of The Vanity of Human
Wishes," in Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed.
Prem Nath (Troy: Whitston, 1987), pp. 256-68.
- Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., "The Example of Samuel Johnson,"
in Worry: Controlling It and Using It Wisely (New York:
Pantheon, 1997), 216-38.
- Alan Hamilton, "Dr Johnson's City of Philosophers Still
Satisfies the Inquisitive Walker," The Times, 5 Aug.
1995, Home news.
- Ian Hamilton, Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and
the Rise of Biography (Pimlico, 1994). Pp. viii + 344.
- Michael Hancher, "Bailey and After: Illustrating Meaning,"
Word and Image, 8:1 (1992), 1-20.
- Sally N. Hand, "The 'Finest Bit of Blue': Samuel Johnson and
the Bluestocking Assemblies," The New Rambler, D:8
(1992-93), 6-18.
- Brian Joseph Hanley, "Samuel Johnson's Military Writings,"
M.A. Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992
(not seen).
- Brian Hanley, "Colonel Gimbel and the Literary Anvil: or Why
Dr Johnson's Letters Belong to the U.S. Airforce Academy's
Aeronautical Collection," The New Rambler, D:9 (1993-94),
83-87.
- Brian Hanley, "Johnson's Contemporary Reputation," The
New Rambler, D:11 (1995-96), 56-62.
- Brian Hanley, "The Prevailing Tone of Johnson's Military
Commentary," The New Rambler, D:12 (1996-97), 39-45.
- John Hardy, "Samuel Johnson's Literary Criticism," Essays
and Studies, 39 (1986), 62-77.
- John Hardy, "Samuel Johnson," in Dryden to Johnson,
ed. Roger Lonsdale (New York: Bedrick, 1987), pp. 279-311.
- John Hardy, "Line 361 of The Vanity of Human Wishes,"
N&Q, 39:4 (Dec. 1992), 480-81.
- David Harley, "Johnson and Neo-Hippocratic Medicine," The
New Rambler, D:12 (1996-97), 32-39.
- Richard L. Harp, ed. Dr. Johnson's Critical Vocabulary: A
Selection from His "Dictionary" (Lanham, MD: Univ. Press of
America, 1986). Pp. xlv + 268. "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:
- Lionel Basney, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 21
(Fall 1987), 113-17;
- John H. Middendorf, Johnsonian News
Letter, 49:3-50:2 (Sept. 1989-June 1990), 22-23;
- James
Rettig, American Reference Books Annual, 19 (1988),
1074.
- Richard Harries, "Sermon Preached in Lichfield Cathedral
Sunday, 24th September, 1989," Transactions of the Johnson
Society (Lichfield), (1989), 16-18.
- Jocelyn Harris, "Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, and the
Dial-Plate," British Journal for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, 9:2 (Autumn 1986), 157-63.
- Jeffrey Peter Hart, "Does the University Have a Future?"
National Review, 40 (1 April 1988), 32. Imagined
conversation between Samuel Johnson and William James.
- Kevin Hart, "Economic Acts: Johnson in Scotland,"
Eighteenth-Century Life, 16:1 (Feb. 1992), 94-110.
- Kevin Hart, "Johnson as Monument," The Critical
Review, 34 (1994), 33-49.
- Kevin Hart, Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999). Pp. 244.
- Franz Josef Hausmann, "Samuel Johnson (1709-1784):
Bicentenaire de sa mort," Lexicographica, 1 (1985),
239-42. In French.
- Emma Hawari, "Samuel Johnson and Lessing's Lexicographical
Work," New German Studies, 13:3 (Autumn 1985), 185-95.
- E. E. E. Hawari, "Johnson and Lessing: A Study of Johnson's
Critical Theory and Practice," Index to Theses, 43:2
(1994), 442.
- Emma Hawari, Johnson's and Lessing's Dramatic Critical
Theories and Practice with a Consideration of Lessing's
Affinities with Johnson (Bern: P. Lang, 1991). Pp. 293.
Reviews:
G. F. Parker, - Cambridge Quarterly,
19:3 (1990), 243-54.
- Clement Hawes, "Johnson and Imperialism," in The
Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, ed. Greg Clingham
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), pp. 114-26.
- William Anthony Hay, "Reason, Truth, and Community in Samuel
Johnson's Later Work," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe:
Selected Papers, 4 (1997), pp. 53-60 (not seen).
- Ernest Heberden, "Dr. Heberden and Dr. Johnson," The New
Rambler, D:3 (1987-88), 9-21.
- Elizabeth Hedrick, "Locke's Theory of Language and Johnson's
Dictionary," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 20:4
(Summer 1987), 422-44.
- Elizabeth Hedrick, "Fixing the Language: Johnson,
Chesterfield, and The Plan of a Dictionary," ELH,
55:2 (Summer 1988), 421-42.
- Donna Heiland, "Remembering the Hero in Boswell's Life of
Johnson," in New Light on Boswell, ed. Greg Clingham
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 194-206.
- Eithne Henson, "The Fictions of Romantick Chivalry":
Samuel Johnson and Romance (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh
Dickinson Univ. Press, 1992). Pp. 255. Reviews:
- Paul Dean, English Studies, 74:6 (Dec. 1993),
549-58;
- Isobel Grundy, The New Rambler, D:8
(1992-93), 48-51 (with another work);
- A. F. T. Lurcock,
N&Q, 41:3 (Sept. 1994), 396-97;
- D. L. Patey,
Choice, 30:6 (Feb. 1993), 960.
- Eithne Henson, "Johnson and the Condition of Women," in
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, ed. Greg
Clingham (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), pp. 67-84.
- Eithne Henson, "Lost for Words," The Independent, 27
June 1999, p. 31. Brief letter to the Editor, challenging A. N.
Wilson's claim that Johnson dismissed monastic retirement.
- Neil Hertz, "Dr. Johnson's Forgetfulness, Descartes' Piece
of Wax," Eighteenth-Century Life, 16:3 (Nov. 1992),
167-81.
- Regina Hewitt, "Time in Rasselas: Johnson's Use of
Locke's Concept," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture,
19 (1989), 267-76.
- Alison Hickey, "'Extensive Views' in Johnson's Journey to
the Western Islands of Scotland," SEL, 32:3 (Summer
1992), 537-53.
- Bronwen Hickman, "The Women in Johnson's World," Johnson
Society of Australia Papers, 2 (1997), 7-15.
- Nelson Hilton, Lexis Complexes (Athens: Univ. of
Georgia Press, 1995), chapter 3 ("Restless Wrestling: Johnson's
Rasselas"), pp. 38-55.
- Charles H. Hinnant, Samuel Johnson: An Analysis (New
York: St. Martin's Press, 1988). Pp. ix + 148. Reviews:
- Lionel Basney, ELN, 27:4 (1990), 74-76;
- Isobel Grundy, The New Rambler, D:4 (1988-89), 62-63;
- Lawrence Lipking, Biography, 12 (1989), 251-53;
- John H. Middendorf, The Johnsonian News Letter,
48:1-2 (March-June 1988), 1;
- M. S. Wagoner, Choice,
26:1 (Sept. 1988), 135;
- T. F. Wharton, South Atlantic
Review, 55:1 (Jan. 1990), 142-44.
- Charles H. Hinnant, ed., Johnson and Gender: Special
Issue of South Central Review, 9:4 (Winter 1992).
Reviews:
- Marie E. McAllister, The Age of
Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 6 (1994), 394-404.
- Charles H. Hinnant, "Johnson and the Limits of Biography:
Teaching the Life of Savage," in Approaches to
Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, ed. David R. Anderson
and Gwin J. Kolb (New York: MLA, 1993), pp. 107-13.
- Charles H. Hinnant, "Steel for the Mind": Samuel Johnson
and Critical Discourse (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press,
1994). Pp. xi + 251. Reviews:
- Lionel Basney,
"Johnson's Theories and Ours," Sewanee Review, 105:2
(Spring 1997), 66-67; Greg Clingham, The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 7 (1996), 480-85;
- Brian Hanley, The
New Rambler, D:10 (1994-95), 70-71;
- Jack Lynch,
Choice, 31:10 (June 1994), 1578;
- Edward Tomarken,
Papers on Language & Literature, 32:2 (Spring 1996),
217-23;
- Thomas Woodman, British Journal for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 19:1 (Spring 1996), 113-14 (with
another work).
- Richard Holmes, Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage (New York:
Pantheon Books, 1993). Pp. xii + 260. Reviews:
- Peter Ackroyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 1994,
p. 3;
- J. T. Barbarese, "Samuel Johnson's Odd Friendship,"
Philadelphia Inquirer, 4 Sept. 1994, p. 3;
- Janet
Barron, New Statesman & Society, 6 (22 Oct. 1993),
37;
- Anne Barton, New York Review of Books, 16 Feb.
1995, pp. 6-8;
- John Bayley, London Review of Books,
15:21 (1993), 7-8;
- Booklist, 90 (July 1994), 1916;
- Charles A. Brady, "Retelling Samuel Johnson's Devil of a
Friendship," The Buffalo News, 9 Oct. 1994, p. 6;
- Gale E. Christianson, Albion, 27:1 (1995), 131-33;
- Matthew M. Davis, Modern Age, 39:1 (Winter 1997),
73-76;
- David Ellis, Cambridge Quarterly, 23:4 (1994),
384-88;
- Laurel Graeber, The New York Times, 26 May
1996, section 7, p. 20;
- James Gray, The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 7 (1996), 485-95;
- The
Independent, 3 Oct. 1993, p. 36;
- David Isaacson, The
Jerusalem Post Magazine, 10 Feb. 1996, p. 20;
- Paul
Johnson, The Spectator, 271 (30 Oct. 1993), pp. 32-33;
- Joseph F. Keppler, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 1994,
p. M2;
- Rhoda Koenig, Vogue, 184:8 (Aug. 1994),
158-59;
- John L. Mahoney, Southern Humanities Review,
30:2 (Spring 1996), 181-83;
- David Nokes, TLS, 29 Oct.
1993, pp. 11-12;
- Phoebe Pettingell, The New Leader,
77:10 (10 Oct. 1994), 14;
- Publishers Weekly, 241:31
(1 Aug. 1994), 69;
- Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 15
Jan. 1994, p. 29;
- Pat Rogers, New York Times Book
Review, 4 Sept. 1994, p. 14;
- Peter Schwendener, The
American Scholar, 64:3 (Summer 1995), 467-70;
- Robert
Taylor, The Boston Globe, 11 Sept. 1994, p. A19;
- Alexander Theroux, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 1994, p.
4;
- Edward T. Wheeler, Commonweal, 121:19 (4 Nov.
1994), 32.
- Anthea Hopkins, "The Dangerous Distinction of Authorship,"
The New Rambler, D:8 (1992-93), 21-24.
- A. D. Horgan, Johnson on Language: An Introduction
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994). Pp. ix + 226.
Reviews:
- Jack Lynch, Choice, 32 (April
1995), 4345;
- Anne McDermott, Review of English
Studies, 47 (1997), 593-94.
- Gloria Horsley-Meacham, "The Johnsonian Jest in 'Benito
Cereno,'" American Notes & Queries, 6:1 (Jan. 1993),
17-18.
- Philip Howard, "Dr. Johnson: The Perfect Professional Fleet
Street Hack," The New Rambler, D:8 (1992-93), 18-21.
- Philip Howard, "Don't Take the Low Road," The Times,
23 Oct. 1993, Vision, p. 4. Review of BBC2's Tour of the
Western Isles with Coltrane and Sessions.
- Philip Howard, "In the Great Linguistic Debate, Both Sides
Claim Dr. Johnson, and Rightly So," The Times, 9 Feb.
1996, Features.
- N. J. Hudson, "Studies in the Moral and Religious Thought of
Johnson," D.Phil. Dissertation, University of Oxford, 1984.
- N. J. Hudson, "Samuel Johnson and the Literature of Common
Life," British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
11:1 (Spring 1988), 39-50.
- Nicholas Hudson, Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century
Thought (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988). Pp. x + 272.
Reviews:
- J. C. D. Clark, History: The Journal
of the Historical Association, 74:242 (Oct. 1989), 535-36;
- Kevin Cope, South Atlantic Review, 55:1 (Jan. 1990),
136-39;
- James Gray, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 3 (1990), 461-72;
- Isobel Grundy,
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 23 (Winter 1988-89), 238-39;
- P. D. McGlynn, Choice, 26:5 (Jan. 1989), 2589;
- John H. Middendorf, Johnsonian News Letter, 48:3-49:2
(Sept. 1988-June 1989), 1;
- Gregory Scholtz, Philological
Quarterly, 69 (Spring 1990), 255-58;
- David Womersley,
Review of English Studies, 41:162 (1990), 253-54.
- Nicholas Hudson, "Three Steps to Perfection: Rasselas
and the Philosophy of Richard Hooker," Eighteenth-Century
Life, 14:3 (Nov. 1990), 29-39.
- Nicholas Hudson, "'Open' and 'Enclosed' Readings of
Rasselas," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and
Interpretation, 31:1 (Spring 1990), 47-67.
- Nicholas Hudson, "The Nature of Johnson's Conservatism,"
ELH, 64:4 (Winter 1997), 925-43.
- Nicholas Hudson, "Johnson's Dictionary and the
Politics of 'Standard English,'" Yearbook of English
Studies, 28 (1998), 77-93.
- Nicholas Hudson, "Two Bits of Drudgery: A Homage to Johnson,
the Lexicographer," Johnson Society of Australia Papers,
2 (1997), 11-15.
- Nicholas Hudson, "Johnson and Political Correctness,"
Johnson Society of Australia Papers, 2:2 (1998), 1-7.
- Nicholas Hudson, Johnson and the Macquarie: An
Investigation of 250 Years' Progress in Language and
Lexicography (Melbourne: privately printed for the Johnson
Society of Australia, 1999). The David Fleeman Memorial Lecture
for 1998.
- Nicholas Hudson, "Johnson and Physick," Johnson Society
of Australia Papers, 3 (1999), 1-13.
- Patrick D. Hundley, "Dr. Johnson's Theory of Autobiography,"
The New Rambler, C:23 (1982), 11-16.
- Mary Jane Hurst, "Samuel Johnson's Dying Words," ELN,
23:2 (Dec. 1985), 45-53.
- W. B. Hutchings, "Johnson and Juvenal," New Rambler,
D:3 (1987-88), 21-22.
- W. B. Hutchings, "Johnson's Life of Pope: Morality
and Judgment," The New Rambler, D:10 (1994-95), 3-14.
- Bill Hutchings and Bill Ruddick, "Johnson's London
and The Vanity of Human Wishes: Classical and
Eighteenth-Century Contexts," Proceedings of the English
Association of the North, 2 (1986), 63-77.
- William Hutchings and William Ruddick, "Samuel Johnson and
Landscape," in Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, ed. Nalini Jain
(Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991), pp. 67-81.
- Roger Hutchison, All the Sweets of Being: A Life of James
Boswell (London: Mainstream Publishing, 1996). Pp. 238.
Reviews:
- Nick Groom, "Obsessions of a Drunken
Philanderer," Financial Times, 5 Aug. 1995, p. XI;
- Donald J. Newman, Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 11
(1997), 19.
- Mary Hyde, "Adam, Tinker, and Newton, 1909-48," Modern
Philology, 85 (May 1988), 558-68.
- Giovanni Iamartino, "Dyer's and Burke's Addenda and
Corrigenda to Johnson's Dictionary and Clues to Its
Contemporary Reception," Textus: English Studies in
Italy, 8:2 (July-Dec. 1995), 199-248.
- John Ingledew, "Samuel Johnson's Jamaican Connections,"
Caribbean Quarterly, 30:2 (1984), 1-17.
- Richard Ingrams, "'Old Dread Devil,'" Transactions of the
Johnson Society (Lichfield), (1989), 8-15.
- Ian Jack, "Johnson and Autobiography," The New
Rambler, C:23 (1982), 28-29.
- H. J. Jackson, "Johnson's Milton and Coleridge's
Wordsworth," Studies in Romanticism, 28 (Spring 1989),
29-47.
- H. J. Jackson, "The Immoderation of Samuel Johnson,"
University of Toronto Quarterly, 59:3 (Spring 1990),
382-98.
- H. J. Jackson, "An Important Annotated Boswell," Review
of English Studies, 49:193 (Feb. 1998), 9-22. Fulke
Greville's notes in a BL copy.
- Kevin Jackson, "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, 26 Oct. 1993, p.
24.
- Jasbir Jain, "The Imperial Concept: Johnson and Burke,"
Indian Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1:1
(Summer 1986), 17-28 (not seen).
- Nalini Jain, "Johnson as a Critic of Poetic Language,"
D.Phil. Dissertation, University of Oxford, 1983.
- Nalini Jain, "Echoes of Milton in Johnson's Irene,"
American Notes & Queries, 24:9-10 (May-June 1986),
134-36.
- Nalini Jain, "Ideas of the Origin of Language in the
Eighteenth Century: Johnson versus the Philosophers," in
Aberdeen and the Enlightenment, ed. Jennifer J. Carter
and Joan H. Pittock (Aberdeen: Aberdeen Univ. Press, 1987), pp.
291-97.
- Nalini Jain, "Johnson's Irene: The First Draft,"
British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 13:2
(Autumn 1990), 163-67.
- Nalini Jain, The Mind's Extensive View: Samuel Johnson on
Poetic Language (Strathtay, Perthshire: Clunie Press, 1991).
Pp. xii + 183. Reviews:
- Allan Ingram, Modern
Language Review, 89 (April 1994), 451-52.
- Nalini Jain, ed., Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson (Bombay:
Popular Prakashan, 1991). Pp. 126. Reviews:
- Kevin
Berland, East-Central Intelligencer, n.s. 6:1 (1992),
24-26;
- R. Dix, Durham University Journal, 53:2
(1992), 342-43.
- Nalini Jain, "Johnson's Shakespeare: A Moral and Religious
Quest," in Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, ed. Nalini Jain
(Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991), pp. 82-101.
- Nalini Jain, "Samuel Johnson's 'China to Peru' and Joseph
Glanvill," American Notes & Queries, 6:4 (Oct. 1993),
207-208.
- Nalini Jain, "The Vanity of Human Wishes,"
N&Q, 41:2 (June 1994), 198-99.
- Nalini Jain, "Samuel Johnson's 'China to Peru,'"
N&Q, 45:4 (Dec. 1998), 455.
- Derek Jarrett, "Guilt-Edged Insecurity," New York Review
of Books, 37 (26 April 1990), 11-13.
- Derek Jarrett, "The Doctor's Prescription," New York
Review of Books, 46:5 (18 March 1999), 39-42. Review essay
on Lipking, Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, and
Bate, Samuel Johnson.
- Simon Jarvis, Scholars and Gentlemen: Shakespearian
Textual Criticism and Representations of Scholarly Labour,
1725-1765 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), chapter 6
("Johnson's Authorities: The Professional Scholar and English
Texts in Lexicography and Textual Criticism"), pp. 129-58;
chapter 7 ("Johnson's Theory and Practice of Shakespearian
Textual Criticism"), pp. 159-81.
- D. W. Jefferson, Three Essays: Johnson, Wordsworth,
Byron (Leeds: Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society,
1998). Pp. 48.
- Paul Jeffreys-Powell, "A Grammatical Error in Johnson's Ode
on the Isle of Skye ('Ponti Profundis Clausa
Recessibus')," N&Q, 35:2 (June 1988), 190-91.
- Thomas Jemielity, "Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human
Wishes, and Biographical Criticism," Studies in
Eighteenth-Century Culture, 15 (1986), 227-39.
- Thomas Jemielity, "Thomas Pennant's Scottish Tours and A
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland," in Fresh
Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy:
Whitston, 1987), pp. 312-27.
- Thomas Jemielity, "'A Keener Eye on Vacancy': Boswell's
Second Thoughts about Second Sight," Prose Studies, 11:1
(May 1988), 24-40.
- Thomas Jemielity, "Prophetic Voices and Satiric Echoes,"
Cithara, 29:1 (1989), 30-47.
- Thomas Jemielity, "'More Disagreeable for Him to Teach, or
the Boys to Learn'? The Vanity of Human Wishes in the
Classroom," in Teaching Eighteenth-Century Poetry, ed.
Christopher Fox (New York: AMS, 1990), pp. 291-302.
- Thomas Jemielity, "Teaching A Journey to the Western
Islands of Scotland," in Approaches to Teaching the Works
of Samuel Johnson, David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New
York: MLA, 1993), pp. 99-106.
- Elizabeth Jenkins, "Dr. Johnson and David Garrick: A
Friendship," The New Rambler, C:23 (1982), 20-21.
- Samuel Joeckel, "Lewis and Samuel Johnson's Rasselas:
Hearing the Call of the Sehnsucht," CSL: The Bulletin
of the New York C. S. Lewis Society, 27:4 (1996), 1-6.
- Vijaya John, "Johnson's Dictionary: Some
Reflections," in Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, ed. T. R.
Sharma (Meerut, India: Shalabh, 1986), pp. 1-4.
- Holly Catherine Johnson, "William Law, Samuel Johnson, and
the Readers They Created," M.A. Thesis, University of Maryland
at College Park, 1989 (not seen).
- Samuel Johnson, Journey to the Western Islands of
Scotland, ed. J. D. Fleeman (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985).
Reviews:
- Isobel Grundy, British Journal for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 10 (1987), 103-105;
- Mervyn
Jannetta, The Library, 8:3 (1986), 284-85;
- Claire
Lamont, Durham University Journal, 79:2 (1987), 389-90;
- A. F. T. Lurcock, N&Q, 34:3 (Sept. 1987),
399-400;
- John H. Middendorf, Johnsonian News Letter,
462-47:2 (June 1986-June 1987), 5-6;
- Albert Pailler,
Etudes anglaises, 39:4 (Oct.-Dec. 1986), 458-59;
- David Vander Meulen, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 3 (1990), 442-52;
- David Womersley, Review of
English Studies, 38:149 (1987), 82-83.
- Samuel Johnson, A Voyage to Abyssinia, ed. Joel J.
Gold (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1985). The Yale Edition of the
Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 15. Reviews:
- Percy
G. Adams, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 2
(1989), 486-92;
- John J. Burke, Jr., Clio, 14 (Spring
1985), 346-49;
- Donald Crummey, International Journal of
African Historical Studies, 19:2 (1986), 373-74;
- Isobel
Grundy, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 10
(1987), 103-105;
- Claire Lamont, Review of English
Studies, 38:149 (1987), 81-82;
- A. F. T. Lurcock,
N&Q, 34:3 (Sept. 1987), 398-99;
- Albert Pailler,
Etudes anglaises, 39:3 (July-Sept. 1986), 346;
- Claude
Rawson, "Samuel Johnson Goes Abroad," London Review of
Books, 13:15 (1991), 15-17 (with other works);
- Edward
Ullendorff, History Today, 36 (Jan. 1986), 58.
- Samuel Johnson, Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare: A
Facsimile of the 1778 Edition, ed. P. J. Smallwood (Bristol:
Bristol Classical Press, 1985).
- Samuel Johnson, Two Letters from Samuel Johnson to Sir
Robert Chambers, September 14, 1773 and October 4, 1783, ed.
Loren R. Rothschild (Pacific Palisades: Rasselas Press, 1986).
- Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Sixteen Latin Poems
(Florence, Ky.: Robert L. Barth, 1987).
- Samuel Johnson, Daily Readings from the Prayers of Samuel
Johnson, ed. Elton Trueblood (Springfield, Ill.: Templegate
Publishers, 1987).
- Samuel Johnson, Vorwort zum Werk Shakespeares, ed.
and tr. Herbert Mainusch (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1987). In German.
- Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of
Abissinia, ed. J. P. Hardy (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press,
1988).
- Samuel Johnson, The Life of Mr. Richard Savage
(1727), intro. by Timothy Erwin (Los Angeles: William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1988). Augustan Reprint Society,
no. 247.
- Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of
Scotland (Charlotte Hall, MD: Recorded Books, Inc., 1988).
Sound recording on 3 cassettes, read by Patrick Tull and
Alexander Spenser. Reviews:
- Ernest Jaeger,
Library Journal, 114:20 (Dec. 1989), 200.
- Samuel Johnson, Rasselas and Other Tales, ed. Gwin J.
Kolb (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1990). The Yale Edition of the
Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 16. Reviews:
- Paul
Alkon, Johnsonian News Letter, 50:3-51:3 (Sept. 1990-Sept.
1991), 3-4;
- Thomas M. Curley, The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 5 (1992), 434-49;
- Paul J. Korshin,
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 4:2 (1992), 172-73;
- A. F.
T. Lurcock, N&Q, 39 (June 1992), 230-31;
- Albert
Pailler, Etudes Anglaises, 46:1 (Jan.-March 1993), 83-84;
- Claude Rawson, "Samuel Johnson Goes Abroad," London Review
of Books, 13:15 (1991), 15-17 (with other works);
- David
Womersley, Review of English Studies, 43:172 (Nov. 1992),
605;
- H. R. Woudhuysen, TLS, 13 Sept. 1991, p. 24.
- Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language,
2 vols. (London: Longman, 1990). Reviews:
- D. J.
Enright, The Independent, 30 Sept. 1990, p. 29;
- Christopher Hawtree, Times Educational Supplement,
3895 (22 Feb. 1991), 35;
- Gwin and Ruth Kolb, Johnsonian
News Letter, 50:3-51:3 (Sept. 1990-Sept. 1991), 6-8;
- Claude Rawson, "Samuel Johnson Goes Abroad," London Review
of Books, 13:15 (1991), 15-17 (with other works).
- Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson's Taxation No Tyranny: A
Fragment of Proof Copy Corrected by the Author and Preserved by
James Boswell to Commemorate Dr. Johnson's 281st Birthday at the
Grolier Club in New York (Privately printed, 1990).
- Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of
Scotland; James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the
Hebrides, ed. Peter Levi (London: Folio Society, 1990).
- Samuel Johnson, Five Latin Poems, ed. and tr. Thomas
Kaminski (Privately printed for The Samuel Johnson Society of
the Central Region, Loyola University, Chicago, April 1991).
- The Letters of Samuel Johnson, ed. Bruce Redford, 5
vols. (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1992-94).
Reviews:
- Peter Ackroyd, The Times, 22 Feb.
1992;
- Bloomsbury Review, 13 (Summer 1993), 26 (not
seen);
- Asa Briggs, Washington Times, 16 Feb. 1992, p.
B8;
- John Burke, South Atlantic Review, 60:2 (May
1995), 153-60;
- Greg Clingham, Essays in Criticism, 43
(1993), 253-57;
- Patricia B. Craddock, "Epistolick Art,"
Johnsonian News Letter, 51:4-52:1 (Dec. 1991-March 1992),
2-4;
- Anthony Curtis, Financial Times, 21 March 1992,
p. xv;
- Catherine Dille, The New Rambler, D:10
(1994-95), 66-68;
- Margaret Anne Doody, London Review of
Books, 14:21 (1992), 10-11;
- N. Fruman, Choice,
29:11-12 (1992), 1677;
- 32:1 (1994), 106;
- James Gray,
Dalhousie Review, 73 (Spring 1993), 113-16;
- James
Gray, Dalhousie Review, 73 (Fall 1993), 420-23;
- John
Gross, Sunday Telegraph, 13 March 1994, p. 10;
- Isobel
Grundy, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 27 (Fall 1993),
170-74;
- Isobel Grundy, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 8 (1997), 415-20;
- Lawrence Lipking, New
Republic, 207 (2 Nov. 1992), 36-38;
- Anne McDermott,
Review of English Studies, 45 (Aug. 1994), 426-29, n.s.
46 (Nov. 1995), 614;
- Carey McIntosh, The Age of Johnson:
A Scholarly Annual, 5 (1992), 421-33;
- Wendy Jones
Nakanishi, English Studies, 77 (1996), 592-94;
- David
Nokes, TLS, 15 May 1992, p. 24, and 18 March 1994, p. 11;
- Patrick O'Brian, Daily Telegraph, 22 April 1992, p.
117;
- J. Enoch Powell, Sunday Times, 1 March 1992;
- Christopher Ricks, "Samuel Johnson in His Letters," New
Criterion, 11 (Sept. 1992), 38-41;
- Joseph Rosenblum,
Library Journal, 116:18 (Nov. 1991), 99;
- Michael
Seidel, Newsday, 6 March 1994, p. 37;
- Economist, 323 (9 May 1992), 112;
- Giles Smith,
Independent, 23 Feb. 1992, p. 25;
- The
Spectator, 24 Sept. 1994, pp. 34-35;
- Village Voice
Literary Supplement, 132 (Feb. 1995), 26;
- Wilson
Quarterly, 15 (Summer 1992), 118;
- John Wiltshire,
Cambridge Quarterly, 23:4 (1994), 358-68;
- Thomas
Woodman, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
19:1 (Spring 1996), 113-14 (with another work);
- David
Yerkes, "Putting Out, Adding, and Correcting," Text:
Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, 7
(1994), 478-87;
- Robert Ziegler, Papers on Language &
Literature, 27:4 (Fall 1992), 457-75.
- Samuel Johnson, Know Thyself, ed. and tr. Fred Lock
(Ontario: Privately printed by Margaret Lock, 1992). An
illustrated keepsake edition of Gnothi Seauton in English
hexameter. Eighty-five copies printed.
- Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of
Scotland, ed. Peter Levi (London: Penguin, 1993).
- Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson's Translation of Sallust:
A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript, ed.
David L. Vander Meulen and G. Thomas Tanselle (New York: the
Johnsonians; Charlottesville: The Bibliographical Society of the
Univ. of Virginia, 1993). Reviews:
- J. D. Fleeman,
The Library, 16:2 (June 1994), 155-56;
- Anne
McDermott, Review of English Studies, 46 (May 1995), 312;
- Paul Tankard, The Bibliographical Society of Australia
and New Zealand, 19:2 (1995), 123-25.
- Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson's Private Interview with
George III: The Strahan Minute (Tempe: Privately printed for
the Friends of the Arizona State University Library, 1993).
Facsimile.
- Samuel Johnson, Histoire de Rasselas prince
d'Abyssine, tr. Alexandre Notré, rev. and ed. Alain
Montandon (Clermont-Ferrand: Editions Adosa, 1993). New revised
edition of the 1823 French translation.
- Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson on the Character and Duty
of an Academick (Tempe: Gene Valentine, 1994).
- Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of
Abyssinia, and Cornelia Knight, Dinarbas, A Tale, ed.
Lynne Meloccaro (London: Dent; Rutland: Tuttle, 1994).
- Samuel Johnson, Histoire de Rasselas prince
d'Abyssinie, tr. Octavie Belot, annotated by Felix Paknadel
and Annie Rivara (Paris: Desjonqueres, 1994).
- Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the
English Language, ed. Alexander Chalmers (London: Studio
Editions, 1994).
- Samuel Johnson, Selected Latin Poems, ed. Robert L.
Barth (Edgewood, Ky.: Robert L. Barth, 1995). Privately printed
19-page pamphlet.
- Samuel Johnson, The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel
Johnson: Text, Translation, and Commentary, ed. Barry
Baldwin (London: Duckworth, 1995). Reviews:
- J. W.
Binns, Review of English Studies, 47:188 (Nov. 1996),
592-93;
- James Gray, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 9 (1998), 323-37;
- Frank Lelievre, The New
Rambler, D:12 (1996-97), 53-55;
- James McLaverty,
N&Q, 43:2 (June 1996), 222-24.
- Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language,
ed. Anne McDermott (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996).
CD-ROM for Windows or Macintosh. Reviews:
- Jenni
Ameghino, The Birmingham Evening Post, 23 March 1996 (not
seen);
- Book World, 27 (5 Oct. 1997), 15;
- J. C. D.
Clark, History Today, 46 (Dec. 1996), 55, and 46 (12 Feb.
1997), 48;
- Indexer, 20 (Oct. 1996), 109;
- Hugh
John, The Times Educational Supplement, 26 April 1996
(not seen);
- Mark Kohn, The Indepdendent, 31 March
1996, p. 40;
- C. LaGuardia and E. Tallent, Library
Journal, 122:8 (1 May 1997), p. 148;
- Jack Lynch,
Choice, 34:7 (March 1997), 1155;
- Jack Lynch, The
Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 9 (1998), 352-57;
- Jim McCue, The Times, 21 June 1996, Features;
- John Naughton, The Observer, 24 March 1996, p. 16;
- Charmaine Spencer, The Independent, 20 May 1996, p.
15;
- Michael Suarez, The Times Higher Education
Supplement, 12 July 1996, Multimedia, p. 12.
- Samuel Johnson, Journey to the Hebrides, ed. Ian
McGowan (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1996).
- Steve Johnson, "Pass the Bons Mots: U. of C. Becomes the
Nerve Center of 200-Year-Old Wit that Never Ages," Chicago
Tribune, 20 Feb. 1991, p. C1.
- Melker Johnsson, "Samuel Johnson Agonist," Fenix
5:1-2 (1987), 80-120.
- Shirley White Johnston, "Samuel Johnson's Macbeth: 'Fair Is
Foul,'" The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 3 (1990),
189-230.
- Brian Jones, "Dr Johnson in Paris," Quadrant, 32:1-2
(Jan.-Feb. 1988), 98-100.
- I. E. Jones, "Johnson's Doctorate," TLS, 21-27 Sept.
1990, p. 1001. Reply to Greene, item 405a; see also item 892a.
- William R. Jones, "The Channel and English Writers: Johnson,
Smollett, Fielding, and Falconer," Studies on Voltaire and
the Eighteenth Century, 292 (1991), 55-66.
- Sarah Elizabeth Jordan, "The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness
in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture,"
Dissertation Abstracts International, 55:5 (1994), 1266A.
Brandeis University.
- Neill R. Joy, "A Samuel Johnson Allusion in a Letter to
Benjamin Franklin Explained and Amplified," American Notes
& Queries, 8:1 (Winter 1995), 13-16.
- Henry Kahane and Renée Kahane, "Dr. Johnson's
Dictionary: From Classical Learning to the National
Language," Lexicographia, 41 (1992), 50-53.
- Thomas Kaminski, The Early Career of Samuel Johnson
(New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1987). Reviews:
- Janet Barron, Times Higher Education Supplement,
770 (1987), 19;
- Thomas M. Curley, The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 2 (1989), 483-86;
- Robert D. Hume,
SEL, 28:3 (Summer 1988), 521-22;
- A. F. T. Lurcock,
N&Q, 36:1 (1989), 113-14;
- John H. Middendorf,
Johnsonian News Letter, 462-47:2 (June 1986-June 1987),
2;
- Charles E. Pierce, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 22
(Fall 1988), 102-105;
- David Womersley, Review of English
Studies, 40:158 (1989), 274-75.
- Carey Kaplan and Ellen Cronan Rose, The Canon and the
Common Reader (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1990),
chapter 2 ("Dr. Johnson's Canon and His Common Reader"), pp.
15-34.
- Mary Rose Kasraie, "Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
(1755): Johnson's Use of Quotations from the Works of Alexander
Pope in Volume 1 of the Dictionary," M.A. Thesis, Georgia State
University, 1990 (not seen).
- Thomas George Kass, "Samuel Johnson's 'Sermons':
Consolations for the Vacuity of Life," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 50:4 (Oct. 1989), 953A.
- T. G. Kass, "The Mixed Blessing of the Imagination in
Johnson's Sermons," Renascence, 47:2 (Winter 1995),
89-102.
- Thomas G. Kass, "Holy Fear and Samuel Johnson's Sermons,"
ELN, 33:2 (Dec. 1995), 36-48.
- Linde Katritzky, Johnson and the Letters of Junius: New
Perspectives on an Old Enigma (New York: Peter Lang, 1996).
Reviews:
- Bill Yarrow, East-Central
Intelligencer, n.s. 12 (Sept. 1998), 26-28.
- Colette Maria Kavanagh, "Samuel Johnson, Biographer," M.A.
Thesis, Georgetown University, 1994 (not seen).
- P. J. Kavanagh, A Book of Consolations (London:
HarperCollins, 1992). Pp. xviii + 238. Includes many selections
from Johnson (not seen).
- John Keats, Wise and Otherwise: In Dialogue with Samuel
Johnson and George Steevens (New Rochelle, N.Y.: James L.
Weil, 1986). 50 copies.
- Frederick M. Keener, The Chain of Becoming: The
Philosophical Tale, the Novel, and Neglected Realism of the
Enlightenment: Swift, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Johnson, and
Austen (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1983).
Reviews:
- Joseph Frank, Sewanee Review,
94:4 (1986), 650-57.
- Frederick M. Keener, "The Philosophical Tale, the Chain of
Becoming, and the Novel," Lessing and the Enlightenment,
ed. Alexej Ugrinsky (New York: Greenwood, 1986), pp. 35-42.
- S. P. T. Keilen, "Johnsonian Biography and the Swiftian
Self," The Cambridge Quarterly, 23:4 (1994), 324-47.
- Lionel Kelly, "Beckett's Human Wishes," in The
Ideal Core of the Onion: Reading Beckett Archives, ed. John
Pilling and Mary Bryden (Bristol: Beckett International
Foundation, 1992), pp. 21-44.
- Lionel Kelly, "Les Desirs humains de Beckett" ("Beckett's
Human Wishes," tr. H. Fiamma), Europe: Revue
litteraire mensuelle, 71 (June-July 1993), 99-115.
- Veronica Kelly, "Locke's Eyes, Swift's Spectacles," in
Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Veronica
Kelly and Dorothea von Mücke (Stanford: Stanford Univ.
Press, 1994), pp. 66-85.
- Kathleen Kemmerer, "Samuel Johnson's Androgyny and Sexual
Politics," Dissertation Abstracts International, 54:4
(Oct. 1993), 1376A. Fordham University.
- Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer, "A Neutral Being between the
Sexes": Samuel Johnson's Sexual Politics (Lewisburg:
Bucknell Univ. Press, 1998). Reviews:
- Catherine
Dille, The New Rambler, E:1 (1997-98), 73-74;
- Jack
Lynch, Choice, 36:6 (Feb. 1999), 1065.
- Richard Kennedy, "Cum Notis Variorum: Johnson's Shakespeare
of 1765: A Comparison of the Two Editions of MND,"
Shakespeare Newsletter, 44:4 (Winter 1994), 73.
- Mary Kenny, "Just What the Good Doctor Ordered," The
Sunday Telegraph, 5 June 1991. Selection of bons mots (not
seen).
- Katherine Kerestman, "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.
- Alvin B. Kernan, "The Social Construction of Literature,"
Kenyon Review, 7:4 (Fall 1985), 31-46.
- Alvin B. Kernan, "Literacy Crises, Old and New Information
Technologies and Cultural Change," Language &
Communication, 9:2-3 (1989), 159-73.
- Alvin B. Kernan, Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel
Johnson (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1987).
Reviews:
- Paul Alkon, English Language
Notes, 26 (Sept. 1988), 73-75;
- Thomas D'Evelyn,
Christian Science Monitor, 4 March 1987, p. 21;
- Stephen Fix, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 21 (Summer
1988), 521-26 (with another work);
- Isobel Grundy, The Age
of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 3 (1990), 455-61;
- David
Hunter, "Printing Technology: A Review Essay," Libraries and
Culture, 23:3 (1988), 374-80 (with other works);
- Gwin J.
Kolb, JEGP, 88 (April 1989), 241-46;
- Paul J. Korshin,
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 26
(1987), 194-97;
- James M. Kuist, Clio, 18 (Winter
1989), 210-12;
- John H. Middendorf, Johnsonian News
Letter, 462-47:2 (June 1986-June 1987), 3-4;
- Mark Rose,
Poetics Today, 8:3-4 (1987), 714-17;
- John
Sommerville, American Historical Review, 94:1 (Feb.
1989), 133-34;
- Calhoun Winton, Papers of the
Bibliographical Society of America, 84 (June 1990), 182-85;
- David Womersley, Review of English Studies, 39 (Nov.
1988), 559-60;
- Robert Ziegler, Papers on Language &
Literature, 28:4 (Fall 1992), 457-75.
- Alvin B. Kernan, "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, ed. David G. Allen and Robert A. White
(Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1990), pp. 251-64.
- John Kerslake, "Portraits of Johnson," The New
Rambler, C:25 (1984), 32-34.
- Tom Keymer, "'Letters about Nothing': Johnson and Epistolary
Writing," in The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson,
ed. Greg Clingham (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), pp.
224-39.
- Milton Keynes, "The Miserable Health of Dr Samuel Johnson,"
Journal of Medical Biography, 3:3 (1 Aug. 1995), 161.
- Dennis Dean Kezar, Jr., "Radical Letters and Male
Genealogies in Johnson's Dictionary," SEL, 35:3
(Summer 1995), 493-517.
- James Anthony Kilfoyle, "The Social Production of the Man of
Letters in Eighteenth-Century Britain," Dissertation
Abstracts, 55 (1995), 1967-68A.
- Phoebe Killey, "A Twentieth Century Journey to Scotland in
the Footsteps of Johnson and Boswell," The New Rambler,
D:10 (1994-95), 27-32.
- Bun Kim, "Jenoki e natanan Samuel Johnson eui munhakkwan,"
English Studies, 12 (1988), 47-63. In Korean (not seen).
- Moon-Soo Kim, "Johnson munhak e itseosuh eui botong
saramdeul e daehan gwansim: Life of Savage reul
choolbaljom euro bayeo," English Studies, 10 (1986),
51-67. In Korean (not seen).
- James King, "Cowper, Hayley, and Samuel Johnson's
'Republican' Milton," Studies in Eighteenth-Century
Culture, 17 (1987), 229-38.
- Mark Kinkead-Weekes, "Defoe and Richardson: Novelists of the
City," in Dryden to Johnson, ed. Roger Lonsdale (New
York: Bedrick, 1987), pp. 193-222.
- Russell Kirk, "Three Pillars of Modern Order: Edmund Burke,
Samuel Johnson, Adam Smith," Modern Age, 25:3 (1981),
226-33. Reprinted in Redeeming the Time (Wilmington:
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1996), pp. 254-70.
- Harriet Kirkley, "John Nichols, Johnson's 'Prefaces,' and
the History of Letters," Review of English Studies,
49:195 (Aug. 1998), 282-305.
- Wallace Kirsop, "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, ed. Ross Harvey, Wallace Kirsop, and
B. J. McMullin (Clayton, Victoria, Australia: Center for
Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash Univ., 1993), pp.
172-74.
- Wallace Kirsop, Samuel Johnson in Paris in 1775: The
David Fleeman Memorial Lecture, 1995 (Melbourne: The Johnson
Society of Australia, 1995 [i.e., 1996]).
- Bernice W. Kliman, "Samuel Johnson, 1745 Annotator?
Eighteenth-Century Editors, Anonymity, and the Shakespeare
Wars," Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography, n.s.
6:3-4 (1992), 185-207.
- Verlyn Klinkenborg, "Johnson and the Analogy of Judicial
Authority," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and
Interpretation, 28:1 (Winter 1987), 47-61.
- Peter Kocan, "Johnson and Garrick Leave Lichfield" and
"Levet," in Standing with Friends (Port Melbourne:
William Heinemann, 1992), 15, 17. Two poems.
- Robert Charles Koepp, "Johnsonian and Boswellian Strains in
Early Nineteenth-Century English Biography," Dissertation
Abstracts International, 43:8 (1983), 2680A.
- Gwin J. Kolb, 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).
- Gwin J. Kolb, "Studies of Johnson's Dictionary,"
Dictionaries, 2 (1990), 113-26. Includes commentary on
Congleton, DeMaria, Nagashima, and Reddick.
- Gwin J. Kolb, "Sir Walter Scott, 'Editor' of
Rasselas," Modern Philology, 89 (May 1992),
515-18.
- Gwin J. Kolb, "Scholarly and Critical Responses," in
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, ed.
David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New York: MLA, 1993), pp.
8-15.
- Gwin J. Kolb 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, 74:3 (Summer 1995), 327-35.
- Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr., "Dr Johnson's
Definition of Gibberish," N&Q, 45:1 (March
1998), 72-74.
- Paul J. Korshin, ed., The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual. Reviews:
- Percy G. Adams, South
Atlantic Review, 54:1 (Jan. 1989), 85-90;
- Timothy Erwin,
Johnsonian News Letter, 52:2-53:2 (June 1992-June 1993),
28-31;
- P. D. McGlynn, Choice, 27:1 (Sept. 1989), 612;
- John H. Middendorf, The Johnsonian News Letter,
48:1-2 (March-June 1988), 10-11;
- Bruce Redford, Review of
English Studies, 49:196 (Nov. 1998), 518-19 (on vols. 7 and
8);
- David Womersley, Review of English Studies,
45:180 (Nov. 1994), 577-78;
- H. R. Woudhuysen, TLS, 22
June 1990, p. 677.
- Paul J. Korshin, ed., Johnson after Two Hundred Years
(Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1986).
Reviews:
- Janet Baron, Times Higher Education
Supplement, 770 (1987), 19;
- Thomas F. Bonnell, Modern
Philology, 86:4 (1989), 427-30;
- Gwin J. Kolb,
JEGP, 88:2 (April 1989), 241-43;
- Martin Lehnert,
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 37:3
(1989), 268-70;
- Murray G. H. Pittock, British Journal for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 12 (1989), 111-12;
- David
Womersley, Review of English Studies, 40 (1989), 274-75;
- James F. Woodruff, University of Toronto Quarterly,
58:3 (1989), 419-20.
- Paul J. Korshin, "Johnson's Rambler and Its
Audiences," in Essays on the Essay: Redefining the Genre,
ed. Alexander J. Butrym (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1989),
pp. 92-105.
- Paul J. Korshin, "Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)," in
International Encyclopedia of Communications, ed. George
Gerbner et al., 4 vols. (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989), I,
371-72.
- Paul J. Korshin, "'Extensive View': Johnson and Boswell as
Travelers and Observers," in All Before Them, ed. John
McVeagh, vol. 1 of English Literature in the Wider World
(London: Ashfield, 1990), pp. 233-45.
- Paul J. Korshin, "Johnson's Conversation in Boswell's
Life of Johnson," in New Light on Boswell, ed.
Greg Clingham (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991), pp.
174-93.
- Paul J. Korshin, "Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Johnson: A
Literary Relationship," in Benjamin Franklin: An American
Genius, ed. Gianfranca Balestra and Luigi Sampietro (Rome:
Bulzoni, 1993), 33-48.
- Paul J. Korshin, "The Founding of The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual," East-Central Intelligencer, n.s.
8:3 (Sept. 1994), 6-7.
- Paul J. Korshin, "Johnson, the Essay, and The
Rambler," in The Cambridge Companion to Samuel
Johnson, ed. Greg Clingham (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
Press, 1997), pp. 51-66.
- Paul J. Korshin, "Afterword," ELH, 64:4 (Winter
1997), 1091-1100. Response to essays by Clark, Griffin, Hudson,
Lipking, Reddick, Weinbrot, and others in the same issue.
- Paul J. Korshin, "Reconfiguring the Past: The Eighteenth
Century Confronts Oral Culture," Yearbook of English
Studies, 28 (1998), 235-49.
- Beth Kowaleski-Wallace, "Tea, Gender, and Domesticity in
Eighteenth-Century England," Studies in Eighteenth-Century
Culture, 23 (1994), 131-45.
- Jonathan Brody Kramnick, "Reading Shakespeare's Novels:
Literary History and Cultural Politics in the Lennox-Johnson
Debate," Modern Language Quarterly, 55:4 (Dec. 1994),
429-53.
- R. S. Krishnan, "'The Shortness of Our Present State':
Locke's 'Time' and Johnson's 'Eternity' in Rasselas,"
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 19:1-2 (March 1998),
2-9.
- Yoshikatsu Kubota, "Encountering the Highlands: Boswell's
Journal-Writing and His Divided Scottish Self," Shiron,
34 (June 1995), 1-20.
- Ingrid Kuczynski, "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, 31:6 (1982), 73-80. In
German.
- Colby H. Kullman, "James Boswell and the Art of
Conversation," in Compendious Conversations: The Method of
Dialogue in the Early Enlightenment, ed. Kevin L. Cope
(Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1992), pp. 80-92.
- Colby H. Kullman, "'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.
- Arun Kumar, "Dr. Johnson on Milton," in Essays on Dr.
Samuel Johnson, ed. T. R. Sharma (Meerut, India: Shalabh,
1986), pp. 63-74.
- William Kupersmith, "Style and Values: Imitating Samuel
Johnson," in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel
Johnson, ed. David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New York:
MLA, 1993), pp. 42-48.
- William Kupersmith, "Johnson's London in Context:
Imitations of Roman Satire in the Later 1730s," The Age of
Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 10 (1999), 1-34.
- Charles LaChance, "'The Sinking Land': Pessimism in
Johnson's London," Papers on Language &
Literature, 31:1 (Winter 1995), 61-77.
- Allan Laing, "Boswell Wanted to Be Virgil to Johnson's
Dante," The Herald (Glasgow), 26 Aug. 1993, p. 14. On
BBC2's Tour of the Western Isles with Coltrane and
Sessions.
- Jonathan Lamb, "Blocked Observation: Tautology and Paradox
in The Vanity of Human Wishes," in Cutting Edges:
Postmodern Critical Essays on 18th-Century Literature, ed.
James Gill (Tennessee Studies in Literature, vol. 37, 1995), pp.
335-46.
- Elizabeth Lambert, "Samuel Johnson's Relationship with
Edmund Burke," The New Rambler, D:10 (1994-95), 32-39.
- Claire Lamont, "Dr Johnson, the Scottish Highlander, and the
Scottish Enlightenment," British Journal for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 12:1 (Spring 1989), 47-55.
- Claire Lamont, "Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Images of
Scotland," The New Rambler, D:7 (1991-92), 9-23.
- Claire Lamont, "'The Final Sentence, and Unalterable
Allotment': Johnson and Death," The New Rambler, D:9
(1993-94), 21-33.
- Claire Lamont, "Dr Johnson's Influence on Jane Austen,"
The New Rambler, D:11 (1995-96), 38-47.
- Lyle Larsen, Dr. Johnson's Household (Hamden, Conn.:
Archon Books, 1985). Reviews:
- J. D. Fleeman,
The New Rambler, C:26 (1985-86), 39-40;
- Isobel
Grundy, N&Q, 34:4 (1987), 547-48.
- Mary Lascelles, "Walter Raleigh: Six Essays on
Johnson," in Essays on Sir Walter Raleigh 1988, ed.
Asloob Ahmad Ansari (Aligarh: Aligarh Muslim Univ., 1988), pp.
60-65.
- Maureen Lawrence, Resurrection (drama on Johnson and
Barber). Reviews:
- Neil Cooper, The Herald
(Glasgow), 18 April 1996, p. 17;
- Nick Curtis, "A Grave
Look into the Past," The Evening Standard, 15 May 1996,
p. 51;
- Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 13 May 1996, p.
T45;
- Sarah Hemming, "Dr Johnson, I Presume: Theatre,"
Financial Times, 18 May 1996, p. 16;
- Benedict
Nightingale, "Blame It on the Doctor," The Times, 14 May
1996, p. 45;
- Charles Spencer, "Samuel Johnson's Life in
Black and White," The Daily Telegraph, 13 May 1996, p.
17;
- Paul Taylor, "Theatre: Resurrection," The
Independent, 14 May 1996, p. Arts 9;
- Peter Whitebrook,
The Scotsman, 18 April 1996, p. 22.
- Tom O. Lawson, "Pope's An Essay on Man and Samuel
Johnson's Duplicitous Reaction to It," Journal of the English
Language and Literature (Seoul), 32:3 (1986), 431-44.
- Mary Lazar, "Sam Johnson on Grub Street, Early Science
Fiction Pulps, and Vonnegut," Extrapolation: A Journal of
Science Fiction and Fantasy, 32:3 (Fall 1991), 235-55.
- B. S. Lee, "Johnson's Poetry: A Bicentenary Tribute,"
English Studies in Africa, 28:2 (1985), 81-98.
- J. H. Leicester, "James Boswell -- A Personal Appreciation,"
The New Rambler, D:7 (1991-92), 5-9.
- J. H. Leicester, Mrs. A. G. Dowdeswell, and Miss Stella
Pigrome, "Sixty-Five Years in the Company of Dr Johnson and his
Friends," The New Rambler, D:9 (1993-94), 13-14.
- William Levine, "The Genealogy of Romantic Literary History:
Refigurations of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets in
the Criticism of Coleridge and Wordsworth," Criticism, 34
(Summer 1992), 349-78.
- Harry Norman Levinson, "Another Look at Johnson's Appraisal
of Swift," Etudes anglaises: Grande-Bretagne, Etats-Unis,
39:4 (Oct.-Dec. 1986), 438-43.
- David Levy, "S. T. Coleridge Replies to Adam Smith's
'Pernicious Opinion': A Study in Hermetic Social Engineering,"
Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, 14:1
(Jan. 1986), 89-114.
- Aleksandr Libergant, ed., "Krestomatiinyi Dzhonson,"
Voprosy literatury, 2 (Feb. 1991), 223-36. In Russian.
- C. S. Lim, "Emendation of Shakespeare in the Eighteenth
Century: The Case of Johnson," Cahiers Elisabethains, 33
(April 1988), 23-30.
- Andro Linklater, "On the road with Johnson & Boswell
& Co.," The Telegraph Magazine, 11 Sept. 1993, p. 36.
On BBC2's Tour of the Western Isles with Coltrane and
Sessions.
- Lawrence Lipking, "Johnson's Beginnings," in Domestick
Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography, ed.
David Wheeler (Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1987), pp.
13-25.
- Lawrence Lipking, "What Was It Like to Be Johnson?" The
Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 1 (1987), 35-57.
- Lawrence Lipking, "Learning to Read Johnson: The Vision
of Theodore and The Vanity of Human Wishes," in
Modern Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature, ed.
Leopold Damrosch, Jr. (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988), pp.
335-54.
- Lawrence Lipking, "The Death and Life of Johnson," in
Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, ed. Nalini Jain (Bombay:
Popular Prakashan, 1991), pp. 102-11.
- Lawrence Lipking, "Inventing the Common Reader: Samuel
Johnson and the Canon," in Interpretation and Cultural
History, ed. Joan H. Pittock and A. Wear (New York: St
Martin's Press, 1991), pp. 153-74.
- Lawrence Lipking, "Teaching the Lives of the Poets,"
in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson,
ed. David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New York: MLA, 1993),
pp. 114-20.
- Lawrence Lipking, "M. Johnson and Mr. Rousseau," Common
Knowledge, 3:3 (1994), 109-26.
- Lawrence Lipking, "New Light on Johnson's Duck," The Age
of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 8 (1997), 149-58.
- Lawrence I. Lipking, "The Jacobite Plot," ELH, 64:4
(Winter 1997), 843-55.
- Lawrence Lipking, Samuel Johnson: The Life of an
Author (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1998).
Reviews:
- Michael Bundock, The New Rambler,
E:1 (1997-98), 75-76;
- Michael D. Langan, "Portrait of an
Author, Not the Man," The Buffalo News, 22 Nov. 1998, p.
5G;
- John Mullan, "The Rise of Mr Nobody: Dr Johnson Had No
Trouble Defining the Word Failure," The Guardian, 6 March
1999, p. 8;
- Rex Murphy, "The Real Dr. J Gets Stuffed: The
Master of English Prose Is Stopped Cold by a Foul-Prone
Biographer," Toronto Globe and Mail, 12 Dec. 1998, p.
D10;
- Christopher Ricks, "The Definitive Dr. Johnson," The
Boston Globe, 8 Nov. 1998, p. K1; Michael F. Suarez, S.J.,
"Another Tiny Boswell," TLS, 6 Aug. 1999, p. 8.
- Chella Courington Livingston, "Samuel Johnson's Literary
Treatment of Women," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 46:10 (April 1986), 3041A.
- Chella C. Livingston, "Johnson and the Independent Woman: A
Reading of Irene," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 2 (1989), 219-34.
- Jared C. Lobdell, "C. S. Lewis's Ransom Stories and Their
Eighteenth-Century Ancestry," Word and Story in C. S.
Lewis, ed. Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar (Columbia:
Univ. of Missouri Press, 1991), pp. 213-31.
- Allison Lockwood, "Samuel Johnson," British Heritage,
5:4 (1984), 62-73.
- Arno Loffler, "Die wahnsinnige Heldin: Charlotte Lennox'
The Female Quixote," Arbeiten aus Anglistik und
Amerikanistik, 11:1 (1986), 63-81. In German.
- Barbara A. Looney, "The Suppressed Agenda of Boswell's
'Tour,'" Dissertation Abstracts International, 53:3
(Sept. 1992), 819A-20A. University of South Florida.
- John Lucas, "Travel: Defining Image of Wit and Wisdom,"
The Daily Telegraph, 16 July 1994, p. 33.
- Nestor Lujan, "Samuel Johnson," Historia y vida,
17:194 (1984), 88-95. In Spanish.
- F. Luoni, "Recit, exemple, dialogue," Poetique, 74
(1988), 211-32. In French.
- Irma S. Lustig, "Boswell without Johnson: The Years After,"
The New Rambler, D:1 (1985-86), 36-38.
- Irma S. Lustig, "Facts and Deductions: The Curious History
of Reynolds's First Portrait of Johnson, 1756," The Age of
Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 1 (1987), 161-80.
- Irma S. Lustig, ed., Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man
of Letters (Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1995).
Reviews:
- Thomas E. Kinsella, The Age of
Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 8 (1997), 434-38;
- Colby
Kullman, Albion, 28:4 (1996), 698-700;
- William Zachs,
Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 10 (1996), 16-18 (with
another work).
- Irma S. Lustig, "'My Dear Enemy': Margaret Montgomerie
Boswell in the Life of Johnson," in Boswell: Citizen
of the World, Man of Letters, ed. Irma S. Lustig (Lexington:
Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1995), pp. 228-45.
- Irma S. Lustig, "The Myth of Johnson's Misogyny in the
Life of Johnson: Another View," in Boswell in Scotland
and Beyond, ed. Thomas Crawford (Glasgow: Association for
Scottish Literary Studies, 1997), pp. 71-88.
- Deidre Lynch, "'Beating the Track of the Alphabet': Samuel
Johnson, Tourism, and the ABCs of Modern Authority," ELH,
57:2 (Summer 1990), 357-405.
- Jack Lynch, "Studied Barbarity: Johnson, Spenser, and the
Idea of Progress," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 9 (1998), 81-108.
- Jack Lynch, "Johnson, Politian, and Editorial Method,"
N&Q, 45:1 (March 1998), 70-72.
- John T. Lynch, "The Revival of Learning: The Age of
Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 59:7 (Jan. 1999), A2678. University of
Pennsylvania.
- Steven Lynn, "Johnson's Rambler and
Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric," Eighteenth-Century Studies,
19 (Summer 1986), 461-79.
- Steven Lynn, "Sexual Difference and Johnson's Brain," in
Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy:
Whitston, 1987), pp. 123-49.
- Steven Lynn, "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.
- Steven Lynn, Samuel Johnson after Deconstruction:
Rhetoric and The Rambler (Carbondale: Southern Illinois
Univ. Press, 1992). Reviews:
- James G. Basker,
The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 8 (1997), 420-25;
- Gregory Scholtz, Choice, 30:6 (Feb. 1993), 962;
- Edward Tomarken, South Atlantic Review, 58:3 (Sept.
1993), 112-16.
- Steven Lynn, "Johnson's Critical Reception," in The
Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, ed. Greg Clingham
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), pp. 240-53.
- Marie E. McAllister, "Gender, Myth, and Recompense: Hester
Thrale's Journal of a Tour to Wales," The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 6 (1994), 265-82.
- Stephen McCaffery, "Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and
Poetics," Dissertation Abstracts International, 59:1
(1998), A166. SUNY Buffalo. Includes a section on the theories
of language implicit in the Dictionary.
- A. C. McDermott, "The Logic and the Epistemological
Sanctions of Dr. Johnson's Arguments," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 51:2 (Aug. 1990), 526A.
- Anne McDermott, "Johnson's Use of Shakespeare in the
Dictionary," The New Rambler, D:5 (1989-90), 7-16.
- Anne McDermott, "A Corpus of Source Texts for Johnson's
Dictionary," Corpora Across the Centuries: Proceedings
of the First International Colloquium on English Diachronic
Corpora, ed. Merja Kytö, Matti Rissanen and Susan
Wright (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1994), pp. 151-54.
- Anne McDermott, "The Reynolds Copy of Johnson's
Dictionary: A Re-Examination," Bulletin of the John
Rylands University Library of Manchester, 74:1 (Spring
1992), 29-38.
- Anne McDermott, "The 'Wonderful Wonder of Wonders': Gray's
Odes and Johnson's Criticism," in Thomas Gray: Contemporary
Essays, ed. W. B. Hutchings (Liverpool: Liverpool Univ.
Press, 1993), pp. 188-204.
- Anne McDermott, "The Defining Language: Johnson's
Dictionary and Macbeth," Review of English
Studies, 44:176 (Nov. 1993), 521-38.
- Anne McDermott, "The Intertextual Web of Johnson's
Dictionary and the Concept of Authorship," in Early
Dictionary Databases, ed. Ian Lancashire and T. Russon
Wooldridge, CCH Working Papers 4 (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto,
1994), pp. 165-72; reprinted in Publications de l'Institut
national de la langue française: Dictionairique et
lexicographie, vol. 3, Informatique et dictionnaires
anciens (1995), ed. Bernard Quemada, pp. 165-71.
- Anne McDermott, "Textual Transformations: The Memoirs of
Martinus Scriblerus in Johnson's Dictionary,"
Studies in Bibliography, 48 (1995), 133-48.
- Anne McDermott, "The Making of Johnson's Dictionary
on CD-ROM," Transactions of the Johnson Society
(Lichfield), (1995-96), 29-37.
- Anne McDermott, "Preparing the Dictionary for
CD-ROM," The New Rambler, D:12 (1996-97), 17-25.
- Anne McDermott, "Johnson's Dictionary and the Canon:
Authors and Authority," The Yearbook of English Studies,
28 (1998), 44-65.
- Anne McDermott 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, ed. Ian Small and Marcus Walsh
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 35-61.
- D. L. Macdonald, "Eighteenth-Century Optimism as Metafiction
in Pale Fire," The Nabokovian, 14 (Spring 1985),
26-32.
- Murdo Macdonald, "The Torrent Shrieks," Edinburgh
Review, 96 (1996), 99-108.
- Neil Macfadyen, "Johnson House, Gough Square, Renovations,"
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield),
(1989-90), 82-83.
- Helen-Louise McGuffie, "The Harmful Drudge," The New
Rambler, D:2 (1986-87), 17-19. On Johnson's reputation.
- R. J. McGuill, "Prime Time for Dr. Johnson," Advertising
Age, 55 (1 Oct. 1984), 20. Cartoon.
- Nancy A. Mace, "What Was Johnson Paid for Rasselas?"
Modern Philology, 91 (May 1994), 455-58.
- John G. McEllhenney, "John Wesley and Samuel Johnson: A Tale
of Three Coincidences," Methodist History, 21:3 (1983),
143-55.
- John G. McEllhenney, "Two Critiques of Wealth: John Wesley
and Samuel Johnson Assess the Machinations of Mammon,"
Methodist History, 32:3 (April 1994), 147.
- Ian McGowan, "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, ed. Alvaro Ribeiro and James
G. Basker (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), pp. 127-43.
- Thomas Daniel McGrath, "From Tragedy to Hope: A Study of the
Parallels in the Thought of Samuel Johnson and T. S. Eliot,"
M.A. Thesis, Eastern Illinois University, 1994 (not seen).
- Lawrence C. McHenry, Jr., "Dr. Samuel Johnson's Head-Tilt --
A Hitherto Unrecognized Example of IVth Cranial Nerve Palsy,"
Neurology, 33:4 suppl. 2 (1983), 230.
- John MacInery, "Johnson and the Art of Translation," The
New Rambler, C:23 (1982), 19-20.
- Raymond G. McInnis, "Discursive Communities/ Interpretive
Communities: The New Logic, John Locke and Dictionary-Making,
1660-1760," Social Epistemology, 10:1 (Jan.-March 1987),
107-22.
- Carey McIntosh, "Rhetoric and Runts: Boswell's Artistry," in
Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, ed. Irma
S. Lustig (Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1995), pp.
137-57.
- Alan T. McKenzie, "The Systematic Scrutiny of Passion in
Johnson's Rambler," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 20
(Winter 1986-87), 129-52. Appears in a revised version as "The
Moral Force of the Passions in The Rambler," in
Certain, Lively Episodes: The Articulation of Passion in
Eighteenth-Century Prose (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press,
1990), 171-93.
- Lachlan Mackinnon, "Translating a Self," Cambridge
Review, 112:2313 (1991), 70-73.
- David McKitterick, "Thomas Osborne, Samuel Johnson and the
Learned of Foreign Nations: A Forgotten Catalogue," The Book
Collector, 41:1 (Spring 1992), 55-68.
- Duncan McCoshan ("Knife"), "Publication Day for Johnson's
Dictionary," The New Statesman, 1 Aug. 1997, p. 37;
reprinted in Transactions of the Johnson Society
(Lichfield), (1997), 48. Cartoon.
- James McLaverty, "From Definition to Explanation: Locke's
Influence on Johnson's Dictionary," Journal of the
History of Ideas, 47:3 (July-Sept. 1986), 377-94.
- James McLaverty, "Dr Fleeman's Bibliography of Samuel
Johnson," The New Rambler, E:1 (1997-98), 3-12.
- Fiona MacMath, ed., The Faith of Samuel Johnson: An
Anthology of His Spiritual and Moral Writings and
Conversation (London: Mowbray, 1990). With illustrations by
E. H. Shepard.
- Fiona MacMath, "Dr Johnson, Strictly Speaking," The
Times, 26 March 1991, 14. On Johnson's religious torment.
- Christopher J. Malone, "Philosophical and Biographical
Hermeneutics: An Essay on History and Understanding," M.A.
Thesis, Fordham University, 1994 (not seen).
- Martin Maner, "The Probable and the Marvelous in Johnson's
'Life of Milton,'" Philological Quarterly, 66:3 (Summer
1987), 391-409.
- Martin Maner, The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and
Dialectic in Johnson's "Lives of the Poets" (Athens: Univ.
of Georgia Press, 1988). Reviews:
- Allan Ingram,
MLR, 86:2 (1991), 403;
- M. H. Kirkley, South
Atlantic Review, 55:3 (Sept. 1990), 106-109;
- John H.
Middendorf, Johnsonian News Letter, 49:3-50:2 (Sept.
1989-June 1990), 20;
- Alexander Pettit, Eighteenth-Century
Studies, 26:1 (1992), 121-24;
- G. Scholtz, Choice,
27:1 (Sept. 1989), 167;
- Irène Simon, English
Studies, 72:3 (1991), 280-83.
- Martin Maner, "Samuel Johnson, Scepticism, and Biography,"
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 12:4 (Fall
1989), 302-19.
- Martin Maner, "Johnson's Redaction of Hawkesworth's Swift,"
The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 2 (1989),
311-34.
- Michael J. Marcuse, "Miltonoklastes: The Lauder Affair
Reconsidered," Eighteenth-Century Life, 4 (1978), 86-91.
- Michael J. Marcuse, "The Gentleman's Magazine and the
Lauder/ Milton Controversy," Bulletin of Research in the
Humanities, 81 (1978), 179-209.
- Michael J. Marcuse, "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.
- Michael J. Marcuse, "'The Scourge of Impostors, the Terror
of Quacks': John Douglas and the Exposé of William
Lauder," The Huntington Library Quarterly, 42 (1978-79),
231-61.
- H. Markel, "The Death of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: A
Clinicopathologic Conference," American Journal of
Medicine, 62:6 (June 1987), 1203-1207.
- Jean I. Marsden, "The Individual Reader and the Canonized
Text: Shakespeare Criticism after Johnson,"
Eighteenth-Century Life, 17:1 (1993), 62-80.
- Peter Martin, "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.
- Peter Martin, The Life of James Boswell (London:
Weidenfield & Nicholson, 1999). Reviews:
- Humphrey
Carpenter, The Sunday Times, 15 Aug. 1999;
- The
Herald (Glasgow), 11 Aug. 1999, p. 12;
- Ian McIntyre,
The Times, 19 Aug. 1999, p. 43;
- Frank McLynn, The
Independent, 14 Aug. 1999, p. 11;
Eli Shaltiel,
Ha'Aretz, 12 Nov. 1999, p. B7.
- Louis Wirth Marvick, Mallarmé and the Sublime
(Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1986), chapters 4-6, pp.
25-45.
- Heather Masri, "Counsel for the Defense: Boswell Represents
Johnson," Dissertation Abstracts International, 58:9
(1997), 3538A. New York University.
- Robert U. Massey, "Dr. Johnson and His Burden of Illness,"
Connecticut Medicine, 57:8 (Aug. 1993), 561.
- R. K. Mathur, "Dr. Johnson and Modern American and British
Criticism," Indian Journal of American Studies, 21:2
(1991), 25-37 (not seen).
- Jack Matthews, "The Dictionary: The Poetry of Definitions,"
Antioch Review, 51:2 (Spring 1993), 294-300.
- Robert J. Mayhew, Geography and Literature in Historical
Context: Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century English
Conceptions of Geography (Oxford: School of Geography,
University of Oxford, 1997).
- Robert Mayhew, "Samuel Johnson's Intellectual Character as a
Traveler: A Reassessment," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 10 (1999), 35-65.
- Robert J. Mayhew, "Nature and the Choice of Life in
Rasselas," SEL, 39:3 (Summer 1999), 539-56.
- Jerome Meckier, "Dickens, Great Expectations, and the
Dartmouth College Notes," Papers on Language &
Literature, 28:2 (Spring 1992), 111-32.
- Robert Gardner Meeker, "A Descriptive Analysis of the Kinds
of Essays in Johnson's 'Rambler,'" Dissertation Abstracts
International, 51:2 (Aug. 1990), 513A.
- Thomas K. Meier, "Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: The
Interplay of Prejudice and Patriotism," in Time, Literature
and the Arts: Essays in Honor of Samuel L. Macey, ed. Thomas
R. Clearey (Victoria, B.C.: Univ. of Victoria, 1994), pp.
100-13.
- Wilfrid Mellers, "Samuel Johnson," TLS, 30 Aug. 1991, p. 13.
A reply to Greene, item 405b.
- Iu. K. Mel'vil' and S. A. Sushko, "Argument Doktora
Dzhonsona: Semiuel Dzhonson kak Kritik Berkli," Voprosy
Filosofii, (1981 no. 3), 133-44. On Johnson's critique of
Berkeley. In Russian.
- Roy W. Menninger, M.D., "Johnson's Psychic Turmoil and the
Women in His Life," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 5 (1992), 179-200.
- Bernard C. Meyer, "Notes on Flying and Dying,"
Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 52:3 (July 1983), 327-52.
- Bernard C. Meyer and D. Rose, "Remarks on the Etiology of
Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome," Journal of Nervous and
Mental Diseases, 174:7 (July 1986), 387-96.
- Laure Meyer, "Reynolds: la fusion de l'histoire et de la
realité," L'Oeil (Lausanne), 363 (Oct. 1985),
20-27.
- Chris Mihill, "Why Mozart Behaved So Badly," The
Guardian, 27 Dec. 1992, p. 4. Speculation that Mozart and
Johnson may have suffered from Tourette's Syndrome.
- Luree Miller, "Literary Villages of London: In the Footsteps
of Dr. Johnson, Thomas Carlyle, John Keats and Virginia Woolf,"
The Washington Post, 3 Dec. 1989, p. E1.
- Stephen Miller, "Why Read Samuel Johnson?" Sewanee
Review, 107:1 (Winter 1999), 44-60.
- Peter Milward, "Shakespeare's 'Fatal Cleopatra,'"
Shakespeare Studies (Tokyo), 30 (1992), 57-63.
- Earl Miner, Naming Properties: Nominal Reference in
Travel Writings by Basho and Sora, Johnson and Boswell (Ann
Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1996). Reviews:
- D. L. Barnhill, Monumenta Nipponica, 53:1 (Spring
1990), 105-108;
- D. W. Kenning, Comparative Literature
Studies, 35:2 (1998), 191-205.
- Carolyn Misenheimer, "Dr. Johnson and Charles and Mary Lamb:
Intellectual Assumptions in the Art of Writing for Children,"
The New Rambler, D:7 (1991-92), 23-36.
- James B. Misenheimer, Jr., "Johnson and the Critic as
Idealist: Some Reflections on Famous Passages from his
Criticism," The New Rambler, C:26 (1985-86), 16-33.
- James B. Misenheimer, Jr., "Johnson and Critical
Expectation," in Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed.
Prem Nath (Troy: Whitston, 1987), pp. 13-30.
- James B. Misenheimer, Jr., "Dr. Johnson, Warren Cordell, and
the Love of Books," in Bibliographia, ed. John Horden
(Oxford: Leopard's Head Press, 1992), pp. 87-103.
- James Misenheimer, "Dr Johnson and the Ascent to
Immortality: An Aspect of his Legacy," The New Rambler,
D:9 (1993-94), 51-65.
- James B. Misenheimer, Jr., and Robert K. O'Neill, "The
Cordell Collection of Dictionaries and Johnson's Lexicographic
Presence: The Love of Books in Two Centuries," The New
Rambler, C:24 (1983), 33-47.
- James B. Misenheimer, Jr., and Veva Vonler, "Intellectual
Eclecticism: A Ramble through the Rambler," The New
Rambler, D:6 (1990-91), 16-28.
- John Warwick Montgomery, "The Religion of Dr. Johnson,"
New Oxford Review, 61:7 (Sept. 1994), 19.
- Lee Morgan, "Dr. Johnson and 'His Own Dear Master,' Henry
Thrale," Publications of the Arkansas Philological
Association, 15 (April 1989), 84-96.
- Lee Morgan, Dr. Johnson's "Own Dear Master": The Life of
Henry Thrale (Lanham, Md.: Univ. Press of America, 1998).
Reviews:
- Richard Thrale, The New Rambler,
E:1 (1997-98), 74-75.
- C. Morrant, "The Melancholy of Dr. Samuel Johnson,"
CMAJ, 136:2 (15 Jan. 1987), 201-203.
- Matthew Charles Evans Morris, "Parody in Pale Fire: A
Re-Reading of Boswell's Life of Johnson," Dissertation
Abstracts International, 57:5 (Nov. 1996), 2028A.
- Sarah R. Morrison, "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.
- Alain Morvan, "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. In French.
- L. C. Mugglestone, "Samuel Johnson and the Use of /h/,"
N&Q, 36:4 (Dec. 1989), 431-33.
- John Muirhead, "A Model for Johnson's Polyphilus,"
N&Q, 33:4 (Dec. 1986), 514-17.
- Gurudas Mukherjee, "Johnson the Juggler with Three Balls:
Fancy, Reason, and Faith," in Modern Studies and Other Essays
in Honour of Dr. R. K. Sinha, ed. R. C. Prasad and A. K.
Sharma (New Delhi: Vikas, 1987), pp. 195-98.
- Jessica Munns, "The Interested Heart and the Absent Mind:
Samuel Johnson and Thomas Otway's The Orphan,"
ELH, 60:3 (Fall 1993), 611-23.
- T. J. Murray, "The Medical History of Doctor Samuel
Johnson," Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield)
(1992), 26-34. Reprints item 3:773.
- T. J. Murray, "Dr. James and Dr. Johnson," The New
Rambler, D:8 (1992-93), 3-5.
- Valerie Grosvenor Myer, "Dr Johnson, Fanny Burney and Jane
Austen," The New Rambler, D:9 (1993-94), 66-78.
- Alan Nadel, "'My Mind Is Weak, but My Body Is Strong':
George Plimpton and the Boswellian Tradition," Midwest
Quarterly, 30:3 (Spring 1989), 372-86.
- Daisuke Nagashima, Dokuta Jonson Meigenshu
(Sayings of Dr. Johnson) (Tokyo: Taishukan, 1984). In
Japanese.
- Daisuke Nagashima, Johnson the Philologist (Hirakata:
Intercultural Research Inst., Kansai Univ. of Foreign Studies,
1988). Reviews:
- James G. Basker, The Age of
Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 4 (1991), 148-50;
- John H.
Middendorf, Johnsonian News Letter, 49:3-50:2 (Sept.
1989-June 1990), 23.
- Daisuke Nagashima, "Johnson's Use of Skinner and Junius," in
Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy:
Whitston, 1987), pp. 283-98.
- Daisuke Nagashima, "Hyde Collection, The Johnsonians Nenkai
sonota, I: 1988 nen Hobei no Tabi kara," Eigo Seinen, 134
(n.d.), 593-85. In Japanese.
- Daisuke Nagashima, "Jonson no Eigojiten shinkenkyu" (A new
study of Johnson's Dictionary [by Allen Reddick]),
Eigoseinen (The Rising Generation), 137:3 (June 1991),
138-39. In Japanese.
- Daisuke Nagashima, "Progressive or Conservative? Two Trends
in Johnson Studies," The New Rambler, D:7 (1991-92),
43-47.
- Daisuke Nagashima, "Johnson in Japan: A Fragmentary Sketch,"
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), (1993),
14-19.
- Daisuke Nagashima, "Samuel Johnson: The Road to the
Dictionary," Studies in English Literature
(Japan), 72 (1995), 63-75.
- Daisuke Nagashima, "How Johnson Read Hale's
Origination for His Dictionary: A Linguistic
View," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 7 (1996),
247-98.
- Daisuke Nagashima, "Johnson's Revisions of His Etymologies,"
Yearbook of English Studies, 28 (1998), 94-105.
- Daisuke Nagashima, "The Biblical Quotations in Johnson's
Dictionary," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 10 (1999), 89-126.
- Akio Nakahara, Johnson den no keifu (Tokyo:
Kenkyushashuppan, 1991). In Japanese.
- Ghazi Q. Nassir, "A History and Criticism of Samuel
Johnson's Oriental Tales," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 50:3 (Sept. 1989 Sept), 692A.
- Prem Nath, ed., Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson:
Essays in Criticism (Troy: Whitston, 1987). Reviews:
- J. D. Fleeman, The New Rambler, D:5 (1989-90),
38-41;
- P. D. McGlynn, Choice, 25 (1988), 1554;
- Albert Pailler, Etudes anglaises, 42:4 (1989),
475-76;
- James Woodruff, University of Toronto
Quarterly, 58:3 (1989), 419-20.
- Prem Nath, "Johnson's London Re-Examined," in
Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy:
Whitston, 1987), pp. 215-26.
- Nicolas H. Nelson, "Narrative Transformations: Prior's Art
of the Tale," Studies in Philology, 90:4 (Fall 1993),
442-61.
- Melvyn New, "Rasselas in an Eighteenth-Century Novels
Course," in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel
Johnson, ed. David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New York:
MLA, 1993), pp. 121-27.
- Peter New, "Re-Reading Johnson," in New Trends in English
and American Studies: Proceedings of the Fifth International
Conference, Cracow, 1990, April 2-7 (Cracow: Towarzystwo
Autorów i Wadawców Prac Naukowych "Universitas,"
1992), pp. 57-72.
- Donald J. Newman, "Disability, Disease, and the
'Philosophical Heroism' of Samuel Johnson in Boswell's Life
of Johnson," A/B: Auto/ Biography Studies, 6:1
(Spring 1991), 8-16.
- Donald J. Newman, ed., James Boswell: Psychological
Interpretations (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995).
Reviews:
- Richard B. Sher, Albion, 28
(1996), 496-97;
- William Zachz, Eighteenth-Century
Scotland, 10 (1996), 16-18 (with another work).
- Ray Andrew Newman, "Samuel Johnson's View of Human Nature
and its Relationship to his Political, Societal and Religious
Concepts," M.A. Thesis, University of Wyoming, 1995 (not seen).
- Graham Nicholls, "A New Look for the Birthplace,"
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield),
(1989-90), 19-22.
- Graham Nicholls, "A Newly Discovered Johnson Letter,"
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield),
(1989-90), 74-89.
- Graham Nicholls, "English Literature in the Time of
Johnson," Transactions of the Johnson Society
(Lichfield), (1992), 14-25.
- Graham Nicholls, "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.
- Graham Nicholls, "Four Quotations of Samuel Johnson,"
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), (1997),
1-10. Presidential address to the Johnson Society, 20 Sept.
1997.
- Graham Nicholls, "'Better Acquainted with My Heart':
Johnson's Friendship with John Taylor," Transactions of the
Johnson Society (Lichfield), 1997, 30-35.
- G. W. Nicholls and R. W. White, "Young Samuel Johnson and
His Birthplace," The New Rambler, D:7 (1991-92), 3.
- David Nokes, "Johnson and Swift," The New Rambler,
C:26 (1985-86), 35-36.
- Maximillian E. Novak, "'Rotation of Interests': Johnson's
Concept of Social and Historical Encounter and Change," in
Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy:
Whitston, 1987), pp. 43-62.
- Maximillian E. Novak, "James Boswell's Life of
Johnson," in The Biographer's Art: New Essays, ed.
Jeffrey Myers (Basingstoke: McMillan, 1987), 31-52.
- Maximillian E. Novak, "Warfare and Its Discontents in
Eighteenth-Century Fiction: or, Why Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Failed to Produce a War and Peace," Eighteenth-Century
Fiction, 4:3 (1992), 185-205.
- Felicity A. Nussbaum, The Autobiographical Subject:
Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1989), chapter 4 ("Manly
Subjects: Boswell's Journals and The Life of Johnson"),
pp. 103-26.
- Felicity A. Nussbaum, "'Savage' Mothers: Narratives of
Maternity in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century," Cultural
Critique, 20 (1991-92), 123-51.
- William B. Ober, "Johnson and Boswell: 'Vile Melancholy' and
'The Hypochondriack,'" in Bottoms Up!: A Pathologist's Essays
on Medicine and the Humanities (Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press, 1987), pp. 179-202.
- Conor Cruise O'Brien, "Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke,"
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), (1993),
1-7.
- Conor Cruise O'Brien, "Dr Johnson and Edmund Burke," The
New Rambler, D:12 (1996-97), 25-32.
- Karen O'Brien, "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.
- Brenda O'Casey, ed., The Sayings of Doctor Johnson
(London: Duckworth, 1990).
- James Ogden, "A Johnson Borrowing from Milton,"
N&Q, 39:4 (Dec. 1992), 482.
- Andrew O'Hagan, "The Laird of Life; Boswell's Life of
Johnson Is the First Great Modern Biography," The
Guardian, 16 May 1998, Features, p. 8. Discussion of the
Life with literary biographers.
- Brian O'Kill, The Lexicographic Achievement of
Johnson (Harlow, Essex, England: Longman, 1990). Part of the
Longman facsimile edition of Johnson's Dictionary of the
English Language.
- Robert C. Olson, "Samuel Johnson's Ambivalent View of
Classical Pastoral," in Fresh Reflections on Samuel
Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy: Whitston, 1987), pp. 31-42.
- Walter J. Ong, "Samuel Johnson and the Printed Word,"
Review, 10 (1988), 97-112.
- Toni O'Shaughnessy, "Fiction as Truth: Personal Identity in
Johnson's Life of Savage," SEL, 30:3 (Summer
1990), 487-501.
- Mark Hazard Osmun, "Touring Scotland: In the Footsteps of
Dr. Johnson and Mr. Boswell," The San Francisco Examiner,
25 June 1995, p. T1.
- Noel E. Osselton, "Alphabetisation in Monolingual
Dictionaries to Johnson," Exeter Linguistic Studies, 14
(1989) [i.e., Lexicographers and Their Works], 165-73.
- Noel Osselton, "Dr. Johnson and the Spelling of Dispatch,"
International Journal of Lexicography, 7:4 (Winter 1994),
307.
- Maurice J. O'Sullivan, "Shakespeare, Johnson, and Wolsey: A
Community of Mind," Sydney Studies in English, 14
(1988-89), 13-20.
- K. A. J. Page, "Samuel Johnson's Rasselas and its
Intellectual Background," Ph.D. Dissertation, Birkbeck College,
University of London, 1984.
- Norman Page, ed., Dr. Johnson: Interviews and
Recollections (Totowa, N.J.: Barnes and Noble, 1987).
Reviews:
- Janet Barron, Times Higher Education
Supplement, 770 (1987), 19;
- A. F. T. Lurcock,
N&Q, 36:1 (1989), 114;
- J. D. Fleeman, The New
Rambler, D:3 (1987-88), 48-50;
- Albert Pailler, Etudes
anglaises, 41:3 (July-Sept. 1988), 358.
- Norman Page, A Dr. Johnson Chronology (Boston: G. K.
Hall, 1990). Reviews:
- A. F. T. Lurcock,
N&Q, 38:4 (1991), 546;
- John H. Middendorf,
Johnsonian News Letter, 49:3-50:2 (Sept. 1989-June 1990),
21;
- Robert Ziegler, Papers on Language &
Literature, 28:4 (Fall 1992), 457-75.
- S. L. Pal, "Johnson's Philosophy of Life and Literature," in
Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, ed. T. R. Sharma (Meerut,
India: Shalabh, 1986), pp. 25-34.
- Anthony Palmer, "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, ed. Sergio Rossi and Guilio
Giorello (Milan: Unicopli, 1987), pp. 287-95.
- Radhe Shyam Pandey, Dr. Samuel Johnson as Critic
(Patna: Uma Publications, 1987).
- Catherine N. Parke, "Rasselas and the Conversation of
History," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 1
(1987), 79-109.
- Catherine N. Parke, "Johnson, Imlac, and Biographical
Thinking," in Domestic Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art
of Biography, ed. David Wheeler (Lexington: Univ. Press of
Kentucky, 1987), pp. 85-106.
- Catherine N. Parke, "Samuel Johnson and Melodrama," The
New Rambler, D:5 (1989-90), 29-37.
- Catherine N. Parke, "'The Hero Being Dead': Evasive
Explanation in Biography: The Case of Boswell," Philological
Quarterly, 68:3 (Summer 1989), 343-62.
- Catherine Neal Parke, Samuel Johnson and Biographical
Thinking (Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1991).
Reviews:
- Marlies K. Danziger, Biography,
16:2 (Spring 1993), 175-76;
- J. D. Fleeman, The New
Rambler, D:7 (1991-92), 39-40;
- James Gray, Dalhousie
Review, 71 (Winter 1991-92), 502-507;
- A. F. T. Lurcock,
Review of English Studies, 45 (Aug. 1994), 424-25;
- Martin Maner, South Atlantic Review, 57:3 (Sept.
1992), 128-31;
- Albert Pailler, Etudes Anglaises, 46:1
(Jan.-March 1993), 86;
- Alexander Pettit,
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 26 (Fall 1992), 121-26;
- J. T. Scanlan, "The Biographical Part of Literature,"
Johnsonian News Letter, 52:2-53:2 (June 1992-June 1993),
26-28;
- Gregory Scholtz, Choice, 29:7 (March 1992),
1079-79;
- Stuart Sherman, JEGP, 93 (Oct. 1994),
585-88.
- Catherine N. Parke, "Negotiating the Past, Examining
Ourselves: Johnson, Women, and Gender in the Classroom,"
South Central Review, 9:4 (Winter 1992), 71-80.
- Catherine N. Parke, "Samuel Johnson and Gender," in
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, ed.
David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New York: MLA, 1993), pp.
19-27.
- Catherine N. Parke, Biography: Writing Lives (New
York: Twayne, 1996), chapter 2 ("Majority Biography 1: Samuel
Johnson"), pp. 35-66.
- Catherine N. Parke, "Johnson and the Arts of Conversation,"
in The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, ed. Greg
Clingham (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), pp. 18-33.
- Blanford Parker, The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English
Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson (Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998), chapter 7 ("Johnson and Fideism"),
pp. 231-49.
- G. F. Parker, "Johnson's Criticism of Shakespeare," Ph.D.
dissertation, Univ. of Cambridge, 1986.
- G. F. Parker, Johnson's Shakespeare (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1989). Reviews:
- R. G. Brown, Choice,
27:4 (Dec. 1989), 634;
- Joanna Gondris, "Of Poets and
Critics," Johnsonian News Letter, 51:4-52:1 (Dec.
1991-March 1992), 4-7 (with another work);
- James Gray,
Modern Philology, 89:1 (Aug. 1991), 127-31;
- Robert
Hapgood, TLS, 25 Aug. 1989, pp. 927-28;
- David Hopkins,
Review of English Studies, 42 (1991), 271-72;
- Allan
Ingram, MLR, 86:2 (April 1991), 403-404;
- Thomas
Kaminski, JEGP, 90:4 (Oct. 1991), 559-61;
- Alexander
Leggatt, Shakespeare Quarterly, 42:1 (Spring 1991),
107-109;
- C. S. Lim, N&Q, 37:4 (Dec. 1990), 475-76;
- James McLaverty, Essays in Criticism, 40:2 (April
1990), 164-70;
- Claude Rawson, "Samuel Johnson Goes Abroad,"
London Review of Books, 13:15 (1991), 15-17 (with other
works);
- Willem Schrickx, English Studies, 71:3 (June
1990), 280-83;
- R. S. White, Shakespeare Survey Annual,
43 (1990), 219-35;
- R. S. White, Deutsche
Shakespeare-Gesellschaft-West, Jahrbuch, (1990), 283;
- Robert Ziegler, Papers on Language & Literature,
28:4 (Fall 1992), 457-76.
- Fred Parker, "The Skepticism of Johnson's Rasselas,"
in The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, ed. Greg
Clingham (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), pp. 127-42.
- B. Parry-Jones, "A Bulimic Ruminator? The Case of Dr. Samuel
Johnson," Psychological Medicine, 22:4 (Nov. 1992), 851.
- Douglas Lane Patey, "Johnson's Refutation of Berkeley:
Kicking the Stone Again," Journal of the History of
Ideas, 47:1 (Jan.-March 1986), 139-45.
- Laura A. Payne, "The Success of Johnson's Irene,"
The New Rambler, D:4 (1988-89), 27-36.
- Laura Payne, "Hammond, Johnson and the Most Difficult Book
in the World," The New Rambler, D:6 (1990-91), 5-6.
- Linda R. Payne, "An Annotated Life of Johnson: Dr.
William Cadogan on 'Bozzy' and His Bear," Collections, 2
(1987), 1-25.
- Michael Payne, "Imaginative Licentiousness: Johnson on
Shakespearean Tragedy," The New Rambler, D:4 (1988-89),
38-48.
- Michael Payne, "Imaginative Licentiousness: Johnson on
Shakespearean Tragedy," College Literature, 17:1 (1990),
66-78.
- Michael Payne, "Johnson vs. Milton: Criticism as
Inquisition," The New Rambler, D:7 (1991-92), 31-44;
reprinted in College Literature, 19:1 (Feb. 1992),
60-74.
- Edward Pearce, "Commentary: A Prospect to Please Dr
Johnson," The Guardian, 25 Nov. 1992, p. 18.
- J. M. S. Pearce, "Fanny Burney on Samuel Johnson's Tics and
Mannerisms," Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and
Psychiatry, 57:3 (March 1994), 380.
- J. M. S. Pearce, "Doctor Samuel Johnson: 'The Great
Convulsionary' a Victim of Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome,"
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 87:7 (1 July
1994), 396.
- Hesketh Pearson, Johnson and Boswell: The Story of Their
Lives, with a new introduction by Michael Holroyd (London:
Cassell, 1987).
- Mark Alan Pedreira, "Samuel Johnson's Rhetorical Art:
Topical and Figurative Copia in the Age of Locke,"
Dissertation Abstracts International, 55:10 (April 1995),
3200A. University of Maryland, College Park.
- Mark Pedreira, "Johnsonian Figures: Copia and Lockean
Observation in Samuel Johnson's Critical Writings,"
1650-1850, 1 (1994), 157-96.
- Mark Pedreira, "Johnsonian Figures: A Cornucopia of Vanity,
Idleness, and Death in Samuel Johnson's Prose Writings,"
1650-1850, 2 (1996), 247-73.
- Lidie Ann Risher Phillips, "Samuel Johnson's
Rasselas: Portrait of the Artist," M.A. Thesis, East
Carolina University, 1986 (not seen).
- [Add to item 24:197] Charles E. Pierce, The
Religious Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Athlone Press;
Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1983). Reviews:
- John. D.
Boyd, America, 149 (9 July 1983), 34-36.
- Päivi Pietilä, "The Lives of the Poets: The
More Readable Dr. Johnson," in Alarums and Excursions:
Working Papers in English (Turku, Finland: Univ. of Turku,
1990), pp. 125-41 (not seen).
- E. W. Pitcher, "The Moralist Serial in The Federal
Gazette of 1798," American Notes & Queries, 8:1
(1995), 16-18.
- Lilian Pizzichini, "A Journey into Hypertext: Two Artists
are Recreating the Scottish Travels of the Celebrated Literary
Duo James Boswell and Samuel Johnson," The Independent,
15 April 1996, p. 12.
- Jeffrey Plank, "Johnson's Lives and Augustan Poetry,"
in Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath
(Troy: Whitston, 1987), pp. 373-87.
- Jeffrey Plank, "Reading Johnson's Lives: The Forms of
Late Eighteenth-Century Literary History," The Age of
Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 2 (1989), 335-52.
- Bill Plante, "[Bill Plante Discusses the Birthday of Samuel
Johnson]," broadcast on CBS-TV ("Sunday Morning"), 18 Sept. 1988
(not seen).
- Wayne W. Plasha, "The Social Construction of Melancholia in
the Eighteenth Century: Medical and Religious Approaches to the
Life and Work of Samuel Johnson and John Wesley," M.Litt.
Thesis, Faculty of Modern History, University of Oxford, 1993.
- Mary Sue Ply, "Samuel Johnson's Journeys into the Past,"
Dissertation Abstracts International, 44:11 (1984),
3391A.
- Kristin Hatch Pollack, "Samuel Johnson, Feminist," M.A.
Thesis, Southwest Texas State University, 1988 (not seen).
- David Porter, "Writing China: Legitimacy and Representation,
1606-1773," Comparative Literature Studies, 33:1 (Winter
1996), 98-122.
- Roy Porter, "'Mad All My Life': The Dark Side of Samuel
Johnson," History Today, 34 (Dec. 1984), 43-46.
- Roy Porter, "'The Hunger of Imagination': Approaching Samuel
Johnson's Melancholy," in The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in
the History of Psychiatry, ed. William Bynum, Roy Porter,
and Michael Shepherd (London: Tavistock, 1985), I, 63.
- Adam Potkay, "The Spirit of Ending in Johnson and Hume,"
Eighteenth-Century Life, 16:3 (Nov. 1992), 153-66.
- Adam Potkay, "Happiness in Johnson and Hume," The Age of
Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 9 (1998), 165-86.
- J. Enoch Powell, "Rasselas," Transactions of the Johnson
Society (Lichfield), (1989-90), 30-40.
- J. Enoch Powell, "Cathedral Address," Transactions of the
Johnson Society (Lichfield), (1989-90), 73-76.
- Stephen S. Power, "Through the Lens of Orientalism:
Samuel Johnson's Rasselas," West Virginia University
Philological Papers, 40 (1994), 6-10.
- Michael B. Prince, Philosophical Dialogue in the British
Enlightenment: Theology, Aesthetics, and the Novel
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996) (not seen).
- Irwin Primer, "Tracking a Source for Johnson's Life of
Pope," Yale University Library Gazette, 61:1-2 (Oct.
1986), 55-60.
- Clive Probyn, "Surfacing and Falling into Matter: Johnson,
Swift, Disgust and Beyond," Mattoid, 48:1 ("The Disgust
Issue") (1994), 37-43.
- Clive Probyn, "Eve, Savage's Mother, and Learned Ladies:
Johnson, Boswell and Women," Johnson Society of Australia
Papers, 2:1 (1998), 15-24.
- Clive Probyn, "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.
- Peter Quennell, "Who Can Like the Highlands?"
Horizon, 15:2 (1973), 89-103.
- Laura Ellen Quinney, "Johnson in Mourning: The Authority and
the Love of Mimesis," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 48:9 (March 1988), 2346A.
- Laura Quinney, Literary Power and the Criteria of
Truth (Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 1995), chapter 2
("Johnson in Mourning"), pp. 29-53; chapter 3 ("The Grimness of
the Truth"), pp. 55-85.
- John B. Radner, "Boswell's and Johnson's Sexual Rivalry,"
The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 5 (1992),
201-46.
- John B. Radner, "From Paralysis to Power: Boswell with
Johnson in 1775-1778," in James Boswell: Psychological
Interpretations, ed. Donald J. Newman (New York: St.
Martin's, 1995), pp. 127-48.
- John B. Radner, "Pilgrimage and Autonomy: The Visit to
Ashbourne," in Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of
Letters, ed. Irma S. Lustig (Lexington: Univ. Press of
Kentucky, 1995), pp. 203-27.
- John B. Radner, "'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.
- Irina Raicu, "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, ed. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan (Pueblo, CO:
Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery,
1995), pp. 96-103.
- Judith L. Rapoport, "The Biology of Obsessions and
Compulsions," Scientific American, 260:3 (1 March 1989),
82.
- David H. Rawlinson, "Presenting Its Evils to Our Minds:
Imagination in Johnson's Pamphlets," English Studies,
70:4 (Aug. 1989), 315-27.
- Claude Rawson, "Johnson's Doctorate," TLS, 12-18 Oct.
1990, p. 1099. Reply to Greene, item 405a, and Jones, item 574a.
- Claude Rawson, "A Working Life," The New Criterion,
17:10 (June 1999), 74-78.
- Krishna Rayan, "Resistance in Reading," English,
41:171 (1992), 249-53.
- Allen H. Reddick, "Hopes Raised for Johnson: An Example of
Misleading Descriptive and Analytical Bibliography," TEXT:
Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, 2
(1985), 245-49.
- Allen Hilliard Reddick, "The Making of Johnson's
Dictionary, 1746-55 and 1771-73," Dissertation
Abstracts International, 48:8 (Feb. 1988), 2068A-2069A.
- Allen Reddick, The Making of Johnson's "Dictionary,"
1746-1773 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990).
Reviews:
- David R. Anderson, South Atlantic
Review, 58:3 (Sept. 1993), 116-18;
- W. B. Carnochan,
TLS, 19 April 1991, pp. 9-10;
- Paul Clayton,
N&Q, 39 (June 1992), 231-32;
- Robert DeMaria,
Modern Philology, 90 (Nov. 1992), 268-73;
- James Gray,
Dalhousie Review, 70 (Summer 1990), 260-63;
- Elizabeth
Hedrick, Johnsonian News Letter, 50:3-51:3 (Sept.
1990-Sept. 1991), 5-6;
- Paul J. Korshin, The Age of
Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 4 (1991), 417-24;
- Anne
McDermott, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
17:1 (Spring 1994), 74-79;
- Pat Rogers, Review of English
Studies, 45 (May 1994), 259-60;
- G. Scholtz,
Choice, 28:9 (May 1991), 4972;
- Michael F. Suarez,
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 26 (Spring 1993), 514-17;
- Claude Rawson, "Samuel Johnson Goes Abroad," London Review
of Books, 13:15 (1991), 15-17 (with other works);
- Laurence
Urdang, Verbatim, 20:2 (Autumn 1993), 8-10 (with another
work);
- Robert Ziegler, Papers on Language &
Literature, 28 (Fall 1992), 457-75.
- Allen Reddick, Johnson's "Dictionary": The Sneyd-Gimbel
Copy (Cambridge, Mass.: Privately printed for the
Johnsonians, 1991).
- Allen Reddick, "Teaching the Dictionary," in
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, ed.
David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New York: MLA, 1993), pp.
84-91.
- Allen Reddick, "Johnson Beyond Jacobitism: Signs of Polemic
in the Dictionary and the Life of Milton,"
ELH, 64:4 (Winter 1997), 983-1005.
- Allen Reddick, "Johnson's Dictionary of the English
Language and Its Texts: Quotation, Context, Anti-Thematics,"
Yearbook of English Studies, 28 (1998), 66-76.
- Bruce Redford, "Defying Our Master: The Appropriation of
Milton in Johnson's Political Tracts," Studies in
Eighteenth-Century Culture, 20 (1990), 81-91.
- Bruce Redford, "Hearing Epistolick Voices: Teaching
Johnson's Letters," in Approaches to Teaching the Works of
Samuel Johnson, ed. David R. Anderson and Gwin J. Kolb (New
York: MLA, 1993), pp. 78-83.
- Bruce Redford, "Johnson Ventriloquens,"
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), (1994),
1-12.
- William Rees-Mogg, "He Gave Us Johnson: Thanks to Boswell,
We Can Still Live in the 18th Century -- And Emulate Its Style,"
The Times, 18 May 1995, p. 20.
- James E. Reibman, "Dr. Johnson and the Law: An Enlightenment
View," The New Rambler, C:26 (1985-86), 9-11.
- Jerome M. Reich, M.D., "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.
- Hugh Reid, "'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.
- Karen Faith Reifel, "The Work of Believing: Labor as
Self-Definition in Carlyle, Dickens, and Brontë,"
Dissertation Abstracts International, 51:6 (Dec. 1990),
2028A.
- Thomas Jeffrey Reinert, "Regulating Confusion: Johnson and
the Crowd," Dissertation Abstracts International, 48:9
(March 1988), 2346A.
- Thomas Reinert, "Johnson and Conjecture," SEL, 28:3
(Summer 1988), 483-96.
- Thomas Reinert, Regulating Confusion: Johnson and the
Crowd (Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1996). Reviews:
- G. Lamoine, Etudes Anglaises, 50:4 (Oct.-Dec.
1997), 473-74;
- Douglas L. Patey, Choice, 34:11-12
(July 1997), 1804;
- J. T. Scanlan, Albion, 30:1
(Spring 1998), 125-27.
- Joshua Reynolds, "Art-Connoisseurs," Art &
Antiques, 17:6 (June 1994), 89-92. Letter from Reynolds in
response to Idler 25 on art connoisseurs.
- R. C. Reynolds, "Johnson on Fielding," College
Literature, 13:2 (Spring 1986), 157-67.
- Geoffrey Ribbans, "A Note on Cadalso and Samuel Johnson,"
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 68:1 (Jan. 1991), 47-51.
- Robert Richardson, "Media Types: Hero in the Image of Dr.
Johnson," The Independent, 28 April 1993, p. 19.
- Christopher Ricks, "Dr. Johnson and the Falkland Islands,"
The New Rambler, C:26 (1985-86), 13-15.
- Christopher Ricks, "Samuel Johnson: Dead Metaphors and
'Impending Death,'" in The Force of Poetry (Oxford:
Oxford Univ. Press, 1987), pp. 80-88.
- Arthur G. Rippey, The Story of a Library: Reminiscences
of a Latter Day Book Collector (Denver: Smith & Smith,
1985) (not seen).
- Daniel E. Ritchie, "Samuel Johnson's The Rambler and
Edmund Burke's Reflections," Modern Age: A Quarterly
Review, 34:4 (Summer 1992), 344-48.
- Daniel E. Ritchie, Reconstructing Literature in an
Ideological Age: A Biblical Poetics and Literary Studies from
Milton to Burke (Grand Rapids: William B. Erdmans, 1996),
chapter 2 ("Johnson Reading Literature, Johnson Reading the
Canon of Scripture: The Difference between Literary Pleasure and
Religious Happiness"), pp. 71-118.
- Annie Rivara, "Savoir délirant et encyclopédie
détraquée: Figures de savant fou dans le Prince
Rasselas de Johnson et le Compère Mathieu de
Du Laurens," in (eds.), Folies romanesques au siècle
des lumières, ed. René Démoris and
Henri Lafon (Paris: Desjonquères, 1998), pp. 351-64.
- Betty Rizzo, "'Innocent Frauds': By Samuel Johnson," The
Library, 6th series, 8:3 (Sept. 1986), 249-64.
- Betty Rizzo, "Johnson's Efforts on Behalf of Authorship in
The Rambler," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century, 264 (1989), 1188-90.
- Betty Rizzo, "'Innocent Frauds': By Samuel Johnson," The
Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society,
3:3 (Sept. 1986), 249-64.
- Duncan Robinson, "Giuseppe Baretti as 'A Man of Great
Humanity,'" in British Art 1740-1820: Essays in Honor of
Robert R. Wark, ed. Guilland Sutherland (San Marino:
Huntington Library, 1992), pp. 81-94.
- Roger Robinson, "'We All Love Beattie': The Truthful
Minstrel in the Johnson Circle," The New Rambler, D:10
(1994-95), 39-47.
- J. P. W. Rogers, "Dr. Johnson and the English Eccentrics,"
The New Rambler, C:26 (1985-86), 5-7.
- J. P. W. Rogers, "Samuel Johnson's Gout," Medical
History, 30 (1986), 133-44.
- J. P. W. Rogers, "Johnson's Lady Frances," The New
Rambler, D:7 (1991-92), 41-43.
- Katharine M. Rogers, "Anna Barbauld's Criticism of Fiction
-- Johnsonian Mode, Female Vision," Studies in
Eighteenth-Century Culture, 21 (1991), 27-41.
- Pat Rogers, "'The Transit of the Caledonian Hemisphere':
Johnson, Boswell, and the Context of Exploration," in Fresh
Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy:
Whitston, 1987), pp. 328-48. Appears, with slight revisions, in
Rogers's Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia,
chapter 3.
- Pat Rogers, "Boswell and the Scotticism," in New Light on
Boswell, ed. Greg Clingham (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
Press, 1991), pp. 56-71. Appears, with slight revisions, in
Rogers's Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia,
chapter 7.
- Pat Rogers, "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.
- Pat Rogers, "Johnson and the Art of Flying," N&Q,
40:3 (Sept. 1993), 329-30.
- Pat Rogers, Johnson (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press,
1993). Reviews:
- John Bayley, London Review of
Books, 15:21 (1993), 7-8;
- Hugh Douglas, The New
Rambler, D:10 (1994-95), 68-70 (with another work);
- J.
D. Fleeman, N&Q, 41:2 (June 1994), 249-50;
- Keith
Walker, TLS, 24 Sept. 1993, p. 26.
- Pat Rogers, ed., Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A
Journey to the Hebrides (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1993).
Reviews:
- O M Brack, Jr., Rocky Mountain Review
of Language and Literature, 49:2 (1995), 169-74;
- J. D.
Fleeman, N&Q, 41:1 (March 1994), 106-109;
- Allen
Ingram, YES, 25 (1995), 297-98;
- Linda E. Merians,
Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 8 (1994), 23-24;
- Karen
O'Brien, Review of English Studies, 46 (Nov. 1995),
590-591;
- Virginia Quarterly Review, 70:2 (Spring
1994), 57.
- Pat Rogers, Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of
Caledonia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995). Reviews:
- W. B. Carnochan, Albion, 28:3 (1996), 495-96;
- Linda Colley, London Review of Books, 17:18 (1995),
14-15 (with another work);
- Stephen Copley, British
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 20:1 (Spring 1997),
78-79 (with another work);
- Marlies K. Danziger,
Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 10 (1996), 15-16;
- Douglas Dunn, TLS, 11 Aug. 1995, pp. 4-5;
- The
Observer, 26 Nov. 1995, p. 7 (not seen);
- Paul Tankard,
Colloquy, 1 (1996), 87-88;
- David Womersley, Review
of English Studies, 48 (1997), 114-16.
- Pat Rogers, The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996). Reviews:
- American Reference Books Annual, 28 (1997), 455;
- P. A. Dollard, Library Journal, 121:17 (15 Oct.
1996), 53;
- Anne McDermott, The New Rambler, E:1
(1997-98), 71-73;
- Aaron Stavisky, The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 10 (1999), 302-28;
- R. Stuhr-Rommereim,
Choice, 34:4 (Dec. 1996), 1935;
- Paul Tankard, The
Southern Johnsonian, (Nov. 1998), 6;
- Anne Watson,
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), (1997),
47-48.
- Pat Rogers, The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, tr. into
Japanese by Daisuke Nagashima et al. (forthcoming, March
1998). With an introductory essay by Nagashima on Johnson
studies in Japan.
- Pat Rogers, "Chatterton and the Club," in Thomas
Chatterton and Romantic Culture, ed. Nick Groom (New York:
St. Martin's, 1999), pp. 121-50.
- Ronald Rompkey, "Soame Jenyns's 'Epitaph on Dr. Samuel
Johnson,'" Bodleian Library Record, 12:5 (Oct. 1987),
421-24.
- Beth Carole Rosenberg, "The Dialogic Influence: Virginia
Woolf and Samuel Johnson," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 53:3 (Sept. 1992), 821A. New York
University.
- Beth Carole Rosenberg, Virginia Woolf and Samuel Johnson:
Common Readers (New York: St. Martin's, 1995).
Reviews:
- P. Laurence, English Literature in
Transition 1880-1920, 39:3 (1996), 380-383
.
- Phyllis Rowell, Dr Johnson's House During the War,
1939-1945 (Salisbury: Salisbury Printing Co., 1987).
Commemorates Johnson's 278th birthday at the annual dinner of
the Johnsonians.
- Niall Rudd, "Cicero's De Senectute and The Vanity
of Human Wishes," N&Q, 33:1 (March 1986), 59.
- William Ruddick, "Scott and Samuel Johnson and Biographers
of Dryden," The New Rambler, C:25 (1984), 14-26.
- William Ruddick, "Samuel Johnson: Picturesque Tourist,"
The New Rambler, D:8 (1992-93), 24-26.
- Valerie Rumbold, "Mrs Thrale Leaves Home: Closed Circles and
Expanding Horizons in Hester Lynch Piozzi's Anecdotes of Dr
Johnson," The New Rambler, D:12 (1996-97), 3-17.
- Roseann Runte, "Voltaire and Johnson on Shakespeare,"
Actes de langue française et de linguistique,
10/11 (1997-98), 33-40.
- P. Russell, "A Hobbist Tory: Johnson on Hume," Hume
Studies, 16:1 (1990), 75-79.
- T. M. Russell, "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.
- Terence M. Russell, 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 Press, 1997). Examines 700
Dictionary entries on architecture. Reviews:
- A. Gomme, TLS, 6 Feb. 1998, p. 10.
- Kalman G. Ruttkay, "The Aristotelian Heritage in Critical
Theory and Practice: From Dryden to Johnson," Neohelicon:
Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum, 17:1 (1990),
13-25.
- Mary R. Ryder, "Avoiding the 'Many-Headed Monster': Wesley
and Johnson on Enthusiasm," Methodist History, 23:4
(1985), 214-22.
- E. A. Sadler, "Dr Johnson's Ashbourne Friends: Extracts from
E. A. Sadler's 1939 Paper," Transactions of the Johnson
Society (Lichfield), (1997), 36-43.
- Nobuyoshi Saito, "The Sense of a Middle: System and History
in Samuel Johnson and Laurence Sterne," Dissertation
Abstracts International, 55:7 (Jan. 1995), 1971A. Brown
University.
- Andrew Sandlin, "Samuel Johnson's 'Late Conversion'
Re-evaluated in View of the Published Sermons," The New
Rambler, D:10 (1994-95), 57-63.
- Andrew Sandlin, "The Political Sermons of Samuel Johnson,"
Modern Age, 39:4 (1997), 383-388.
- Fernando Savater, "Boswel [sic], el curioso
impertinente," Suplemento Literario La Nacion, 14 Jan.
1996, p. 6. In Spanish.
- Patrick Sawer, "Hodge Gets His Share of Dr Johnson's Fame,"
The Evening Standard, 24 Sept. 1997, p. 15. On the statue
of Hodge outside the Gough Square house.
- J. T. Scanlan, "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.
- Steven Donald Scherwatzky, "Johnson's Tory Politics,"
Dissertation Abstracts International, 51:7 (Jan. 1991),
2388A. Rutgers University.
- Steven Scherwatzky, "Review Essay: Samuel Johnson and
Eighteenth-Century Politics," Eighteenth-Century Life,
15:3 (Nov. 1991), 113-24. Review of Donald Greene, The
Politics of Samuel Johnson, 2nd ed.; Paul Kléber
Monod, Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788;
Isaac Kramnick, Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism:
Political Ideology in Late Eighteenth-Century England and
America; and John W. Derry, Politics in the Age of Fox,
Pitt and Liverpool: Continuity and Transformation.
- Steven Scherwatzky, "Johnson, Rasselas, and the
Politics of Empire," Eighteenth-Century Life, 16 (Nov.
1992), 103-13.
- Michele Eva-Marie Schiavone, "Heroism in Samuel Johnson's
Periodical Essays," Dissertation Abstracts International,
50:8 (Feb. 1990), 2501A-2502A.
- Märi Schindele, "Précis of Articles on Johnson
and Boswell," Johnsonian News Letter, 51:4-52:1
(1991-92), 24-28.
- Gregory Scholtz, "Sola Fide? Samuel Johnson and the
Augustinian Doctrine of Salvation," Philological
Quarterly, 72:2 (Spring 1993), 185-212.
- Gregory F. Scholtz, "Anglicanism in the Age of Johnson: The
Doctrine of Conditional Salvation," Eighteenth-Century
Studies, 22:2 (Winter 1989), 182-207.
- Gregory F. Scholtz, "Samuel Johnson on Human Nature: Natural
Depravity and the Doctrine of Original Sin," Word &
World, 13:2 (Spring 1993), 136.
- Helga Schwalm, "Identität und Lebensgeschichte:
Fremdbiographisches Erzählen bei Samuel Johnson und James
Boswell," in Das 18. Jahrhundert, ed. Monika Fludernik,
Ruth Nestvold, and Vera Alexander (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher,
1998), pp. 91-107. In German.
- Jack Schwandt, "Re-Reading Taxation No Tyranny: Was
the United States of America a Mistake?" Studies on Voltaire
and the Eighteenth Century, 263 (1989), 275-76.
- Richard B. Schwartz, "Johnson's Voluntary Agents," in
Theory and Tradition in Eighteenth-Century Studies, ed.
Richard B. Schwartz (Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press,
1990), pp. 51-65.
- Richard B. Schwartz, "Samuel Johnson: The Professional
Writer as Critic," in Fresh Reflections on Samuel
Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy: Whitston, 1987), pp. 1-12.
- Richard B. Schwartz, After the Death of Literature
(Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1997).
- Alex Segal, "Conversation, Writings, and the Subversion of
Economy: Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage," The
Critical Review, 37 (1997), 81-95.
- Raman Selden, "Deconstructing the Ramblers," in Fresh
Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy:
Whitston, 1987), pp. 269-82.
- Percy Selwyn, "Johnson's Hebrides: Thoughts on a Dying
Social Order," Development and Change, 10:3 (1979),
345-61.
- David Sexton, "Broken Oaths: David Sexton Reflects on Dr
Johnson's Mastery of the Art of Making Resolutions," The
Independent, 31 Dec. 1990, p. 13.
- D[avid] S[exton], "N.B.," TLS, 30 March 1995, p. 14.
Review of articles on masturbation in The Age of Johnson, vol. 6.
- Amiya Bhushan Sharma, "Dr. Johnson: An Economic
Perspective," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Aberdeen, 1983.
- Amiya Bhushan Sharma, "Samuel Johnson and the Art of Social
Comfort," Indian Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
1:2 (Winter 1986), 16-35 (not seen).
- Amiya Bhushan Sharma, "The Fowkes and the Lawrences:
Biographical Notes on Samuel Johnson's Friends in India,"
Indian Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1:1
(Summer 1986), 29-35 (not seen).
- Mahanand Sharma, "Dr. Johnson and Babu Shyam Sunder Dass as
Lexicographers," in Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, ed. T.
R. Sharma (Meerut, India: Shalabh, 1986), pp. 75-84.
- O. P. Sharma, "Samuel Johnson's Lung Disease," Journal of
Medical Biography, 7:3 (Aug. 1999): 171-74.
- Susheel Kumar Sharma, "Samuel Johnson's Moral Views in
Life of Milton," in Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson,
ed. T. R. Sharma (Meerut, India: Shalabh, 1986), pp. 104-108.
- T. R. Sharma, ed., Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson
(Meerut, India: Shalabh, 1986).
- T. R. Sharma, "Dr. Johnson and Defeudalization of
Literature," in Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, ed. T. R.
Sharma (Meerut, India: Shalabh, 1986), pp. 109-18.
- Alan Shelston, "Johnson, Watts and Wesley," New
Rambler, D:2 (1986-87), 4-5.
- Israel Shenker, "A Samuel Johnson Celebration Recalls His
Wit and Wisdom," Smithsonian, 15 (Dec. 1984), 60-68.
- W. G. Shepherd, tr., "A Latin Poem by Samuel Johnson,"
Agenda, 26:3 (Autumn 1988), 42-44.
- Barrie Sheppard, "Johnson and the Cucumber," Johnson
Society of Australia Papers, 2:2 (1998), 9-14.
- Barrie Sheppard, "Johnson, Adam Smith, and Peacock Brains,"
Johnson Society of Australia Papers, 3 (1999), 15-25.
- Arthur Sherbo, The Birth of Shakespeare Studies:
Commentators from Rowe (1709) to Boswell-Malone (1821) (East
Lansing: Colleagues Press, 1986). Reviews:
- J. D.
Fleeman, Modern Philology, 86:1 (Aug. 1988), 90-92;
- Arthur F. Kinney, Philological Quarterly, 68 (Fall
1989), 443-64 (with other works).
- Arthur Sherbo, "Nil Nisi Bonum: Samuel Johnson in the
Gentleman's Magazine, 1785-1800," College
Literature, 16:2 (Spring 1989), 168-81.
- Arthur Sherbo, "Johnson's Shakespeare: The Man in the
Edition," College Literature, 17:1 (1990), 53-65.
- Arthur Sherbo, "Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare, Milton, Rowe,
and Otway: Some Resurrected Notes," N&Q, 40:3 (Sept.
1993), 330-31.
- Arthur Sherbo, Samuel Johnson's Critical Opinions: A
Reexamination (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1995).
Reviews:
- Charles H. Hinnant, JEGP, 96:2
(April 1997), 279-80;
- A. F. T. Lurcock, N&Q, 44:1
(March 1997), 123-24;
- Graham Nicholls, The New
Rambler, D:10 (1994-95), 66-67;
- John Wiltshire,
English Language Notes, 34:1 (Sept. 1996), 98-104.
- Arthur Sherbo, "More of Samuel Johnson's Critical Opinions,"
N&Q, 45:4 (Dec. 1998), 474-75.
- Arthur Sherbo, Studies in the Johnson Circle (West
Cornwall, Conn.: Locust Hill Press, 1998).
- Stuart Sherman, "Wollstonecraft and Johnson," Johnsonian
News Letter, 51:4-52:1 (Dec. 1991-March 1992), 11-15.
- Stuart Sherman, Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and
English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago
Press, 1996), chapter 6 ("Diurnal Dialectic in the Western
Islands"), pp. 185-222.
- Daniel Dale Shilling, "Rhetorical Strategy in Samuel
Johnson's 'Rambler' Essays," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 49:4 (Oct. 1988), 829A-830A.
- William R. Siebenschuh, "Samuel Johnson's Special Appeal in
the Seventies and Eighties," CEA Critic: An Official Journal
of the College English Association, 49:2-4 (Winter
1986-Summer 1987), 50-59.
- William R. Siebenschuh, "Dr. Johnson and Hodge the Cat:
Small Moments and Great Pleasures in the Life," in Fresh
Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy:
Whitston, 1987), pp. 388-99.
- William R. Siebenschuh, "Johnson's Lives and Modern
Students," in Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art
of Biography, ed. David Wheeler (Lexington: Univ. Press of
Kentucky, 1987), pp. 133-51.
- William R. Siebenschuh, "Cognitive Processes and
Autobiographical Acts," Biography: An Interdisciplinary
Quarterly, 12:2 (Spring 1989), 142-53.
- Bruce Silver, "Boswell on Johnson's Refutation of Berkeley:
Revisiting the Stone," Journal of the History of Ideas,
54:3 (July 1993), 437-48.
- Irène Simon, "Poets, Lexicographers, and Critics,"
Cahiers de l'Institut de linguistique de Louvain, 17:1-3
(1991), 163-79.
- Brijraj Singh, "'Only Half of His Subject': Johnson's The
False Alarm and the Wilkesite Movement," Rocky Mountain
Review of Language and Literature, 42:1-2 (1988), 45-60.
Reprinted in Re-Viewing Samuel Johnson, ed. Nalini Jain
(Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991), pp. 47-66.
- John P. Sisk, "Doctor Johnson Kicks a Stone," Philosophy
and Literature, 10:1 (April 1986), 65-75.
- Yvonne Skargon, Lily & Hodge & Dr. Johnson
(Swavesey, Cambridge: Silent Books, 1991). Wood engravings by
Yvonne Skargon, with text by Samuel Johnson. Reviews:
- Stuart Sherman, "Cats," Johnsonian News Letter,
51:4-52:1 (Dec. 1991-March 1992), 9-10.
- Stephen Robert Slimp, "Samuel Johnson's Christian Humanist
Poetry," Dissertation Abstracts International, 57:2 (Aug.
1996), 698A.
- Stephen Slimp, "A Poet's Apprenticeship: Samuel Johnson's
School Translations," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 9 (1998), 109-32.
- Ian C. Small, "Yeats and Johnson on the Limitations of
Patriotic Art," Studies (Ireland), 63:252 (1974),
379-88.
- P. J. Smallwood, ed., "Sir, Said Dr. Johnson": The
Johnson Quotation Book, Based on the Collection of Chartres
Byron (Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1989).
- Philip Smallwood, "Johnson's Critical Humanism,"
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield),
(1989-90), 41-50.
- Philip Smallwood, "Shakespeare: Johnson's Poet of Nature,"
in The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, ed. Greg
Clingham (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), pp. 143-60.
- Duane H. Smith, "Repetitive Patterns in Samuel Johnson's
Rasselas," SEL, 36:3 (Summer 1996), 623-40.
- Frederik N. Smith, "'Pituitous Defluxion': Samuel Johnson
and Beckett's Philosophic Vocabulary," Romance Studies,
11 (Winter 1987), 86-95.
- Frederik N. Smith, "Johnson, Beckett, and 'The Choice of
Life,'" The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 9 (1998),
187-200.
- J. F. Smith, "Boswell in Search of Boswell: A Quest for
Self-Definition," Publications of the Mississippi
Philological Association, 5 (1986), 188-96.
- Joseph H. Smith, "Samuel Johnson and Stories of Childhood,"
Thought, 61 (March 1986), 105-17.
- Ken Edward Smith, "Johnson as Storyteller," The New
Rambler, D:4 (1988-89), 14-27.
- K. E. Smith, "Johnson and Fanny Burney," The New
Rambler, D:7 (1991-92), 3-4.
- K. E. Smith, "Despair and its Antidotes in Cowper and
Johnson," The New Rambler, E:1 (1997-98), 33-40.
- M. van Wyk Smith, "Father Lobo, Ethiopia, and the Transkei:
or, Why Rasselas Was Not a Mpondo Prince," Journal of African
Travel Writing, 4 (1998), 5-16.
- Cheryl Rae Snell, "The Religious Design of Samuel Johnson's
Rasselas," M.A. Thesis, Central Washington University,
1988 (not seen).
- Daniel Arnold Solberg, "The Ladies and the Lion: The
Bluestockings and Samuel Johnson," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 56:4 (Oct. 1995), 1373A. University of South
Florida.
- Soliman Y. Soliman, "Rasselas: Certain Aspects of
Technique," Journal of Education and Science (Univ. of
Mosul, Iraq), 3 (1981), 5-15.
- Harry M. Solomon, "Johnson's Silencing of Pope: Trivializing
An Essay on Man," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 5 (1992), 247-80.
- Mary Katherine Soltman, "Critical Responses to Samuel
Johnson's Attack on John Milton's 'Lycidas,'" M.A. Thesis,
Central Washington University, 1988 (not seen).
- Nancy Caldwell Sorel, "First Encounters," The
Atlantic, March 1993, p. 271.
- Nancy Caldwell Sorel, "When John Wilkes Met Dr. Samuel
Johnson," The Independent, 6 July 1996, p. 45.
- David R. Sorensen, "Carlyle, Boswell's Life of
Johnson and the 'Conversation' of History," Prose
Studies, 16:2 (1993), 27-40.
- Patricia Meyer Spacks, "The Subtle Sophistry of Desire: Dr.
Johnson and The Female Quixote," Modern Philology,
85:4 (May 1988), 532-42.
- Patricia Meyer Spacks, Boredom: the Literary History of a
State of Mind (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1995),
chapter 2 ("Vacuity, Satiety, and the Active Life:
Eighteenth-Century Men"), pp. 31-59.
- Monroe K. Spears, "William James as Culture Hero," Hudson
Review, 39 (1986), 15-32.
- Robert D. Spector, Samuel Johnson and the Essay
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997). Reviews:
- Jack Lynch, Choice, 35 (Oct. 1997), 795.
- M. P. Spens, "Samuel Johnson and Jacobitism: A Response to
Donald Greene," TLS, 8 Sept. 1995, p. 17.
- Fiona Stafford, "Dr Johnson and the Ruffian: New Evidence in
the Dispute between Samuel Johnson and James Macpherson,"
N&Q, 36:1 (March 1989), 70-77.
- Aaron Stavisky, "Johnson and the Noble Savage, Friend of
Goodness," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 6
(1994), 165-204.
- Aaron Stavisky, "Johnson's 'Vile Melancholy' Reconsidered
Once More," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 9
(1998), 1-24.
- Peter Steele, Flights of the Mind: Johnson and Dante
(Melbourne: Privately printed for the Johnson Society of
Australia, 1997). The David Fleeman Memorial Lecture, 1996.
- Jane Steen, "Literally Orthodox: Dr. Johnson's Anglicanism,"
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 303
(1992), 449-52.
- J. E. Steen, "Samuel Johnson and Aspects of Anglicanism,"
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Cambridge, 1992.
- Gabriele Stein, "Word-Formation in Dr. Johnson's
Dictionary of the English Language," Dictionaries,
6 (1985), 66-112.
- Charlotte A. Stewart, "The Life of a Johnson Collection,"
American Book Collector, 7:6 (June 1986), 9-17. On Arthur
G. Rippey's collection at MacMaster University.
- Charlotte A. Stewart, "Johnson and Boswell: The Rippey
Collection at McMaster," Bulletin of the John Rylands
Library, 69:2 (1987), 320-23.
- Keith Stewart, "Samuel Johnson and the Ocean of Life:
Variations on a Commonplace," Papers on Language &
Literature, 23:3 (Summer 1987), 305-17.
- Maaja A. Stewart, "Nabokov's Pale Fire and Boswell's
Johnson," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 30:2
(Summer 1988), 230-45.
- Mary Margaret Stewart, "William Collins, Samuel Johnson, and
the Use of Biographical Details," SEL, 28:3 (Summer
1988), 471-82.
- R. D. Stock, "Johnson Ecclesiastes," Christianity and
Literature, 34:4 (Summer 1985), 15-24.
- Percival Stockdale, Percival Stockdale: Samuel Johnson
and His Disgrace to English Literature, ed. Howard Weinbrot
(Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1988).
- David Stoker, "Robert Potter's Attack on Doctor Johnson,"
British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 16:2
(Fall 1993), 77-83.
- Roy Bishop Stokes, "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: Dept. of English, University of British Columbia,
1985).
- John Stone, "The Common-Law Model for Standard English in
Johnson's Dictionary," M.A. Thesis, McGill University, 1995 (not
seen).
- John Stone, "Seventeenth-Century Jurisprudence and
Eighteenth-Century Lexicography: Sources for Johnson's Notion of
Authority," SEDERI, 7 (1996), 79-92.
- Albrecht B. Strauss, "Thomas Wolfe and Samuel Johnson: An
Unlikely Pair," Southern Literary Journal, 31:2 (Spring
1999), 1-11.
- Peter Strickland, "Samuel Johnson the Poet," The New
Rambler, D:12 (1996-97), 46-51.
- Michael Charles Stuprich, "Residual Grandeur: Samuel
Johnson's Development as Biographer," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 47:11 (May 1987), 4091A.
- Michael Stuprich, "Johnson and Biography: Recent Critical
Directions," in Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the
Art of Biography, ed. David Wheeler (Lexington: Univ. Press
of Kentucky, 1987), pp. 152-166.
- Michael Suarez, S.J., "Johnson's Christian Thought," in
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, ed. Greg
Clingham (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), pp. 192-208.
- Rajani Sudan, "Foreign Bodies: Contracting Identity in
Johnson's London and the Life of Savage,"
Criticism, 34 (Spring 1992), 173-92.
- Rajani Sudan, "Lost in Lexicography: Legitimating Cultural
Identity in Johnson's Preface to the Dictionary," The
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 39:2 (Summer
1998), 127-46.
- John Sunderland, "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, ed. D. G. C. Allan and John L. Abbott (Athens: Univ.
of Georgia Press, 1992), pp. 183-94.
- S. A. Sushko, "Semiuel Dzhonson kak moralist," Voprosy
filosofii, (1985 no. 9), 129-36. In Russian.
- S. A. Sushko, "Samuel Johnson as Moralist," Soviet
Studies in Philosophy, 25:1 (1986), 87-104. Translation of
"Semiuel Dzhonson kak moralist."
- Hitoshi Suwabe, "A Trio in the Age of Transition: Johnson,
Boswell, and Hume," Indian Journal for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, 1:2 (Winter 1986), 8-15 (not seen).
- Hitoshi Suwabe, "Boswell's Meetings with Johnson, A New
Count," in Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters,
ed. Irma S. Lustig (Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1995),
pp. 246-57.
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, 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.
- Stephen Robert Swords, "Emerson and the Ghost of Dr.
Johnson: Heritage, Reading, and an American Life of Letters,"
Dissertation Abstracts International, 52:1 (July 1991),
164A-65A. University of Colorado, Boulder.
- Stephen Swords, "Emerson and the Ghost of Johnson," The
Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 6 (1994), 99-130.
- Rajeev Syal, "Dr Johnson's Black Servant 'Proved to Be My
Ancestor,'" Sunday Telegraph (London), (18 April 1999),
p. 21. On Dennis Barber, a descendant of Francis Barber.
- Sudip Talukdar, "Dr. Johnson's Extraordinary Venture: The
Dictionary," in Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, ed. T.
R. Sharma (Meerut, India: Shalabh, 1986), pp. 51-57.
- Paul Tankard, "Reading The Rambler: Johnson's
Engagement with the Anxieties of Authorship," M.A. Thesis,
Monash University, 1994.
- Paul Tankard, "Maecenas and the Ministry: Johnson and His
Publishers, Patrons and the Public," Johnson Society of
Australia Papers, 1 (1997), 1-9.
- Paul Tankard, "A Petty Writer: Johnson and the
Rambler Pamphlets," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 10 (1999), 67-87.
- Charlotte Taylor, "Random Thoughts on Rasselas,"
The New Rambler, C:23 (1982), 22-24.
- Donald S. Taylor, "Johnson on the Metaphysicals: An Analytic
Efficacy of Hostile Presuppositions," Eighteenth-Century
Life, 10:3 (Oct. 1986), 186-203.
- Mark J. Temmer, Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels:
Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press,
1988). Reviews:
- Lionel Basney,
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 1:2 (1989), 156-58;
- Robert D. Hume, SEL, 28:3 (Summer 1988), 521-22;
- Haydn Mason, French Studies, 44:1 (Jan. 1990), 68-69
(with another work);
- Gita May, Comparative
Literature, 43 (Spring 1991), 195-96;
- John H.
Middendorf, The Johnsonian News Letter, 48:1-2
(March-June 1988), 2;
- Alain Morvan, Revue de
littérature comparée, 64:1 (Jan.-March 1990),
142-44;
- John Neubauer, Comparative Literature
Studies, 29:1 (1992), 94-96;
- Robert Niklaus, British
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 13:2 (1990), 253-54;
- Catherine N. Parke, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 3 (1990), 473-77;
- M. Wagoner, Choice, 25
(1988), 1559.
- Claudia Thomas, "'Th' Instructive Moral, and Important
Thought': Elizabeth Carter Reads Pope, Johnson, and Epictetus,"
The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 4 (1991),
137-69.
- Claudia Thomas, "Samuel Johnson and Elizabeth Carter:
Pudding, Epictetus, and the Accomplished Woman," South
Central Review, 9:4 (Winter 1992), 18-30.
- Donald Thomas, "Samuel Johnson's Arabia," Journal of
English (Yemen), 15 (Sept. 1987), 1-14.
- Alice Thomson, "Arsonists Wreck Dr Johnson's Retreat,"
The Times, 11 March 1991, p. 4. On the destruction of the
Thrales' Streatham house.
- Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, "Dr. Johnson and the
Auxiliary Do," Hiroshima Studies in English Language and
Literature, 33 (1988), 22-39.
- Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, "Dr Johnson and the Auxiliary
DO," Folia Linguistica Historica, 10:1-2 (1989), 145-62.
- Thomas Tierney, "Samuel Johnson: Beast Fabulist and Satirist
on Mankind," Bestia, 4 (May 1992), 55-65.
- Nigel Tisdall, "Travel: There's Life in the Old Girl Yet:
Lichfield's Most Famous Son Would Enjoy this Week's
Festivities," The Daily Telegraph, 13 July 1996, p. 22.
- Brian Todd, "A Man Led by a Bear: Dr Johnson's Relationship
with Boswell's Wife Margaret Montgomery," The New
Rambler, D:11 (1995-96), 23-28.
- Edward Tomarken, Johnson, "Rasselas," and the Choice of
Criticism (Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1989).
Reviews:
- Isobel Grundy, Eighteenth-Century
Fiction, 3:4 (1991), 377-79;
- Clive T. Probyn, Modern
Language Review, 87:2 (1992), 434-35;
- Allen Reddick,
The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 4 (1991), 424-28;
- John P. Zomchick, South Atlantic Review, 56:3 (Sept.
1991), 114-17.
- Edward Tomarken, "Perspectivism: The Methodological
Implications of 'The History of Imlac' in Rasselas,"
The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 2 (1989),
262-90.
- Edward Tomarken, Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The
Discipline of Criticism (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press,
1991). Reviews:
- Joanna Gondris, "Of Poets and
Critics," Johnsonian News Letter, 51:4-52:1 (Dec.
1991-March 1992), 4-7 (with another work);
- M. L. Hall,
Philosophy and Literature, 17:1 (April 1993), 130-32;
- Anne McDermott, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, 17:2 (Autumn 1994), 219-20;
- Arthur Sherbo,
Shakespeare Quarterly, 47:1 (Spring 1996), 92-94.
- Edward Tomarken, A History of the Commentary on Selected
Writings of Samuel Johnson (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House,
1994). Reviews:
- O M Brack, Jr., Rocky Mountain
Review of Language and Literature, 49:2 (1995), 169-74 (with
other works);
- Michael Hiltscher, Shakespeare
Jahrbuch, 131 (1995), 263-65;
- A. F. T. Lurcock,
N&Q, 43:1 (March 1996), 92-93;
- S. Mitchell,
English, 47 (Fall 1998), 242-45;
- W. J. Nakanishi,
English Studies, 77:3 (May 1996), 286-87.
- Edward Tomarken, "The Method of Theory: Samuel Johnson and
Critical Integrity," Papers on Language & Literature,
32:2 (Spring 1996), 217-23.
- Neil Tomkinson, "Johnson's 'Saintdom' Continued,"
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield),
(1989-90), 81-82.
- Neil Tomkinson, The Christian Faith and Practice of
Samuel Johnson, Thomas De Quincey, and Thomas Love Peacock
(Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1992), esp. Part I, pp.
1-149.
- Michael Tree, "Johnson and the Anglican Tradition," The
New Rambler, D:2 (1986-87), 6-15.
- Manorama B. Trikha, "Christian Ethos in Johnson's The
Vanity of Human Wishes," in Essays on Dr. Samuel
Johnson, ed. T. R. Sharma (Meerut, India: Shalabh, 1986),
pp. 35-42.
- Calvin Trillin, "Uncivil Liberties: Gout," The
Nation, 234 (27 March 1982), 358. Humor column.
- Jagannath Tripathi, "Dr. Samuel Johnson and Acharya Pt. Ram
Chandra Skukla: The Epoch-Making Critics," in Essays on Dr.
Samuel Johnson, ed. T. R. Sharma (Meerut, India: Shalabh,
1986), pp. 58-62.
- Katherine Maria Trumpener, "The Voice of the Past: Anxieties
of Cultural Transmission in Post-Enlightenment Europe:
Tradition, Folklore, Textuality, History," Dissertation
Abstracts International, 51:3 (Sept. 1990), 844A.
- Lynne Truss, "Dr Johnson, We Presume," The Times, 28
Oct. 1993, Features.
- Gordon Turnbull, "'Generous Attachment': The Politics of
Biography in the Tour to the Hebrides," in Dr. Samuel
Johnson and James Boswell, ed. Harold Bloom (New York:
Chelsea, 1986), pp. 227-38.
- James Grantham Turner, "'Illustrious Depravity' and the
Erotic Sublime," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual,
2 (1989), 1-38.
- Nadia Tscherny, "Reynolds's Streatham Portraits and the Art
of Intimate Biography," The Burlington Magazine, 128
(Jan. 1986), 4-11.
- Nadia Tscherny, "Likeness in Early Romantic Portraiture,"
Art Journal, 46 (Fall 1987), 193-99.
- Stephen Tumim, "A Bicentenary," Transactions of the
Johnson Society (Lichfield), (1991), 8-18. On Boswell's
Life of Johnson.
- Stephen Tumim, "An Aspect of Dr Johnson," The New
Rambler, D:11 (1995-96), 18-23.
- Eleanor Ty, "Cowper's Connoisseur 138 and Samuel
Johnson," N&Q, 33:1 (March 1986), 63-64.
- Pratibha Tyagi, "Dr. Johnson's Criticism of Shakespeare," in
Essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson, ed. T. R. Sharma (Meerut,
India: Shalabh, 1986), pp. 85-95.
- Jenny Uglow, "Jenny Uglow on Dr Johnson (1709-1784):
Postcard Biographies from the National Portrait Gallery," The
Independent, 30 Nov. 1997, p. 37. Brief biography
commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to accompany the
1756 Reynolds portrait.
- Jenny S. Uglow, Dr Johnson, His Club and Other
Friends (London: National Portrait Gallery Publications,
1998).
- Robert W. Uphaus, "Cornelia Knight's Dinarbas: A
Sequel to Rasselas," Philological Quarterly, 65:4
(Fall 1986), 433-46.
- Robert W. Uphaus, "The Fear of Fiction," in Man, God, and
Nature in the Enlightenment, ed. Donald C. Mell, Jr.,
Theodore E. D. Braun, and Lucia M. Palmer (East Lansing, MI:
Colleagues Press, 1988), pp. 183-90.
- Hans Utz, "A Genevan's Journey to the Hebrides in 1807: An
Anti-Johnsonian Venture," Studies in Scottish Literature,
27 (1992), 47-71.
- Kevin P. Van Anglen, "'The Tories, We...': Samuel Johnson
and Unitarian Boston," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 6 (1994), 75-98.
- Mary M. Van Tassel, "Johnson's Elephant: The Reader of
The Rambler," SEL, 28:3 (Summer 1988), 461-69.
- [Add to item 4:275] John A. Vance, ed., Boswell's
"Life of Johnson": New Questions, New Answers (Athens: Univ.
of Georgia Press, 1985). Reviews:
- Greg Clingham,
"Boswell's Literary Biography," English, 36 (1987),
168-78;
- Edward Tomarken, South Atlantic Quarterly,
86:2 (Spring 1987), 186-89.
- [Add to item 11/9:88] John A. Vance, Samuel
Johnson and the Sense of History (Athens: Univ. of Georgia
Press, 1985). Reviews:
- James L. Battersby,
"Samuel Johnson's Enthusiasm for History," Review, 8
(1986), 157-88;
- Steven Lynn, South Atlantic Review,
51:1 (Jan. 1986), 128-31 (with other works).
- John A. Vance, "Samuel Johnson and Thomas Warton,"
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 9:2 (Spring
1986), 95-111.
- John A. Vance, "Johnson and Hume: Of Like Historical Minds,"
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 15 (1986),
241-56.
- John A. Vance, "Johnson's Historical Reviews," in Fresh
Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy:
Whitston, 1987), pp. 63-84.
- John A. Vance, "Boswell After 200 Years: A Review Essay,"
South Atlantic Review, 58:1 (Jan. 1993), 101-109.
- Sara B. Varhus, "The 'Solitary Philosopher' and 'Nature's
Favourite': Gender and Identity in the Rambler," in
Gender, Culture, and the Arts: Women, the Arts, and
Society, ed. Ronald Dotterer and Susan Bowers (Selinsgrove,
Penna.: Susquehanna Univ. Press, 1993), pp. 61-73.
- Andrew Varney, "Johnson's Juvenalian Satire on London: A
Different Emphasis," Review of English Studies, 40:158
(May 1989), 202-14.
- Anthony Vaughn, "Strangled with a Bowstring: A Clear Case of
Character Assassination," The New Rambler, C:23 (1982),
21-22.
- Greg Veitch, "Johnson and the Industrial Revolution,"
Johnson Society of Australia Papers, 3 (1999), 68-79.
- David Francis Venturo, "Johnson the Poet," Dissertation
Abstracts International, 47:6 (Dec. 1986), 2172A.
- David F. Venturo, "The Poetics of Samuel Johnson's Epitaphs
and Elegies and 'On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet,'" Studies
in Philology, 85:1 (Winter 1988), 73-91.
- David F. Venturo, "Adjusting the Accents: Samuel Johnson's
Prosody in Theory and Practice," The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 3 (1990), 171-87.
- Arthur Versluis, "From Transcendentalism to Universal
Religion: Samuel Johnson's Orientalism," American
Transcendental Quarterly, 5:2 (June 1991), 109-23.
- Catharina Maria de Vries, In the Tracks of a
Lexicographer: Secondary Documentation in Samuel Johnson's
"Dictionary of the English Language" (1755) (Leiden: Led,
1994).
- Éve-Marie Wagner, "Les 'Johnsoniana' de Mrs Thrale,
devenue Mrs Piozzi," in L'Anecdote: Actes du colloque de
Clermont-Ferrand (1988), ed. Alain Montandon
(Clermont-Ferrand: Association des publications de la
Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines de
l'Université Blaise-Pascal, 1990), nouvelle série,
fascicule 31, pp. 227-42.
- Magdi Wahba, ed., Samuel Johnson: Commemorative Lectures:
Delivered at Pembroke College, Oxford (Beirut: Librairie du
Liban, 1986). Reviews:
- A. F. T. Lurcock,
N&Q, 35 (1988), 379-80;
- John H. Middendorf,
Johnsonian News Letter, 462-47:2 (June 1986-June 1987),
4-5.
- John Wain, "Birthplace Museum, Lichfield, Staffordshire and
17 Gough Square, London EC4," in Writers and Their
Houses, ed. Kate Marsh (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1993), pp.
225-37.
- John Wain, Johnson is Leaving: A Monodrama (London:
Pisces Press, 1994).
- John Wain, Samuel Johnson, revised ed. (London:
Papermac, 1988).
- Mary Waldron, "Mentors Old and New; Samuel Johnson and
Hannah More," The New Rambler, D:11 (1995-96), 29-37.
- Tara Ghoshal Wallace, "'Guarded with Fragments': Body and
Discourse in Rasselas," South Central Review, 9:4
(Winter 1992), 31-45.
- Eric C. Walker, "Charlotte Lennox and the Collier Sisters:
Two New Johnson Letters," Studies in Philology, 95:3
(Summer 1998), 320-32.
- Keith Walker, "Some Notes on the Treatment of Dryden in
Johnson's Dictionary," Yearbook of English
Studies, 28 (1998), 106-109.
- Marcus Walsh, "Samuel Johnson on Poetic Lice and Fleas,"
N&Q, 36:4 (Dec. 1989), 470.
- Orrin N. C. Wang, "The Politics of Aphasia in Boswell's
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides," Criticism: A
Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, 36:1 (Winter 1994),
73-100.
- William C. Waterhouse, "The Louse Is Better: Heinsius and
Johnson," N&Q, 41:2 (June 1994), 199.
- Susan Watkins, "'My Dear Dr. Johnson'": The Link between
Jane Austen and Dr. Samuel Johnson," The New Rambler,
D:10 (1994-95), 14-21.
- George Watson, The Literary Critics: A Study of English
Descriptive Criticism (London: Hogarth Press, 1986), chapter
2, pp. 75-101.
- Martin Wechselblatt, "On the Authority of Samuel Johnson,"
Dissertation Abstracts International, 52:12 (June 1992),
4342A. Cornell University.
- Martin Wechselblatt, "Finding Mr. Boswell: Rhetorical
Authority and National Identity in Johnson's A Journey to the
Western Islands of Scotland," ELH, 60:1 (Spring
1993), 117-48.
- Martin Wechselblatt, "The Pathos of Example: Professionalism
and Colonialization in Johnson's Preface to the
Dictionary," The Yale Journal of Criticism, 9:2
(1996), 381-403.
- Martin Wechselblatt, Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and
Modern Cultural Authority (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ. Press,
1998). Reviews:
- Jack Lynch, Choice, 36:6
(Feb. 1999), 1067.
- Howard D. Weinbrot, "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 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press,
1988), pp. 164-71. Reprints item 14:197.
- Howard D. Weinbrot, "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 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press, 1988), pp. 172-85.
Reprints item 14:218.
- Howard D. Weinbrot, "Samuel Johnson, Percival Stockdale, and
Brick-Bats from Grubstreet: Some Later Response to the Lives
of the Poets," Huntington Library Quarterly, 56:2
(Spring 1993), 105-34.
- Howard D. Weinbrot, "Censoring Johnson in France: Johnson
and Suard on Voltaire: A New Document," Review of English
Studies, 45:178 (May 1994), 230-33.
- Howard D. Weinbrot, "Johnson, Jacobitism, and the
Historiography of Nostalgia," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 7 (1996), 163-212.
- Howard D. Weinbrot, "Who Said He Was a Jacobite Hero?: The
Political Genealogy of Johnson's Charles of Sweden,"
Philological Quarterly, 75:4 (Fall 1996), 411-50.
- Howard D. Weinbrot, "Johnson and Jacobitism Redux: Evidence,
Interpretation, and Intellectual History," The Age of
Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 8 (1997), 89-125.
- Howard D. Weinbrot, "Johnson's Poetry," in The Cambridge
Companion to Samuel Johnson, ed. Greg Clingham (Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), pp. 34-50.
- Howard D. Weinbrot, "Johnson, Jacobitism, and Swedish
Charles: The Vanity of Human Wishes and Scholarly
Method," ELH, 64:4 (Winter 1997), 945-81.
- Howard D. Weinbrot, "Samuel Johnson and the Domestic
Metaphor," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 10
(1999), 127-63.
- Joel Weinsheimer, "Fiction and the Force of Example," in
The Idea of the Novel in the Eighteenth Century, ed.
Robert W. Uphaus (East Lansing: Colleagues Press, 1988), pp.
1-19.
- Alan Wells, "Dr. Johnson's Morphic Guide to Physiks," New
Scientist, 137:1859 (6 Feb. 1993), 46-47.
- Katherine N. West, "The Treatment of Johnson's Shakespeare
by Modern Editors: The Case of Henry V," Lumen, 13
(1994), 179-86.
- T. F. Wharton, Samuel Johnson and the Theme of Hope
(New York: St. Martin's, 1984). Reviews:
- Steven
Lynn, South Atlantic Review, 51:1 (Jan. 1986), 128-31
(with other works);
- Joan H. Pittock, British Journal for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 9:1 (1986), 105-106.
- T. F. Wharton, "Johnson, Authorship, and Hope," in Fresh
Reflections on Samuel Johnson, ed. Prem Nath (Troy:
Whitston, 1987), pp. 150-66.
- David Wheeler, "Crosscurrents in Literary Criticism,
1750-1790: Samuel Johnson and Joseph Warton," South Central
Review, 4:1 (Spring 1987), 24-42.
- David Wheeler, ed., Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson
and the Art of Biography (Lexington: Univ. Press of
Kentucky, 1987). Reviews:
- Haydn Mason, French
Studies, 44:1 (Jan. 1990), 68-69 (with another work);
- Robert D. Hume, SEL, 28:3 (Summer 1988), 521-22;
- Paul J. Korshin, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 22 (Fall
1988), 105-108;
- John H. Middendorf, The Johnsonian News
Letter, 48:1-2 (March-June 1988), 2-3;
- Catherine N.
Parke, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 3 (1990),
473-77;
- J. T. Scanlan, South Atlantic Review, 55:1
(Jan. 1990), 136-39;
- Martin Seymour-Smith, TLS, 27
Jan. 1989, p. 92;
- Virginia Quarterly Review, 64:1
(Winter 1988), 8-9.
- Elizabeth Wheeler, "Great Burke and Poor Boswell: Carlyle
and the Historian's Task," Victorian Newsletter, 70 (Fall
1986), 28-31.
- Roxann Wheeler, "'My Savage,' 'My Man': Color, Gender, and
Nation in Eighteenth-Century British Narratives,"
Dissertation Abstracts International, 56:9 (March 1996),
3599A.
- Brian Douglas White, "Samuel Johnson's 'Preface to the
Preceptor' and its Context," M.A. Thesis, Arizona State
University, 1994 (not seen).
- Marilyn Whitlock, "The Elusiveness of Johnsonian
Friendship," M.A. Thesis, California State University, Hayward,
1990 (not seen).
- Reed Whittemore, Pure Lives: The Early Biographers
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1988), chapter 5 ("Samuel
Johnson"), pp. 101-22; chapter 6 ("--And the Boswell
Connection"), pp. 123-30; Appendix ("Johnson on Biography"), pp.
147-50.
- Lance Elliott Wilcox, "Interwoven Lives: The Letters of
Samuel Johnson," Dissertation Abstracts International,
50:9 (March 1990), 2914A.
- Lance E. Wilcox, "Edifying the Young Dog: Johnson's Letters
to Boswell," in Sent as a Gift: Eight Correspondences from
the Eighteenth Century, ed. Alan T. McKenzie (Athens: Univ.
of Georgia Press, 1993), pp. 129-49.
- Lance Wilcox, "The Religious Psychology of Samuel Johnson,"
Ultimate Reality and Meaning, 21:3 (Sept. 1998), 160-76.
- Mark Edwin Wildermuth, "Energy and Elegance: The Style and
Context of Samuel Johnson's Moral Prose," Dissertation
Abstracts International, 52:5 (Nov. 1991), 1755A. University
of Wisconsin, Madison.
- Mark E. Wildermuth, "Johnson's Prose Style: Blending Energy
and Elegance in The Rambler," The Age of Johnson: A
Scholarly Annual, 6 (1994), 205-36.
- Nicholas Williams, "The Discourse of Madness: Samuel
Johnson's 'Life of Collins,'" Eighteenth-Century Life,
14:2 (May 1990), 18-28.
- Jack C. Wills, "The Theme of Education and Communication in
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland," The
Bulletin of the West Virginia Association of College English
Teachers, 11 (Fall 1989), 82-92.
- Ross Wilson, "The Enigma of Port and Dr. Johnson," The
New Rambler, C:25 (1984), 30-32.
- John Wiltshire, Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The
Doctor and the Patient (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press,
1991). Reviews:
- J. Black, Literature and
History, 3rd series, 1:2 (Fall 1992), 112-13;
- Brian
Bracegirdle, Endeavour, 15:3 (Summer 1991), 146;
- D.
J. Enright, London Review of Books, 13:12 (1991), 14-15;
- James Gray, Dalhousie Review, 71 (Spring 1991),
120-21;
- Gloria Gross, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 5 (1992), 439-44;
- Katherine Montgomery Hunter,
Literature and Medicine, 11:2 (1992), 344-47;
- Karin
Johannisson, "Medicin pa samhallsschenen," Lychnos,
(1993), 177-80 (with other works;
- in Swedish);
- John H.
Middendorf, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 26 (Spring 1993),
517-21;
- Peg Padnos, Wilson Library Bulletin, 66:5
(Jan. 1992), 121;
- Albert Pailler, Etudes anglaises,
46:1 (1993), 85-86;
- Alexander Pettit, Eighteenth-Century
Studies, 26:1 (1992), 124-26;
- Clive Probyn, Modern
Language Review, 88 (Jan. 1993), 163-64;
- Bruce Redford,
"Case History," Johnsonian News Letter, 51:4-52:1 (Dec.
1991-March 1992), 7-9;
- S. Rousseau, Journal of the
History of the Behavioral Sciences, 29:3 (July 1993),
265-68;
- Andrea Rusnock, Isis, 83:2 (June 1992),
332-33;
- Gregory Scholtz, Choice, 29:2 (Oct. 1991),
804;
- Richard B. Schwartz, American Scientist, 81
(March-April 1993), 200;
- Arthur Sherbo, Review of English
Studies, 44 (Nov. 1993), 586-87;
- Robert Ziegler,
Papers on Language & Literature, 28 (Fall 1992),
457-75.
- John Wiltshire, "The Doctor and the Patient: A Reply to S.
Rousseau," Journal of the History of the Behavioral
Sciences, 29:3 (July 1993), 268.
- John Wiltshire, "Samuel Johnson in the Medical World,"
Johnson Society of Australia Papers, 2 (1997), 17-23.
- John Wiltshire, "'From China to Peru': Johnson in the
Traveled World," in The Cambridge Companion to Samuel
Johnson, ed. Greg Clingham (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
Press, 1997), pp. 209-23.
- John Wiltshire, "All the Dear Burneys, Little and Great,"
Johnson Society of Australia Papers, 2:2 (1998), 15-24.
- John Wiltshire, "In Bed with Boswell and Johnson,"
Johnson Society of Australia Papers, 3 (1999), 27-36.
- A. R. Winnett, "The Problem of Evil in the 18th Century: Dr.
Johnson and Soame Jenyns," New Rambler, D:3 (1987-1988),
46-47.
- Catherine A. Witek, "Samuel Johnson's Alchemy: Fusing
Aristotelian Invention into Eighteenth Century Rhetoric,"
Dissertation Abstracts International, 53:4 (Oct. 1992),
1169A. University of Illinois, Chicago.
- Katherine Witek, "The Rhetoric of Smith, Boswell and
Johnson: Creating the Modern Icon," Rhetoric Society
Quarterly, 24:3-4 (Summer-Fall 1994), 53-70.
- Manfred Wolf, "The Aphorism," Etc., 51 (Winter
1994-95), 432-39.
- Douglas Wollen, "Dr Johnson in Wesley's Letters and
Journals," The New Rambler, D:4 (1988-89), 3-5.
- David Womersley, "Johnson and the Past Tense,"
Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield), (1991),
19-28.
- Nigel Wood, "Johnson's Revisions to His Dictionary,"
The New Rambler, D:3 (1987-88), 23-28.
- Nigel Wood, ed., Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney
(Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1989). "Selection based on
the 1912 edition of Chauncey Brewster Tinker."
- Nigel Wood, "'The Tract and Tenor of the Sentence':
Conversing, Connection, and Johnson's Dictionary,"
Yearbook of English Studies, 28 (1998), 110-27.
- James Woodall, "Travel: A Taste of Scotch and the Rocks:
James Woodall Follows Johnson and Boswell to the West Coast,"
The Daily Telegraph, 7 Nov. 1992, p. 127.
- Thomas M. Woodman, A Preface to Samuel Johnson
(London: Longman, 1993). Reviews:
- J. D. Fleeman,
N&Q, 41 (Sept. 1994), 395-96;
- David Womersley,
Review of English Studies, 46 (Aug. 1995), 454-55.
- Martha Woodmansee, "On the Author Effect: Recovering
Collectivity," Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law
Journal, 10:2 (1992), 279-92.
- Branson Lee Woodward, Jr., "Rhetorical Dimensions of Samuel
Johnson's Rambler," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 44:1 (1983), 179A.
- H. R. Woudhuysen, ed., Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare
(London: Penguin Books, 1989).
- H. R. Woudhuysen, "Dr. Johnson's Books," TLS, 6 July
1990, p. 729.
- James F. Woodruff, "The Background and Significance of the
Rambler's Format," Publishing History, 4 (1978),
113-33.
- James F. Woodruff, "Two more Johnson pieces in the
Universal Chronicle?," The New Rambler, E:1
(1997-98), 59-70.
- William Paul Yarrow, "'Casts a Kind of Glory Round It':
Metaphor and the Life of Johnson," Boswell: Citizen of
the World, Man of Letters, ed. Irma S. Lustig (Lexington:
Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1995), pp. 158-83.
- Gary Ramsey Young, "The Controversy Surrounding Samuel
Johnson's Late Conversion," Dissertation Abstracts
International, 47:3 (Sept. 1986), 918A.
- Paul Ramsey, "Samuel Johnson at Twenty," Johnsonian News
Letter, 47:3-4 (Sept.-Dec. 1988), 12. Poem on Johnson.
- Kai Kin Yung, Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784: A Bicentenary
Exhibition (Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 1984).
Reviews:
- John H. Pittock, British Journal for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 9:1 (1987), 105-106.
- Charles Zarobila, "Boswell and Johnson at Blithedale: A
Source for Hawthorne's Romance," Nathaniel Hawthorne
Review, 14:1 (Spring 1988), 6-9.
- Robert Ziegler, "Recent Books on Johnson and Boswell,"
Papers on Language & Literature, 28:4 (Fall 1992),
457-75.
- Linda Zionkowski, "Territorial Disputes in the Republic of
Letters: Canon Formation and the Literary Profession," The
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 31:1 (Spring
1990), 3-22.