The Life of Samuel Johnson

Further Reading

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Clifford, J. L., and Greene, D. J., Samuel Johnson: A Survey and Bibliography of Critical Studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1970)

Fleeman, J. D., A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000)

Greene, D. J., and Vance, J. A., A Bibliography of Johnson Studies, 1970– 1985 (Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, BC, 1987)

BIOGRAPHY

Bate, W. J., Samuel Johnson (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977)

Clifford, J. L., Young Sam Johnson (London: Heinemann, 1955)

––––– Dictionary Johnson (London: Heinemann, 1979)

De Maria, Robert, The Life of Samuel Johnson (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1993)

Kaminski, T., The Early Career of Samuel Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)

Kelly, R. E., and Brack, O. M., Samuel Johnson’s Early Biographers (Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1971)

Lipking, L., Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1998)

GENERAL STUDIES

Bate, W. J., The Achievement of Samuel Johnson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1955)

Boulton, J. T., Johnson: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971)

De Maria, Robert, Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986)

––––––Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)

Engell, James, ed., Johnson and his Age (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1984)

Fussell, Paul, Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing (London: Chatto & Windus, 1972)

Greene, D. J., ed., Samuel Johnson: A Collection of Critical Essays (Engle-wood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965)

Korshin, Paul, ed., The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual (New York: AMS Press, 1987-)

Turberville, A. S., ed., Johnson’s England: An Account of the Life and Manners of his Age, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933)

Voitle, R., Samuel Johnson the Moralist (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1961)

Wimsatt, W. K., The Prose Style of Samuel Johnson (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1941)

STUDIES OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON

Baldwin, Louis, ‘The Conversation in Boswell’s Life of Johnson’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 51 (1952), 492-506

Bell, Robert H., ‘Boswell’s Notes toward a Supreme Fiction: From London Journal to Life of Johnson’, Modern Language Quarterly, 38 (1977), 132-48

Berglund, Lisa, ‘ “Look, my Lord, it Comes”: The Approach of Death in the Life of Johnson’, 1650-1850, 7 (2002), 239-55

Bloom, Harold, ed., James Boswell’s ‘Life of Samuel Johnson’ (New York: Chelsea House, 1986)

Bradham, Jo Allen, ‘Boswell’s Narratives of Oliver Edwards’, Journal of Narrative Technique, 8 (1978), 176-84

––––– ‘Comic Fragments in the Life of Johnson’, Biography, 3 (1980), 95-104

Brady, Frank, ‘Boswell’s Self-Presentation and his Critics’, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 12, 3 (summer 1972), 545-55

Brown, Terence, ‘America and Americans as Seen in James Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., and in the Letters of Johnson and Boswell’, New Rambler: Journal of the Johnson Society of London, 6 (1969), 44-51

Browning, John D., ed., Biography in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Garland, 1980)

Buchanan, David, The Treasure of Auchinleck: The Story of the Boswell Papers (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974)

Burke, John J., Jr, ‘Talk, Dialogue, Conversation, and Other Kinds of Speech Acts in Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson’, in Kevin L. Cope, ed., Compendious Conversations: The Method of Dialogue in the Early Enlightenment (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1992)

Butt, John, Biography in the Hands of Walton, Johnson, and Boswell (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966)

Campbell, Ian, ‘Boswell’s Life of Johnson’, Transactions of the Johnson Society (1996), 1-10

Chapman, R. W., Johnsonian and Other Essays and Reviews (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1953) Chapman, R. W., Powell, L. F. and Smith, D. Nichol, Johnson and Boswell Revised by Themselves and Others (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1928)

Chesterton, G. K., ‘Boswell’s “Johnson”’, Good Words, 44 (November 1903), 774-7

Clifford, James L., ed., Twentieth Century Interpretations of Boswell’s Life of Johnson: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970)

Clingham, Greg, ed., New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of The Life of Johnson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)

–––––James Boswell: The Life of Johnson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

–––––‘Double Writing: The Erotics of Narrative in Boswell’s Life of Johnson’, in Donald J. Newman, ed., James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1995)

Coleman, William H., ‘The Johnsonian Conversational Formula’, Quarterly Review, 282 (1944), 432-45

Damrosch, Leopold, Jr, ‘The Life of Johnson: An Anti-Theory’, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 6 (1973), 486-505

Dowling, William C, ‘The Boswellian Hero’, Studies in Scottish Literature, 10 (1972), 79-93

–––––‘Boswell and the Problem of Biography’, in Daniel Aaron, ed., Studies in Biography (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978)

–––––The Boswellian Hero (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1979)

–––––‘Biographer, Hero, and Audience in Boswell’s Life of Johnson’, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 20, 3 (summer 1980),475-91

–––––Language and Logos in Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’ (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981)

––––– ‘Solipsism and Despair in the Life of Johnson’, Prose Studies, 5 (1982), 294-308

––––– ‘Structure and Absence in Boswell’s Life of Johnson’, in Leopold Damrosch, Jr, ed., Modern Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988)

Epstein, William H., ‘Bios and Logos: Boswell’s Life of Johnson and Recent Literary Theory’, South Atlantic Quarterly, 82 (1983), 246-55

Greene, Donald J., “‘’Tis a Pretty Book, Mr. Boswell, but—”’, Georgia Review, 32 (1978), 17-43

Greene, Donald J., and Waingrow, Marshall, ‘The Making of Boswell’s Life of Johnson’, Studies in Burke and his Time: A Journal Devoted to British, American, and Continental Culture, 1750-1800,12 (1970-71), 1812–20

Hart, Edward, ‘The Contributions of John Nichols to Boswell’s Life of Johnson’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 67, 4 (June 1952), 391–410

Hart, Paxton, ‘The Presentation of Oliver Goldsmith in Boswell’s Life of Johnson’, Re: Artes Liberales, 3, 2 (1970), 4-15

Hartley, Lodovic, ‘A Late Augustan Circus: Macaulay on Johnson, Boswell, and Walpole’, South Atlantic Quarterly, 67 (1968), 513–26

Hilles, Frederick W., ed., The Age of Johnson: Essays Presented to C. B. Tinker (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949)

Horne, Colin J., ‘Boswell, Burke, and the “Life of Johnson”’, Notes and Queries, 195 (November 1950), 498-9

Ingram, Allan, Boswell’s Creative Gloom: A Study of Imagery and Melancholy in the Writings of James Boswell (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1982)

Kinsella, Thomas E., ‘The Conventions of Authenticity: Boswell’s Revision of Dialogue in The Life of Johnson’, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 6 (1994), 237–63

Kirkley, Harriet, ‘Boswell’s Life of the Poet’, Journal of Narrative Technique, 9 (1979), 21–32

Lambert, Elizabeth, ‘Boswell’s Burke; The Literary Consequences of Ambivalence’, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 9 (1998), 201–35

Lonsdale, Roger, ‘Dr Burney and the Integrity of Boswell’s Quotations’, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 53 (1959), 327–31

Lustig, Irma S., ‘Boswell on Politics in the Life of Johnson’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 80 (1965), 387–93

––––– ‘Boswell’s Literary Criticism in The Life of Johnson’, Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900, 6, 3 (summer 1966), 529–41

––––– ‘Boswell at Work: The “Animadversions” on Mrs Piozzi’, Modern Language Review, 67 (January 1972), 11–30

––––– ‘The Friendship of Johnson and Boswell: Some Biographical Considerations’, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 6 (1977), 199–214

––––– ed., Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995)

McAdam, Edward Lippincott, Johnson and Boswell: A Survey of their Writings (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1969)

Molin, Sven Eric, ‘Boswell’s Account of the Johnson-Wilkes Meeting’, Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900, 3, 3 (summer 1963), 307–22

Mudrick, Marvin, ‘The Entertainer’, Hudson Review, 30 (1977), 270–78

Newman, Donald J., ‘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

Nicolson, Harold, ‘The Boswell Formula, 1791’, The Development of English Biography (London: Hogarth Press, 1928)

Novak, Maximillian E., ‘James Boswell’s Life of Johnson’, in Jeffrey Meyers, ed., The Biographer’s Art: New Essays (Basingstoke: Mac-millan, 1987)

Nussbaum, Felicity A., ‘Boswell’s Treatment of Johnson’s Temper: “A Warm West-Indian Climate” ‘, Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900, 14, 3 (summer 1974), 421–33

Palmer, Joyce Arline Cornette, Boswell’s Life of Johnson as Literary History (Knoxville, Tenn.: Palmer, 1967)

Parke, Catherine N., “’The Hero Being Dead”: Evasive Explanation in Biography: The Case of Boswell’, Philological Quarterly, 68, 3 (summer 1989), 343–62

Passler, David, Time, Form, and Style in Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971)

Pettit, H., ‘Boswell and Young’s Night Thoughts’, Notes and Queries, 210 (January 1965), 21

Pottle, Frederick A., ‘Boswell’s “Life of Johnson” ‘, Notes and Queries, 178 (January 1940), 50–51

––––– Pride and Negligence: The History of the Boswell Papers (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982)

Radner, John B., ‘ “A Very Exact Picture of his Life”: Johnson’s Role in Writing The Life of Johnson’, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 7 (1996), 299–342

Redford, Bruce, Designing the Life of Johnson: The Lyell Lectures, 2001-2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)

Reichard, Hugo M., ‘Boswell’s Johnson, the Hero Made by Committee’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 95, 2 (March 1980), 225–33

Rewa, Michael, ‘Boswell’s Life of Johnson, IV, 420–421’, Notes and Queries, 212 (November 1967), 411–12

Roberts, S. C, The Story of Doctor Johnson: Being an Introduction to Boswell’s Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1919)

Scanlan, J. T., ‘The Example of Edmond Malone: Boswell’s Life of Johnson and Patterns of Scholarly and Legal Prose’, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 4 (1991), 115–35

Schwalm, David E., ‘The Life of Johnson: Boswell’s Rhetoric and Reputation’, Texas Studies in Literature and Language: A Journal of the Humanities, 18 (1976), 240–89

Schwartz, Richard B., Boswell’s Johnson: A Preface to the ‘Life’ (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978)

Scott, Geoffrey, ‘The Making of The Life of Johnson’, Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle in the Collection of Lt.-Colonel Ralph Heywood Isham, vol. 6 (Mount Vernon, New York: privately printed, 1929)

Siebenschuh, William R., Form and Purpose in Boswell’s Biographical Works (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972)

–––––‘The Relationship between Factual Accuracy and Literary Art in the Life of Johnson’, Modern Philology, 74 (1977), 273–88

––––––‘Who is Boswell’s Johnson?’, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 10 (1981), 347–60

––––––Fictional Techniques and Factual Works (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1983)

Sisman, Adam, Boswell’s Presumptuous Task (London: Hamish Hamilton, and New York: Penguin Putnam, 2000)

Vance, John A., ed., Boswell’s Life of Johnson: New Questions, New Answers (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1985)

Woolley, James D., ‘Johnson as Despot: Anna Seward’s Rejected Contribution to Boswell’s Life’, Modern Philology, 70 (1972), 140–45