- Johnson’s Life and Thought
- Johnson and the Meaning of Life [Lawrence Lipking]
- Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets and the Earlier Traditions of the Character Sketch in England [Martine Watson Brownley]
- Johnson and Mrs. Thrale: The Beginning and the End [John Riely]
- Thomas Hollis and Samuel Johnson [W. H. Bond]
- The Vision of Theodore: Genre, Context, Early Reception [Gwin Kolb]
- Steevens and Johnson [John H. Middendorf]
- Minim and the Great Cham: Smollett and Johnson on the Prospect of an English Academy [James G. Basker]
- Johnson, Traveling Companion, in Fancy and Fact [Bertrand H. Bronson]
- A Critical Conspectus
- Some Limits in Johnson’s Literary Criticism [John D. Boyd, S.J.]
- The Antinomy of Style in Augstan Poetics [Emerson R. Marks]
- The Source, and End, and Test of Art: Hume’s Critique [James Engell]
- The Anglo-Scottish Critics: Toward a Romantic Theory of Imitation [John L. Mahoney]
- Adam, Tinker, and Newton [Mary Hyde]
- Poets, Statesmen, Historians, Artists
- Gray’s “Progress of Poesy” and “The Bard”: An Essay in Literary Transmission [Howard D. Weinbrot]
- Hogarth’s Graphic Friendships: Illustrating Books by Friends [Robert Halsband]
- Gibbon’s Silences [W. B. Carnochan]
- Burke’s American Tragedy [Gerald Chapman]
- “What Seems To Be: Is” Blake’s Idea of God [Jean H. Hagstrum]
- The Novel
- From Richardson to Austen: “Johnson’s Rule” and the Development of the Eighteenth-Century Novel of Moral Action [Ralph W. Rader]
- Women and the City [Patricia Meyer Spacks]
- Sterne and Swift: Augustan Continuities [Max Byrd]
- Engendering Accounts in Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey [Melinda Alliker Rabb]
- “Straightforward Emotions and Zigzag Embarrassments” in Austen’s Emma [Alex Page]
HARVARD ENGLISH STUDIES

Harvard English Studies 12
Johnson and His Age
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Publication Date: 05/16/1985