...Oliver W. Ferguson James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740–1769 . By Pottle Frederick A. . 1966 . Reprint. New York, Toronto, London : McGraw-Hill Book Company , 1985 . Pp. xviii , 606 . $24.95 . James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795 . By Brady Frank . New York...

...Lodwick Hartley Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 A Late Augustan Circus: Macaulay on Johnson, Boswell, and Walpole Lodwick Hartley In 1831 young Thomas Babington Macaulay, almost exactly as old as the new century, had already established a considerable repu­ tation...

...William Henry Irving The Hooded Hawk or The Case of Mr. Boswell . By Lewis D. B. Wyndham . New York : Longmans, Green and Co. , 1947 . Pp. 312 . $4.00 . Dr. Campbell’s Diary of a Visit to England in 1775 . Newly edited from the MS. by Clifford James L...

...Mitchell Wells Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 JAMES BOSWELL AND THE MODERN DILEMMA MITCHELL WELLS IS THE universe the creation of one conscious, omnipotent, and benevolent will or the product of mere mechanical force? This dilemma has brought despair to many. Wars...

... seem epistemologically crude. In the end, given the radically different philosophical postulates from which semiotic and referential criticism derive, one suspects that the debate will be with us for a long time to come. QUEEN S UNIVERSITY, CANADA TILOTTAMA RAJAN Boswell: The Applause of the Jury 1782...

...William H. Irving Boswell on the Grand Tour Germany and Switzerland 1764 . Edited by Pottle Frederick A. . New York : McGraw-Hill , 1953 . Pp. xxiii , 357 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 591 nill we, we are being irresistibly drawn closer...

...Lodwick Hartley Boswell in Holland . Edited by Pottle Frederick A. . New York : McGraw-Hill Book Co. , 1952 . Pp. 433 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 145 cesses in 1940 had made him feel qualified to handle all kinds of military operations...

...J. E. Congleton Boswell in Search of a Wife: 1766-1769 . Edited by Brady Frank Pottle Frederick A. . New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. , 1956 . Pp. xxiv , 390 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 524 The South Atlantic Quarterly of means...

...Edward Tomarken Boswell’s “Life of Johnson”: New Questions, New Answers . Edited by Vance John A. . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1985 . Pp. xii , 273 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 186 The South Atlantic Quarterly Boswell s Life of Johnson : New...

...Waldo H. Dunn Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 JAMIE BOSWELL S THORN IN THE FLESH WALDO H. DUNN College of Wooster WHOM DID James Boswell dislike most? Even to ex­ pert Boswellians that question, I fancy, may at first seem unanswerable. We know that the irrepressible little Scot...

...William H. Epstein Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Bios and Logos: Boswell s Life of Johnson and Recent Literary Theory William H. Epstein Unlike such eighteenth-century narratives as Tristram Shandy or Rous­ seau s Confessions, Boswell s Life of Johnson is hardly a talismanic...

...Frank Brady Boswell’s Johnson: A Preface to the "Life.” By Schwartz Richard B. . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1978 . Pp. xi - xiii , 127 . Index. $17.50 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 522 The South Atlantic Quarterly ways succeeding generations...

...William Henry Irving Boswell’s London Journal 1762-1763 . Edited by Pottle Frederick A. . New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company , 1950 . Pp. xxix , 370 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 591 This book will remind historians of some...

... by the ceremonies of conferring the degrees. Among them, and thus senior to his friend Johnson as an Oxford D.C.L., was the brewer Henry Thrale, although Boswell never refers to him as Doctor Thrale. The Great Highbrow 265 the appellation himself, as most sensible writers, such as Wordsworth and T. S. Eliot, also...

... imposing as the Club of Dr. Samuel Johnson. Mem­ bers like Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, Oliver Goldsmith, and James Boswell all had achieved or were destined to achieve eminence beyond dispute. A secondary figure like Dr. (later Sir) John Hawkins physician, musicologist...

... discovers. Even ver­ sions of Johnson which emphasize the psychological and intellectual difficulty of his conservatism help to confirm our image of him as an essentially defensive character.2 This image is abetted by a traditional contrast with Boswell, whose role-playing, thirst for experience...

... as respectfully cited by eighteenthcentury physicians, who treated patients suffering a wide variety of emotional 398 The South Atlantic Quarterly disorders. This side of Johnson s writing has been neglected because of his lay status, the preference for Boswell s account to Johnson s writings, and his...

... s Education of a Correspondent. In its own field it is as good as that neglected little volume of Francesca M. Wilson, Aftermath. It has been beautifully translated by Edward Fitzgerald. There are no pictures. Each reader can supply his own. Theodore Ropp. Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763. Edited...

...: The Uni­ versity of Georgia Press, 1979. Pp. xvi, 202. $15.00. Professor Dowling s incisive, provocative, and well-written book is a significant contribution to the critical literature on Boswell s major biographies. In an essentially new-critical reading of Boswell s Tour to Corsica, Tour...

... a posi­ tion of dual importance in biography, as a disciple of Samuel Johnson and as a forerunner of Boswell. Moreover, Goldsmith held advanced theories concerning biography which he both preached and practiced. He was far ahead of many of his contemporaries in the theory and practice of biography...