...Robert Hemenway Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of Afro-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century . By Johnson Abby Arthur Johnson Ronald Maberry . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 1979 . Pp. 248 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University...

...Frederic M. Hanes Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 THE PARTICULARITIES OF DR. JOHNSON FREDERIC M. HANES It is in vain to try to find a meaning in every one of his particulari­ ties, which, I suppose, are mere habits contracted by chance; of which every man has some...

...Marguerite Hall Albjerg Copyright © 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 THE NEW YORK PRESS AND ANDREW JOHNSON MARGUERITE HALL ALBJERG West Lafayette, Indiana THERE are some enthusiasts of journalism who main­ tain that during the past century the press surpassed in influence the dynasties...

...Curtis Nettels Andrew Johnson and the South Curtis Nettels University of Wisconsin Andrew Johnson was prepared for the presidency by a life­ time of contact with public affairs. He entered politics at the age of twenty and advanced steadily thereafter to higher and higher office. He served in both...

...Joseph M. Beatty, Jr. Copyright © 1922 by Duke University Press 1922 Doctor Johnson and the Occult Joseph M. Beatty, Jr. Goucher College. Doctor Johnson characterized his century as this age of inquiry and knowledge, when superstition is driven away, and omens and prodigies have lost...

...Robert C. Whitford Copyright © 1920 by Duke University Press 1920 Lexiphanes: Satire s View of Doctor Johnson Robert C. Whitford Knox College. Samuel Johnson bulks large among the dim and ghostly heroes of literay history. In pleasant despite of time and place I range him alongside Homer...

... s Quantum series: short enough to be read in an evening and significant enough to be a book. UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY J. A. BRYANT, JR. Samuel Johnson and the Sense of History. By John A. Vance. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984. Pp. xi, 206, $22.50. One of the longest meetings of my life...

...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...

...Mark W. Booth Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Samuel Johnson, Biographer . By Folkenflik Robert . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1978 . Pp. 237 . $12.50 . 110 The South Atlantic Quarterly Samuel Johnson, Biographer. By Robert Folkenflik. Ithaca: Cornell...

...William E. Cain The Cultural Critics: From Matthew Arnold to Raymond Williams . By Johnson Lesley . London, Boston and Henley : Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1979 . Pp. viii , 235 . $21.95 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 458 The South Atlantic Quarterly war...

...Bertram H. Davis Dr. Johnson and Sir John Hawkins: A Friendship of Four Decades Bertram H. Davis It is a common delight of perverse curiosity to find out the monster lurking within the person of unblemished reputation. The problem of the biographer of Sir John Hawkins is to un­ cover the human...

...Christopher Armitage W. H. Auden as a Social Poet . By Buell Frederick . Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 1973 . Pp. vii , 196 . $8.95 . Man’s Place: An Essay on Auden . By Johnson Richard . Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 1973 . Pp. xvi...

...J. M. Armistead Poetry of Civilization: Mythopoeic Displacement in the Verse of Milton, Dryden, Pope, and Johnson . By Budick Sanford . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1974 . Pp. xv , 179 . $9.75 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Book Reviews 521...

...Thomas Atteridge The Self Observed: Swift, Johnson, Wordsworth . By Golden Morris . Baltimore and London : The Johns Hopkins Press , 1972 . Pp. ix , 190 . $8.00 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 174 The South Atlantic Quarterly political themes of the plays...

...Donald Greene Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Samuel Johnson and the New Science . By Schwartz Richard B. . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1971 . Pp. 188 . $10.00 . Book Reviews 269 in his Liber Amoris. After his divorce, his second marriage...

...Lionel Basney Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Ah ha! Sam Johnson!I see thee Johnson s Ironic Roles Lionel Basney One Saturday morning in 1778, Johnson astonished Mrs. Thrale and Fanny Burney by talking of Bet Flint: Bet Flint! cried Mrs. Thrale; pray, who is she? Oh...

...Benjamin Boyce The Unknown Samuel Johnson . Edited by Burke John J. Jr. Kay Donald . Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press , 1983 . Pp. xi , 182 . $30.00 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Book Reviews 479 campaign against the romantic humbug...

...Ronald R. Butters Metaphors We Live By . By Lakoff George Johnson Mark . Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press , 1980 . Pp. xiv , 242 . $13.95 . Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 128 The South Atlantic Quarterly After Van Buren took office...

...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...

... reflections on the American Revolution. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL JOHN K. NELSON Boswell s Johnson: A Preface to the Life. By Richard B. Schwartz. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. Pp. xi-xiii, 127. Index. $17.50. Richard B. Schwartz understands, as James Boswell did...