“Less of the Heroine than the Woman”: Parsing Gender in the British Novel by Susan Carlile

“…These methods prompt students to parse the question of whether female protagonists in novels—in this case, Daniel Defoe’s Roxana (1724), Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas (1759), and Charlotte Lennox’s Sophia (1762)—are portrayed as perfect models or as complex humans. …”
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Conflicted representations: language, lexicography, and Johnson’s “langscape” of war by Mugglestone, L

“…Books, as Samuel Johnson stated in 1754 in his Dictionary of the English Language neared completion, always exert “a secret influence on the understanding” so that the reader is informed in both overt and covert ways. …”

From Sentiment to Sentimentality: A Nineteenth-Century Lexicographical Search by Marie Banfield

“…The nineteenth-century lexicographical history of the word ‘sentiment' has its chief roots in the Eighteenth-century enlightenment, with definitions from Samuel Johnson and quotations from John Locke, chiefly based on intellect and reason. …”
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What constitutes information integrity? by S. Flowerday, R. von Solms

“…The findings are in harmony with Samuel Johnson's words (1751): 'Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.'…”
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Language myths in Lord Chesterfield’s 1754 Letters to the World by Ruxandra Vişan

“…These Letters announce the publication of a significant text in the history of the English language, Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary (1755). The purpose of the article will be to show that the use of language myths in the Letters reflects the shifting relation between “politeness” and “correctness” in the second half of the eighteenth century (Klein 1994, Fitzmaurice 1998) and an emergent “conceptualization of a legitimate form of English” (Watts 2011).…”
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The Coptic origins of the Yoruba by Agai M. Jock

“…The theory according to which the Yoruba ancestors were Coptic Christians seemed unpopular amongst many Yoruba people despite the fact that the theory was proposed by the most revered Yoruba historian, Samuel Johnson. The aims of this research are firstly, to study Johnson’s Coptic theory of the Yoruba origins and secondly, to highlight the circumstances that might have informed him to associate the Yoruba people with the Coptic Church. …”
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Why Should Hester Lynch Piozzi Be “Dr Johnson’s Mrs Thrale?” by Lisa Berglund

“…Her bestselling literary works appeared under the name Hester Lynch Piozzi and yet she is recognized for her 20 years as Mrs Thrale: friend, confidante, amanuensis, and muse of Samuel Johnson. Upon her second marriage, “Piozzi” became a hostile signifier for a woman who defied her family and social opinion to choose a new husband and a new name; later biographers would recast her as “Dr Johnson’s Mrs Thrale,” the wife of one man, the possession of another. …”
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Entry layout in the history of English lexicography: Bailey 1736, Martin 1749 and Johnson 1755 by Ruxandra Vişan

“…The present paper focuses on the history of lexicography and proposes a comparative analysis of three significant English dictionaries of the 18th century: Nathan Bailey’s Dictionarium Britannicum (second edition, 1736), Benjamin Martin’s Lingua Britannica Reformata (first edition, 1749), Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (first edition, 1755). …”
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Modern English Dictionaries. A Foreign User’s View by Olga Karpova

“…At the same time the paper also covers the main historic steps of formation and development of national English lexicography with special reference to the most reliable English dictionaries for general purposes (early glossaries and concordances, Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary, etc.) and special purposes (English writers’ glossaries, concordances, lexicons to the complete and separate works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and other famous English men of letters). …”
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Did the ancient Egyptians migrate to ancient Nigeria? by Jock M. Agai

“…Literatures concerning the history of West African peoples published from 1900 to 1970 debate�the possible migrations of the Egyptians into West Africa. Writers like Samuel Johnson and�Lucas Olumide believe that the ancient Egyptians penetrated through ancient Nigeria but Leo�Frobenius and Geoffrey Parrinder frowned at this opinion. …”
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The Puzzling Origin of the Acquaintance between Charlotte Lennox and Thomas Birch by Patricia L. Hamilton

“…Possibly Edward Cave, publisher of The Gentleman’s Magazine, or other professional associates such as Samuel Johnson or Samuel Richardson supplied it. But archival evidence indicates that Lady Isabella Finch, Lennox’s earliest patroness, was in contact with Birch in 1749, raising the question of whether she could have given Birch the poem. …”
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Samuel who? The meeting which never took place by Casanova, I

“…While certainty is impossible, this paper holds that the very few 18th century and even the 19th century Portuguese lexicographers were not aware of the work of Samuel Johnson. In fact, Portuguese traditions of those times led interest to focus on the French and Italian cultures. …”

Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals of Scotland: The Creation of the Romantic Author by Gillian Beattie-Smith

“…The increase in popularity of the Home Tour in the 19th century and the publication of many journals, diaries, and guides of tours of Scotland by, such as, Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, led to the perception of Scotland as a literary tour destination. …”
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Wayne Booth, Why Ethical Criticism Fell on Hard Times by Antonio Sotgiu

“…Nel presente articolo Wayne Booth immagina un dialogo intercorso tra lui e il noto cri- tico inglese vissuto nel XVIII secolo Samuel Johnson, quest’ultimo mostra la sua indignazione nei confronti della reticenza dei critici contemporanei nell’esprimere giudizi di valore ben argomentati sulle opere letterarie. …”
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The Highlands and Their Inhabitants through the Eyes of 18th Century Englishmen: On Stereotypes in Intercultural Communication by Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosykh

“…More particularly, the article focuses on the study of stable ethnic and cultural stereotypes as solidified images. Referring to Samuel Johnson’s A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) the author describes the crucial English stereotypes about the inhabitants of the Highlands. …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “New School of Biographies” and Eighteenth-century Life-Writing: a Sense of Kinship by Maryam Thirriard

“…At the same time, her essay provides a lengthy history of the genre and Woolf takes her readers back in time to Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson, connecting him to the New Biographers and their narrative techniques. …”
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Joseph Browne: Literature and Politics in Early Eighteenth Century England by Katarzyna Kozak

“…One critic, Howard Weinbrot, in his study on Samuel Johnson, acknowledged Browne as the author of the poem “The Gothick Hero” (so far only accredited to Browne) and associated his political views with support for the Hanoverian dynasty that ascended the British throne in 1714. …”
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«The Multiplicity of Agreeable Consciousness» by Freiburg, Rudolf

“… Samuel Johnson’s life was troubled by diverse physical diseases and – one year before his death – he experienced a stroke. …”
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Biblical Citations as a Stylistic Standard in Johnson’s and Webster’s Dictionaries by Cynthia L. Hallen, Tracy B. Spackman

“…Noah Webster’s primary source for the first edition of the 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language (ADEL) was Samuel Johnson’s 1799 eighth edition of the Dictionary of the English Language (DEL). …”
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"An overgrown monster": London in Some Eighteenth-Century Writings by Hélène Dachez

“…Londres, lieu malléable par excellence, où alternent circulation déréglée et menace de stase, devient le lieu de tous les excès, et les auteurs mettent en avant un processus de contamination réciproque entre les êtres répréhensibles qui y pullulent et la capitale parasite, corrompue et corruptrice.Il faut alors souligner et analyser le traitement particulièrement original que propose Samuel Richardson (qui partage avec Samuel Johnson un amour immense pour la capitale), dans Clarissa, où Londres joue un rôle primordial dans le destin des personnages et dans l’économie du roman.…”
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