About Johnson

Samuel Johnson

THE website about Johnson to look at if you have time for only one. Very comprehensive with many, many links to full text resources. Maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers.

The Johnson Society of London Home Page

Not a lot of in depth information here, but links to several good sites about Johnson.

The San Antonio College LitWeb Samuel Johnson Page

More Links to pages related to Johnson.

Samuel Johnson and Rasselas

Extensive website devoted to Rasselas developed by Kally Kline at New Mexico Highlands University.

Biography: Samuel Johnson, writer (12 Dec 1784)

From online "Christian Biographies" written by James Kiefer.

"Restless Wrestling: Johnson's _Rasselas_ (N Hilton, _Lexis Complexes_, ch. 3)

Chapter from a book on Johnson's work by N. Hilton.

NAMES FROM JOURNALS OF JAMES BOSWELL

Small website identifying some of the "unknowns" in some of Boswell's Journals.
(Author unknown.)

 

By Johnson

Selected Poetry and Prose of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

From the University of Toronto website.

Samuel Johnson, Rambler 4

Article by Johnson published in The Rambler in March 1750. University of Pennsylvania website.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Literary Club Edition from Type, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume IV

From the University of Virginia e-text library.

 

About Boswell

James Boswell - Biography

From a website devoted to famous Edinburghers.

James Boswell (1740-1795) - Bibliographies

Links to several bibliographies about Boswell and his work provided by Malaspina University College.

James Boswell: The Life Study of Alcoholism: Putting Drunkenness in Biographical Context

By Stanton Peele. Focuses on a specific aspect of Boswell's life.

Concepts of Authorship in 18th-Century English Literature

Transcripts of a series of email exchanges related to Boswell and Johnson between students and faculty in a seminar at Stockton College.

 

By Boswell

Boswell's Life of Johnson

Full text of Boswell's Life of Johnson (in progress). From Rutgers University.

Sons of Ayrshire

Comparison of Boswell and Robert Burns. Contains brief biographies, text, and some commentaries.

James Boswell visits Ferney

Boswell's description of a visit to Ferney and a meeting with Voltaire. From the University of Chicago.

A visit to Tyburn and Newgate by James Boswell

Link to a selection from Boswell's London Journal.

 

Other Possibly Useful Tools

Search the Web

A page of search engines and subject directories developed by Tutt Library Staff

Style Sheets for Citing Electronic Resources

Links developed by the Reference Staff at the University of Colorado

Evaluation Web Sites

Links to several sites with criteria for evaluating internet resources--developed by librarians at the University of Colorado.

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