The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson

1. Introduction
Howard Erskine-Hill

2. Planning a Life of Johnson
F. P. Lock

3. Attack and Mask: James Boswell’s Indebtedness to Sir John Hawkins’ Life of Samuel Johnson

O. M. Brack

4. Boswell and the Making of Johnson
Murray Pittock

5. ‘The Casuistical Question’: Oaths and Hypocrisy in the Writings of Johnson and Bolingbroke
Adrian Lashmore-Davies

6. Fire under the Ashes: Johnson’s Lives of the Poets as Narratives of History
Howard Erskine-Hill

7. Johnson, Macpherson and the Memoirs of the Marshal Duke of Berwick

Niall MacKenzie

8. Conclusion
Jonathan Clark

Keywords: History, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Literary History, British and Irish Literature, European History, Eighteenth-Century Literature