Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE: Personal Relationships: Letters and Conversation
6. 1. Connecting with Three “Young Dogs”: Johnson’s Early Letters to Robert Chambers, Bennet Langton, and James Boswell 9
7. 2. James Elphinston and Samuel Johnson: Contact, Irritations, and an “Argonautic” Letter 31
8. 3. The Case of the Missing Hottentot: John Dun’s Conversation with Samuel Johnson in Tour to the Hebrides as Reported by Boswell and Dun 53
9. PART TWO: Literary Relationships: Major Texts and Topics
10. 4. Oliver Goldsmith’s Revisions to The Traveller 79
11. 5. “Down with Her, Burney!”: Johnson, Burney, and the Politics of Literary Celebrity 108
12. 6. In the First Circle: The Four Narrators of the Life of Savage 132
13. 7. “Under the Shade of Exalted Merit”: Arthur Murphy’s A Poetical Epistle to Mr. Samuel Johnson, A.M. 153
14. 8. Johnson, Burke, Boswell, and the Slavery Debate 167
15. 9. Samuel Johnson and Anna Seward: Solitude and Sensibility 191
16. 10. Johnson, Warton, and the Popular Reader 214
17. Acknowledgments 233
18. Bibliography 235
19. About the Contributors 249
20. Index 253