Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. A Note on the Cover Image ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I Essays on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell
6. Mirrored Minds: Johnson and Shakespeare 3
7. The General and the Particular: Paradox and the Play of Contraries in the Criticism of Pope, Johnson, and Reynolds 22
8. “The Caliban of Literature”: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Johnson’s Intertextual Scholarship 39
9. In Silence and Darkness: Johnson’s Verdicts on Artistic Failure 54
10. Smollett’s Ramblers and the Law of the Land 71
11. The Social Life of Thomas Cumming, or “Clubbing” with Johnson’s Friend, the Fighting Quaker 90
12. Not “Just a Macheath”: Young Boswell and Old Cibber in Boswell’s London Journal 1762–1763 103
13. PART II Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
14. English Historiography, the Development of Secular Autobiography, and the Memoir 119
15. What Else Did Pope Borrow from Dryden? 140
16. Poetic Performances: Pope’s An Essay on Man and Swift’s “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” 153
17. Swift Shrinks the Duke of Marlborough: Public Delegitimation through Scale 169
18. Western Gardens, Eastern Views: Asian Travelers on Greenscapes of the British Isles 185
19. Publishers Can Cause Earthquakes: Explanations and Enigmas of the Seismic Enlightenment 207
20. PART III Personal Reminiscences
21. Greg Clingham as Teacher and Mentor 227
22. Greg Clingham and Bucknell University Press 241
23. Commemoratory Poems 249
24. Coda 257
25. Greg Clingham’s Publications 263
26. Acknowledgments 269
27. Bibliography 271
28. Notes on Contributors 291
29. Index 299