Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. Johnson and Pascal 1
5. Sterne as a Judge in the Spiritual Courts: The Groundwork of A Political Romance 17
6. Samuel Johnson and the Great War for Empire 37
7. Edmund Curll and His Early Associates 69
8. The Rival Angler Editors: Moses Browne and John Hawkins 90
9. The Connoisseur: a Study of the Functions of a Persona 109
10. Some Observations on Johnson's Prefaces and Dedications 122
11. The Double Gallant in Eighteenth-Century Comedy 145
12. Milton and Dryden on Tragedy 158
13. Pathos and Personality in the Tragedies of Nicholas Rowe 172
14. The Picaresque in Decline: Smollett's First Novel 189
15. Structural Patterns of Control in Rasselas 208
16. Swift's Poetry Reconsidered 233
17. Ideas vs. Words: Johnson, Locke, and the Edition of Shakespeare 249
18. Observations on Conversational Style 273
19. Index 289