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When Samuel Johnson is discussed as an essayist, his and Idler are generally the works that are considered. This is the first study to take account of the effect of Johnson's essayistic talents on the entirety of his writing. Setting forth the particular characteristics of the genre that are present in Johnson's contributions to the political controversies of his time, this analysis examines those qualities of Johnson's thought and methods tha...

This work on Smollett's 18th-century representation of women concludes that his treatment of them as heroines, victims, or as comic or grotesque, is dependent upon the fictional purposes that these characters served in his novels.