Kristen McNeil: Assignment 3

Bibliographic Research Assignment #3

Introduction:

In order to find the sources listed below in my bibliography, I used four different search parameters for both WorldCat and MLA. The search parameters that I used were Samuel Johnson as subject, Samuel Johnson as keyword, The Rambler and The Idler as subject, and gender and Samuel Johnson as keyword. For Samuel Johnson as subject and keyword I pulled up a lot of sources. However, when I ran Samuel Johnson as subject and keyword on WorldCat, I pulled up a lot of sources that were irrelevant to the subject matter that I was researching. For instance, some of the sources were pertaining to other people with the name Samuel Johnson. I did not pull up as many sources under The Rambler and the Idler and gender and Samuel Johnson as keyword. There were not a lot of crossovers between WorldCat and MLA for the sources. However, this allowed me to pull up a lot of different articles and books with various critiques on Samuel Johnson. I found the search which has Samuel Johnson as subject most productive because those articles and books discussed Samuel Johnson’s literature and the major themes within the literature. I decided to research gender and Samuel Johnson because I was curious to see if Johnson wrote about male and female interactions in his writing.

I choose the sources that I included in my bibliography because the titles were interesting to me. The titles seem to show that there were many different aspects and ideas in Samuel Johnson’s writing that authors find intriguing. There was no particular focus on one topic and I did not recognize any of the authors that were listed in the sources in the search that I did. I choose to include a number of works by Harold Bloom because he has done a lot of critical work on Johnson that will prove useful to anyone studying Johnson.

Bibliogrpahy:

1. Armbuster, Karla and Kathleen R. Wallace. Beyond nature writing: expanding the boundaries of ecocriticism. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. – not in Woodruff library

2. Basker, James G. “Myth upon Myth: Johnson, Gender, and the Misogyny Question.” Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual. (1997,8) : 175 – 87. – not in Woodruff library

3. Bloom, Harold. Genius: a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds. New York: Warner Books, 2002. – not in Woodruff library

4. Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare’s histories. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 2000. - not in Woodruff library

5. Bloom, Harold. The best poems of the English language: from Chaucer through Frost. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. – not in Woodruff library

6. Bloom, Harold. The Western canon: the books and schools of the ages. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994. – not in Woodruff library

7. Burke, John J. Sr. “Reconfiguring the Idea of Eighteenth-Century Literature in a New Epoch: Moving to Augustan to the Menippean.” Eighteenth-Century Life. 31.2 (2007 Spring): 83 - 95. – not in Woodruff library

8. Chapin, Chester. “Samuel Johnson and the Church’s Convocation.” Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition. 46.2 (2007 May): 16 – 24. – not in Woodruff library

9. DeMaria, Robert, Jr. “Samuel Johnson and the Saxonic Shakespeare.” Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson. (2007): 25 – 46. – not in Woodruff library

10.DeMaria, Robert, Jr. The Life of Samuel Johnson: a critical biography. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. – not in Woodruff library

11.Dixon, John Converse.”Politicizing Samuel Johnson: The Moral Essays and the Question of Ideology.” College Literature. 25.3 (1998 Fall): 67-90 – in Woodruff library

12. Evans, Scott D. Samuel Johnson’s “general nature”: tradition and transition in eighteenth-century discourse. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999. – not in Woodruff library

13.Hanley, Brian. Samuel Johnson’s Military Writings. Air force inst. of tech wright-pattersonafb oh, 1999. – not in Woodruff library

14.Johnston, Freya. “Accumulation in Johnson’s Dictionary.” Essays in Criticism: A Quaterly Journal of Literary Criticism 57.4 (Oct. 2007): 301 – 324. – not in Woodruff library

15.Lopate, Phillip. The Art of the personal essay: an anthology from the classical era to the present. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. – in Woodruff library

16. Mahoney, John L. Seeing into the life of things essays on literature and religious experience. New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. – not in Woodruff library

17.Mannheimer, Katherine. “Personhood, Poethood, and Pope: Johnson’s Life of Pope and the Search for the Man Behind the Author.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 40.4 (2007 Summer): 631-49 - not in Woodruff library

18.Meyers, Jeffrey. “Samuel Demands the Muse: Johnson’s Stamp on Imaginative Literature.” Antioch Review 65.1 (Winter 2007): 39-49 – in Woodruff library

19.Smallwood, Phillip. Johnson re – visioned: looking before and after. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 2001. – not in Woodruff library

20.Zionkowski, Linda. Men’s work: gender, class, and the professionalization of poetry, 1660 – 1784. New York: Palgrave, 2001. – not in Woodruff library