Book of Donmon Teith

A detailed investigation of Johnson's response to the Ossian controversy, with a transcription of a rare anti-Ossian pamphlet he co-authored.

James Macpherson's famous hoax, publishing his own poems as the writings of the ancient Scots bard Ossian in the 1760s, remains fascinating to scholars as the m

From Shakespeare to Autofiction focuses on salient features of authorship throughout modernity, ranging from transformations of oral tradition and the roles of

A compelling case for the importance of the heart and emotions over that of critical theory in Johnson's literary criticism.

Revises established understandings of British women writers' contributions to Enlightenment narratives of social and historical progress Drawing on original arc