Approaches to Teaching Works of Samuel Johnson

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.

Preface to the Series
Preface to the Volume
Acknowledgments
Classroom Texts: The Teacher, the Anthology, and the Canon	p. 3
Scholarly and Critical Resources	p. 8
Samuel Johnson and Gender	p. 19
Resisting Authority; or, Johnson and the Wizard of Oz	p. 28
On Teaching Johnson and Lockean Empiricism	p. 35
Style and Values: Imitating Samuel Johnson	p. 42
Reading Johnson Psychoanalytically	p. 49
Johnson in the British Literature Survey Course	p. 56
Johnson in a Western Civilization Course	p. 64
Samuel Johnson's View of America: A Moral Judgment. Based on Conscience, Not Compromise	p. 71
Hearing Epistolick Voices: Teaching Johnson's Letters	p. 78
Teaching the Dictionary	p. 84
The Jenyns Review: "Leibnitian Reasoning" on Trial	p. 92
Teaching A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland	p. 99
Johnson and the Limits of Biography: Teaching the Life of Savage	p. 107
Teaching the Lives of the Poets	p. 114
Rasselas in an Eighteenth-Century Novels Course	p. 121
Teaching Johnson's Critical Writing	p. 128
Contributors and Survey Participants	p. 135
Works Cited	p. 137
Index	p. 149
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