Concepts of Authorship
in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

In the Spring of 1994, eight students enrolled in Johnson & Boswell, an upper-level seminar at Stockton College. Discussion and research centered around the identification of typically eighteenth-century views of authorship.

While the writings of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell are central to this discussion, Frances Burney's Evelina and Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary are also briefly discussed.

Research has been arranged under the following headings:

Thoughts on Eighteenth-Century Authorship,
Chiefly concerned with Samuel Johnson

Two Views on Boswell

Authors are like Bakers

Correspondence

Thoughts on Eighteenth-Century Authorship,
Chiefly concerned with Mary

Miscellaneous Research

The researchers are identified below:

asmith               Aimee Smith
cbier                Cristen Bier
cferrett             Carl Ferrette
jgwhite              Jeffrey White
oschulma             Orrie Schulman
rdavis               Robert (Bob) Davis
tharteli             Tess Hartelius

All research was typed into a conferencing system (CoSy) and later moved to a Macintosh Hypercard stack. That stack is here converted into html format.

tkinsell (Tom Kinsella)