Thesis--University of Florida. / Description based on print version record. Typescript. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 158-164.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisors: Elizabeth Hedrick and Sara E. Kimball. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available from UMI.

Thèse--Université de Paris. / Bibliography: p. [195]-201.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hamburg.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / More attention is now being paid Samuel Johnson than at any time since the years immediately following his death. The object of this dissertation is to clarify his reputation as man and as writer through systematizaton of the majority of the almost two thousand studies written since 1887, the year that George Birkbeck Hill published his edition of Boswell's Life. The vitality of Johnson's reputation can be seen in many ways. The latter half of the eighteenth century has been called "The Age of Johnson." Critics have traditionally considered him a literary dictator, although it is now known that England has never had a man who could claim such absolute power over her letters. Homage has been paid him through the founding of clubs, the making of pilgrimages to sites associated with him, and the collecting of souvenirs. He has been compared and contrasted with diverse figures from history and fiction. Apocryphal stories have been told about him, and he has often been the subject of imaginary conversations, plays, and novels. Johnson has been made symbolic of the eighteenth century by many who think of the period as a time of peace and contentment. [TRUNCATED]

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Recording in her diary her last interview with Samuel Johnson, Fanny Burney relates that the Doctor spoke "with as much fire, spirit, wit, and truth of criticis and judgement, as ever yet I have heard him," and that he declared, "'Genius is nothing more than knowing the use of tools, but there must be tools for it to use.'" Throughout his literary career, Johnson had frequently pondered over the components of genius, but never before had he given it so succinct a definition. Three immediate questions come to mind. What are the tools of genius? On what materials should they be used? To what ultimate purpose should the genius work? [...]

Thesis--Western Reserve University. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1982. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 229-236).

Proeschrift--Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, 1994. / Résumé en néerlandais. Bibliogr. p. 310-323.