Samuel Johnson
(1696-1772)
Beardsley,
Eben Edwards. Life and Correspondence of Samuel Johnson, D.
D. New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1887.
Bothell,
Larry Lee. "Cloak and Gown: A Study of Religion and Learning
in the Early Career of Samuel Johnson of Connecticut." Doctoral
dissertation, Princeton University, 1967. Emphasized are Johnson's
early years. His "exchange of a Puritan cloak for an Anglican
gown was Johnson's way of resolving controversial issues affecting
religion and learning in a common Anglo-American culture."
(from the abstract)
Carroll,
Peter N. The Other Samuel Johnson: A Psychohistory of Early
New England. Rutherford, NJ.: Fairleigh-Dickinson University
Press, 1979. This work received very mixed reviews, mostly criticizing
the effort at psychobiography as misguided and simplistic.
DeMille,
George E., and Gerlach, Don R. "Samuel Johnson, Parson of
'Stratford in New England.'" CHS Bulletin 45(0ctober,
1980)4:97-114. An excellent short study based on extensive research.
Focus is on the establishment of the Anglican Congregation in
Stratford. Citations.
Ellis,
Joseph J. The New England Mind in Transition: Samuel Johnson
of Connecticut, 1696-1772. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1973. This study ends just before Johnson became president of
King's College. An intellectual biography, it deals with Johnson's
religious and philosophical ideas. Based on a 1969 Yale dissertation.
Fine bibliographical essay.
Girardi,
Donald Francis Marc. "The American Doctor Johnson: Anglican
Piety and the Eighteenth-Century Mind." Doctoral dissertation,
Columbia University, 1973. A study of Johnson's ideas—political
and theological.
Hornberger,
Theodore. "Samuel Johnson of Yale and King's College: A Note
on the Relation of Science and Religion in Provincial America."
New England Quarterly 8(September, 1935)3:378-97. An examination
of Johnson's attitudes toward science, which Hornberger says were
confused and only half digested. Theological logic dominated scientific
logic.
Murray,
Scan Collins. "The Reverend Samuel Johnson, 1696-1772: Anglican
Protagonist in Colonial America." Doctoral dissertation.
State University of New York at Buffalo, 1975. A full-scale, long
biography.
Schneider,
Herbert, and Schneider, Carol, eds. Samuel Johnson, President
of King's College, His Career and Writings. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1929. Long a standard work, this book is still
overall the most useful published treatment, though in part superseded
by Ellis.
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