The Great Samuel Johnson and His Opposition to Literary Liars

Authors

Thomas M. Curley, Bridgewater State CollegeFollow

Note on the Author

A professor of English at Bridgewater State College, Tom Curley has published several books and articles on eighteenth century literature, most notably Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson (1998), nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in biography and winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. His most recent book, Samuel Johnson, the Ossian Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland (2009), was published by Cambridge University Press on the occasion of the tercentenary of Samuel Johnson’s birth.

Recommended Citation

Curley, Thomas M. (2009). The Great Samuel Johnson and His Opposition to Literary Liars. Bridgewater Review, 28(2), 7-10.
Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/br_rev/vol28/iss2/6