Dr Freya Johnston: List of publications

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Alexander Pope: Unlocking the Key

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The Review of English Studies: the leading journal of English literature and language

Alexander Pope: Unlocking the Key

Conference paper
This paper examines the satirical subgenre of the ‘Key’, asking what it might reveal about Scriblerian group identity and about how literary and political collectives interact and malfunction.

Annual Johnson Lecture

Conference paper

Belief in Henry Fielding

Conference paper

Biography versus History in the Long Eighteenth Century

Conference paper

Burns’s Dominions

Conference paper

Byron's Johnson

Conference paper

Diminutive Observations in Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

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Age of Johnson: a scholarly annual

Johnson's Departures

Conference paper

Jonathan Swift: Quarrelling with Nature

Conference paper

Notes and Queries

Conference paper

Peacock and the Fictions of Print

Conference paper

Re-reading and re-writing in Jane Austen's juvenilia

Conference paper

Samuel Johnson

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Great Shakespeareans, Vol. 1: Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Malone

Samuel Johnson’s Classicism

Conference paper

Satires of Annotation

Conference paper

The Celebrated Jane Austen: Appearance and Performance in Volume the First

Conference paper

Thomas Love Peacock: Crotchets Rampant

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The Cambridge Quarterly

‘The Confidence of Nature’: Discovering Poetry in Johnson’s Life of Congreve

Conference paper

Jane Austen in the Universe

2018
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Essays in Criticism

Keeping to William Hazlitt

2017
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Chapter
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Thinking Through Style

Teenage Writings

2017
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Book
Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. By this point Austen was already an indiscriminate and precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature alike; what she read, she soon began to imitate and parody. Unlike many teenage writings then and now, these are not secret or agonized confessions entrusted to a private journal and for the writer's eyes alone. Rather, they are stories to be shared and admired by a named audience of family and friends. Devices and themes which appear subtly in Austen's later fiction run riot openly and exuberantly across the teenage page. Drunkenness, brawling, sexual misdemeanour, theft, and even murder prevail.

The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock

2016
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Scholarly edition

Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle

2016
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Book

'Medieval Graffiti': Editing Thomas Love Peacock

2015
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Presentation
This paper reflects on the challenges and rewards of editing a writer whose works have routinely been described as ‘inaccessible’. Even if his comic fictions abound, like Jane Austen’s, with clever, good-looking women and with sparkling dialogue that culminates in marriage, Peacock’s repartee can be hard to follow. This is partly because he does not aspire to the portrayal of interiority. Rather, his characters, both male and female, exist primarily in order to share, voice, and test the limits of their ideas.

Crotchet Castle

2015
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Book

Byron's Johnson

2014
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Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century

Biography, History and Anecdote

2014
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The Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1830

'Gigantic domesticity': the exaggeration of Charles Dickens

2013
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Dickens's Style

Johnson Personified

2012
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Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum
This book offers wide-ranging coverage of Samuel Johnson's life, work, and reception across fifteen thematically cohesive chapters.
Literary Criticism

Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum

2012
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Book

'To a Mouse': Burns, Power and Equality

2012
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Burns and Other Poets

Correspondence

2012
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Samuel Johnson in Context

Samuel Johnson's Classicism

2012
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The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, vol 3: 1660-1790

Biography versus History in the Eighteenth Century

2011
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Presentation
This paper discusses the fruitful spats between history-writing and biography throughout the eighteenth century, and the effects of such competition on the novel.

Jane Austen's Past Lives

2010
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Journal article
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The Cambridge Quarterly

Samuel Johnson

2010
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Great Shakespeareans: Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Malone

Making an Entrance: Frances Burney and Samuel Johnson

2009
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A Celebration of Frances Burney
Literary Criticism

Johnson and Austen

2009
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Samuel Johnson After 300 Years

Accumulation in Johnson's Dictionary

2007
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Journal article
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Essays in Criticism

William Cowper, The Task

2006
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Chapter
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The Blackwell Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709-1791

2005
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Book

Little Lives: An Eighteenth-Century Sub-Genre

2003
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The Cambridge Quarterly

Samuel Johnson and Robert Levet

2002
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