Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1972 - 5/31/1973

Funding Totals

$11,250.00 (approved)
$11,250.00 (awarded)


Samuel Johnson's Literary Criticism

FAIN: FB-11071-72

President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
Leo Damrosch (Project Director: September 1972 to present)

Research toward a book which goes beyond existing criticism of Johnson's literature to explore his reasons for what he says and the ways in which his criticism can be of immediate value to people rather than regarded as a collection of dead documents.