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Freya Johnson is a Fellow and Lecturer in English at Christ's College, Cambridge. She was previously Enid Welsford Research Fellow in English at Newnham College, Cambridge....subtle, intricately illuminating ... This book about small things is large in interest and consequence. It brings a fresh eye and keen critical intelligence to the important issues it engages, and leaves us with a more deeply textured sense of Johnson's works and values.
Stephen Fix, Essays in Criticism
learned and eloquent...an excellent and critically thoughtful, thought-provoking, book...intelligent, independent, richly scholarly, wide-ranging, surprising and delightfully fresh and original in its documentation, as well as engagingly written.
Philip Smallwood, The New Rambler
...detailed and scholarly study...This is a learned book and a rewarding one. It brings out a feature of Johnsons attitudes, and thereby of his writing, that, while at first appearing as itself little, moves rapidly to a central position in his thinking and his literary, as well as religious, practice.
Allan Ingram, Modern Language Review
reframes for a new generation of Johnsonians and eighteenth-century scholars some important rhetorical, ethical, and aesthetic concerns.
David F. Venturo, The College of New Jersey
The overwhelming strength of the book is its scrupulous attention to philological facts of all persuasions....[Johnston's] portrait of the great man reveals at nearly every turn how undecided Johnson could be, and how often that indecision came to the fore in his writings, both great and small, across his long career. Thus, Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking reminds us that the Great Cham was an ordinary man - which is no small accomplishment.
Christopher Vilmar, Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews
Freya Johnston has effectively reopened and reframed the old questions
TLS
Writing in a lucid style and with fine literary sensibility, Johnston traces the phenomenon of "sinking" in the works of Samuel Johnson, offering enlightening chapters on patronage, litotes, the Lives of the Poets, and Johnson's readings of Pope and Milton.
Choice
This is a genuinely enjoyable and informative book, and it leads one to hope for a future work by Johnston in which she can range beyond the usual academic boundaries.
Choice