1. Samuel Johnson, Critical Presence and the Theory of the History of Criticism
2. 'Only Designing to Live': Personal History and the Non-Reductive Context of Johnsonian Criticism
3. Historicization and the Judgment of Shakespeare
4. Historicization and Literary Pleasure: Johnson Reads Cowley
5. Voice and Image: Critical Comedy, the Johnsonian Monster, and the Construction of Judgment
6. From Image to History: Johnson's Criticism and the Genealogy of Romanticism
7. Conclusion: Johnson's Transfusion of the Critical Past and the Making of the Literary Canon.
