John Wesley's plagiarism of Samuel Johnson and its contemporary reception

Huntington Library Quarterly

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 73-79

  Abelove, Henry ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 62149103340     PISSN: 00187895     EISSN: 1544399X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3817906     Document Type: Note

References (27)

1. John Wesley, A Calm Address to Our American Colonies (Bristol, 1775), 4, 11, passim
2. Frank Baker, "A" in A Union Catalogue of the Publications of John and Charles Wesley (Durham, N.C., 1966), 145
3. James Everett, Adam Clarke Portrayed (London, 1843), 2:320-22
4. Luke Tyerman, The Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., 2d. ed. (London, 1871), 3:191
5. Richard Green, Anti-Methodist Publications Issued During the Eighteenth Century (London, 1902), 125-132
6. Clive D. Field, "Anti-Methodist Publications of the Eighteenth Century: A Revised Bibliography," Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 23 (summer 1991): 159-280
7. Americanus (Caleb Evans), A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley, Occasioned by His Calm Address to the American Colonies (London, 1775), 2, 22-23, passim
8. G. E. Weare, Edmund Burke's Connection with Bristol From 1774 Till 1780 (Bristol, 1894), 30
9. Correspondence of Edmund Burke, ed. George H. Guttridge (Cambridge and Chicago, 1961), 3:46
10. on his life, the election, and North's comment, see Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke, The House of Commons 1754-1790 (London, 1964), 2:280-82
11. 1:283-86
12. Henry Abelove, The Evangelist of Desire: John Wesley and the Methodists (Stanford, Calif., 1990), 85-86
13. Henry Rack, Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism, 2d ed. (London, 1992), 346-47, 376-77
14. Caleb Evans, A Reply to the Rev. Mr. Fletcher's Vindication of Mr. Wesley's Calm Address to Our American Colonies (Bristol, n.d.), 6-9
15. Ms. Will, John Wesley, 27 April 1768 (Wesleyan University Archives, Middletown, Ct.)
16. The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M., ed. John Telford (London, 1931), 6:188
17. Frank Baker, "The Shaping of Wesley's Calm Address," Methodist History 14 (October 1975): 3-12
18. London Packet, 4-6 December 1775
19. Gazeteer and New Daily Advertiser, 7 December 1775, 598
20. London Chronicle, 7-9 December, 556
21. P. T. Underdown, "The Parliamentary History of the City of Bristol 1750-1790" (M.A. thesis, University of Bristol, 1948)
22. The Journal of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M., ed. N. Curnock (London, 1916), 6:40
23. Bicentennial Edition of the Works of John Wesley, vol. 22
24. Journals and Diaries, vol. 5, ed. W. Reginald Ward and Richard Heitzenrater (Nashville, 1993), 429
25. Mark Rose, Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright (Cambridge, Mass., 1993), 42-47, 98-103
26. Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse, The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1992)
27. Letters of Samuel Johnson: The Hyde Edition, ed. Bruce Redford (Princeton, N.J., 1992), 2:290