Samuel Johnson's Parliamentary Reporting: Debates in the Senate of Lilliput

Samuel Johnson’s Parliamentary Reporting: Debates in the Senate of Lilliput by Benjamin Beard Hoover reexamines a long-neglected body of Johnson’s early prose and restores it to a central place in his literary development. Originally written as magazine reconstructions of parliamentary debates for *The Gentleman’s Magazine*, these texts have often been dismissed as mere journalism or derivative exercises. Hoover challenges this assumption, arguing that the *Debates in the Senate of Lilliput...