Beth Carole Rosenberg argues that Samuel Johnson and Vriginia Woolf are in dialogue, and that this relation has been ignored in Woolf criticism Applying a paradigm of dialogic relations as developed by the Russian formalist, Mikhail Bakhtin, she isolates Johnson's influence in this densely argued book.

Beth Carole Rosenberg, Virginia Woolf and Samuel Johnson: Common Readers, St. Martin's Press (1995).

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