1. Robin N. Crouch, ‘Samuel Johnson on Drinking’, Dionysos: The Literature and Addiction Triquarterly 5, 2 (Fall 1993), 19–27. Johnson’s drinking and interest in other drinkers has received attention, especially by contrast with Boswell’s drinking. When Johnson saw that too much wine was depleting his consciousness, he stopped drinking for twenty years and resumed in moderation for the last ten years of his life, often warning his drunken friends to do the same
2. On his wife Tetty’s death from drink and laudanum, see the sensitive analysis in W. Jackson Bate, Samuel Johnson (New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975) pp. 236–9, and 261–76.
3. Joseph Gusfield, ‘Passage to play: rituals of drinking time in American society’, in Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology, ed. Mary Douglas (New York and Port Chester: Cambridge University Press, 1987 ), pp. 73–90.
4. The Wild Man Within: An Image in Western Thought from the Renaissance to Romanticism, ed. Edward Dudley and Maximillian E. Novak (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972), revives the figure of the inner animal.
5. E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational ( Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968 ), p. 76.