The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual (Volume 25)
For more than twenty years, The Age of Johnson has aspired to present to a wide readership a body of influential Johnsonian scholarship “in the broadest sense,” as founder Paul J. Korshin put it. In keeping with this sentiment, volume 25 contains cant-free scholarly articles and essays written by both leaders in the field and emerging scholars, among them a London barrister and a medical school professor. Featuring lively and penetrating work on Johnson’s medical conditions, his edition of Shakespeare, his books in the Hyde Collection at Harvard, and his relation to American writers, as well as fresh work on Boswell’s travel writing and his curious afterlife in mid-twentieth-century Chicago, volume 25 makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of Johnson and his world. Also included are learned and stimulating book reviews on the state of English studies, on Edmund Burke, on Jane Austen, and more.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

ISSN 0884-5816
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The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual (Volume 25)
For more than twenty years, The Age of Johnson has aspired to present to a wide readership a body of influential Johnsonian scholarship “in the broadest sense,” as founder Paul J. Korshin put it. In keeping with this sentiment, volume 25 contains cant-free scholarly articles and essays written by both leaders in the field and emerging scholars, among them a London barrister and a medical school professor. Featuring lively and penetrating work on Johnson’s medical conditions, his edition of Shakespeare, his books in the Hyde Collection at Harvard, and his relation to American writers, as well as fresh work on Boswell’s travel writing and his curious afterlife in mid-twentieth-century Chicago, volume 25 makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of Johnson and his world. Also included are learned and stimulating book reviews on the state of English studies, on Edmund Burke, on Jane Austen, and more.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

ISSN 0884-5816
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The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual (Volume 25)

The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual (Volume 25)

Overview

For more than twenty years, The Age of Johnson has aspired to present to a wide readership a body of influential Johnsonian scholarship “in the broadest sense,” as founder Paul J. Korshin put it. In keeping with this sentiment, volume 25 contains cant-free scholarly articles and essays written by both leaders in the field and emerging scholars, among them a London barrister and a medical school professor. Featuring lively and penetrating work on Johnson’s medical conditions, his edition of Shakespeare, his books in the Hyde Collection at Harvard, and his relation to American writers, as well as fresh work on Boswell’s travel writing and his curious afterlife in mid-twentieth-century Chicago, volume 25 makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of Johnson and his world. Also included are learned and stimulating book reviews on the state of English studies, on Edmund Burke, on Jane Austen, and more.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

ISSN 0884-5816

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781684485598
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Publication date: 05/13/2025
Series: The Age of Johnson
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Age Range: 16 - 18 Years

About the Author

JACK LYNCH is a distinguished professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark in New Jersey and the author or editor of more than twenty books.
 
J. T. SCANLAN is a professor of English at Providence College in Rhode Island and has written extensively on various aspects of the eighteenth century, including many essays and articles on Samuel Johnson.

Table of Contents

Preface
Essays
Samuel Johnson’s Medical Ailments
J. V. Hirschmann, M.D.          
A Material Tick: Paligraphia in the Letters of Samuel Johnson
M. C. Lang
To Explain, to Commend, to Correct: Johnson on Notes and on Shakespeare, in The Tempest and the Dictionary
Paul Tankard and Michael Cop
Johnson, American Radicalism, and the Modes of Migration
Matthew M. Davis
“A Field in Which Nothing of the First Order Could Be Accomplished”: Books from Samuel Johnson’s Library in the Hyde Collection
Stephen Clarke
Let Us Now Praise Courageous Men: James Boswell’s Account of Corsica
Mona Scheuermann  
The Boswell Club of Chicago, 1942-1973
Brian Glover
Review Essays
The Coroner’s Inquest on English Departments and Eighteenth-Century Scholarship
Melvyn New
Two Studies of Burke’s Intellectual Life
Jonathan Wales
Law and Literature
Sarah Winter  
Reviews
Denis Duncan, Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
Adam Potkay
Freya Johnston, Jane Austen: Early and Late
Catherine Parisian
Notes on Contributors
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