Volume 25 of The Age of Johnson features 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; fresh work on Boswell’s travel writing and his curious afterlife in mid-twentieth-century Chicago; as well as learned and stimulating reviews on the state of English studies, Edmund Burke, Jane Austen, and more.
Volume 25 of The Age of Johnson features 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; fresh work on Boswell’s travel writing and his curious afterlife in mid-twentieth-century Chicago; as well as learned and stimulating reviews on the state of English studies, Edmund Burke, Jane Austen, and more.
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.
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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 Preface ix Essays Samuel Johnson’s Medical Ailments 3 J. V. Hirschmann, MD A Material Tic: Paligraphia in the Letters of Samuel Johnson 34 M. C. Lang To Explain, to Commend, to Correct: Johnson on Notes and on Shakespeare, in The Tempest and the Dictionary 42 Paul Tankard and Michael Cop Johnson, American Radicalism, and the Modes of Migration 72 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 94 Stephen Clarke Let Us Now Praise Courageous Men: James Boswell’s Account of Corsica 109 Mona Scheuermann The Boswell Club of Chicago, 1942–1973 127 Brian Glover Review Essays The Coroner’s Inquest on English Departments and Eighteenth-Century Scholarship 149 Melvyn New Two Studies of Burke’s Intellectual Life 165 Jonathan Wales Law and Literature 175 Sarah Winter Reviews Denis Duncan, Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age 185 Adam Potkay Freya Johnston, Jane Austen: Early and Late 189 Catherine Parisian Notes on Contributors 197
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 Preface ix Essays Samuel Johnson’s Medical Ailments 3 J. V. Hirschmann, MD A Material Tic: Paligraphia in the Letters of Samuel Johnson 34 M. C. Lang To Explain, to Commend, to Correct: Johnson on Notes and on Shakespeare, in The Tempest and the Dictionary 42 Paul Tankard and Michael Cop Johnson, American Radicalism, and the Modes of Migration 72 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 94 Stephen Clarke Let Us Now Praise Courageous Men: James Boswell’s Account of Corsica 109 Mona Scheuermann The Boswell Club of Chicago, 1942–1973 127 Brian Glover Review Essays The Coroner’s Inquest on English Departments and Eighteenth-Century Scholarship 149 Melvyn New Two Studies of Burke’s Intellectual Life 165 Jonathan Wales Law and Literature 175 Sarah Winter Reviews Denis Duncan, Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age 185 Adam Potkay Freya Johnston, Jane Austen: Early and Late 189 Catherine Parisian Notes on Contributors 197
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