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
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
