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Volume 21

The Age of Johnson

A Scholarly Annual


Edited by Jack Lynch
ISSN 0884-5816
LC 85-48058
Set ISBN-10: 0-404-62750-1
Set ISBN-13: 978-0-404-62750-8


“The prose [in Age of Johnson] aims for uncluttered elegance (no jargon, nothing congested or obscure); the erudition can be awesome. Produced in a large format hardback with wide margins, The Age of Johnson is a magisterial affair from AMS Press. . . . It has become, deservedly, the leading journal for Johnsonian studies. . . . For anyone with even a moderate interest in Johnson and his times there is absorbing matter here.”

—Norma Clarke, Times Literary Supplement

The Age of Johnson continues to be a major publishing event in Johnson and related studies. . . .”

Year’s Work in English Studies, on volume 18

Age of Johnson remains the gold standard in long-eighteenth-century literary studies, due to its dedication to the sort of soundness that eschews jargon and trendiness, the notable mixture among its contributors of titans in their fields and new and newish scholars making their marks, its generously expansive book reviews (that can range from about four pages to fifty, but tend to average six or seven), and the emphasis in a great many of its articles on the historical and political contexts of the works and authors studied.

—David Nunnery, ECCB, on volume 18


Click here for contents to volumes 1–19.

Available
Volume 21

January 2012
ISBN-10: 0-404-62771-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-404-62771-3
Cloth $182.50

Articles
Amanda M. Leff, “Johnson’s Chaucer: Searching for the Medieval in A Dictionary of the English Language
Lorraine Eadie, “Johnson, the Moral Essay, and the Moral Life of Women: The Spectator, the Female Spectator, and the Rambler
Anthony W. Lee, “‘Through the Spectacles of Books’: Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, and a Johnsonian Intertextual Topos”
Michael Bundock, “Did John Hawkins Steal Johnson’s Diary?”
Melissa Patterson, “Nathan Bailey’s Dictionary: Signs of Its Author, Readers, and Influence on Johnson”
Christopher Fanning, “The Encyclopedic Ethos: Authorship in British Encyclopedias of the Eighteenth Century”
Julian Pooley, “‘Conciliating His Esteem’: John Nichols’s Contribution to Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, to Biographies of Johnson, and to Later Johnsonian Scholarship”
Stephen Clarke, “Unhorsed by Pegasus: Gray’s Poetry and the Critics before The Lives of the Poets
Lance Wilcox, “Nature and Art: Elizabeth Inchbald in the Church of the Savoyard Vicar”
Manuel Schonhorn, “Climate, Sites, and a Sanctuary: Austen’s Mansfield Park

Special Section: Forum on Electronic Resources
Anna Battigelli and Eleanor Shevlin, Introduction
David L. Vander Meulen, “ESTC as Foundational and Always Developing”
Stephen Karian, “The Limitations and Possibilities of the ESTC
Laura Mandell, “Brave New World: A Look at 18thConnect
James E. Tierney, “The State of Electronic Resources for the Study of Eighteenth-Century British Periodicals: The Role of Scholars, Librarians, and Commercial Vendors”

Review Essay
Claude Rawson, “An Unclubbable Life: Hawkins on Johnson”

Book Reviews
Index

Available
Volume 20

September 2010
ISBN-10: 0-404-62770-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-404-62770-6
Cloth $182.50

Articles
David Simpson, “Rasselas by the Ilissus”
Andrew McKendry, “The Haphazard Journey of a Mind: Experience and Reflection in Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
Katherine Kickel, “‘Occasional’ Observance and the Quiet Mind: Meditative Theory and Practice in Samuel Johnson’s Prayers and Meditations (1785)”
Sheila O’Connell, “One of the Hungry Mob of Scriblers and Etchers: Johnson’s Pension in Visual Satire”
Paul Ruxin, “Dorando and the Douglas Cause”
Stephen Clarke, “Boswell and Mason, Johnson and Gray: An Encounter”
James J. Caudle, “Editing James Boswell, 1924–2010: Pasts, Presents, Futures”
Lyle Larsen, “Dr. Johnson’s Friend, the Worthy Bennet Langton”
Holly Luhning, “Disability and the Disenfranchised in Eliza Haywood’s Rash Resolve
Lorna Clark, “Epistolarity in Frances Burney”
Daniel P. Watkins, “History and Vision in Ann Yearsley’s Rural Lyre

Review Essay
Jack Lynch, “Nothing Odd Will Do Long: Tristram Shandy after 250 Years”

Book Reviews

Cumulative Indexes
Cumulative Index, The Age of Johnson, vols. 1–20 [As PDF (619K)]
Author Index, vols. 1–20 [As PDF (155K)]


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