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A Handbook devoted to the work of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), organized in three sections that study Johnson's career, his major and lesser-known works, and the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, thinker, and moralist.
List of contents
- Introduction
- PART I: CAREER
- 1: Kevin J. Berland: Youth
- 2: Michael Bundock: Prime
- 3: Peter Sabor: Age
- 4: Lisa Berglund: Lives
- 5: Robert DeMaria, Jr.: Editions
- PART II: GENRES
- 6: Paul Tankard: Journalism
- 7: David Venturo: Verse
- 8: Richard Squibbs: Essays
- 9: Mark Pedreira: Scholarship
- 10: Steven Scherwatzky: Fiction
- 11: Jack Lynch: Criticism
- 12: Howard D. Weinbrot: Sermons
- 13: Christopher Vilmar: Polemic
- 14: Anthony W. Lee: Travel
- 15: Nicholas Seager: Biography
- PART III: TOPICS
- 16: Benjamin Pauley: Authorship
- 17: Lynda Mugglestone: Language
- 18: Jenny Davidson: History
- 19: Greg Clingham: Law
- 20: Thomas Kaminski: Politics
- 21: Melinda Rabb: War
- 22: Frans De Bruyn: Commerce
- 23: Isobel Grundy: Women
- 24: Jaclyn Geller: Sociability
- 25: J. T. Scanlan: Humor
- 26: Jessica Richard: Education
- 27: Joseph Drury: Science
- 28: Brad Pasanek: Philosophy
- 29: Adam Rounce: Suffering
- 30: Eric Parisot: Death
- 31: Carrie Shanafelt: Doubt
- 32: Adam Potkay: Hope
- 33: Philip Smallwood: Emotion
- 34: Brian Michael Norton: Happiness
- 35: Nicholas Hudson: Virtue
- 36: Blanford Parker: God
About the author
Jack Lynch received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and is Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author or editor of twenty books to date, including The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson (Cambridge, 2003), Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Ashgate, 2008), Samuel Johnson in Context (Cambridge, 2012), and The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800 (OUP, 2016). With J. T. Scanlan, he edits The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual.
Summary
A Handbook devoted to the work of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), organized in three sections that study Johnson's career, his major and lesser-known works, and the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, thinker, and moralist.
