Age of Johnson

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.

• PrefaceEssaysSamuel Johnson’s Medical AilmentsJ. V. Hirschmann, M.D. A Material Tick: Paligraphia in the Letters of Samuel JohnsonM. C. LangTo Explain, to Commend, to Correct: Johnson on Notes and on Shakespeare, in The Tempest and the DictionaryPaul Tankard and Michael CopJohnson, American Radicalism, and the Modes of MigrationMatthew M. Davis“A Field in Which Nothing of the First Order Could Be Accomplished”: Books from Samuel Johnson’s Library in the Hyde CollectionStephen ClarkeLet Us Now Praise Courageous Men: James Boswell’s Account of CorsicaMona Scheuermann The Boswell Club of Chicago, 1942–1973Brian GloverReview EssaysThe Coroner’s Inquest on English Departments and Eighteenth-Century ScholarshipMelvyn NewTwo Studies of Burke’s Intellectual LifeJonathan WalesLaw and LiteratureSarah Winter ReviewsDenis Duncan, Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital AgeAdam PotkayFreya Johnston, Jane Austen: Early and LateCatherine ParisianNotes on ContributorsPreface ixEssaysSamuel Johnson’s Medical Ailments 3J. V. Hirschmann, MDA Material Tic: Paligraphia in the Letters of SamuelJohnson 34M. C. LangTo Explain, to Commend, to Correct: Johnsonon Notes and on Shakespeare, in The Tempestand the Dictionary 42Paul Tankard and Michael CopJohnson, American Radicalism, and the Modesof Migration 72Matthew M. Davis“A Field in Which Nothing of the First Order CouldBe Accomplished”: Books from Samuel Johnson’sLibrary in the Hyde Collection 94Stephen ClarkeLet Us Now Praise Courageous Men: James Boswell’sAccount of Corsica 109Mona ScheuermannThe Boswell Club of Chicago, 1942–1973 127Brian GloverReview EssaysThe Coroner’s Inquest on EnglishDepartmentsand Eighteenth-CenturyScholarship 149Melvyn NewTwo Studies of Burke’s Intellectual Life 165Jonathan WalesLaw and Literature175Sarah WinterReviewsDenis Duncan, Index, a History of the: A BookishAdventure from Medieval Manuscripts to theDigital Age 185Adam PotkayFreya Johnston, Jane Austen: Early and Late 189Catherine ParisianNotes on Contributors 197