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Publication Date
5-13-2025
Description
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.
Keywords
Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian, The Tempest, Johnson’s notes to Shakespeare, paligraphia, handwriting tic, palilogia, Sir John Hawkins, Hester Thrale, Frances Burney, nulliparous, Scrofula, Tuberculosis, scarification, bloodletting, gout, Rheumatism, dropsy, digitalis, foxgloves, quill, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Tourette’s syndrome, movement disorder, William Cruikshank, Sir Percivall Pott, Sarcocele, Hydroceles, Samuel Johnson’s autopsy, Taxation No Tyranny, Age of Expatriation, Age of Colonization, Summary View, Hengist and Horsa, John Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Richard Bland, An Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies, Edict of the King of Prussia, Donald Hyde, Mary Hyde, Hyde Collection, Samuel Johnson’s library, The Letters of Samuel Johnson, William Windham, Charles Burney, Samuel Lysons, Thomas Coombe, Samuel Whitbread, Christian Samuel Kalthoeber, Thomas Killigrew, Innocui Sales: a Collection of new Epigrams, Isaac Reed, George Frederick Nott, Gerard Hamilton, Esq., Frances Reynolds, Reverend Mr. Hoole, J. D. Fleeman, Donald Greene, Lord Stowell, James Boswell, An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to That Island and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, Boswelliana, Boswell Institute, Boswell Club of Chicago, Esto Perpetua, eighteenth-century cosplay, Van Voorhies, Jean Jacques Rousseau Van Voorhies, Loyal Order of Catbirds, Age of Boswell, Auchinleck Boswell Society, International Boswell Institute, Doctor of Frustration, Jules Emery, John Scotzin, Harrisburg PA Evening News, Boswell Society, Mrs. Gardiner of Snow-hill
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© 2025 by Bucknell University Press Individual chapters copyright © 2025 in the names of their authors
Language
eng
ISBN
9781684485598