The Age of Johnson:
A Scholarly Annual

Volume 12 (2001)

• Preface (full text available on-line)

Articles

• Freya Johnston, "Diminutive Observations in Johnson's Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland," pp. 1-16.
• Betty Rizzo, "'Downing Everybody': Johnson and the Grevilles," pp. 17-46.
• James G. Basker, "Intimations of Abolitionism in 1759: Johnson, Hawkesworth, and Oroonoko," pp. 47-66.
• Thomas M. Curley, "Johnson and the Irish: A Postcolonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain," pp. 67-197.
• Gloria Sybil Gross, "In a Fast Coach with a Pretty Woman: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson," pp. 199-253.
• Niall MacKenzie, "'A Great Affinity in Many Things': Further Evidence for the Jacobite Gloss on 'Swedish Charles,'" pp. 255-72.
• Howard D. Weinbrot, "Johnson and the Jacobite Truffles," pp. 273-90.
• Arthur H. Cash, "Sterne, Hall, Libertinism, and A Sentimental Journey," pp. 291-327.
• Melvyn New, "Reading Sterne through Proust and Levinas," pp. 329-60.
• Martin C. Battestin, "Historical Criticism and the Question of Contemporaneity," pp. 361-79.
• Jill Campbell, "In Defense of Literature: A Response to Martin C. Battestin," pp. 381-98.

Review Essay

• William McCarthy, Review Essay: The Piozzi Letters, pp. 399-420.

Review

• Leon Guilhamet, review of David F. Venturo, Johnson the Poet: the Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, pp. 421-25.
• Barry Baldwin, review of Scott D. Evans, Samuel Johnson's "General Nature": Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse, pp. 425-31.
• Nicholas Hudson, review of Martin Wechselblatt, Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, pp. 431-37.
• Robert DeMaria, Jr., review of Kevin Hart, Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, pp. 437-43.
• David Venturo, review of William Edinger, Johnson and Detailed Representation: The Significance of the Classical Sources, pp. 443-48.
• John Radner, review of Peter Martin, A Life of James Boswell, pp. 448-55.
• James Gray, review of Steven N. Zwicker, ed., The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1650-1740, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 12 (2001): 456-70.
• W. B. Carnochan, review of J. G. A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, Volume 1, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764; Volume 2, Narratives of Civil Government, pp. 470-76.
• Gerard C. Reedy, S.J., review of Isabel Rivers, Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780: Volume 2, Shaftesbury to Hume, pp. 476-79.
• William Edinger, review of Jonathan Brody Kramnick, Making the English Canon: Print-Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700-1770, pp. 479-91.
• Jack Lynch, review of Paul Baines, The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century England, pp. 491-95.
• John L. Abbott, review of William Zachs, The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century London Book Trade, pp. 495-503.
• Steven Shankman, review of D. K. Money, The English Horace: Anthony Alsop and the Tradition of British Latin Verse, pp. 503-7.
• J. T. Scanlan, review of William B. Warner, Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750, pp. 507-12.
• Allen Reddick, review of Carey McIntosh, The Evolution of English Prose, 1700-1800: Style, Politeness, and Print Culture, pp. 512-18.
• Anne C. McDermott, review of David Matthews, The Making of Middle English, 1765-1910, pp. 519-23.
• Albert J. Rivero, review of Paula McDowell, The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730, pp. 523-25.
• Devoney Looser, review of Susan C. Greenfield and Carol Barash, eds., Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science, and Literature, 1650-1865, pp. 525-30.
• James Cruise, review of Christopher Flint, Family Fictions: Narrative and Domestic Relations in Britain, 1688-1798, pp. 530-37.
• Marie E. McAllister, reviews of Catherine Ingrassia, Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England: A Culture of Paper Credit, and Shawn Lisa Maurer, Proposing Men: Dialectics of Gender and Class in the Eighteenth-Century English Periodical, pp. 537-46.
• Deidre Lynch, review of James Cruise, Governing Consumption: Needs and Wants, Suspended Characters, and the "Origins" of Eighteenth-Century English Novels, pp. 546-51.
• Loftus Jestin, review of Lee Morrissey, From the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of British Literature, 1660-1760, pp. 551-60.
• David Espey, review of Brian Dolan, Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment, pp. 560-64.
• Paul J. Korshin, review of Shaun Irlam, Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-Century Britain, pp. 564-71.