The Age of Johnson:
A Scholarly Annual

Volume 7 (1996)

• Preface (full text available on-line)

Samuel Johnson and Jacobitism

• Howard Erskine-Hill, "Johnson the Jacobite? A Response to the New Introduction to Donald Greene's The Politics of Samuel Johnson," p. 3
• J. C. D. Clark, "The Politics of Samuel Johnson," p. 27
• Donald Greene, "Johnson: The Jacobite Legend Exhumed A Rejoinder to Howard Erskine-Hill and J. C. D. Clark," p. 57
• Thomas M. Curley, "Johnson No Jacobite; or, Treason Not Yet Unmasked," p. 137
• Howard D. Weinbrot, "Johnson, Jacobitism, and the Historiography of Nostalgia," p. 163

• James Gray and T. J. Murray, "Dr. Johnson and Dr. James," p. 213
• Daisuke Nagashima, "How Johnson Read Hale's Origination for His Dictionary: A Linguistic View," p. 247
• John B. Radner, "'A Very Exact Picture of His Life': Johnson's Role in Writing The Life of Johnson," p. 299
• Nicholas Hudson, "'O Divinum Scripturae Beneficium': Swift's Satire of Writing and Its Intellectual Context," p. 343
• Alexander Pettit, "Lord Bolingbroke's Remarks on the History of England and the Rhetoric of Political Controversy," p. 365
• Arthur H. Cash, "Wilkes, Baxter, and D'Holbach at Leiden and Utrecht: An Answer to G. S. Rousseau," p. 397
• Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, "Mary Stuart's "Fatal Box": Sentimental History and the Revival of the Casket Letters Controversy," p. 427

Reviews

• Michael Dobson, The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1600-1769, reviewed by Peter Martin, p. 475
• Charles H. Hinnant, "Steel for the Mind": Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, reviewed by Greg Clingham, p. 480
• Richard Holmes, Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, reviewed by James Gray, p. 485
• Robert DeMaria, Jr., The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography, reviewed by David Nokes, p. 495
• William C. Horne, Making a Heaven of Hell: The Problem of the Companionate Ideal in English Marriage Poetry, 1650-1800, reviewed by Charles H. Hinnant, p. 500
• Richard Greene, Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women's Poetry, reviewed by Betty Rizzo, p. 504
• The Letters of Charles Burney, ed. Alvaro Ribeiro, S.J., reviewed by Reed Woodhouse, p. 511