The Age of Johnson:
A Scholarly Annual

Volume 11 (2000)

Paul J. Korshin, "Samuel Johnson's Life Experience with Poverty," pp. 3-20.
R. D. Stock, "Samuel Johnson and the Snares of Poverty," pp. 21-36.
James G. Basker, "'The Next Insurrection': Johnson, Race, and Rebellion," pp. 37-51.
Mona Scheuermann, "Ferocious Countenance: The Upper Classes Look at the Poor," pp. 53-79.

J. A. Downie, "Johnson's Politics," pp. 81-104.
Daniel P. Gunn, "The Lexicographer's Task: Language, Reason, and Idealism in Johnson's Dictionary Preface," pp. 105-24.
Paul Tankard, "A Clergyman's Reading: Books Recommended by Samuel Johnson," pp. 125-43.
Sarah Jordan, "Samuel Johnson and Idleness," pp. 145-76.
Michael Bundock, "Johnson's 'Vile Melancholy' and The Life of Savage," pp. 177-85.
Aaron Stavisky, "Johnson's 'Vile Melancholy': A Response to Bundock," pp. 187-203.
Richard B. Sher, "Boswell on Robertson and the Moderates: New Evidence," pp. 205-15.
Daniel J. Ennis, "The Making of the Poet Laureate, 1730," pp. 217-35.
Thomas R. Preston, "Moral Spin Doctoring, Delusion, and Chance: Wakefield's Vicar Writes an Enlightenment Parable," pp. 237-81.
Jeffrey Meyers, "Donald Greene: A Memoir," pp. 283-95.

Peter M. Briggs, "The Horn of Plenty: Some Recent Symposium Volumes in Eighteenth-Century Studies," pp. 297-332. Includes discussions of Alexander Pope: World and Word, ed. Howard Erskine-Hill; Eighteenth-Century Lexis and Lexicography, ed. Andrew Gurr; The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain, ed. Donal R. Kelley and David Harris Sachs; The Margins of Orthodoxy, ed. Roger D. Lund; Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, ed. Donald C. Mell; Jacobitism and Eighteenth-Century English Literature, ed. Ronald Paulson; Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Roy Porter and Mary Mulvey Roberts; and New Essays on Samuel Richardson, ed. Albert J. Rivero.

Lawrence Lipking, Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author, reviewed by Thomas Kaminski, pp. 333-40.
Jacobitism and Eighteenth-Century English Literature, a Special Issue of ELH, reviewed by Robert Folkenflik, pp. 340-49.
Thomas M. Curley, Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson, reviewed by Gloria Sybil Gross, pp. 349-52.
Elizabeth Bohls, Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818, reviewed by Mona Scheuermann, pp. 352-58.
Marcus Walsh, Shakespeare, Milton and Eighteenth-Century Literary Editing: The Beginnings of Interpretive Scholarship, reviewed by Shirley White Johnston, pp. 358-63.
Jerry C. Beasley, Tobias Smollett: Novelist, reviewed by Thomas M. Curley, pp. 363-67.
Frans de Bruyn, The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke: The Political Uses of Literary Form, reviewed by Patricia Craddock, pp. 367-75.
Liz Bellamy, Commerce, Morality and the Eighteenth- Century Novel; Deidre Shauna Lynch, The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning, reviewed by James Cruise, pp. 375-86.
Jonathan Lamb, The Rhetoric of Suffering: Reading the Book of Job in the Eighteenth Century, reviewed by Thomas R. Preston, pp. 386-90.
Paula McDowell, The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730, reviewed by Albert J. Rivero, pp. 390-92.