The Age of Johnson

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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.

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Volume 25 of The Age of Johnson features 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; fresh work on Boswell's travel writing and his curious afterlife in mid-twentieth-century Chicago; as well as learned and stimulating reviews on the state of English studies, Edmund Burke, Jane Austen, and more.