Contents to The Age of Johnson, Volume 8, 1997

Samuel Johnson and Jacobitism

• Howard Erskine-Hill, "A Kind of Liking for Jacobitism," pp. 3-13.
• J. C. D. Clark, "The Cultural Identity of Samuel Johnson," pp. 15-70.
• Donald Greene, "Jonathan Clark and the Abominable Cultural Mind-Set," pp. 71-88.
• Howard D. Weinbrot, "Johnson and Jacobitism Redux: Evidence, Interpretation, and Intellectual History," pp. 89-125.
• Thomas M. Curley, "Johnson No Jacobite; or, Treason Not Yet Unmasked: Part II, a Quotable Rejoinder from A to C," pp. 127-31.
• Michael Caldwell, "Dr. Clark and Mr. Holmes: Speculation in Johnsonian Biography," pp. 133-48.
• Lawrence Lipking, "New Light on Johnson's Duck," pp. 149-58.

• Jerome M. Reich, M.D., "Convulsion of the Lung: An Historical Analysis of the Cause of Dr. Johnson's Fatal Emphysema," pp. 159-74.
• James G. Basker, "Myth upon Myth: Johnson, Gender, and the Misogyny Question," pp. 175-87.
• Maximillian E. Novak, "The Sensibility of Sir Herbert Croft in Love and Madness and the 'Life of Edward Young,'" pp. 189-207.
• Mary Margaret Stewart, "William Collins's Ode on the Death of Charles Ross: The Search for Audience and Patronage," pp. 209-22.
• Jeanne Griggs, "Self-Praise and the Ironic Personal Panegyric of Peter Pindar," pp. 223-53.
• Eric J. Frischhertz, "Laurence Sterne's Treatment of a New Mode of Discourse: Nonverbal Communication in Tristram Shandy," pp. 255-78.
• William McCarthy, "The Celebrated Academy at Palgrave: A Documentary History of Anna Letitia Barbauld's School," pp. 279-392.

Review Essay

• Isobel Grundy, "Johnson's Bookman," pp. 393-404.

Reviews

• Allen Reddick, review of Marshall Waingrow, ed. Boswell's "Life of Johnson": An Edition of the Original Manuscript, in Four Volumes (Vol. 1: 1709-1765), pp. 405-14.
• Isobel Grundy, review of Bruce Redford, ed., The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume IV: 1782-1784; Volume V: Appendices and Comprehensive Index, pp. 415-20.
• James G. Basker, review of Steven Lynn, Samuel Johnson after Deconstruction: Rhetoric and the Rambler, pp. 420-25.
• John Abbott, review of Howard D. Weinbrot, Britannia's Issue: the Rise of British Literature from Dryden to Ossian, pp. 426-34.
• Thomas E. Kinsella, review of Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters, ed. Irma S. Lustig, pp. 434-38.
• Peter M. Briggs, reviews of Dustin Griffin, Satire: A Critical Reintroduction, and Claude Rawson, Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1830, pp. 439-45.
• James Cruise, review of Barbara M. Benedict, Framing Feeling: Sentiment and Style in English Prose Fiction, 1745-1800, pp. 446-51.
• Jeanne Griggs, review of Jon Thomas Rowland, Faint Praise and Civil Leer: The "Decline of Eighteenth-Century Panegyric, pp. 452-54.
• George Justice, review of Writers, Books, and Trade: An Eighteenth-Century English Miscellany for William B. Todd, ed. O M Brack, pp. 454-62.