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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Essays -- Milton at Bolt Court -- Mimesis and Understanding in Samuel Johnson’s Notes to Shakespeare (1765) -- Samuel Johnson and the Allen Family -- “Con Amore” hester piozzi’s annotations upon johnson’s early poetry -- Johnson (and Boswell) in the Lists a view of their reputations, 1933–2018 -- The Curious Case of Charlotte Lennox conducting a professional literary life in eighteenth-century britain outside the bluestocking circle -- Punitive Injustice in Caleb Williams godwin’s vexed call for penal reform -- Sensibility Reclaimed thomas blackwell, robert wood, and the “conjectural history” of homer -- Review Essays -- Organizing a Life and the “Lives” samuel johnson and the yale edition of johnson’s lives of the poets -- Is Historical Fiction Still Revolutionary? Two Novels Set in Johnson’s World -- Reviews -- Michael Schmidt. The Novel: A Biography. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. XI + 1,172 -- David Alff.The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660–1730. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 239 -- Aileen Douglas. Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690–1840. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. XIV + 229 -- Julie Flavell. When London Was Capital of America. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2010. Pp. XII + 305 -- John Phibbs. Place-Making: The Art of Capability Brown. Swindon: Historic England, 2017. Pp. VII + 374 -- Notes on Contributors The move to a new publisher has given The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual the opportunity to recommit to what it does best: present to a wide readership cant-free scholarly articles and essays and searching book reviews, all featuring a wide variety of approaches, written by both seasoned scholars and relative newcomers. Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian topics: his reaction to Milton, his relation to the Allen family, his notes in his edition of Shakespeare, his use of Oliver Goldsmith in his Dictionary, and his always fascinating Nachleben. The volume also includes articles on topics of strong interest to Johnson: penal reform, Charlotte Lennox's professional literary career, and the "conjectural history" of Homer in the eighteenth century. For more than two decades, The Age of Johnson has presented a vast corpus of Johnsonian studies "in the broadest sense," as founding editor Paul J. Korshin put it in the preface to Volume 1, and it has retained the interest of a wide readership. In thousands of pages of articles, review essays, and reviews, The Age of Johnson has made a permanent contribution to our understanding of the eighteenth century, and particularly of Samuel Johnson, his circle, and his interests, and has also served as an outlet for writers who are not academics but have something important to say about the eighteenth century. ISSN 0884-5816
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