MATTHEW DAVIS Independent scholar, Charlottesville, VA, USA GABRIEL GLICKMAN British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford, UK NEIL GUTHRIE Independent scholar and lawyer THOMAS KAMINSKI Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago, USA

• Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Abbreviations Introduction The Nature of Johnson's Toryism Cultures and Coteries in Mid-Century Toryism: Johnson in Oxford and London Johnson's Touch-piece and the 'Charge of Fame' 'Ask for the Old Paths': Johnson and the Nonjurors Johnson: the Last Choices, 1775-1784 Conclusion

MATTHEW DAVIS Independent scholar, Charlottesville, VA, USA GABRIEL GLICKMAN British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford, UK NEIL GUTHRIE Independent scholar and lawyer THOMAS KAMINSKI Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago, USA

• Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Abbreviations Introduction The Nature of Johnson's Toryism Cultures and Coteries in Mid-Century Toryism: Johnson in Oxford and London Johnson's Touch-piece and the 'Charge of Fame' 'Ask for the Old Paths': Johnson and the Nonjurors Johnson: the Last Choices, 1775-1784 Conclusion

MATTHEW DAVIS Independent scholar, Charlottesville, VA, USA GABRIEL GLICKMAN British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford, UK NEIL GUTHRIE Independent scholar and lawyer THOMAS KAMINSKI Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago, USA

• Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Abbreviations Introduction The Nature of Johnson's Toryism Cultures and Coteries in Mid-Century Toryism: Johnson in Oxford and London Johnson's Touch-piece and the 'Charge of Fame' 'Ask for the Old Paths': Johnson and the Nonjurors Johnson: the Last Choices, 1775-1784 Conclusion