The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

Greg Clingham is emeritus Professor of English at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, and a Life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of fourteen books and numerous essays on Johnson, Dryden, Boswell, Lady Anne Barnard, Sir George Macartney, memory, historiography, orientalism, translation, archives, and the history of the book. He has been awarded fellowships by the NEH, ASECS, the Houghton Library, Harvard, the Beinecke Library, Yale, St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, the Bogliasco Foundation, and St. Andrews University. Between 1996 and 2018 Dr Clingham was director of Bucknell University Press. Presently he is editor of the series 18th-Century Moments. Dr Clingham's contribution to eighteenth century studies is recognised in A Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham (2022).

• Introduction: contemporary Johnson Greg Clingham; 1. Johnson, ethics, and living Min Wild; 2. Johnson and the essay Philip Smallwood; 3. Johnson and Renaissance humanism Anthony W. Lee; 4. Johnson and language Lynda Mugglestone; 5. Johnson and British historiography Martine W. Brownley; 6. Johnson and fiction Freya Johnston; 7. Johnson and gender Samara Anne Cahill; 8. Johnson, race, and slavery Nicholas Hudson; 9. Johnson's politics Clement Hawes; 10. Johnson's poetry John Richetti; 11. Johnson's editions of Shakespeare Tom Mason; 12. Johnson's Lives of the Poets: a guided tour Fred Parker; 13. Johnson as biographer Leo Damrosch; 14. Johnson and travel Anne M. Thell; 15. Johnson and disability Paul Kelleher; 16. Representing Johnson in life and after Heather McPherson; 17. Johnson among the scholars Robert De Maria, Jr.

'This book functions not as a replacement of but as a companion to the 1997 publication. It is an excellent way to introduce newcomers to Johnsonian scholarship, and a useful way for old hands to catch up on current conversations. The contributions are all well focused and clearly written, making the collection accessible to undergraduates as well as professionals. … Highly recommended.' J. T. Lynch, Choice