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About the bibliography<\/span><\/summary>
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Johnson studies constitute a dynamic academic field, featuring multiple conference panels every year, as well as dedicated conferences. In North America there are not one but two Samuel Johnson Societies, the Samuel Johnson Society of the Central Region and the Samuel Johnson Society of the West. The United Kingdom also boasts two societies, the Johnson Society of London (est. 1928) and the Johnson Society (Lichfield) (est. 1910), and there\u2019s another Johnson Society in Australia. In 2009, the Houghton Library at Harvard<\/a> and the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA sponsored exhibitions <\/a>to mark the 300th anniversary of Johnson\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2000, Jack Lynch published A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1986\u20131998 (AMS Press), which has 1,184 entries. A recent search of the Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography for \u2018Samuel Johnson Dictionary<\/em>\u2019 since 2000 yields 123 publications. A similar search of JSTOR yields 4,633 publications\u2014more than would be useful to provide here. Thus, this bibliography offers only a snapshot of Johnson-related scholarship published after Lynch\u2019s Bibliography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 1 lists well-regarded books about Johnson and his Dictionary that are written for a popular audience. Part 2 lists significant scholarship about Samuel Johnson, published after 2000 when Jack Lynch\u2019s Bibliography appeared, and Part 3 lists selected scholarship about Johnson\u2019s Dictionary (and in some cases, about Johnson\u2019s Dictionary\u2019s influence on Noah Webster) also published after 2000.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n

Part 1: Selected Books about Samuel Johnson Written for a General Audience<\/span><\/summary>
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Bundock, Michael. The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson\u2019s Heir.<\/em> Yale University Press, 2015. 978-0-300-207101 Go to Book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crystal, David.A Dictionary of the English Language: An Anthology.<\/em> Penguin Classics, 2007. Go to Book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damrosch, Leo. The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age.<\/em> Yale University Press, 2019. 978-0-300-21790-2.Go to Book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hitchings, Henry. Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary.<\/em> Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. 978-0-374-113025 Go to Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

De la Torre, Lillian. Dr. Sam Johnson, Detector.<\/em> Mysterious Press, 2017. [The first of a series of mystery novels starring a fictionalized Dr. Johnson.] 978-0-333-398821 Go to Book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynch, Jack. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language.<\/em> Levenger Press, 2002. 978-1-929-154104 Go to Book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynch, Jack. The Lexicographer’s Dilemma: The Evolution of “Proper” English from Shakespeare to South Park.<\/em> Walker Books, 2009. 978-0-802-717009 Go to Book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin, Peter. Samuel Johnson: A Biography.<\/em> The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. 978-0-674-031609 Go to Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meyers, Jeffrey. Samuel Johnson: The Struggle.<\/em> Basic Books, 2008. 978-0-465-045716 Go to Book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morton, Tom. Dr Johnson’s Dictionary of Modern Life. Survey, Definition & justify’d Lampoonery of divers contemporary Phenomena, from Top Gear unto Twitter.<\/em> Random House UK, 2010. [Humorous modern commentary written in the style of Johnson.] 978-0-224-086684 Go to Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nokes, David. Samuel Johnson: A Life.<\/em> Henry Holt, 2009. 978-0805086515 Go to Book<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n

Part 2: Significant Samuel Johnson Scholarship Published After 2000<\/span><\/summary>
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Belcher, Wendy Laura. Abyssinia’s Samuel Johnson: Ethiopian Thought in the Making of an English Author.<\/em> Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erskine-Hill, Howard and Jonathan Clark, editors. The Politics of Samuel Johnson.<\/em> London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hessell, Nikki. Literary Authors, Parliamentary Reporters: Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Dickens.<\/em> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hudson, Nicholas. A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson.<\/em> London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnstone, Freya and Lynda Mugglestone, eds. Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum.<\/em> Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee, Anthony W. Dead Masters: Mentoring and Intertextuality in Samuel Johnson.<\/em> Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—, ed. Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists.<\/em> Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynch, Jack. Samuel Johnson in Context.<\/em> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—. The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson.<\/em> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin, Peter. Samuel Johnson: A Biography.<\/em> Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McNair, Arnold. Dr. Johnson and the Law.<\/em> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mugglestone, Lynda. Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words.<\/em> Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radner, John B. Johnson and Boswell: A Biography of a Friendship.<\/em> New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rees, Christine. Johnson’s Milton.<\/em> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ritchie, Stefka. The Reformist Ideas of Samuel Johnson.<\/em> Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smallwood, Philip. Critical Occasions: Dryden, Pope, Johnson, and the History of Criticism.<\/em> New York: AMS, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weinbrot, Howard, ed. Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century.<\/em> San Marino, CA: Huntington Library Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wildermuth, Mark E. Print, Chaos, and Complexity: Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Media Culture.<\/em> Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n

Part 3: Significant Johnson’s Dictionary<\/em> Scholarship Published After 2000<\/span><\/summary>
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Allen, Julia Banham. Samuel Johnson’s Menagerie: The Beastly Lives of Exotic Quadrupeds in the Eighteenth Century. Norwich: Erskine Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bankert, Dabney A. \u201cLegendary Lexicography: Joseph Bosworth\u2019s Debt to Henry J. Todd\u2019s Edition of Samuel Johnson\u2019s A Dictionary of the English Language.\u201d \u2018Cunning Passages, Contrived Corridors\u2019: Unexpected Essays in the History of Lexicography, edited by Michael Adams, 25-55. Monza, Italy: Polimetrica, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brewer, Charlotte. \u201c\u2018A Goose-Quill or a Gander\u2019s? Female Writers in Johnson\u2019s Dictionary.\u201d In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnstone and Lynda Mudgglestone, 120-139. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Casteel, Sarah Phillips. \u201cDavid Dabydeen’s Hogarth: Blacks, Jews, and Postcolonial Ekphrasis.\u201d Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 3, no. 1 (2016): 117-133.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crystal, David. A Dictionary of the English Language: An Anthology.<\/em> New York: Penguin Classics, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeMaria, Robert, Jr. \u201cJohnson’s Editorial Lexicography.\u201d Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 35 (2014): 146-161.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dille, Catherine. \u201cJohnson\u2019s Dictionary in the Nineteenth Century: A Legacy in Transition.\u201d Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 16 (2005): 21-37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Folkenflik, Robert. \u201cThe Politics of Johnson\u2019s Dictionary Revisited.\u201d Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 18 (2007): 1-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gunn, Daniel P. \u201cThe Lexicographer’s Task: Language, Reason, and Idealism in Johnson’s Dictionary Preface.\u201d Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 11 (2000): 105-124.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hailey, R. Carter. \u201c\u2018This Instance Will Not Do\u2019: George Steevens, Shakespeare, and the Revision(s) of Johnson’s Dictionary.\u201d Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 54 (2001): 243-64.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hudson, Nicholas. \u201cJohnson\u2019s Dictionary and the Politics of \u2018Standard English.\u2019\u201d In Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers, Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century, edited by Anne McDermott, 159-175. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iamartino, Giovanni and DeMaria, Robert, Jr. eds. \u201cSamuel Johnson\u2019s Dictionary and the Eighteenth-Century World of Words.\u201d Special issue, Textus: English Studies in Italy 19-1 (2006).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, Freya. \u201cAccumulation in Johnson\u2019s Dictionary.\u201d Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism 57- 4 (2007): 301-324.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kendall, Joshua. The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster\u2019s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture. New York: GP Putnam\u2019s Sons, 2010. [addresses Johnson\u2019s influence]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynch, Jack and Anne McDermott, eds. Anniversary Essays on Johnson\u2019s Dictionary.<\/em> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynch, Jack. Samuel Johnson\u2019s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work that Defined the English Language.<\/em> Delray Beach, FL: Levenger Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynch, Jack. \u201cStudies of Johnson’s Dictionary, 1955-2009: A Bibliography.\u201d Harvard Library Bulletin 20-3-4 (2009): 88-131.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McDermott, Anne C. \u201cThe Compilation Methods of Johnson\u2019s Dictionary.\u201d In Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers, Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century, edited by Anne McDermott, 105-124. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayhew, Robert J. Landscape, Literature, and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description.<\/em> London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Micklethwait, David. Noah Webster and the American Dictionary.<\/em> Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000. [addresses Johnson\u2019s influence]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mugglestone, Lynda. \u201cThe Battle of the Word-Books: Competition, the \u2018Common-Reader,\u2019 and Johnson\u2019s Dictionary.\u201d In Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, edited by Freya Johnstone and Lynda Mugglestone, 140-153. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pearce, Chris P. \u201c\u2018Gleaned as Industry Should Find, or Chance Should Offer It\u2019: Johnson\u2019s Dictionary after 250 Years.\u201d Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 17 (2006): 341-62.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reddick, Allen. \u201cPast and Present in Samuel Johnson\u2019s Dictionary of the English Language.\u201d International Journal of Lexicography 23, no. 2 (2010): 207-222.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—. \u201cVindicating Milton: Poetic Misprision in Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language.\u201d Harvard Library Bulletin 20, no. 3-4 (2009): 62-71.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rivero, Albert J. \u201cCelebrating Johnson’s Dictionary.\u201d The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 49, no. 3 (2008): 265-272.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romary, Laurent and Werner Wegstein. \u201cConsistent Modelling of Heterogeneous Lexical Structures.\u201d Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, TEI Consortium (2012): 1-28. https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/jtei\/540<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scanlan, J. T. \u201cJohnson\u2019s Dictionary and Legal Dictionaries.\u201d In Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers, Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century, edited by Anne McDermott, 139-158. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schreyer, R\u00fcdiger. \u201cIllustrations of Authority: Quotations in Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755).\u201d Lexicographica: International Annual for Lexicography 16 (2000): 58-103.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudan, Rajani. \u201cChilling Allahabad: Climate Control and the Production of Anglicized Weather in Early Modern India.\u201d Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 8-2 (2008): 56-73.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tankard, Paul. \u201cContexts for Johnson’s Dictionary.\u201d Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 35- 2 (2002): 253-282.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor, T. M. \u201cOn Definition and Explanation in the Preface to Johnson\u2019s Dictionary of the English Language.\u201d Modern Language Review 11-2 (2016): 311-332.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visan, Ruxandra. \u201cJohnson\u2019s Dictionary, Conversation, Recontextualisation and Organisation.\u201d Romanian Journal of English Studies 5 (2008): 240-248.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wild, Kate. \u201cLudicrous Exaggerations and Colloquial Licenses: \u2018Prescriptive\u2019 Labels in Samuel Johnson\u2019s A Dictionary of the English Language.\u201d \u2018Cunning Passages, Contrived Corridors\u2019: Unexpected Essays in the History of Lexicography, edited by Michael Adams, 165-185. Monza, Italy: Polimetrica, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—. \u201cVulgar and Popular in Johnson, Webster and the OED.\u201d In Proceedings of the XIII Euralex International Congress, edited by Elisenda Bernal and Janet DeCesaris, 1209-1214. Barcelona: Documenta Univeritaria, 2008.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":68,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-206","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnsonsdictionaryonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnsonsdictionaryonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnsonsdictionaryonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnsonsdictionaryonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnsonsdictionaryonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnsonsdictionaryonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/johnsonsdictionaryonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnsonsdictionaryonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnsonsdictionaryonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}