List of illustrations
List of contributors
List of abbreviations and cue-titles
Introduction Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott
1. The mythology of Johnson's Dictionary Paul J. Korshin
2. Dictionaries and power from Palsgrave to Johnson Ian Lancashire
3. What Johnson's illustrative quotations illustrate: language and viewpoint in the Dictionary Howard D. Weinbrot
4. Reassessing the political context of the Dictionary: Johnson and the 'Broad-bottom' opposition Nicholas Hudson
5. Johnson's extempore history and grammar of the English language Robert DeMaria Jr
6. Johnson the prescriptivist? The case for the prosecution Geoff Barnbrook
7. Johnson the prescriptivist? The case for the defense Anne McDermott
8. Johnson's encyclopedia Jack Lynch
9. The law, the alphabet, and Samuel Johnson John Stone
10. Hyphenated compounds in Johnson's Dictionary Noel E. Osselton
11. The typographic design of Johnson's Dictionary Paul Luna
12. The Dictionary in abstract: Johnson's abridgements of the Dictionary of the English Language for the common reader Catherine Dille
13. Revision and the limits of collaboration: hands and texts in Johnson's Dictionary Allen Reddick
14. Hidden quarto editions of Johnson's Dictionary R. Carter Hailey
General index
Index of Dictionary entries.
List of illustrations; List of contributors; List of abbreviations and cue-titles; Introduction Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott; 1. The mythology of Johnson's Dictionary Paul J. Korshin; 2. Dictionaries and power from Palsgrave to Johnson Ian Lancashire; 3. What Johnson's illustrative quotations illustrate: language and viewpoint in the Dictionary Howard D. Weinbrot; 4. Reassessing the political context of the Dictionary: Johnson and the 'Broad-bottom' opposition Nicholas Hudson; 5. Johnson's extempore history and grammar of the English language Robert DeMaria Jr; 6. Johnson the prescriptivist? The case for the prosecution Geoff Barnbrook; 7. Johnson the prescriptivist? The case for the defense Anne McDermott; 8. Johnson's encyclopedia Jack Lynch; 9. The law, the alphabet, and Samuel Johnson John Stone; 10. Hyphenated compounds in Johnson's Dictionary Noel E. Osselton; 11. The typographic design of Johnson's Dictionary Paul Luna; 12. The Dictionary in abstract: Johnson's abridgements of the Dictionary of the English Language for the common reader Catherine Dille; 13. Revision and the limits of collaboration: hands and texts in Johnson's Dictionary Allen Reddick; 14. Hidden quarto editions of Johnson's Dictionary R. Carter Hailey; General index; Index of Dictionary entries.
