Introduction: Johnson now and in time
"We are perpetually moralists": Johnson and moral philosophy / Fred Parker
Johnson, ends, and the possibility of happiness / Greg Clingham
Johnson and the modern: the forward face of Janus / Howard D. Weinbrot
Samuel Johnson's politics of contingency / Clement Hawes
Fideism, the antisublime, and the faithful imagination in Rasselas / David F. Venturo
Samuel Johnson's legal thought / J.T. Scanlan
The life of Johnson, The life of Johnson, the Lives of Johnson / Jack Lynch
The awkward Johnson / David Fairer
Johnson's criticism, the arts, and the idea of art / Philip Smallwood
Toil and envy: unsuccessful responses to Johnson's Lives of the poets / Adam Rounce
Early women reading Johnson / Isobel Grundy
Johnson and Austen / Freya Johnston
The works of Samuel Johnson and the canon / O.M. Brack, Jr.
What Johnson means to me / David Ferry.
