Samuel Johnson
The Arc of the Pendulum
Edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone
Author Information
Freya Johnston is University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in English Language and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford. She is the author of Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709-1791 (Oxford University Press, 2005) and of various articles and chapters in books on Johnson, Austen, and their contemporaries. She is general co-editor, with Matthew Bevis, of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Lynda Mugglestone is Professor of the History of English at Oxford University, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College, Oxford. She has published widely on language (including the history and social and cultural roles of dictionaries), with a particular focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Recent work includes: Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest (Oxford University Press, 2000); Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary (Yale University Press, 2005); 'Talking Proper': The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol (Oxford University Press 2nd edn. 2003; revised paperback edn, 2007) and Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011). She is editor of The Oxford History of English (Oxford University Press, 2006, 2007).
Contributors:
Charlotte Brewer, Hertford College, University of Oxford.
Philip Davis, University of Liverpool.
Robert DeMaria, Jr., Vassar College.
David Fairer, University of Leeds.
Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta.
Freya Johnston, St Anne's College, University of Oxford.
Lawrence Lipking, Northwestern University.
James McLaverty, Keele University.
Lynda Mugglestone, Pembroke College, University of Oxford.
John Mullan, University College London.
Adam Phillips, University of York.
Philip Smallwood, Bristol University.
Jane Steen, Canon Chancellor of Southwark Cathedral, London.
Howard D. Weinbrot, Huntington Library.
