Introduction: A Place for Genius: Howard Weinbrot and Eighteenth-Century Studies
Kevin L. Cope

Part One: Poised on a Plinth or Perched on a Precipice?: Major Authors
Chapter One: Swift's Lists
J. T. Scanlan
Chapter Two: History, Myth, and Heroism in Dryden's Translation, The Æneis
David Venturo
Chapter Three: Discourses of the Eye: Romeo and Juliet and William Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode
Timothy Erwin

Part Two: Lives: Actual, Engrossed, or Otherwise
Chapter Four: Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Philosophers
Robert DeMaria, Jr.
Chapter Five: Imitation and Biography: Richard Savage and the Misreading of London
Lance Wilcox
Chapter Six: Johnson's Irascibles and the Good Work of Bad Stories
David Wade Nunnery
Chapter Seven: Johnson, Dodd, and the Concentrated Sententia
A. W. Lee

Part Three: Turbulent Times and Edgy Eternity: Conceiving, Building, and Revising the Enlightenment
Chapter Eight: ‘Incipit’: Pope's Beginnings, Original and Revised
Stephen Karian
Chapter Nine: Major, Minor, Marginal, Mummified: The Lost Middle Years of Eighteenth-Century Canon Formation in the Twentieth Century
James Engell
Chapter Ten: ‘Sublunary Particularity’: Religion, Rhetoric, and Difference
Samara Anne Cahill
Chapter Eleven: Stewards of the Lord: Eighteenth-Century Gardeners as Pioneers of Sustainability
Bärbel Czennia

Part Four: Identity, British or Personal: Finding Oneself in the Long Eighteenth Century
Chapter Twelve: Diplomacy, Diversion, and Invention: Sir George Macartney at the Court of Catherine the Great
Greg Clingham
Chapter Thirteen: Johnson and Stendhal: A French Connection
Philip Smallwood
Chapter Fourteen: Samuel Johnson and the Sense of Place
Stephen Clarke
Chapter Fifteen: Some Dreams in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Maximillian E. Novak