Books By Jack Lynch, J. T. Scanlan - Author

JACK LYNCH is a professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark and a Johnson scholar, having studied the great lexicographer for nearly a decade. He is the author of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson and the editor of A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1986-1998. He has also written journal articles and scholarly reviews addressing Johnson and the eighteenth century.
J.T. SCANLAN has written extensively on various aspects of the eighteenth century, including many essays on Samuel Johnson. Recent work on Johnson and law has appeared in Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, Samuel Johnson in Context, and Impassioned Jurisprudence. He's currently writing a book on legal issues, A Spirit of Contradiction: Law and Literature in Eighteenth-Century London. In a more popular vein, he's making final changes to a comic-grim memoir about grad school at the University of Michigan and Yale, Terminal Degree: My Quest for a Ph.D.