Gathering essays by some of the most distinguished scholars in eighteenth-century studies, A Clubbable Man takes as its theme textual and social group formations, while simultaneously honoring the achievements of Greg Clingham. Rounding out the collection are tributes from former students and colleagues, including original poetry.
 

Introduction
Anthony W. Lee
I. Essays on Samuel Johnson and Boswell
1. Mirrored Minds—Johnson and Shakespeare
Philip Smallwood
2. The General and the Particular: Pope, Johnson, and Reynolds
David Hopkins
3. “The Caliban of Literature”: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Johnson’s Intertextual Scholarship
Anthony W. Lee
4. In Silence and Darkness: Johnson’s Verdicts on Artistic Failure
Adam Rounce
5. Smollett’s Ramblers and the Law of the Land
Aaron Hanlon
6. The Social Life of Thomas Cumming, or “Clubbing” with Johnson’s friend, the Fighting Quaker
Robert G. Walker
7. Not "Just a Macheath": Young Boswell and Old Cibber in Boswell’s London Journal 1762–1763
Gordon Turnbull
II. Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
8. English Historiography and the Development of Secular Autobiography: The Memoir
Martine Brownley
9. What Else Did Pope Borrow from Dryden?
Cedric D. Reverand
10. Poetic Performances: Pope’s “An Essay on Man” and “Swift’s Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift”
John Richetti
11. Swift Shrinks the Duke of Marlborough: Public Delegitimization Though Scale
Clement Hawes
12. Trans-Plant Perspectives: Western Gardens, Eastern Views
Bärbel Czennia
13. Publishers Can Cause Earthquakes: The Seismic English Enlightenment and Enigmatic Explanations
Kevin L. Cope
III. Personal Reminiscences
1. Greg Clingham as Teacher and Mentor
Dominic Jermey
Elaine Wood
Caroline Fassett
Joseph McNicholas
Margaret Williams
Erin Labbie
Patrick Henry
Adam Walker
Kang Tchou
2. Greg Clingham and Bucknell University Press
Gary Sojka
Nina Forsberg
Daniel Little
James Rice
John Rickard
3. Commemoratory Poems
“It is rowing without a port.”
Notes by Lady Anne Barnard while in South Africa
Antjie Krog
Frances Towne
Kieron Winn
An Ode: Alexander Pope Reciprocally Writes an Encomium for Samuel Johnson, Aided by Greg Clingham
Emily Grosholz
Mother Johnson
Harry Thomas
Coda
Kate Parker
Greg Clingham’s Publications
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index

ANTHONY W. LEE is an expert on Samuel Johnson and his circle, mentoring, and intertextuality. He has published more than forty essays on Johnson and eighteenth-century literature and culture, and six books, most recently New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation, Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle (Bucknell University Press), and “Modernity Johnson”: Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Arkansas, Kentucky Wesleyan College, the University of the District of Columbia, and the University of Maryland University College, where he also served as director of the English and humanities program. He is currently a visiting lecturer at Arkansas Tech University and lives in Dardanelle, Arkansas.