Article: The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson.(Book Review)

The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, by Jack Lynch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp xi + 224. Cloth $55.00

In his recent book, Jack Lynch elegantly performs a useful service. The way Johnson's age perceived the Elizabethan age must affect how subsequent ages perceive both ages. Each of the seven chapters, some previously published, treats a single aspect of intellectual life: "Struggling to Emerge from Barbarity, Historiography and the Idea of the Classic," "Learning's Triumph: Historicism and the Spirit of the Age," "Call Britannia's Glories back to View: Tudor History and Hanoverian Historians," "The Rage of Reformation: Religious ...

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