Extraordinarily ordinary : the life of Samuel Johnson / Philip Davis -- Johnson and the arts of conversation / Catherine N. Parke -- Johnson's poetry / Howard D. Weinbrot -- Johnson, the essay, and The rambler / Paul J. Korshin -- Johnson and the condition of women / Eithne Henson -- Johnson's Dictionary / Robert DeMaria, Jr. -- Johnson's politics / Robert Folkenflik -- Johnson and imperialism / Clement Hawes -- The skepticism of Johnson's Rasselas / Fred Parker -- Shakespeare : Johnson's poet of nature / Philip Smallwood -- Life and literature in Johnson's Lives of the poets / Greg Clingham -- Johnson's Christian thought / Michael F. Suarez -- "From China to Peru" : Johnson in the traveled world / John Wiltshire -- "Letters about nothing" : Johnson and epistolary writing / Tom Keymer -- Johnson's critical reception / Steven Lynn.