Carolina Currents, Studies in South Carolina Culture Volume 1. New Directions

Christopher D. Johnson is professor of English and Trustees' Research Scholar at Francis Marion University, where he has worked since 1996. A specialist in eighteenth-century literature and culture, Professor Johnson has published more than one hundred books, essays, and reviews. His most recent books are Samuel Richardson, Comedic Narrative, and the Culture of Domestic Violence: Abused Pamela, and A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding. He has served as book review editor for XVIII: New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century and is a past president of the Southeastern Association for Eighteenth Century Studies, the Philological Association of the Carolinas, the Georgia/Carolinas College English Association, and the South Carolina Association of Departments of English.