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These eleven original essays by well-known eighteenth-century scholars, five of them editors of James Boswell's journal or letters, commemorate the bicentenary of Boswell's death on May 19, 1795. The volume illuminates both the life and the work of one of the important literary figures of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Lustig, Irma S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1995.
Temas:
Boswell, James, > 1740-1795. > Life of Samuel Johnson.
Johnson, Samuel, > 1709-1784 > Friends and associates.
Johnson, Samuel, > 1709-1784
Johnson, Samuel.
Boswell, James.
Life of Samuel Johnson (Boswell, James)
1700-1799
Authors, English > Biography > History and criticism.
Authors, Scottish > 18th century > Biography.
Biographers > Great Britain > Biography.
Biography as a literary form.
Enlightenment > Scotland.
Biography.
Biographies as Topic
Écrivains écossais > 18e siècle > Biographies.
Biographes > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
Siècle des Lumières > Écosse.
Biographies.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
Authors, English > Biography
Authors, Scottish
Biographers
Biography as a literary form
Enlightenment
Friendship
Intellectual life
Aufsatzsammlung
Scotland > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Écosse > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
Great Britain
Scotland
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Boswell and the Enlightenment: Boswell's travels through the German, Swiss, and French Enlightenment / Marlies K. Danziger
  • Boswell's response to the European landscape / Peter F. Perreten
  • "Something that put me in mind of my father": Boswell and Lord Kames / Richard B. Sher
  • James Boswell, Henry Dundas, and enlightened politics / Michael Fry
  • Politics in the Boswell-Temple correspondence / Thomas Crawford
  • Master of Ulubrae: Boswell as enlightened laird / John Strawhorn
  • pt. 2. The life of Johnson: Rhetoric and runts: Boswell's artistry / Carey McIntosh
  • "Casts a kind of glory round it": metaphor and The life of Johnson / William P. Yarrow
  • "Over him we hang vibrating": uncertainty in The life of Johnson / Isobel Grundy
  • Pilgrimage and autonomy: the visit to Ashbourne / John B. Radner
  • "My dear enemy": Margaret Montgomerie Boswell in The life of Johnson / Irma S. Lustig
  • Appendix: Boswell's meetings with Johnson, a new count / Hitoshi Suwabe.

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