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NEW LIGHT ON BOSWELL: CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS ON By Greg Clingham & David
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- New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the
- ISBN-10
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- 9780521380478
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521380472
ISBN-13
9780521380478
eBay Product ID (ePID)
662287
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
New Light on Boswell : Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of the 'Life' of Johnson
Subject
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
1991
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
19.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
90-039992
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
828/.609
Table Of Content
Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Boswell's ambiguity David Daiches; Part I. Boswell and Eighteenth-Century Scottish Culture: 1. Boswell and the rhetoric of friendship Thomas Crawford; 2. Scottish divines and legal lairds: Boswell's Scots presbyterian identity Richard B. Sher; 3. Boswell and the Scotticism Pat Rogers; 4. Boswell as man of letters Joan H. Pittock; Part II. Contexts for the Life of Johnson: 5. Boswell's liberty-loving Account of Corsica and the art of travel literature Thomas M. Curley; 6. Boswell and sympathy: the trial and execution of John Reid Gordon Turnbull; 7. Boswell and Hume: the deathbed interview Richard B. Swchwrtz; 8. 'This philosophical melancholy': style and self in Boswell and Hume Susan Manning; Part III. The Life of Johnson Reconsidered: 9. The originality of Boswell's version of Johnson's quarrel with Lord Chesterfield John J. Burke, Jr.; 10. Self-restraint and self-display in the authorial comments in the Life of Johnson Marlies K. Danziger; 11. The conversations in the Life of Johnson Paul J. Korshin; 12. Remembering the hero in Boswell's Life of Johnson Donna Heiland; 13. Truth and artifice in Boswell's Life of Johnson Greg Clingham; Index.
Synopsis
Boswell's Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost literary biographies in the English language. This 1991 collection of essays, commemorating its bicentenary, investigates Boswell's achievements and limitations in both literary and personal contexts, and goes beyond the Life to examine the full range of Boswell's writings and interests (in legal, social, theological, political and linguistic fields). Drawing Boswell out of Johnson's shadow, the volume places him in a wider context, juxtaposing Boswell with other contemporaries and compatriots in the Scottish enlightenment, such as Hume, Robertson and Blair. In addition it investigates some of the critical and theoretical questions surrounding the notion of biographical representation in the Life itself. Boswell emerges as a writer engaged throughout his literary career in constructing a self or series of selves out of his divided Scottish identity. This collection combines archival research with fresh critical perspectives and constitutes a timely review of Boswell's status in eighteenth-century literary studies., Boswell's Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost literary biographies in the English language. This 1991 collection of essays, commemorating its bicentenary, investigates Boswell's achievements and limitations in both literary and personal contexts, and goes beyond the Life to examine the full range of Boswell's writings and interests.
LC Classification Number
PR3533.B7 N49 1991
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