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New Light on Boswell - Critical Historical Essays on Occasion of Bicententary of Life of

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Klappentext A collection of new essays! commemorating the bicentenary of Boswell's Life of Johnson. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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Authors Greg Clingham
Assisted by Greg Clingham (Editor), Clingham Greg (Editor), Daiches David (Introduction)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 24.11.2005
 
EAN 9780521023160
ISBN 978-0-521-02316-0
No. of pages 256
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800

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