James Boswell''s ''Life of Johnson'' - An Edition of Original Manuscript, in Four Volumes; Vol. 4: 1780

In this edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson", Marshall Waingrow offers a fresh reading of Boswell's work. He charts the changes made during composition and at the proof stage, and corrects and explains the printer's misreadings and author's errors which crept into the final edition.

Summary

This fourth volume traces Boswell's processes of composition from first draft to final publication. It restores much deleted material and passages lost or overlooked at proof and revision stage.

Product details

• Authors: James Boswell, Marshall Waingrow
• Assisted by: Thomas F. Bonnell (Editor), Marshall Waingrow (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.2020
• EAN: 9780748606054
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-0605-4
• No. of pages: 506
• Series: The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell; The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies