UID:
almahu_9947414826802882
Format:
1 online resource (xix, 235 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511597589 (ebook)
Content:
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.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction : Boswell's ambiguities / David Daiches -- Boswell and the rhetoric of friendship / Thomas Crawford -- Scottish divines and legal lairds : Boswell's Scots Presbyterian identity / Richard B. Sher -- Boswell and the Scotticism / Pat Rogers -- Boswell as critic / Joan H. Pittock -- Boswell's liberty-loving Account of Corsica and the art of travel literature / Thomas M. Curley -- Boswell and sympathy : the trial and execution of John Reid / Gordon Turnbull -- Boswell and Hume : the deathbed interview / Richard B. Schwartz -- "This philosophical melancholy" : style and self in Boswell and Hume / Susan Manning.
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(cont.) The originality of Boswell's version of Johnson's quarrel with Lord Chesterfield / John J. Burke, Jr. -- Self-restraint and self-display in the authorial comments in the Life of Johnson / Marlies K. Danziger -- Johnson's conversation in Boswell's Life of Johnson / Paul J. Korshin -- Remembering the hero in Boswell's Life of Johnson / Donnal Heiland -- Truth and artifice in Boswell's Life of Johnson / Greg Clingham.
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Print version: ISBN 9780521380478
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597589
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