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The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the "Life of Johnson"
The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell, Relating to the Making of the Life of Johnson
James Boswell
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780838641712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Draws upon letters, diaries, memoirs, book reviews, and newspaper articles to present a picture of James Boswell from the vantage point of those who knew him best. This book tells what family, friends, rivals, critics, and satirists thought of the man who produced notable works.
Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property
Author: Kevin Hart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-09-28
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1139426397
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kevin Hart traces the vast literary legacy and reputation of Samuel Johnson. Through detailed analyses of the biographers, critics and epigones who carefully crafted and preserved Johnson's life for posterity, Hart explores the emergence of what came to be called 'The Age of Johnson'. Hart shows how late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain experienced the emergence and consolidation of a rich and diverse culture of property. In dedicating himself to Johnson's death, Hart argues, James Boswell turned his friend into a monument, a piece of public property. Through subtle analyses of copyright, forgery and heritage in eighteenth-century life, this study traces the emergence of competing forms of cultural property: a Hanoverian politics of property engages a Jacobite politics of land. Kevin Hart places Samuel Johnson within this rich cultural context, demonstrating how Johnson came to occupy a place at the heart of the English literary canon.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Author: David Scott Kastan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-03-03
Total Pages: 2656
ISBN-13: 0199725314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl
James Boswell's Life of Johnson
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2012-07-27
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 0748668926
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The third and penultimate volume in the Yale Research Edition's genetic transcription of the manuscript of Boswell's biographical masterwork.
A Life of James Boswell
Author: Peter Martin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-04-30
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9780300093124
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Born in Edinburgh, the 'Athens of the North', a Scot who hated living in Scotland and nourished a lifelong love affair with London, Boswell was biographer, journalist, laird, advocate, social lion, incurable rake, lover, life of the party, traveller, steadfast friend, endearing charmer, exhibitionist fool, and drunken sot. In this moving biography, Peter Martin assesses Boswell's literary achievements and uncovers the pulsating and dynamic world he thrived in, from the royal courts and the drawing rooms of fashionable ladies and gentlemen to the fleshpots of London's unsavoury underworld and the chambers of the insane. He also poignantly reveals a man in agony, easily misunderstood, relentlessly plagued by hypochondria or melancholia, buffeted like a straw in the wind by a multitude of anxieties and 'horrible imaginings'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the Life of Johnson
Boswell's Life of Johnson
Author: John A. Vance
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 082033376X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When it first appeared in 1985, Boswell's Life of Johnson brought together the most recent and most lively assessments of the literary merit and historical accuracy of Boswell's biography. In an invigorating exchange placed at the center of the collection, Donald Greene's description of the Life as a fictionalized biography that screens the real, complex Johnson from view is challenged by Frederick Pottle's defense of Boswell's biographical method, of his sturdy compilation of detail that presents the factual rather than the fictional Johnson. Other essays explore the effect of Johnson's humor on the shaping of his image in the Life, the recent developments in literary criticism and the effect they have had on eighteenth-century studies, and the continuing interest of Boswell's Life as a showcase for members of Johnson's famous circle. The volume concludes with an assessment of the Boswellian problem--of the difficulties the Life presents to readers, scholars, and teachers.
