The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James Boswell
Publisher:
Published: 1826
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13:
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Gale Researcher Guide for: The Literary Biography: James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
Author: Adam Potkay
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published:
Total Pages: 13
ISBN-13: 1535854251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGale Researcher Guide for: The Literary Biography: James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
Facts and Inventions
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-06-10
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 0300210949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Boswell (1740–1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a generous and varied selection of Boswell’s journalistic writings, most of which have not been published since the eighteenth century. It offers a new angle on the history of journalism, an idiosyncratic view of literature, politics, and public life in late eighteenth-century Britain, and an original perspective on a complex and engaging literary personality.
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 Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies
Published: 1807
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13:
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Author: Donald J. Newman
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2021-03-12
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 1684482836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets, and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he worked influenced what he wrote and how he wrote it. This book will also be of interest to historians of journalism and the publishing industry of eighteenth-century Britain.
The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 030025038X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, documents the long friendship between Boswell and Sir William Forbes This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, collects the letters exchanged between lawyer, diarist, and biographer James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, eminent Scottish banker, civic improver, philanthropist, literary and cultural patron, and lay leader of Edinburgh's "English Episcopal" community. Forbes served as Boswell's most valued Scottish advisor, to whom he would often turn for personal, financial, moral, and religious guidance, and whom he would name executor of his estate and co-guardian of his children. The volume includes a total of 111 comprehensively annotated letters, few of which have appeared previously in print, between Forbes and Boswell and other correspondents. It illuminates in particular the period in which Boswell moved from Edinburgh to London and wrote his major books, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson and The Life of Samuel Johnson.
London Journal
Author: James Boswell
Publisher:
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel Johnson (1786)
Author: John Courtenay
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-09-15
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis poem of three hundred and four lines presents a poetic review of the works of Samuel Johnson. Written by John Courtenay, this work stimulated one of the most vigorous and splenetic literary controversies of the late eighteenth century.
London Journal 1762-1763
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2015-06-04
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 0241215455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank and artful record of adventures ranging from his vividly recounted love affair with a Covent Garden actress to his first amusingly bruising meeting with Samuel Johnson, to whom Boswell would later become both friend and biographer. The London Journal 1762-63 is a witty, incisive and compellingly candid testament to Boswell's prolific talents.
