Author: James BoswellPublisher: London : Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764
Author: James BoswellPublisher: London : Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764
Author: James BoswellPublisher: London : Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James BoswellPublisher: London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies
ISBN:
Category : Hebrides
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Boswell i Holland 1763-1764
Author: James BoswellPublisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8711773057
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : da
Pages : 426
Book Description
I sommeren 1763 rejste den skotske adelsmand James Boswell til Holland, hvor han opholdt sig i knap et år. Året forinden havde Boswell været i London, hvor han var begyndt at skrive dagbog, og denne vane tog han med sig til Holland. "Boswell i Holland" ligger således i direkte forlængelse af hans "London dagbog", og den er interessant, både fordi den giver et indblik i livet i 1700-tallet, og fordi det er et stykke arbejde af meget høj litterær kvalitet. James Boswell (1740-1795) var en skotsk adelsmand, der for eftertiden er blevet kendt for sine meget omfattende dagbogsskriverier og for sin biografi om litteraten Samuel Johnson. Boswell begyndte at skrive dagbog, da han som ung mand opholdt sig i London i 1762-63, og han fortsatte resten af livet.
Belle de Zuylen/Isabelle de Charrière
Author: Suzanna van DijkPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042019980
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Recense les contributions des conférenciers lors du congrès international organisé à l'Unverisité d'Utrech en avril 2005 qui commémore le bicentenaire de la mort d'Isabelle de Charrrière.
Language and the Grand Tour
Author: Arturo TosiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Language is still a relatively under-researched aspect of the Grand Tour. This book offers a comprehensive introduction enriched by the amusing stories and vivid quotations collected from travellers' writings, providing crucial insights into the rise of modern vernaculars and the standardisation of European languages.
A Life of James Boswell
Author: Peter MartinPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300093124
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
"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
New Essays on Samuel Johnson
Author: Anthony W. LeePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611496799
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation is a collection of essays by various hands that examines its point of focus, the inexhaustible English author Samuel Johnson, from a variety of different critical perspectives. The book also simultaneously interrogates particular texts (such as the Dictionary, the Lives of the Poets) alongside general themes (such as Johnson and intertextuality, Johnson and autobiography). The word “revaluation” from the title connotes both the deployment of specifically au courant approaches—viewing, for example, Johnson in relation to climate change, or Johnson and the notion of “osmology”—as well as more general reflections upon Johnson’s importance to our present cultural and temporal moment.
A Dr Johnson Chronology
Author: Norman PagePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349100366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This chronology, like others in the series, presents the story of Dr Johnson's life in a readily accessible format to provide scholar and general reader alike with a quick guide to dates, people and places together with supplementary indexes.
Boswell’s Enlightenment
Author: Robert ZaretskyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674368231
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Throughout his life James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might he could not reconcile the truths of his era with those of his religious upbringing. Few periods better crystallize this turmoil than 1763–1765, the years of his Grand Tour and the focus of Robert Zaretsky’s thrilling intellectual adventure.