Author: James BoswellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781570851100
Category : Literature
Languages : en
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Volume 8 of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell.
The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769, Vol. 1: 1766-1767
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781570851100
Category : Literature
Languages : en
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Volume 8 of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell.
General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769 : Vol. 2 : 1768-1769
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781570851100
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Volume 10 of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell.
The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769: 1766-1767
Author: James BoswellPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c1993-c1997.
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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This book is the first in a two-volume edition of James Boswell's correspondence during a period that was one of the happiest and most productive of his life--from his return from the Grand Tour in February 1766 to his marriage in November 1769. During this time Boswell became a practicing lawyer, a best-selling author, a family man, and a landowner as Laird of Dalblair. The correspondence--some 742 letters--gives a new perspective on Boswell's personal and professional development as well as on society, politics, gender issues, crime, theater, industry, agriculture, domestic life, religion, philosophy, publishing, and much more. Volume I of the edition contains letters between Boswell and a rich diversity of correspondents, including Giuseppe Baretti, William Pitt the Elder, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Wilkes, and Zelide, the beautiful Dutch bluestocking. The texts have been transcribed from the original manuscripts. Carefully introduced and thoroughly annotated, the volume will be read with pleasure as well as for enlightenment. Copublished with Edinburgh University Press
The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Annotation This is the second and final volume of James Boswell's general correspondence for the years 1766 to 1769. The richly diverse collection includes the texts of letters between Boswell and 123 correspondents, beginning when Boswell was in the early years of his legal career in Edinburgh and closing shortly after his marriage to his penniless Ayrshire cousin, Margaret Montgomerie. The volume includes a comprehensive analytical index to both volumes of Boswell's general correspondence between 1766 and 1769. The correspondence touches on many topics and issues, some public, some private, including Boswell's patronage of struggling playwright William Julius Mickle; the publication and reception of Boswell's Account of Corsica and his efforts to rouse British interest in the Corsican cause; and the aftermath of Boswell's vigorous legal and journalistic involvement in the Douglas Cause. Letters to and from his European correspondents carry echoes of Boswell's recently completed Grand Tour and the closing moments of his epistolary affair with the francophone Dutch author, Belle de Zuylen (Zelide).
The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769: 1768-1769
Author: James BoswellPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c1993-c1997.
ISBN: 9780748608102
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769
Correspondence
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780748608102
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Boswell's Correspondence: The general correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769, v. 1: 1766-1767
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages :
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Boswell's Correspondence: The general correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769, v. 2: 1768-1769
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
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The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757-1763
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780748618057
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
This volume, ninth in the Research Series of correspondence in the Yale Boswell Editions, assembles the bulk of the surviving letters between the young Boswell and his circle of friends and acquaintances in a period crucial to his personal and authorial development, up to the time he wrote his now famous journal in London in 1762-63. Opening with an exchange - rooted in his rebellious adolescent fascination with the Edinburgh theatre - with the gentleman-actor West Digges, it closes with letters written in July 1763 near the end of his second visit to London (the one in which he first met Samuel Johnson), a short time before his reluctant departure for legal study in Utrecht. The volume features centrally the correspondence between Boswell and his friend and literary collaborator Andrew Erskine (1740-93), a poet-soldier of the kind the young Boswell briefly aspired to be. Their surviving letters, printed here alongside the revised versions in the facetious Letters between the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and James Boswell, Esq., Boswell's first book-length publication, and the first to bear his name, offer revealingly early evidence of the kinds of selective self-revision Boswell would employ in his later writings and perfect in the Life of Johnson (1791).Overall, these letters document Boswell's fluid experiments in selfhood as he ponders his life's future possible trajectories - as soldier, lawyer, wit, author, bon-vivant, Scots laird, or M.P. Some thirty-five correspondents are represented in more than 150 letters and other documents (such as verse-epistles), comprehensively annotated to the long-established standards of the Yale Boswell Editions.
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