Author: James BoswellPublisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN: 9780070034631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone
Author: James BoswellPublisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN: 9780070034631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Correspondence of James Boswell
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780434837021
Category : English prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Boswell's Correspondence, Volume 4
Author: James BoswellThe Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo
Author: James BoswellPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030025038X
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This 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.
Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar
Author: Peter MartinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521460309
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
First modern full-length biography of scholar and member of late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.
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
James Boswell
Author: James BoswellPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838641712
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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.
Making Boswell's Life of Johnson
Author: Richard B. SherPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009271393
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
This Element documents the details and implications of Boswell's risky publication history. It argues that the success of the first edition of the Life of Samuel Johnson was the result not only of Boswell's biographical genius but also of collaboration with a devoted support network.
The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith
Author: Oliver GoldsmithPublisher:
ISBN: 1107093538
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
The first modern scholarly edition of the letters of Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), including extensive biographical and contextual material.