Facts and inventions : selections from the journalism of James Boswell /
James 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 journa...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2014]
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| Summary: | James 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xlviii, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [405]-418) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300141269 (hardback) 0300141262 (hardback) |