Facts and Inventions
Synopsis
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.
- Copyright:
- 2014 Yale University Press
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9780300210941
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 2014-06-10T07:36:28Z
- Language:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.