Facts and Inventions
Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell
Will be published approx. on 1. May 2014
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-300-14126-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Paul Tankard illuminates not only neglected corners of Boswell's interests and career, but the wider journalistic culture of late eighteenth-century Britain, bringing to new attention the topics, habits, and reading practices of its lively world of print media."-Gordon Turnbull, General Editor, The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell -- Gordon Turnbull "Complementing the Yale editions of Boswell's private papers, Tankard's collection of Boswell's public journalism makes a brilliant addition to the Boswell canon that illuminates his remarkable liveliness, inventiveness, and versatility."-Robert DeMaria, Jr., Vassar College -- Robert DeMaria, Jr.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
19 b-w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
938 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-14126-9 (9780300141269)
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Persons
Paul Tankard is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.