Boswell Citizen of the World, Man of Letters.

Boswell Citizen of the World, Man of Letters. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1995. - 1 online resource (299 pages)

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Cue Titles and Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: Boswell and the Enlightenment; Boswell's Travels through the German, Swiss, and French Enlightenment; Boswell's Response to the European Landscape; ""Something that Put Me in Mind of My Father"": Boswell and Lord Kames; James Boswell, Henry Dundas, and Enlightened Politics; Politics in the Boswell-Temple Correspondence; Master of Ulubrae: Boswell as Enlightened Laird; PART II: The Life of Johnson; Rhetoric and Runts: Boswell's Artistry; Illustrations ""Casts a Kind of Glory Round It"": Metaphor and the Life of Johnson""Over Him We Hang Vibrating"": Uncertainty in the Life of Johnson; Pilgrimage and Autonomy: The Visit to Ashbourne; ""My Dear Enemy"": Margaret Montgomerie Boswell in the Life of Johnson; Appendix: Boswell's Meetings with Johnson, A New Count; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

These eleven original essays by well-known eighteenth-century scholars, five of them editors of James Boswell's journal or letters, commemorate the bicentenary of Boswell's death on May 19, 1795. The volume illuminates both the life and the work of one of the most important literary figures of the age and contributes significantly to the scholarship on this rich period. In the introduction, Irma S. Lustig sets the tone for the volume. She reveals that the essays examining Boswell as ""Citizen of the World"" are deliberately paired with those that analyze his artistic skills, to emphasize that.



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Authors, English--Biography--History and criticism.
Authors, Scottish--18th century--Biography.
Biographers--Great Britain--Biography.
Biography as a literary form.
Enlightenment--Scotland.

Authors, 18th Biography Authors, Biography History and criticism Biographers Great Biography Biography as a literary form Boswell, 1740-1795 Life of Samuel Johnson Enlightenment Scotland Johnson, 1709-1784 Friends and associates Scotland Intellectual 18th century


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