TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lustig,Irma S.
TI  - Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters
SN  - 9780813149486
AV  - PR3325 .B679 1995
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - Biography
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Authors, Scottish
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Biographers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography as a literary form
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Authors
KW  - 18th
KW  - Great
KW  - Boswell
KW  - 1740-1795
KW  - Life of Samuel Johnson
KW  - Johnson
KW  - 1709-1784
KW  - Friends and associates
KW  - Intellectual
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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