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  1. New light on Boswell
    critical and historical essays on the occasion of the bicentenary of The life of Johnson
    Contributor: Clingham, Greg (Publisher); Daiches, David
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Boswell's Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost literary biographies in the English language. This 1991 collection of essays, commemorating its bicentenary, investigates Boswell's achievements and limitations in both literary and... more

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    Boswell's Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost literary biographies in the English language. This 1991 collection of essays, commemorating its bicentenary, investigates Boswell's achievements and limitations in both literary and personal contexts, and goes beyond the Life to examine the full range of Boswell's writings and interests (in legal, social, theological, political and linguistic fields). Drawing Boswell out of Johnson's shadow, the volume places him in a wider context, juxtaposing Boswell with other contemporaries and compatriots in the Scottish enlightenment, such as Hume, Robertson and Blair. In addition it investigates some of the critical and theoretical questions surrounding the notion of biographical representation in the Life itself. Boswell emerges as a writer engaged throughout his literary career in constructing a self or series of selves out of his divided Scottish identity. This collection combines archival research with fresh critical perspectives and constitutes a timely review of Boswell's status in eighteenth-century literary studies

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Clingham, Greg (Publisher); Daiches, David
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511597589
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    RVK Categories: HK 1495 ; HK 2415
    Subjects: Authors, English / Biography / History and criticism; Biography as a literary form
    Other subjects: Boswell, James / 1740-1795 / Life of Samuel Johnson; Johnson, Samuel / 1709-1784; Boswell, James (1740-1795); Boswell, James (1740-1795): The life of Samuel Johnson
    Scope: 1 online resource (xix, 235 pages)
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    Introduction : Boswell's ambiguities / David Daiches -- Boswell and the rhetoric of friendship / Thomas Crawford -- Scottish divines and legal lairds : Boswell's Scots Presbyterian identity / Richard B. Sher -- Boswell and the Scotticism / Pat Rogers -- Boswell as critic / Joan H. Pittock -- Boswell's liberty-loving Account of Corsica and the art of travel literature / Thomas M. Curley -- Boswell and sympathy : the trial and execution of John Reid / Gordon Turnbull -- Boswell and Hume : the deathbed interview / Richard B. Schwartz -- "This philosophical melancholy" : style and self in Boswell and Hume / Susan Manning

    (cont.) The originality of Boswell's version of Johnson's quarrel with Lord Chesterfield / John J. Burke, Jr. -- Self-restraint and self-display in the authorial comments in the Life of Johnson / Marlies K. Danziger -- Johnson's conversation in Boswell's Life of Johnson / Paul J. Korshin -- Remembering the hero in Boswell's Life of Johnson / Donnal Heiland -- Truth and artifice in Boswell's Life of Johnson / Greg Clingham
  2. Samuel Johnson and the culture of property
    Author: Hart, Kevin
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Kevin Hart traces the vast literary legacy and reputation of Samuel Johnson. Through detailed analyses of the biographers, critics and epigones who carefully crafted and preserved Johnson's life for posterity, Hart explores the emergence of what came... more

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    Kevin Hart traces the vast literary legacy and reputation of Samuel Johnson. Through detailed analyses of the biographers, critics and epigones who carefully crafted and preserved Johnson's life for posterity, Hart explores the emergence of what came to be called 'The Age of Johnson'. Hart shows how late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain experienced the emergence and consolidation of a rich and diverse culture of property. In dedicating himself to Johnson's death, Hart argues, James Boswell turned his friend into a monument, a piece of public property. Through subtle analyses of copyright, forgery and heritage in eighteenth-century life, this study traces the emergence of competing forms of cultural property: a Hanoverian politics of property engages a Jacobite politics of land. Kevin Hart places Samuel Johnson within this rich cultural context, demonstrating how Johnson came to occupy a place at the heart of the English literary canon

     
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