Facts and Inventions
Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell
Biography & Memoir, Literary, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Nonfiction, History
| Author: | James Boswell | ISBN: | 9780300210941 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press | Publication: | June 10, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | James Boswell |
| ISBN: | 9780300210941 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Publication: | June 10, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
