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James Boswell: The Life of Johnson

James Boswell: The Life of Johnson

Clingham, Greg
Stern, J. P.

Paperback

Series: Landmarks of World Literature

Biographies GeneralLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521378931
ISBN13: 9780521378932
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 28 2008
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This is a radical introduction to the Life of Johnson. It discusses the main structural, dramatic, historical and imaginative aspects of the work, and establishes its intellectual contexts: Hume's philosophy, earlier biographical writings by Boswell, and the French and German Enlightenment and romantic traditions. Professor Clingham offers an account of the Life based upon reassessment of the nature of biography, of Boswell's style and thought, and of Johnson's own works. As he examines the Life's complex psychological, emotional and artistic facets, a fresh picture of Boswell as biographer emerges. The book also provides a table of the principal scenes and conversations in the Life, as well as a chronological table of Boswell's life and times and a guide to further reading.

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