Facts and Inventions
James Boswell, Paul Tankard · 2014
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"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"--
Book details
- Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 495
- ISBN
- 9780300210941
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