A journey to the western islands of Scotland and the journal of a tour to the hebrides / Samuel Johnson ; edited by Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, author.

Contributor:

Lynch, Jack (John T.), editor.

Rasmussen, Celia Barnes, editor.

Series:

Oxford World's Classics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hebrides (Scotland)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Hebrides (Scotland).

Scotland--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Scotland.

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Travel--Scotland--Hebrides.

Johnson, Samuel.

Boswell, James, 1740-1795--Travel--Scotland--Hebrides.

Boswell, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (577 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), a kind of locodescriptive ethnography and Johnson's most important work between his Shakespeare edition and his Lives of the Poets. The other, Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson (1785), a travel narrative experimenting with biography, the first application of the techniques he would use in his Life of Samuel Johnson (1791). These two works form a natural pair and, owing that they cover much of the same material, are often read together, focusing on the Scottish highlands. The text presents a lightly-edited version of both works, preserving the original orthography and corrected typographical errors to fit modern grammar standards. The introduction and notes provide clear and concise explanations on Johnson and Boswell's respective careers, their friendship and grand biographical projects. It also examines the Scottish Enlightenment, the status of England and Scotland during the Reformation through to the Union of the Crowns, and the Jacobite"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

Johnson and Boswell

The Trip

The Narratives

England, Scotland, Great Britain

The Seventeenth Century

The Eighteenth Century

Scotland in the 1770s

An Imposture Still: Macpherson's Ossian

Samuel Johnson's Scotland and Boswell's Samuel Johnson

Note on the Text

A Note about Money

Select Bibliography

Chronology

Maps

Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.

St. Andrews

Aberbrothick

Montrose

Aberdeen

Slanes Castle. The Buller of Buchan

Bamff

Elgin

Fores. Calder. Fort George

Inverness

Lough Ness

Fall of Fiers

Fort Augustus

Anoch

Glensheals

The Highlands

Glenelg

Sky. Armidel

Coriatachan in Sky

Raasay

Dunvegan

Ulinish

Talisker in Sky

Ostig in Sky

Col

Grissipol in Col

Castle of Col

Mull

Ulva

Inch Kenneth

James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Dedication: To Edmond Malone, Esq*

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Appendix

No. I

No. II

Explanatory Notes

Abbreviations

Monarchs of Scotland, England, and Great Britain, 1500-1820

Glossary

Biographical Index

End Add.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-251955-7

0-19-251956-5

0-19-195631-7