Facts and Inventions : Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell / James Boswell; Paul Tankard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boswell, James, Author.

Contributor:

Tankard, Paul, Editor.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boswell, James, 1740-1795.

Boswell, James.

History, Modern--18th century.

History, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlviii, 442 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Keeping the Newspapers Warm

Short Titles and Abbreviations

1. Reports and Interviews

2. Execution Intelligence

3. The Rampager

4. The Lives of Johnson

5. Essays and Letters

Attributions and Textual Notes

Chronology of Articles

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-21094-9

OCLC:

1149469434