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Designing the Life of Johnson - The Lyell Lectures in Bibliography, 2001-2 (Paperback, New edition)
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Designing the Life of Johnson - The Lyell Lectures in Bibliography, 2001-2 (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Lyell Lectures in Bibliography
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Loot Price R528
Discovery Miles 5 280
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For over two centuries Boswell's massive biography of Samuel
Johnson has been both reverenced and reviled. Yet neither its
admirers nor its critics have fully understood how the book was
designed to work upon them. Boswell himself is partly to blame:
throughout the Life he directs attention away from artistry to
industry, from creative choices to dedicated researches. Yet his
working manuscript, one of the twentieth century's greatest
literary discoveries, tells a much different tale. Designing the
Life of Johnson, the first study of its kind, reconstructs
Boswell's models and methods by charting this textual labyrinth. It
begins by analyzing the stages that led to the first edition, goes
on to reveal the impact of portrait and theatre-piece upon the
structure of the Life, and ends by uncovering the transformation of
Johnson from savage into sage. The result is a more subtle, more
vital assessment of Boswell the designer--and an enhanced awareness
of biography's power to make life into art.
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