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New Light on Boswell - Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicententary of the 'Life' of Johnson (Hardcover, New)
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New Light on Boswell - Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicententary of the 'Life' of Johnson (Hardcover, New)
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Boswell's Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost
literary biographies in the English language. This 1991 collection
of essays, commemorating its bicentenary, investigates Boswell's
achievements and limitations in both literary and personal
contexts, and goes beyond the Life to examine the full range of
Boswell's writings and interests (in legal, social, theological,
political and linguistic fields). Drawing Boswell out of Johnson's
shadow, the volume places him in a wider context, juxtaposing
Boswell with other contemporaries and compatriots in the Scottish
enlightenment, such as Hume, Robertson and Blair. In addition it
investigates some of the critical and theoretical questions
surrounding the notion of biographical representation in the Life
itself. Boswell emerges as a writer engaged throughout his literary
career in constructing a self or series of selves out of his
divided Scottish identity. This collection combines archival
research with fresh critical perspectives and constitutes a timely
review of Boswell's status in eighteenth-century literary studies.
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