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The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the "Life of Johnson" (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the "Life of Johnson" (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell
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This edition, expanded to include the text of letters unavailable
at the time of the volume's first publication in 1969, records
James Boswell's quest over a period of more than twenty years to
amplify his knowledge of his major biographical subject, Samuel
Johnson, through a detailed correspondence with a wide network of
friends, informants, and other authorities. The volume, with
revised and updated annotation, shows not just Boswell's struggles
through his personal distresses to gather material for his Life of
Johnson, but notes many of his revisions of his sources, changes
made in manuscript and proof, and revisions of the first and second
editions. It presents letters that illuminate the contemporary
reception of his powerfully innovative, controversial, and
influential biography (which appeared first in 1791), taking the
story as far as exchanges in 1808 between Boswell's friend and
editor, Edmond Malone, and his son, James Boswell the younger,
about corrections for the sixth edition of 1811. Throughout, the
annotation brings to life an extensive range of eighteenth-century
figures, issues and topics.The Times Literary Supplement (23 July
1970) found the interest of this 'fascinating' volume threefold:
'It gives fresh evidence of Boswell's scrupulousness, ability and
tact; it leads us to a fuller understanding of what people expected
from biography, and what were eighteenth-century notions of
propriety and accuracy; and it enables us perhaps to define more
clearly the achievement of Boswell's masterpiece. ' This corrected
and enlarged version (the first edition has been out of print for
two decades) will serve as a valuable supplement and companion to
the Yale manuscript edition of the Life of Johnson, upon which all
future editions of Boswell's biography will need to draw.
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