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The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757-1763 - Research Edition: Correspondence, Volume 9 (Hardcover, Research Ed)
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The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757-1763 - Research Edition: Correspondence, Volume 9 (Hardcover, Research Ed)
Series: The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell
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This volume, ninth in the Research Series of correspondence in the
Yale Boswell Editions, assembles the bulk of the surviving letters
between the young Boswell and his circle of friends and
acquaintances in a period crucial to his personal and authorial
development, up to the time he wrote his now famous journal in
London in 1762-63. Opening with an exchange - rooted in his
rebellious adolescent fascination with the Edinburgh theatre - with
the gentleman-actor West Digges, it closes with letters written in
July 1763 near the end of his second visit to London (the one in
which he first met Samuel Johnson), a short time before his
reluctant departure for legal study in Utrecht. The volume features
centrally the correspondence between Boswell and his friend and
literary collaborator Andrew Erskine (1740-93), a poet-soldier of
the kind the young Boswell briefly aspired to be. Their surviving
letters, printed here alongside the revised versions in the
facetious Letters between the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and James
Boswell, Esq., Boswell's first book-length publication, and the
first to bear his name, offer revealingly early evidence of the
kinds of selective self-revision Boswell would employ in his later
writings and perfect in the Life of Johnson (1791). Overall, these
letters document Boswell's fluid experiments in selfhood as he
ponders his life's future possible trajectories - as soldier,
lawyer, wit, author, bon-vivant, Scots laird, or M.P. Some
thirty-five correspondents are represented in more than 150 letters
and other documents (such as verse-epistles), comprehensively
annotated to the long-established standards of the Yale Boswell
Editions.
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