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In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the
Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two
spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides
resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
(1775), a kind of locodescriptive ethnography and Johnson's most
important work between his Shakespeare edition and his Lives of the
Poets. The other, Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with
Samuel Johnson (1785), a travel narrative experimenting with
biography, the first application of the techniques he would use in
his Life of Samuel Johnson (1791). These two works form a natural
pair and, owing that they cover much of the same material, are
often read together, focusing on the Scottish highlands. The text
presents a lightly-edited version of both works, preserving the
original orthography and corrected typographical errors to fit
modern grammar standards. The introduction and notes provide clear
and concise explanations on Johnson and Boswell's respective
careers, their friendship and grand biographical projects. It also
examines the Scottish Enlightenment, the status of England and
Scotland during the Reformation through to the Union of the Crowns,
and the Jacobite
Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James
Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s
ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets,
and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our
comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as
an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment
in which he worked influenced what he wrote and how he wrote it.
This book will also be of interest to historians of journalism and
the publishing industry of eighteenth-century Britain.
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