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This edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson details how Boswell's
original words were changed during the publication process, and
offers a fresh reading of Boswell's work. Marshall Waingrow charts
the changes made during composition and at the proof stage, and
corrects and explains the printer's misreadings and author's errors
which crept into the final edition. This edition of the manuscript
is a companion work to the standard scholarly edition of the Life
of Johnson, known as the Hill-Powell version.
Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring
through the Lowlands and Highlands of Scotland as far west as the
islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Inchkenneth and Iona. Both
kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published
separate accounts of their journey. These works contain some of the
finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they are also
magnificent historical documents as well as portraits of two
extraordinary men of letters. Together they paint a vivid picture
of a society which was still almost unknown to the Europe of the
Enlightenment. Entertaining, profound, and marvellously readable,
they are a valuable chronicle of a lost age and a fascinating
people. For the first time, Ronald Black's edition brings together
Johnson's and Boswell's accounts of each of the six stages of the
two men's journey - Lowlands, Skye, Coll, Mull and back to the
mainland. Illustrated with prints by Thomas Rowlandson, it includes
a critical introduction, translations of the Latin texts and brief
notes.
This edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson" details how Boswell's
original words were changed during the publication process, and
offers a fresh reading of Boswell's work. Marshall Waingrow charts
the changes made during composition and at the proof stage, and
corrects and explains the printer's misreadings and author's errors
which crept into the final edition. This edition of the manuscript
is a companion work to the standard scholarly edition of the "Life
of Johnson", known as the "Hill-Powell" version.
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.
This volume, tenth in the Yale Boswell Editions Research Series of
correspondence, collects the letters exchanged between James
Boswell (1740-1795) and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo (1739-1806),
eminent banker, civic improver, philanthropist, literary and
cultural patron, and lay leader of Edinburgh's 'English Episcopal'
community. Forbes served Boswell as his most valued Scottish
advisor, an affectionate and admired counsellor to whom he would
often turn for personal, financial, moral, and religious guidance,
and whom he would name executor of his estate and co-guardian of
his children. Their friendship probably began in 1759 as new
members of the same Masonic lodge in Edinburgh, and it deepened
over time, and included their families. Boswell shared with Forbes
significant portions of his private journal, and discussed with him
his authorial ambitions as he developed the innovative biographical
technique that would characterize his major publications on Samuel
Johnson. He sought Forbes's opinions about his original 1773
account of what would become his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides,
with Samuel Johnson (1785), and about his journal of his 1777 visit
with Johnson at Ashbourne, later used in The Life of Samuel Johnson
(1791). Boswell, in turn, broadened and enriched Forbes's social
range, providing a gateway into his remarkable circle of friends in
London, in particular the members of the 'Literary Club'. As
Richard B. Sher explains in his introduction, none of Boswell's
other close friends straddled Boswell's various worlds--his family
life and professional career in Edinburgh, his lairdship of the
Auchinleck estate in Ayrshire, his literary life in London--in this
way. The volume, while thoroughly documenting the friendship that
lies at its core, also illuminates the lives of Boswell and Forbes
individually, especially Boswell's final decade in London. It
publishes a total of 111 comprehensively annotated letters, few of
which have appeared previously in print: 79 exchanged between
Forbes and Boswell between 1772 and 1794, and 32 involving other
correspondents. The edition draws extensively on unpublished
manuscripts in both the Boswell Collection at Yale and the
Fettercairn Papers in the National Library of Scotland, including
revealing letters from Forbes to his beloved wife 'Betsy', Lady
Forbes, and to his close friend James Beattie, who would become
Forbes's own biographical subject in the decade after Boswell's
death.
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
This volume is the third and penultimate in the Yale Boswell
Editions' transcription of Boswell's heavily revised manuscript of
his biography of Johnson. Designed as a research supplement to the
Hill-Powell version of the 'Life' and employing the complex but
accessible system devised for the series by the late Marshall
Waingrow, the edition traces Boswell's processes of composition
from first draft to final publication. It restores much deleted
material, passages lost or overlooked at proof and revise stage,
and corrects a host of compositorial and other errors and
misreadings. Professor Bonnell's annotation clarifies a wide range
of textual and editorial issues, and sheds new light on Boswell's
processes of selection and deletion.
This volume, first in the Yale Research Series of Boswell's
journals, covers his emotionally eventful youthful travels through
the German and Swiss territories, from mid-June 1764 (after his law
studies in Utrecht) to New Year's Day, 1765, when he crossed the
Alps for the next stages of his European tour, in Italy, Corsica
and France. The volume is the Research Series parallel to Boswell
on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764, ed. F. A. Pottle
(1953), whose annotation the editor, Marlies K. Danziger, has
greatly deepened, expanded, supplemented and in many cases
corrected. In keeping with the editorial policies of the Research
Series, it restores Boswell's original spelling, punctuation and
paragraphing (and his generally less than perfect French). The
editor's detailed notes illuminate the contemporary political and
historical context as well as a vast array of contemporary issues,
concepts and personalities no longer familiar to modern readers
(especially English-speaking ones). As well as the text of the
fully-written journal, the volume includes Boswell's personal daily
memoranda and his frequently revealing 'Ten Lines a Day' poems; the
autobiographical 'Ebauche de ma vie' written for Rousseau, along
with its various drafts, outlines, and attendant correspondence;
his detailed expense accounts (a window on the fluctuating
currencies and erratic economy of a Europe not yet formed into our
modern nation-states); and four maps, adapted from contemporary
cartographic records, illustrating Boswell's complicated and often
arduous itinerary. Boswell's European travels followed his
exhilarating stay in London of 1762-1763 and his mostly bleak
winter in the United Provinces in 1763-64. Though forever to be
best known for his later accounts of his principal biographical
subject, Samuel Johnson, Boswell has emerged since the recovery of
his private papers as a compelling autobiographer, and here shows
his fascination with, and abilities to record with typical
liveliness and percipience, men and women across a strikingly
diverse social range. The European journal, which Boswell had
unfulfilled hopes later in life of revising and publishing in the
manner of his Corsican and Hebridean diaries, records the young
Scot's quest for experience in hopes of a cosmopolitan broadening,
cultural enrichment, and religious and spiritual security, and
conversations culminating in his deeply gratifying meetings with
Rousseau and Voltaire. At the same time, it documents in close
personal detail an unstable Europe rebuilding and restoring itself
a little more than a year after the end of the Seven Years' War, a
Europe whose quest for stability amid ominous political and
religious fluctuation mirrors and parallels the diarist's own.
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.
This collection brings together many of James Boswell's weekly
letters to and from James Bruce and Andrew Gibb, the overseers of
his Ayrshire estate. Dealing with the day-to-day issues of estate,
rents, milking, hedge-cutting and bottle-washing, as well as more
general comments on Boswell's bugeoning career, these letters
reveal his closely-maintained links with his birthplace, despite
his long absences from it.
Offering the texts of letter between Boswell and 123
correspondents, this volume covers Boswell through the early stages
of his legal career in Edinburgh and closes shortly after the time
of his marriage to his penniless Ayrshire cousin, Margaret
Montgomerie. Among various topics, the volume traces the aftermath
of Boswell's vigorous partisan legal and journalistic involvement
with the Douglas Cause, the beginnings of his patronage of an
obscure struggling playwright and poet, William Julius Mickle, and
the publication and reception of his successful Account of Corsica
and his efforts to rouse British interest in the Corsican cause.
These letters chart the friendship between Boswell and the man he
called his "most intimate friend", William Johnson Temple. Covering
the period from Boswell and Temple's student days at Edinburgh
University until their mid-30s, the dialogue reveals the two men's
thoughts on their families, ambitions, sex-life and friendship.
Each is the other's "brother confessor" and the letters provide
glimpses into Boswell's personality and the subjective life of an
18th-century country parson.
Considered one of the best written biographies of all-time, The
Life of Samuel Johnson gives insight into the glowing mystique of
the prominent English writer. By incorporating key elements from
his past and personal relationships, James Boswell creates an
extensive narrative of the revered figure. Drawn from Boswell's own
journals, the author recounts the life and experiences of Samuel
Johnson. He uses his personal connection to investigate Johnson's
origin and rise to power. His career is filtered through brief
episodes highlighting obstacles and successes alongside his notable
peers. It's an intimate record of the celebrated writer and fixture
within literary circles. Through his compelling writing, James
Boswell successfully illustrates the character and reality of
Samuel Johnson. The biography explores his strengths and weaknesses
as well as his motivations and fears. Boswell's input is crucial to
the story structure, delivering an informative and impactful
narrative. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of The Life of Samuel Johnson is
both modern and readable.
Considered one of the best written biographies of all-time, The
Life of Samuel Johnson gives insight into the glowing mystique of
the prominent English writer. By incorporating key elements from
his past and personal relationships, James Boswell creates an
extensive narrative of the revered figure. Drawn from Boswell's own
journals, the author recounts the life and experiences of Samuel
Johnson. He uses his personal connection to investigate Johnson's
origin and rise to power. His career is filtered through brief
episodes highlighting obstacles and successes alongside his notable
peers. It's an intimate record of the celebrated writer and fixture
within literary circles. Through his compelling writing, James
Boswell successfully illustrates the character and reality of
Samuel Johnson. The biography explores his strengths and weaknesses
as well as his motivations and fears. Boswell's input is crucial to
the story structure, delivering an informative and impactful
narrative. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of The Life of Samuel Johnson is
both modern and readable.
'I mentioned our design to Voltaire,' wrote Boswell. 'He looked at me as if I had talked of going to the North Pole . . .' As it turned out, Johnson enjoyed their Scottish journey (although the land was not quite so wild and barbaric as perhaps he had hoped), and Boswell delighted in it. The year was 1773, they were sixty-three and thirty-two years old, and had been friends for ten years. Their journals, published together here, perfectly complement each other. Johnson's majestic prose and hawk eye for curious detail take in everything from the stone arrowheads found in the Hebrides, to the 'medicinal' waters of Loch Ness and 'the mischiefs of emigration'. Meanwhile, it is very lucky that as Johnson was observing Scotland, Boswell was observing Johnson. His record is perceptive, highly entertaining and full of sardonic wit; for him, as for us, it is an appetizer for The Life of Johnson.
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