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Author : James Boswell
Publisher : London ; New York : White Lion Publishers, 1974 [i.e. 1975]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Boswell's Book of Bad Verse written by James Boswell and published by London ; New York : White Lion Publishers, 1974 [i.e. 1975]. This book was released on 1975 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Martin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300093124
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (931 download)
Download or read book A Life of James Boswell written by Peter Martin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born in Edinburgh, the 'Athens of the North', a Scot who hated living in Scotland and nourished a lifelong love affair with London, Boswell was biographer, journalist, laird, advocate, social lion, incurable rake, lover, life of the party, traveller, steadfast friend, endearing charmer, exhibitionist fool, and drunken sot. In this moving biography, Peter Martin assesses Boswell's literary achievements and uncovers the pulsating and dynamic world he thrived in, from the royal courts and the drawing rooms of fashionable ladies and gentlemen to the fleshpots of London's unsavoury underworld and the chambers of the insane. He also poignantly reveals a man in agony, easily misunderstood, relentlessly plagued by hypochondria or melancholia, buffeted like a straw in the wind by a multitude of anxieties and 'horrible imaginings'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Irma S. Lustig
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813187451
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Boswell written by Irma S. Lustig and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These eleven original essays by well-known eighteenth-century scholars, five of them editors of James Boswell's journal or letters, commemorate the bicentenary of Boswell's death on May 19, 1795. The volume illuminates both the life and the work of one of the most important literary figures of the age and contributes significantly to the scholarship on this rich period. In the introduction, Irma S. Lustig sets the tone for the volume. She reveals that the essays examining Boswell as "Citizen of the World" are deliberately paired with those that analyze his artistic skills, to emphasize that "Boswell's sophistication as a writer is inseparable from his cosmopolitanism." The essays in Part I focus on the relationship of the Enlightenment, at home and abroad, to Boswell's personal development. Marlies K. Danziger restores to significant life the continental philosophers and theologians Boswell consulted in his search for religious certainty. Peter Perreten examines Boswell's enraptured study of Italian antiquity and his responses to the European landscape. Richard B. Sher and Perreten document the personal and aesthetic influence of Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish jurist and leading Enlightenment figure, on Boswell. Michael Fry discusses Boswell's relationship with Henry Dundas, political manager for Scotland, and Thomas Crawford examines Boswell's long-standing interest in the volatile political issues of the period, including the French Revolution, through his correspondence with William Johnson Temple. In evaluation Boswell's performance as Laird of Auchinleck, John Strawhorn documents his efforts to improve the estate by use of new agricultural methods. The essays in Part II study aspects of Boswell's artistry in Life of Johnson, the magnum opus that set a standard for biography. Carey McIntosh examines Boswell's use of rhetoric, and William P. Yarrow offers a close scrutiny of metaphor. Isobel Grundy invokes Virginia Woolf in demonstrating Boswell's acceptance of uncertainty as a biographer. John B. Radner reveals Boswell's self-assertive strategies in his visit with Johnson at Ashbourne in September 1777, and, finally, Lustig examines as a "subplot" of the biography Johnson's patient efforts to win the friendship of Margaret Montgomerie Boswell. An appendix by Hitoshi Suwabe serves scholars by providing the most exact account to date of Boswell's meetings with Johnson.
Author : Greg Clingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521380472
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)
Download or read book New Light on Boswell written by Greg Clingham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-06-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays first published in 1991 to commemorate the bicentenary of Boswell's Life of Johnson.
Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Boswell's Book of Bad Verse (a Verse Self-portrait) written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David A. Brewer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201434
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825 written by David A. Brewer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825 reconstructs how eighteenth-century British readers invented further adventures for beloved characters, including Gulliver, Falstaff, Pamela, and Tristram Shandy. Far from being close-ended and self-contained, the novels and plays in which these characters first appeared were treated by many as merely a starting point, a collective reference perpetually inviting augmentation through an astonishing wealth of unauthorized sequels. Characters became an inexhaustible form of common property, despite their patent authorship. Readers endowed them with value, knowing all the while that others were doing the same and so were collectively forging a new mode of virtual community. By tracing these practices, David A. Brewer shows how the literary canon emerged as much "from below" as out of any of the institutions that have been credited with their invention. Indeed, he reveals the astonishing degree to which authors had to cajole readers into granting them authority over their own creations, authority that seems self-evident to a modern audience. In its innovative methodology and its unprecedented attention to the productive interplay between the audience, the book as a material artifact, and the text as an immaterial entity, The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825 offers a compelling new approach to eighteenth-century studies, the history of the book, and the very idea of character itself.
Author : D.B. Wyndham Lewis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170380
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Stuffed Owl written by D.B. Wyndham Lewis and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors of this legendary and hilarious anthology write: "It would seem at a hasty glance that to make an anthology of Bad Verse is on the whole a simple matter . . . On the contrary . . . Bad Verse has its canons, like Good Verse. There is bad Bad Verse and good Bad Verse. It has been the constant preoccupation of the compilers to include in this book chiefiy good Bad Verse." Here indeed one finds the best of the worst of the greatest poets of the English language, masterpieces of the maladroit by Dryden, Wordsworth, and Keats, among many others, together with an index ("Maiden, feathered, uncontrolled appetites of, 59;. . . Manure, adjudged a fit subject for the Muse, 91") that is itself an inspired work of folly.
Author : John T. Lynch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199600805
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800 written by John T. Lynch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most comprehensive, up-to-date account of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, a team of leading experts surveys the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity. They provide a systematic overview, and restore these poetic works to a position of centrality in modern criticism.
Author : Robert G. Ingram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351904639
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Religious Identities in Britain, 1660–1832 written by Robert G. Ingram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of studies focusing on individuals, this volume highlights the continued importance of religion and religious identity on British life throughout the long eighteenth century. From the Puritan divine and scholar Roger Morrice, active at the beginning of the period, to Dean Shipley who died in the reign of George IV, the individuals chosen chart a shifting world of enlightenment and revolution whilst simultaneously reaffirming the tremendous influence that religion continued to bring to bear. For, whilst religion has long enjoyed a central role in the study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British history, scholars of religion in the eighteenth century have often felt compelled to prove their subject's worth. Sitting uneasily at the juncture between the early modern and modern worlds, the eighteenth century has perhaps provided historians with an all-too-convenient peg on which to hang the origins of a secular society, in which religion takes a back-seat to politics, science and economics. Yet, as this study makes clear, in spite of the undoubted innovations and developments of this period, religion continued to be a prime factor in shaping society and culture. By exploring important connections between religion, politics and identity, and asking broad questions about the character of religion in Britain, the contributions put into context many of the big issues of the day. From the beliefs of the Jacobite rebels, to the notions of liberty and toleration, to the attitudes to the French Wars, the book makes an unambiguous and forceful statement about the centrality of religion to any proper understanding of British public life between the Restoration and the Reform Bill.
Author : Leo Damrosch
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300244967
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Club written by Leo Damrosch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as “the Club.” In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the “odd couple” Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.
Author : Norman Milne
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782223150
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Libertines and Harlots written by Norman Milne and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the clubs explored in this book is The Calf’s Head Club who celebrated the death of Charles I every year on the 30th January. A book of this nature would also be incomplete without the Earl of Rochester, the Duke of Wharton, Sir Francis Dashwood and Charles II who loved nothing more than a leg of mutton and a whore. In the 18th century the notorious members of the Hell Fire Clubs, the Knights of St. Francis and the Demoniac Club all fornicated around Scotland, England and Ireland. However, out of all the clubs in the 18th century that were in and out of vogue the Beggar’s Benison in the kingdom of Fife had to be the strangest. Their initiation ritual was rather bizarre and for most people unthinkable, to say the least. Norman was born in Edinburgh on the 21st July 1961. At sixteen Norman went into the sheet-metal working industry. He has also worked as a registered silversmith with Edinburgh Assay Office, been bouncer, a tour guide and has lectured on Scottish history. In 2001 he decided to accomplish something more arduous. He studied part time at the Open University for two years then at Edinburgh Napier University full time for four years. Norman’s academic achievements are a certificate in social science, an LLB (Bachelor of Laws) and an MSc in (Business Management). Both degrees inspired Norman to write his first book Scottish Culture and Traditions which was published in 2010 (ISBN 978-1-899820-79-5). His other interests are the restoration of classic motorbikes, cooking, history, and trying to play the violin. He is currently a 5th Dan in Shotokan Karate and has taught adults and children for nearly thirty years.
Author : Roger Craik
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book James Boswell (1740-1795) written by Roger Craik and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of James Boswell seen from a specifically Scottish viewpoint. Though born in Scotland, he often wished to be thought of as an Englishman as he came into prominence. While not overlooking his achievements in England and Europe, the book concentrates on his Scottish background.
Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780684313122
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (131 download)
Download or read book British Writers written by Jay Parini and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 2004 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the fourteenth century to the present day. Includes in-depth critical and biographical analysis
Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1798 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Boswell's Life of Johnson written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 1798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Boswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Boswell's Life of Johnson written by Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides. By the Right Honourable John Wilson Croker ... New Edition. With Portraits written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Boswell's Life of Johnson: including their Tour to the Hebrides. By the Right Honourable John Wilson Croker ... A new edition, thorougly revised, with much additional matter. With portraits written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
