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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.
Book Synopsis Biography Before Boswell by : Carl Edmund Rollyson
Download or read book Biography Before Boswell written by Carl Edmund Rollyson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Boswell's Life of Johnson by : John A. Vance
Download or read book Boswell's Life of Johnson written by John A. Vance and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it first appeared in 1985, Boswell's Life of Johnson brought together the most recent and most lively assessments of the literary merit and historical accuracy of Boswell's biography. In an invigorating exchange placed at the center of the collection, Donald Greene's description of the Life as a fictionalized biography that screens the real, complex Johnson from view is challenged by Frederick Pottle's defense of Boswell's biographical method, of his sturdy compilation of detail that presents the factual rather than the fictional Johnson. Other essays explore the effect of Johnson's humor on the shaping of his image in the Life, the recent developments in literary criticism and the effect they have had on eighteenth-century studies, and the continuing interest of Boswell's Life as a showcase for members of Johnson's famous circle. The volume concludes with an assessment of the Boswellian problem--of the difficulties the Life presents to readers, scholars, and teachers.
Book Synopsis Boswell's Presumptuous Task by : Adam Sisman
Download or read book Boswell's Presumptuous Task written by Adam Sisman and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With great wit, Sisman here tells the story of Boswell's presumptuous task--the making of the greatest biography of all time. Sisman traces the friendship between Boswell and Samuel Johnson, his mentor, and provides a fascinating account of Boswell's seven-year struggle to write "The Life of Samuel Johnson."
Book Synopsis Boswell's Life of Johnson by : James Boswell
Download or read book Boswell's Life of Johnson written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Johnson and Boswell by : John B. Radner
Download or read book Johnson and Boswell written by John B. Radner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book John Radner examines the fluctuating, close, and complex friendship enjoyed by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, from the day they met in 1763 to the day when Boswell published his monumental "Life of Johnson." Drawing on everything Johnson and Boswell wrote to and about the other, this book charts the psychological currents that flowed between them as they scripted and directed their time together, questioned and advised, confided and held back. It explores the key longings and shifting tensions that distinguished this from each man's other long-term friendships, while it tracks in detail how Johnson and Boswell brought each other to life, challenged and confirmed each other, and used their deepening friendship to define and assess themselves. It tells a story that reaches through its specificity into the dynamics of most sustained friendships, with their breaks and reconnections, their silences and fresh intimacies, their continuities and transformations.
Book Synopsis Boswell's Life of Johnson by : James Boswell
Download or read book Boswell's Life of Johnson written by James Boswell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Boswell's Life of Johnson" (Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood) by James Boswell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Boswell's Life of Johnson by : Boswell
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:
Book Synopsis 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 by : James Boswell
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:
Book Synopsis Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. by A. Birrell and illustr. with portraits selected by E. Radford by : James Boswell
Download or read book Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. by A. Birrell and illustr. with portraits selected by E. Radford written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Light on Boswell by : Greg Clingham
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.
Book Synopsis Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by : James Boswell
Download or read book Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dr Johnson's Friend and Robert Adam's Client Topham Beauclerk by : David Noy
Download or read book Dr Johnson's Friend and Robert Adam's Client Topham Beauclerk written by David Noy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Johnson said that he would walk to the ends of the earth to save Beauclerk. Other people who claimed to be his friends rejoiced at his early death. How did the beautiful youth of Francis Coates’ 1756 portrait become a man whose greatest claim to fame was causing an infestation of lice at Blenheim Palace through lack of personal hygiene? A great-grandson of Charles II and Nell Gwyn, he lived a privileged life thanks to fortuitously inherited wealth. He employed Robert Adam to build him a house at Muswell Hill which has almost completely disappeared from the records of Adam’s work due to a dispute about the bill. He was one of the leading book-collectors of the time, with a library of 30,000 volumes whose sale after his death was a major literary event. He also used his wealth to indulge interests in science and astronomy and a passion for gambling. As a result, he ran through his inheritance as quickly as he could sell it, falling into ever-increasing debt as his lawyer grew richer. Beauclerk knew all the leading figures of the British and French Enlightenments. He was a friend of Johnson, Adam Smith, David Hume, Horace Walpole, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Wilkes and David Garrick. He met Rousseau and Voltaire, and immersed himself in French salon culture. He could charm people when he chose to, but did not always try. Recently he has been overshadowed by his wife, Lady Di (née Spencer), whose life by Carola Hicks (Improper Pursuits, 2001) has made her artistic talent and unconventional life well-known. The story of their adultery and marriage has not previously been told from Beauclerk’s point of view, and many other inaccuracies have crept into authoritative works such as the ODNB; he is regularly and unfairly dismissed as a bad husband. This biography shows that he was much more than the close associate of Johnson known from the pages of Boswell: a man of widely varied interests, from the Grand Tour to the contemporary theatre, who lived Enlightenment life to the full in a way which would not have been possible a generation earlier or later. Based on research in unpublished letters, legal documents and financial records, including some concerning the Adam house, as well as published diaries, letters and memoirs, it shows that he may have left no enduring legacy of his many talents, as even his friends admitted, but he made the most of all the opportunities available and lived a fascinating life which illuminates every aspect of Georgian elite society, from auctions to zoology, from care of one’s wig to building an observatory, and from mishaps in Venice to sea-therapy in Brighton.
Book Synopsis Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar by : Peter Martin
Download or read book Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar written by Peter Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First modern full-length biography of scholar and member of late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.
Book Synopsis The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson by : J. Clark
Download or read book The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson written by J. Clark and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson.'
Book Synopsis Johnson And Boswell: The Story Of Their Lives by : Hesketh Pearson
Download or read book Johnson And Boswell: The Story Of Their Lives written by Hesketh Pearson and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hesketh Pearson’s biography is the first to combine the story of the two men whose lives were inseparable in the history of literature. He has included reliable contemporary accounts of Johnson, such as Fanny Burney’s, and skilfully made sense of Boswell’s own writings to form a clearer picture of the man of letters.
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