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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 October 2009
      27 June 1991
      ISBN:
      9780511597589
      9780521380478
      9780521023160
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597589
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.55kg, 256 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.385kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
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    Boswell's Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost literary biographies in the English language. This 1991 collection of essays, commemorating its bicentenary, investigates Boswell's achievements and limitations in both literary and personal contexts, and goes beyond the Life to examine the full range of Boswell's writings and interests (in legal, social, theological, political and linguistic fields). Drawing Boswell out of Johnson's shadow, the volume places him in a wider context, juxtaposing Boswell with other contemporaries and compatriots in the Scottish enlightenment, such as Hume, Robertson and Blair. In addition it investigates some of the critical and theoretical questions surrounding the notion of biographical representation in the Life itself. Boswell emerges as a writer engaged throughout his literary career in constructing a self or series of selves out of his divided Scottish identity. This collection combines archival research with fresh critical perspectives and constitutes a timely review of Boswell's status in eighteenth-century literary studies.

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