James Boswell (1740-1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a generous and varied selection of Boswell's journalistic writings, most of which have not been published since the eighteenth century. It offers a new angle on the history of journalism, an idiosyncratic view of literature, politics, and public life in late eighteenth-century Britain, and an original perspective on a complex and engaging literary personality.
- ISBN10 0300210949
- ISBN13 9780300210941
- Publish Date 10 June 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 495
- Language English