| Description |
x, 613 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [556]-561) and index. |
| Contents |
A world of chimeras -- Edinburgh gloom -- Escape to London -- Early scribblings -- Harvest jaunt -- London : the promised land -- 'The Johnsonian aether' -- Utrecht : acquiring a noble character -- Zelide -- 'Let me be Boswell' : touring Germany and Switzerland -- "Above the vulgar crowd : meeting Rousseau and Voltaire -- O Italy -- 'Like embroidery upon gauze : Corsica, law, and propaganda -- 'Happy as an unmarried man can be' -- 'The rage for matrimony' -- Settling down : 'The antechamber of his mind' -- 'The down upon a plum' -- The Hebrides -- Post-Hebrides : ominous Edinburgh flatness -- Picking up fragments -- 'Inexplicable dilatory disease' -- Later thirties - 'the author and the gentleman united' -- No considerable figure : politics, family, hypochondria -- The road to Ulubrae-Auchinloeck -- The cracked enamel -- From death to biography -- 'Oh, if this book of mine were done!' -- Painful progress -- The Life of Johnson and its aftermath. |
| Subject |
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
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Authors, Scottish -- 18th century -- Biography.
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Biographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0300084897 cloth alkaline paper |
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