James Boswell: The Life of Johnson

James Boswell: The Life of Johnson

by Greg Clingham
James Boswell: The Life of Johnson

James Boswell: The Life of Johnson

by Greg Clingham

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Overview

This is a radical introduction to the Life of Johnson. It discusses the main structural, dramatic, historical and imaginative aspects of the work, and establishes its intellectual contexts: Hume's philosophy, earlier biographical writings by Boswell, and the French and German Enlightenment and romantic traditions. Professor Clingham offers an account of the Life based upon reassessment of the nature of biography, of Boswell's style and thought, and of Johnson's own works. As he examines the Life's complex psychological, emotional and artistic facets, a fresh picture of Boswell as biographer emerges. The book also provides a table of the principal scenes and conversations in the Life, as well as a chronological table of Boswell's life and times and a guide to further reading.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521378932
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 08/28/2008
Series: Landmarks of World Literature
Pages: 152
Product dimensions: 4.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Textual note; Chronology; Some of the principle scenes and conversations in the Life; 1. Boswell's reputation; 2. Boswell's art in the Life; 3. The structure of Boswell's experience and the Life; 4. The structure, scenes, and conversations of the Life; 5. The ending of the Life and the meaning of Johnson's character; 6. Boswell's modernity; Conclusion: the place of the Life; Bibliography and guide to further reading.
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