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Facts and inventions : selections from the journalism of James Boswell
- Title
- Facts and inventions : selections from the journalism of James Boswell / edited by Paul Tankard ; with the assistance of Lisa Marr.
- Author
- Boswell, James, 1740-1795
- Publication
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2014]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Tankard, Paul
- Description
- xlviii, 442 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-418) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-6342
- ISBN
- 9780300141269 (cloth)
- 0300141262 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 2014003422
- OCLC
- 861676836
- Author
- Boswell, James, 1740-1795, author.
- Title
- Facts and inventions : selections from the journalism of James Boswell / edited by Paul Tankard ; with the assistance of Lisa Marr.
- Publisher
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-418) and index.
- Added Author
- Tankard, Paul, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-6342