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The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: Correspondence, Vol. 6: The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756–1795: Volume 1: 1756–1777: To Temple from Margaret Boswell, ? March/April 1771.
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Leo Damrosch
Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that th
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Susan Carlile
Charlotte Lennox (c.1729-1804) was an eighteenth-century London author whose most celebrated novel, The Female Quixote (1752), is just one of eighteen works published over forty-three years. Her stories of independent women influenced Jane Austen, es
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James Boswell, Hugh Milne
This volume, the second volume in the Research Edition series of journals in Scotland, England and Ireland from the autumn of 1766 to May 1769. The journals covered by the volume record much of Boswell's life as a young advocate during the first few
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Boswell, James, Sher, Richard B
James Dutton argues that Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27), stages a uniquely productive encounter between philosophy and literature. In its genre-defying originality, it anticipates some of the most important concepts and strategie
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Samuel Johnson, Bruce Redford
'It is now become so much the fashion to publish letters, that in order to avoid it, I put as little into mine as I can,'Samuel Johnson declared, according to Boswell. And Boswell answered,'Do what you will, Sir, you cannot avoid it. Should you even
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Irma S. Lustig
These eleven original essays by well-known eighteenth-century scholars, five of them editors of James Boswell's journal or letters, commemorate the bicentenary of Boswell's death on May 19, 1795. The volume illuminates both the life and the work of o
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Boswell, James, Waingrow, Marshall
Originally published: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., 1787.
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Samuel Johnson, Bruce Redford
With these two volumes Princeton University Press concludes the first scholarly edition of the letters of Samuel Johnson to appear in forty years. Volume IV chronicles the last three years of Johnson's life, an epistolary endgame that includes the br
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Lyle Larsen
Samuel Johnson, from early boyhood, lived with the knowledge that his homely face, large and ungainly body, loud voice, and odd mannerisms put people off. He later confessed that he had never made an effort to please others until past thirty, “cons