Designing the Life of Johnson: The Lyell Lectures, 2001-2
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For over two centuries Boswell's massive biography of Samuel Johnson has been both reverenced and reviled. Yet neither its admirers nor its critics have fully understood how the book was designed to work upon them. Boswell himself is partly to blame: throughout the Life he directs attention away from artistry to industry, from creative choices to dedicated researches. Yet his working manuscript, one of the twentieth century's greatest literary discoveries,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0199284830
ISBN13:9780199284832
Release Date:September 2005
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"
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