Overview
Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell's ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets, and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he worked influenced what he wrote and how he wrote it. This book will also be of interest to historians of journalism and the publishing industry of eighteenth-century Britain.
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Author: Donald J. Newman ,
Donald J. Newman ,
Paul Tankard ,
James J. Caudle
Publisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Imprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.003kg
ISBN: 9781684482818
ISBN 10: 168448281
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 12 March 2021
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Boswell and the Press is a powerful, intellectually stimulating, and persuasively written book, offering a range of compelling and often luminous chapters by authors expert in Boswellian studies. The book breaks new ground in surveying a large corpus—for example, The Cub, at New-market; A Letter to the People of Scotland; An Account of Corsica—and finds fresh things to say about an author who most of us thought we knew as well as the back of our hand.” -- Anthony Lee * editor of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle * “This groundbreaking volume of new essays on James Boswell is of unusually high quality: the essays are individually eloquent and informative, and as a whole the volume opens up Boswell to new approaches with new information. If you thought that James Boswell was old hat, Boswell and the Press will have you rethinking the career of Johnson’s biographer.” -- George Justice * author of The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Centur * ""Among the best of those essays is Newman’s introductory overview of Boswell’s ephemera, which largely avoids the necessary evil of such introductions, namely, a brisk trot through all the following essays in an attempt to illustrate, or create, a unity in the collection. A mere three of the 29 pages are so employed, with the balance providing an excellent summary of the role that producing journalism played throughout the author’s life."" * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer * “. . . this collection surpasses the modestly stated aims to sort the ‘wheat [from] the chaff’ (2) and to ‘constitute a start’ (27) for the serious consideration of Boswell’s ephemeral writing, blazing a transformative path for Boswellian studies. With the recent shuttering of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, this kind of scholarship is more valuable than ever.” * Journal of British Studies *"
Boswell and the Press is a powerful, intellectually stimulating, and persuasively written book, offering a range of compelling and often luminous chapters by authors expert in Boswellian studies. The book breaks new ground in surveying a large corpus--for example, The Cub, at New-market; A Letter to the People of Scotland; An Account of Corsica--and finds fresh things to say about an author who most of us thought we knew as well as the back of our hand. --Anthony Lee editor of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle This groundbreaking volume of new essays on James Boswell is of unusually high quality: the essays are individually eloquent and informative, and as a whole the volume opens up Boswell to new approaches with new information. If you thought that James Boswell was old hat, Boswell and the Press will have you rethinking the career of Johnson's biographer. --George Justice author of The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century England
Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writings of James Boswell, Esq. is a powerful, intellectually stimulating, and persuasively written book. It offers a range of compelling and often luminous chapters by authors expert in Boswellian studies. It is remarkable how successfully the book breaks new ground in surveying a large corpus--for example, The Cub, at New-market, A Letter to the People of Scotland, An Account of Corsica--and finding fresh things to say about an author who most of us thought we knew as well as the back of our hand. --Anthony Lee editor of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle
Author Information
DONALD J. NEWMAN is an independent scholar in Texas with research interests in James Boswell and eighteenth-century journalism. He has published numerous articles about Boswell and is the editor of James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations, The Spectator: Emerging Discourses, and Fair Philosopher: Eliza Haywood and “The Female Spectator.”
