Designing the Life of Johnson: The Lyell Lectures, 2001-2

by Bruce Redford

Book Overview

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"