James Boswell: The Life of Johnson

by Greg Clingham

This is a radical introduction to the Life of Johnson. It discusses the main structural, dramatic, historical and imaginative aspects of the work, and establishes its intellectual contexts: Hume's philosophy, earlier biographical writings by Boswell, and the French and German Enlightenment and romantic traditions. Professor Clingham offers an account of the Life based upon reassessment of the nature of biography, of Boswell's style and thought, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521378931
• ISBN13: 9780521378932
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"