The Cub at New-market: a Tale [in Verse. By James Boswell].
Author : James Boswell
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 1762
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Author : James Boswell
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 1762
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Author : Peter Martin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300093124
"Born in Edinburgh, the 'Athens of the North', a Scot who hated living in Scotland and nourished a lifelong love affair with London, Boswell was biographer, journalist, laird, advocate, social lion, incurable rake, lover, life of the party, traveller, steadfast friend, endearing charmer, exhibitionist fool, and drunken sot. In this moving biography, Peter Martin assesses Boswell's literary achievements and uncovers the pulsating and dynamic world he thrived in, from the royal courts and the drawing rooms of fashionable ladies and gentlemen to the fleshpots of London's unsavoury underworld and the chambers of the insane. He also poignantly reveals a man in agony, easily misunderstood, relentlessly plagued by hypochondria or melancholia, buffeted like a straw in the wind by a multitude of anxieties and 'horrible imaginings'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Johannes Hendrik Harder
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 1966
Category : English literature
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Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 1963
Category : English imprints
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Author : Elspeth Jajdelska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317051335
Filling an important gap in the history of print and reading, Elspeth Jajdelska offers a new account of the changing relationship between speech, rank and writing from 1600 to 1750. Jajdelska draws on anthropological findings to shed light on the different ways that speech was understood to relate to writing across the period, bringing together status and speech, literary and verbal decorum, readership, the material text and performance. Jajdelska's ambitious array of sources includes letters, diaries, paratexts and genres from cookery books to philosophical discourses. She looks at authors ranging from John Donne to Jonathan Swift, alongside the writings of anonymous merchants, apothecaries and romance authors. Jajdelska argues that Renaissance readers were likely to approach written and printed documents less as utterances in their own right and more as representations of past speech or as scripts for future speech. In the latter part of the seventeenth century, however, some readers were treating books as proxies for the author's speech, rather than as representations of it. These adjustments in the way speech and print were understood had implications for changes in decorum as the inhibitions placed on lower-ranking authors in the Renaissance gave way to increasingly open social networks at the start of the eighteenth century. As a result, authors from the lower ranks could now publish on topics formerly reserved for the more privileged. While this apparently egalitarian development did not result in imagined communities that transcended class, readers of all ranks did encounter new models of reading and writing and were empowered to engage legitimately in the gentlemanly criticism that had once been the reserve of the cultural elites. Shortlisted for the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) book prize 2018
Author : Johannes Hendrik Harder
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 1933
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Author : James Boswell
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Page : 288 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Corsica (France : Region)
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Author : James Boswell
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Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 1879
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Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 1994-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300060744
Writer, rake, wit, traveler, and man-about-town, Boswell went everywhere, knew everyone, and never missed an opportunity to enjoy himself. His journals are compulsively self-revealing.
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2008-07-02
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ISBN : 1427059047
James Boswells Correspondence with Erskine and A Tour to Corsica collects the epistolary literary discussions of Boswell and Andrew Erskine as well as anecdotes from Bosells tour to Corsica during the movement for national liberation.