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Author |
: James Boswell |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 586 |
Release |
: 1904 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X000598450 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Boswell's Life of Johnson, Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales by : James Boswell
Author |
: Barbara Lounsberry |
Publisher |
: University Press of Florida |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2014-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813048819 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813048818 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Becoming Virginia Woolf by : Barbara Lounsberry
Encompassing thirty-eight handwritten volumes, Virginia Woolf’s diary is her longest work, her longest sustained, and last work to reach the public. In the only full-length work to explore deeply this luminous and boundary-stretching masterpiece, Barbara Lounsberry traces Woolf’s development as a writer through her first twelve diaries—a fascinating experimental stage, where the earliest hints of Woolf’s pioneering modernist style can be seen. Starting with fourteen-year-old Woolf’s first palm-sized leather diary, Becoming Virginia Woolf illuminates how her private and public writing was shaped by the diaries of other writers including Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, the French Goncourt brothers, Mary Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Woolf’s “diary parents”—Sir Walter Scott and Fanny Burney. These key literary connections open a new and indispensable window onto the story of one of literature’s most renowned modernists.
Author |
: Nathan Drake |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 530 |
Release |
: 1809 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433067333710 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Essays by : Nathan Drake
Author |
: Leo Damrosch |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 498 |
Release |
: 2019-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300217902 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300217900 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Club by : Leo Damrosch
The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review - A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 - A Kirkus Best Book of 2019 "Damrosch brings the Club's redoubtable personalities--the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie--to vivid life."--New York Times Book Review "Magnificently entertaining."--Washington Post In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as "the Club." In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the "odd couple" Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.
Author |
: Ulla E. Dydo |
Publisher |
: Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages |
: 704 |
Release |
: 2008-12-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780810125261 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0810125269 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gertrude Stein by : Ulla E. Dydo
The definitive book on Gertrude Stein
Author |
: James Boswell |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 588 |
Release |
: 1891 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000115313052 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Life of Johnson ... by : James Boswell
Author |
: James MacKillop |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2024-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476693125 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476693129 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Highlanders by : James MacKillop
Rebellion was recurrent in the Highlands because the Gaels (Scoti) were an often-oppressed indigenous minority in the nation, Scotland, to which they gave their name. They spoke a language, Gaelic, few outsiders would learn, and had their own family and social system, the clans. Warfare was bloody, culminating in the catastrophe of Culloden Moor during the doomed quest to restore the Stuart kingship to all of Britain. Economic hardship, including the near-genocidal Clearances, in which tenant farmers were replaced with sheep, drove the Gaels from the glens and islands, so that most today live in the diaspora, including millions in North America. Although the Gaels lack a single genetic identity, they clearly draw from distinct roots in the Irish, Norse and Picts. Despite their hardship, the Gaels are also presented in romantic portrayals by the artistic elite of other nations. This book offers ways in which the reader might find roots and ancestry in unfamiliar terrain. Chapters discuss the landscape and language of the Highlanders, the rise of clans, feuds and invasions, and eventual emigration.
Author |
: Leopold Damrosch |
Publisher |
: Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0299123847 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780299123840 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson by : Leopold Damrosch
During the second half of the eighteenth century, the most powerful literary work in Britain was nonfictional: philosophy, history, biography, and political controversy. Leo Damrosch argues that this tendency is no accident; at the beginning of the modern age, writers were consciously aware of the role of cultural fictions, and they sought to ground those fictions in a real world beyond the text. Their political conservatism (often neglected by modern scholars) was an extensively thought out response to a world in which meaning was inseparable from consensus, and in which consensus was increasingly under attack. Damrosch finds strong affinities between writers who are usually described as antagonists. The first chapter places Hume and Johnson in dialogue, showing that their responses to the challenge of their age have deep similarities, and that their thinking points forward in significant ways to twentieth-century pragmatism. Subsequent chapters explore the interrelationship of the fictive and the "real" in a wide range of works by Boswell, Gibbon, White, Burke, and Godwin. In its combination of literary, philosophical, and cultural criticism, this book will appeal to scholars in many fields as well as to nonacademic readers interested in intellectual history.
Author |
: Howard D. Weinbrot |
Publisher |
: University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0874138744 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780874138740 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aspects of Samuel Johnson by : Howard D. Weinbrot
Howard D. Weinbrot's Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics collects earlier and new essays on Johnson's varied achievements in lexicography, poetry, narrative, and prose style. It considers Johnson's uses of the general and the particular as they relate to the reader's role in the creative process, his complex approach to the concept of literary genre, and his resolutely in-human view of skepticism.
Author |
: James Boswell |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 680 |
Release |
: 1799 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433082377387 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Boswell's Life of Johnson by : James Boswell