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- catalog abstract ""For almost one hundred and fifty years after his death, James Boswell (1740-1795) was known chiefly as the author of one of the supreme achievements in biography, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)." "Then in the 1920s and '30s in Ireland and Scotland came discoveries of masses of his papers, including the copious personal journals he kept for most of his life, long thought to have been destroyed." "His journals reveal him as the rarest and most complex of human beings: a man of eternal boyhood, loved and admired for his geniality and high spirits, yet also mocked and chastened by people who could or would not understand him. His life traced violent conflicts and grotesque juxtapositions; he was a study in volatility, a loose cannon to be kept at arm's length, a "singular" man who could both endear and repel."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11961568.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""For almost one hundred and fifty years after his death, James Boswell (1740-1795) was known chiefly as the author of one of the supreme achievements in biography, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)." "Then in the 1920s and '30s in Ireland and Scotland came discoveries of masses of his papers, including the copious personal journals he kept for most of his life, long thought to have been destroyed." "His journals reveal him as the rarest and most complex of human beings: a man of eternal boyhood, loved and admired for his geniality and high spirits, yet also mocked and chastened by people who could or would not understand him. His life traced violent conflicts and grotesque juxtapositions; he was a study in volatility, a loose cannon to be kept at arm's length, a "singular" man who could both endear and repel."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "A world of chimeras -- Edinburgh gloom -- Escape to London -- Early scribblings -- Harvest jaunt -- London : the promised land -- 'The Johnsonian aether' -- Utrecht : acquiring a noble character -- Zelide -- 'Let me be Boswell' : touring Germany and Switzerland -- "Above the vulgar crowd : meeting Rousseau and Voltaire -- O Italy -- 'Like embroidery upon gauze : Corsica, law, and propaganda -- 'Happy as an unmarried man can be' -- 'The rage for matrimony' -- Settling down : 'The antechamber of his mind' -- 'The down upon a plum' -- The Hebrides -- Post-Hebrides : ominous Edinburgh flatness -- Picking up fragments -- 'Inexplicable dilatory disease' -- Later thirties - 'the author and the gentleman united' -- No considerable figure : politics, family, hypochondria -- The road to Ulubrae-Auchinloeck -- The cracked enamel -- From death to biography -- 'Oh, if this book of mine were done!' -- Painful progress -- The Life of Johnson and its aftermath.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [556]-561) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 613 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300084897 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "828/.609 B 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, Scottish 18th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Biographers Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Boswell, James, 1740-1795.".
- catalog subject "PR3325 .M35 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "A world of chimeras -- Edinburgh gloom -- Escape to London -- Early scribblings -- Harvest jaunt -- London : the promised land -- 'The Johnsonian aether' -- Utrecht : acquiring a noble character -- Zelide -- 'Let me be Boswell' : touring Germany and Switzerland -- "Above the vulgar crowd : meeting Rousseau and Voltaire -- O Italy -- 'Like embroidery upon gauze : Corsica, law, and propaganda -- 'Happy as an unmarried man can be' -- 'The rage for matrimony' -- Settling down : 'The antechamber of his mind' -- 'The down upon a plum' -- The Hebrides -- Post-Hebrides : ominous Edinburgh flatness -- Picking up fragments -- 'Inexplicable dilatory disease' -- Later thirties - 'the author and the gentleman united' -- No considerable figure : politics, family, hypochondria -- The road to Ulubrae-Auchinloeck -- The cracked enamel -- From death to biography -- 'Oh, if this book of mine were done!' -- Painful progress -- The Life of Johnson and its aftermath.".
- catalog title "A life of James Boswell / Peter Martin.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".