Author: James Boswell
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300060744
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
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.
The Journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300060744
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300060744
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
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.
London Journal
Author: James Boswell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
London Journal 1762-1763
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241215455
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank and artful record of adventures ranging from his vividly recounted love affair with a Covent Garden actress to his first amusingly bruising meeting with Samuel Johnson, to whom Boswell would later become both friend and biographer. The London Journal 1762-63 is a witty, incisive and compellingly candid testament to Boswell's prolific talents.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241215455
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank and artful record of adventures ranging from his vividly recounted love affair with a Covent Garden actress to his first amusingly bruising meeting with Samuel Johnson, to whom Boswell would later become both friend and biographer. The London Journal 1762-63 is a witty, incisive and compellingly candid testament to Boswell's prolific talents.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies
ISBN:
Category : Hebrides
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher: London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies
ISBN:
Category : Hebrides
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: London : Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher: London : Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James Boswell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300093018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Praise for the earlier edition: The journal is admirably edited and annotated.--W. H. Auden, New Yorker
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300093018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Praise for the earlier edition: The journal is admirably edited and annotated.--W. H. Auden, New Yorker
Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
Author: Devoney Looser
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
The Heart to Artemis
Author: Bryher
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787204294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Bryher (1894-1985)—adventurer, novelist, publisher—flees Victorian Britain for the raucous streets of Cairo and sultry Parisian cafes. Amidst the intellectual circles of the twenties and thirties, she develops relationships with Marianne Moore, Freud, Paul Robeson, her longtime partner H.D., Stein, and others. This compelling memoir, first published in 1962, reveals Bryher’s exotic childhood, her impact on modernism, and her sense of social justice by helping over 100 people escape from the Nazis. “A work so rich in interest, so direct, revealing, and, above all, thought-provoking that this reader found it the most consistently exciting book of its kind to appear in many years.”—The New York Times
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787204294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Bryher (1894-1985)—adventurer, novelist, publisher—flees Victorian Britain for the raucous streets of Cairo and sultry Parisian cafes. Amidst the intellectual circles of the twenties and thirties, she develops relationships with Marianne Moore, Freud, Paul Robeson, her longtime partner H.D., Stein, and others. This compelling memoir, first published in 1962, reveals Bryher’s exotic childhood, her impact on modernism, and her sense of social justice by helping over 100 people escape from the Nazis. “A work so rich in interest, so direct, revealing, and, above all, thought-provoking that this reader found it the most consistently exciting book of its kind to appear in many years.”—The New York Times
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description