Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell

James Boswell

juin 2014 · Yale University Press

À propos de cet e-book

James Boswell (1740–1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a generous and varied selection of Boswell’s journalistic writings, most of which have not been published since the eighteenth century. It offers a new angle on the history of journalism, an idiosyncratic view of literature, politics, and public life in late eighteenth-century Britain, and an original perspective on a complex and engaging literary personality.

À propos de l'auteur

Paul Tankard is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.