Boswell : citizen of the world, man of letters

by James Boswell

Other authorsIrma S. Lustig (Editor)
Hardcover, 1995

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Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1995.

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These eleven original essays by well-known eighteenth-century scholars, five of them editors of James Boswell's journal or letters, commemorate the bicentenary of Boswell's death on May 19, 1795. The volume illuminates both the life and the work of one of the most important literary figures of the age and contributes significantly to the scholarship on this rich period. In the introduction, Irma S. Lustig sets the tone for the volume. She reveals that the essays examining Boswell as ""Citizen of the World"" are deliberately paired with those that analyze his artistic skills, to emphasize that

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4825
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