Boswell And The Press

Author : Donald J. Newman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684482832

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Boswell and the Press by Donald J. Newman Pdf

Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets, and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he worked influenced what he wrote and how he wrote it. This book will also be of interest to historians of journalism and the publishing industry of eighteenth-century Britain.

Author : Robert Boswell
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1555970214

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The Half-Known World by Robert Boswell Pdf

A rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by the novelist Robert Boswell, "one of America's finest writers" (Tom Perrotta) Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for more than twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, he brings this vast experience and a keen critical eye to bear on craft issues facing literary writers. Examples from masters such as Leo Tolstoy, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice Munro illustrate this engaging discussion of what makes great writing. At the same time, Boswell moves readers beyond the classroom, candidly sharing the experiences that have shaped his own writing life. A chance encounter in a hotel bar leads to a fascinating glimpse into his imaginative process. And through the story of a boyhood adventure, Boswell details how important it is for writers to give themselves over to what he calls the "half-known world" of fiction, where surprise and meaning converge.

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300210941

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Facts and Inventions by James Boswell Pdf

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.

Author : John Boswell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Abandoned children
ISBN : UOM:39076001448690

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The Kindness of Strangers by John Boswell Pdf

Author : Maia Boswell-Penc
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791481851

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Tainted Milk by Maia Boswell-Penc Pdf

An in-depth analysis of infant nourishment issues, focusing on environmentally contaminated breastmilk.

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Hypochondria
ISBN : UOM:39015005184448

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The Hypochondriack by James Boswell Pdf

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838641717

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James Boswell by James Boswell Pdf

Draws upon letters, diaries, memoirs, book reviews, and newspaper articles to present a picture of James Boswell from the vantage point of those who knew him best. This book tells what family, friends, rivals, critics, and satirists thought of the man who produced notable works.

Author : Anthony W. Lee
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684480227

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Community and Solitude by Anthony W. Lee Pdf

This collection explores relationships between Samual Johnson and several of his main contemporaries--James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, and Thomas Warton--and analyzes some of the literary productions emanating from the pressures within those relationships.

Author : Mathew Kuefler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0226457400

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The Boswell Thesis by Mathew Kuefler Pdf

Few books have had the social, cultural, and scholarly impact of John Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Arguing that neither the Bible nor the Christian tradition was nearly as hostile to homoeroticism as was generally thought, its initial publication sent shock waves through university classrooms, gay communities, and religious congregations. Twenty-five years later, the aftershocks still reverberate. The Boswell Thesis brings together fifteen leading scholars at the intersection of religious and sexuality studies to comment on this book's immense impact, the endless debates it generated, and the many contributions it has made to our culture. The essays in this magnificent volume examine a variety of aspects of Boswell's interpretation of events in the development of sexuality from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages, including a Roman emperor's love letters to another man; suspicions of sodomy among medieval monks, knights, and crusaders; and the gender-bending visions of Christian saints and mystics. Also included are discussions of Boswell's career, including his influence among gay and lesbian Christians and his role in academic debates between essentialists and social constructionists. Elegant and thought-provoking, this collection provides a fitting twenty-fifth anniversary tribute to the incalculable influence of Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality and its author.

Author : John B. Radner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300189087

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Johnson and Boswell by John B. Radner Pdf

In this book John Radner examines the fluctuating, close, and complex friendship enjoyed by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, from the day they met in 1763 to the day when Boswell published his monumental "Life of Johnson." Drawing on everything Johnson and Boswell wrote to and about the other, this book charts the psychological currents that flowed between them as they scripted and directed their time together, questioned and advised, confided and held back. It explores the key longings and shifting tensions that distinguished this from each man's other long-term friendships, while it tracks in detail how Johnson and Boswell brought each other to life, challenged and confirmed each other, and used their deepening friendship to define and assess themselves. It tells a story that reaches through its specificity into the dynamics of most sustained friendships, with their breaks and reconnections, their silences and fresh intimacies, their continuities and transformations.

Author : Adam Potkay,Noelle Chao
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781535854252

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Gale Researcher Guide for: The Literary Biography: James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson by Adam Potkay,Noelle Chao Pdf

Gale Researcher Guide for: The Literary Biography: James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : Michael R. Boswell,Adrienne I. Greve,Tammy L. Seale
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610919630

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Climate Action Planning by Michael R. Boswell,Adrienne I. Greve,Tammy L. Seale Pdf

Climate change continues to impact our health and safety, the economy, and natural systems. With climate-related protections and programs under attack at the federal level, it is critical for cities to address climate impacts locally. Every day there are new examples of cities approaching the challenge of climate change in creative and innovative ways—from rethinking transportation, to greening city buildings, to protecting against sea-level rise. Climate Action Planning is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community's greenhouse gas emissions and increase the resilience of communities against climate change impacts. This fully revised and expanded edition goes well beyond climate action plans to examine the mix of policy and planning instruments available to every community. Boswell, Greve, and Seale also look at process and communication: How does a community bring diverse voices to the table? What do recent examples and research tell us about successful communication strategies? Climate Action Planning brings in new examples of implemented projects to highlight what has worked and the challenges that remain. A completely new chapter on vulnerability assessment will help each community to identify their greatest risks and opportunities. Sections on land use and transportation have been expanded to reflect their growing contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. The guidance in the book is put in context of international, national, and state mandates and goals. Climate Action Planning is the most comprehensive book on the state of the art, science, and practice of local climate action planning. It should be a first stop for any local government interested in addressing climate change.

Author : Richard B. Sher
Publisher : Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009271424

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Making Boswell's Life of Johnson by Richard B. Sher Pdf

This Element documents the details and implications of Boswell's risky publication history. It argues that the success of the first edition of the Life of Samuel Johnson was the result not only of Boswell's biographical genius but also of collaboration with a devoted support network.

Author : Tanya M. Caldwell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684482283

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Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century by Tanya M. Caldwell Pdf

Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures—returning to the Boswell and Burney circle—but present arguments that dismantle traditional privileging of biographical modes. The contributors reconsider the processes of hero making in the beginning phases of a culture of celebrity. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material “from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs,” each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy. New work on Frances Burney D’Arblay’s son, Alexander, as revealed through letters; on Isabelle de Charriere; on Hester Thrale Piozzi; and on Alicia LeFanu and Frances Burney’s realignment of family biography extend current conversations about eighteenth century biography and autobiography. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Robert Boswell
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555970765

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Tumbledown by Robert Boswell Pdf

Robert Boswell's first novel since Century's Son showcases once again his "dazzling technical skill, intelligence and moral seriousness" (The New York Times Book Review) *A Library Journal "Best Indie Fiction of 2013" * At age thirty-three, James Candler seems to be well on the road to success. He's in line for a big promotion at Onyx Springs, the treatment facility where he's a therapist. He has a fiancée, a sizable house, and a Porsche. But . . . he's falling in love with another woman, he's underwater on his mortgage, and he's put his hapless best friend in charge of his signature therapeutic program. Even the GPS on his car can't seem to predict where he should turn next. And his clients are struggling in their own hilarious, heartbreaking ways to keep their lives on track. How can he help them if he can't help himself? In Tumbledown, Robert Boswell presents a large, unforgettable cast of characters who are all failing and succeeding in various degrees to make sense of our often-irrational world. In a moving narrative twist, he boldly reckons with the extent to which tragedy can be undone, the impossible accommodated.