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Boswell's Enlightenment / Robert Zaretsky.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674368231
  • 9780674425231
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 828/.609 23
LOC classification:
  • B1302.E65 Z37 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: The View from Arthur's Seat -- 1. In the Kirk's Shadow -- 2. At Home with Home -- 3. A Journal Is Born -- 4. Enter Johnson -- 5. Derelict in Utrecht -- 6. Belle de Zuylen -- 7. Waiting for Frederick -- 8. Th e Distance between Môtiers and Ferney -- 9. On Libertines and Liberty -- 10. After Corsica, before Futurity -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Throughout his life James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might he could not reconcile the truths of his era with those of his religious upbringing. Few periods better crystallize this turmoil than 1763-1765, the years of his Grand Tour and the focus of Robert Zaretsky's thrilling intellectual adventure.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674425231

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: The View from Arthur's Seat -- 1. In the Kirk's Shadow -- 2. At Home with Home -- 3. A Journal Is Born -- 4. Enter Johnson -- 5. Derelict in Utrecht -- 6. Belle de Zuylen -- 7. Waiting for Frederick -- 8. Th e Distance between Môtiers and Ferney -- 9. On Libertines and Liberty -- 10. After Corsica, before Futurity -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Throughout his life James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might he could not reconcile the truths of his era with those of his religious upbringing. Few periods better crystallize this turmoil than 1763-1765, the years of his Grand Tour and the focus of Robert Zaretsky's thrilling intellectual adventure.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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