TY - BOOK AU - Aston,Nigel AU - Barnes,Celia AU - Caudle,James AU - Caudle,James J. AU - Ingram,Allan AU - Newman,Donald AU - Newman,Donald J. AU - Seymour,Terry AU - Tankard,Paul AU - Wilson,Jennifer AU - Wilson,Jennifer Preston TI - Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell SN - 9781684482856 AV - PR3325 .B64 2021 U1 - 828/.609 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Lewisburg, PA PB - Bucknell University Press KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh KW - James Boswell, Sutiman Papers, Broadside, The Hypochondriack, People of Scotland, The Death of An Amiable Young Lady, periodical writer, pamphlet writer, Boswell studies, Boswell’s periodical publication, Boswell’s ephemeral writing, print environment, press, publishing industry, print, print culture, periodical publishing, eighteenth-century Britain, broadsides, essays, journalism, literary career N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1 Boswell’s Ephemeral Writing: An Overview --; 2 Anonymity and the Press: The Case of Boswell --; 3 James Boswell’s Design for a Scottish Periodical in the Scots Language: The Importance of His Prospectus for the Sutiman Papers (ca. 1770?) --; 4 Boswell in Broadside --; 5 An Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady: Serious Effort or Elaborate Joke? --; 6 “Making the Press my Amanuensis”: Male Friendship and Publicity in The Cub, at New-market --; 7 The Hypochondriack and Its Context: James Boswell, 1777–1783 --; 8 The Embodied Mind of Boswell’s The Hypochondriack and the Turn-of- the- Century Novel --; 9 Principle, Polemic, and Ambition: Boswell’s A Letter to the People of Scotland and the End of the Fox–North Coalition, 1783 --; Bibliography --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684482856?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781684482856 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781684482856/original ER -