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Boswell and the Press : Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell / ed. by Donald J. Newman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) : n-aContent type:
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  • 9781684482856
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 828/.609 23
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  • PR3325 .B64 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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