Download or read book The Brothers Boswell written by Philip Edward Baruth and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this literary thriller, Baruth (English, Univ. of Vermont; The X President) uses the relationship between diarist James Boswell and his brother John as a lens to examine the complex and often troubled bond between the eldest son and a younger brother. The plot revolves around a boat trip Boswell took to Greenwich in 1763 with his famous literary patron, Samuel Johnson. John, recently released from a lunatic asylum and bearing two pistols, follows them there to force a violent confrontationa sign not simply of his madness but of his lifelong ambivalence about James and his envy of James's burgeoning relationship with Johnson. The suspense is somewhat blunted by the reader's knowing that Johnson and James Boswell obviously weren't killed in 1763. Nevertheless, the book has a strong narrative thread and builds to a dramatic confrontation between the characters. Baruth grounds his narrative firmly in the extensive source material produced by Johnson and Boswell, and his depiction of Johnson is particularly convincing. For fans of historical fiction. [See Prepub Mystery, LJ 1/09.]Douglas Southard, CRA International, Inc., Boston Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Johnson and Boswell written by John B. Radner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Boswell s Life of Johnson written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brother making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium written by Claudia Rapp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive treatment of ritual brotherhood in Byzantium, this book challenges the 'Boswell Thesis' and argues that the ecclesiastical ritual to bless a relationship between two men bears no resemblance to marriage, but has its origins in early monasticism.
Download or read book Boswell Hardeman Discussion on Instrumental Music in the Worship written by Ira Matthews Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness written by Peter Moore and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gripping . . . Vibrant . . . A wonderfully absorbing and stimulating book.” —Sarah Bakewell, NBCC Award–winning author of How to Live and Humanly Possible “[A] rollicking account . . . The book’s compulsive readability is a tribute to Moore’s skill at cracking open the pre-revolutionary period.” —Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post A spirited group biography that explores the origins of the most iconic words in American history, and the remarkable transatlantic context from which they emerged. The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. “The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness” was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with “the preservation of.” In a statement as pithy—and contested—as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final, iconizing revision was the last in a long chain of revisions stretching across the Atlantic and back. The precise contours of these three rights have never been pinned down—and yet in making these words into rights, Jefferson reified the hopes (and debates) not only of a group of rebel-statesmen but also of an earlier generation of British thinkers who could barely imagine a country like the United States of America. Peter Moore’s Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness tells the true story of what may be the most successful import in US history: the “American dream.” Centered on the friendship between Benjamin Franklin and the British publisher William Strahan, and featuring figures including the cultural giant Samuel Johnson, the ground-breaking historian Catharine Macaulay, the firebrand politician John Wilkes, and revolutionary activist Thomas Paine, this book looks at the generation that preceded the Declaration in 1776. Everyone, it seemed, had “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” on their minds; Moore shows why, and reveals how these still-nascent ideals made their way across an ocean and started a revolution. Includes 16 pages of black-and-white images
Download or read book Boswell s Life of Johnson Including Boswell s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson s Diary of A Journey Into North Wales written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boswell s Life of Johnson ed by A Birrell written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boswell s Life of Johnson Life v l 1709 1765 v 2 1765 1776 v 3 1776 1780 v 4 1780 1784 written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson By James Boswell A New Edition With Copious Notes by Edward Sic Malone written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boswell s Life of Johnson Including Their Tour to the Hebrides By the Right Honourable John Wilson Croker New Edition With Portraits written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boswelliana the Commonplace Book of James Boswell written by Charles Rogers and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book Boswell s Life of Johnson including their Tour to the Hebrides By the Right Honourable John Wilson Croker A new edition thorougly revised with much additional matter With portraits written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Boswell s Life of Johnson written by Boswell James Boswell and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Boswell's 'Life of Johnson', An Edition of the Original Manuscript, in Four Volumes; Vol. 4: 1780-1784This volume is the final in the Yale Boswell Editions' manuscript edition of the Life of Johnson, a four-volume sequence designed to stand as a research supplement to the Hill-Powell version of the Life. The first volume, edited by Marshall Waingrow and covering the years 1709-1765, appeared in 1994, and the second, 1766-1776, edited by Bruce Redford with Elizabeth Goldring, in 1998. The third, 1776-1780, edited by Thomas F. Bonnell was published in 2012. This fourth volume traces Boswell's processes of composition from first draft to final publication. It restores much deleted material and passages lost or overlooked at proof and revision stage. It also corrects a host of errors-from compositorial to misreadings-that have stood in all editions of Boswell's biographical masterwork. Thomas Bonnell's annotation clarifies a range of textual issues, and sheds revealing light on Boswell's processes of selection and deletion.
Download or read book Boswelliana the commonplace book of J Boswell with a memoir and annotations by C Rogers written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boswelliana The Commonplace Book of James Boswell with a Memoir and Annotations written by James Boswell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boswelliana is a valuable book filled with quotes, anecdotes, observations, and information penned down by James Boswell. In addition, this work contains a memoir and annotations by this well-known Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer of the 18th century. Boswell is most famous for writing the biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, which is the most remarkable biography written in the English language.
Download or read book Boswelliana written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
