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Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations
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.
Boswell’s Enlightenment
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.
Johnson and Boswell
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.
