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James Boswell
"James Boswell" by W. Keith Leask is an illuminating biography that delves into the life and literary legacy of the iconic Scottish diarist and travelogue writer. Leask's insightful exploration of Boswell's journey reveals his deep friendship with Samuel Johnson, shedding light on their intellectual exchanges within London's vibrant literary circles. Through meticulous literary criticism, Leask unveils Boswell's role as an Enlightenment thinker, profoundly influenced by Scottish culture and literature. Leask skillfully navigates Boswell's personal development, showcasing how his travelogues and diaries serve as windows into his life writing and the broader Enlightenment movement. The biograp...
Hugh Miller
Hugh MillerBy William Keith Leask
James Boswell
Classic work of James Boswell by William Keith Leask. James Boswell, was a Scottish biographer and diarist, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which the modern Johnsonian critic Harold Bloom has said is the greatest biography written in the English language.
The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland
This study presents a history of the literary culture of early-modern Scotland (1560-1625), based on extensive study of the literary manuscript. It argues for the importance of three key places of production of such manuscripts: the royal court, burghs and towns, and regional houses (stately homes, but also minor lairdly and non-aristocratic households). This attention to place facilitates a discussion of, respectively, courtly, urban or civic, and regional literary cultures. Sebastiaan Verweij's methodology stems from bibliographical scholarship and the study of the 'History of the Book', and more specifically, from a school of manuscript research that has invigorated early-modern English l...
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Hugh Miller
In the absence of material dealing especially with his last years in Edinburgh a complete Life of Hugh Miller will probably never be attempted. I am informed by his daughter, Mrs. Miller Mackay, F.C. Manse, Lochinver, that the letters and materials sent out to Australia to form the basis of a projected biography by his son-in-law and daughter disappeared, and have never been recovered. The recent deaths of his son and of others who knew Hugh Miller in Cromarty and in Edinburgh still more preclude the appearance of a full and authentic presentation. To the scientist the works of Miller will ever form the best biography; to the general reader and to those who, from various causes, regard biography as made for man and not man for biography some such sketch as the following may, it is believed, not be unacceptable.
