Facts and inventions : selections from the journalism of James Boswell
James Boswell (Author), Paul Tankard (Editor)
"James Boswell (1740-1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a generous and varied selection of Boswell's journalistic writings, most of which have not been published since the eighteenth century. It offers a new angle on the history of journalism, an idiosyncratic view of literature, politics, and public life in late eighteenth-century Britain, and an original perspective on a complex and engaging literary personality"-- Provided by publisher
History
lii, 442 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780300141269, 0300141262
861676836
Reports and interviews
Execution intelligence
The rampager
The lives of Johnson