James Boswell's 'Life of Johnson'

An Edition of the Original Manuscript, in Four Volumes; Vol. 4: 1780-1784

By:

James Boswell

Format:

Hardback

Series:

The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell

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This edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson" details how Boswell's original words were changed during the publication process, and offers a fresh reading of Boswell's work. Marshall Waingrow charts the changes made during composition and at the proof stage, and corrects and explains the printer's misreadings and author's errors which crept into the final edition. This edition of the manuscript is a companion work to the standard scholarly edition of the "Life of Johnson", known as the "Hill-Powell" version.

Author Biography:

Thomas F. Bonnell, Professor of English at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, is the author of The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry, 1765-1810 (Oxford, 2008) and several articles on the late 18th-century British book trade exploring the commercial contexts of Johnson's Lives of the Poets.

Release date Australia

June 30th, 2019

Author

James Boswell

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributor

Edited by Thomas F. Bonnell

Pages

352

Series

The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell

ISBN-13

9780748606054

Product ID

10361367

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