Facts And Inventions: Selections From The Journalism Of James Boswell

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.

• | Author: James Boswell
• | Publisher: Yale University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 24, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 496 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0300141262
• | ISBN-13: 9780300141269