Boswell and the Press : : Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell / / ed. by Donald J. Newman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Aston, Nigel,; Barnes, Celia,; Caudle, James J.,; Caudle, James,; Ingram, Allan,; Newman, Donald J.,; Newman, Donald,; Seymour, Terry,; Tankard, Paul,; Wilson, Jennifer Preston,; Wilson, Jennifer,
• HerausgeberIn: Newman, Donald J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.) :; n-a

Boswell and the Press is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s ephemeral writings—his journalism, pamphlets, and broadsides—which, taken together, prove worthy of critical study. These new essays enhance our comprehension of Boswell’s interests and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he worked influenced what he wrote and how he wrote it. Contributors further illuminate a print culture in the throes of transformation, providing useful fodder for historians of journalism and publishing in eighteenth- century Britain, while offering up rich new material for seasoned Boswell scholars.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Boswell’s Ephemeral Writing: An Overview -- 2 Anonymity and the Press: The Case of Boswell -- 3 James Boswell’s Design for a Scottish Periodical in the Scots Language: The Importance of His Prospectus for the Sutiman Papers (ca. 1770?) -- 4 Boswell in Broadside -- 5 An Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady: Serious Effort or Elaborate Joke? -- 6 “Making the Press my Amanuensis”: Male Friendship and Publicity in The Cub, at New-market -- 7 The Hypochondriack and Its Context: James Boswell, 1777–1783 -- 8 The Embodied Mind of Boswell’s The Hypochondriack and the Turn-of- the- Century Novel -- 9 Principle, Polemic, and Ambition: Boswell’s A Letter to the People of Scotland and the End of the Fox–North Coalition, 1783 -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index