The journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795
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Type of record: Book
Title: The journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795
Other titles: Works
Classmark: Bedford Collection B386
Creator(s): Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Additional creator(s): Wain, John (1925-1994) (Selector); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Related people: Boswell, James, 1740-1795; Boswell, James, 1740-1795; Boswell, James; Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication city: New Haven
Date(s): 1991
Language: English
Size and medium: xxxiii, 412 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730634
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019896856705181
Description
Writer, rake, wit, traveler, and man-about-town, Boswell went everywhere, knew everyone, and never missed an opportunity to enjoy himself. His journals are compulsively self-revealing.
Prologue: sketch of the early life -- 'I could not contain my ardour': journal from the time of my leaving Scotland 15 November 1762 -- 'A crowd of great thoughts': Holland, Rousseau, Voltaire -- 'A gentleman of fortune upon his travels': Italy, Corsica, France -- 'Dreaming of delightful nuptials': Choosing the Lady of Auchinleck -- 'The mournful case of poor misfortunate and unhappy John Reid' -- Interlude: 'David Hume, just a-dying' -- 'I was elevated as if brought into another state of being': Boswell with Johnson -- 'A man troubled in mind': The last ten years.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-388) and index.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B386: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: BD/13.
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