..., a truly persuasive book. One awaits the next round with interest. EVELYNBIRGE VITZ New York University James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740-1769. By FREDERICKA. POTTLE.New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill, 1985 (1966). xviii + 606 pp...

...Richard D. Altick David Buchanan. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. xix + 371 pp. $14.95 Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 REVIEWS The Treasure of Auchinleck: The Story of the Boswell Papers. By DAVID BUCHANAN.New York: McGraw-Hill...

...Philip E. Baruth Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 ∗I would like to thank Claude Rawson, director of the Boswell Project, for allowing me to make unlimited use of the Yale holdings. But I am indebted most especially to Irene Adams, Susan Bianconi, and Rachel McClellan...

...Richard D. Altick A. Pottle Frederick. New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill, Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, 1982. xiv + 290 pp. $21.00. Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 REVIEWS Pride mil Negligence: The Histmy...

...Robert Warnock Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 BOSWELL AND ANDREW LUMISDEN By ROBERTWARNOCK From Rome in May, 1765, Boswell wrote mysteriously to Sir Alexander Dick in Scotland: “I have the pleasure of being ac- quainted...

...: Boswell and Mrs. Thrale. By MARY HYDE. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972. xvi + 188 pp. $7.50. The literature of Dr. Johnson and his circle feeds known and continuing appetites for psychological explanation of certain interesting people. Each new contribution to this old...

...Robert H. Bell Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 BOSWELL’S NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION FROM LONDON JOURNAL TO LIFE OF JOHNSON By ROBERTH. BELL Boswell’s London Journal, 1762-1763 reveals a great deal about...

...Robert H. Bell Richard B. Schwartz Boswells Johnson: A Preface to the Life . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. xiii + 127 pp. $17.50. © 1979 University of Washington 1979 80 REVIEWS ters has something of strange...

...Philip B. Gove Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 JOHNSON’S COPY OF HAMMONlYS ELEGIES By PHILIPB. GOVE On May 27, 1775, Dr. Johnson wrote from London to Boswell in Edinburgh: “There are two little books published by the Foulis...

... 20 1 fictional, that explore a common theme: the role of the imagination in Cow- per’s Memoir and Robinson Crusoe and, in a later chapter, in Boswell’s London Journal and Tom Jones; ambivalence toward power in autobiogra- phies, letters, and novels by Laetitia Pilkington, Lady Mary...

... to themselves are found “the great names”: North, really a relic of the seventeenth century; Gibbon, Mason, and Goldsmith, all valuable for their style (“Gibbon is a late Augus- tan poet who has turned to prose”) ; Johnson; and Boswell. The profound influence of Johnson’s theories and practice...

... at Fort Augustus in Scotland has been recorded as a Captain “Urie” who had “served in America.” Professors Pottle and Bennett in their noteworthy edition of Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.’ (printed for the first time from the original manuscript...

...-Hill Book Company, 1955. Pp. xv + 377. $5.75. “Everyone thinks of Dr. Johnson as an old man.” Thus James Clifford begins his excellent book. The record of Johnson’s career from about 1750 onward is so elaborate and so vivid, thanks in large measure to Boswell’s incomparable Life...

... (1976): 127. 19 I 192 AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND LITERARY CRITICISM include implausible material, ranging from voices booming from the heavens to extravagant sexual performances. In this genre, if it is a genre, we meet remarkable characters-Casanovas, Boswells...

... years: first, the institutionalization 1 Kevin Hart traces the origin and development of the configuration, beginning with Boswell, that turned Johnson into a representative of his age and of an essential kind of Englishness (Samuel Johnson and the Culture...

... conceived,” according to Susanne K. Langer, who further comments, “The simplest kind of symbolistic meaning is probably that which belongs to proper names. A personal name evokes a conception of 1 Johnson does not make direct reference to Theophrastus, although Boswell alludes to him...

... Press, 1991.306 pp. $24.95. In late March 1776, Boswell and Johnson discussed the double standard of sexual conduct, and Johnson explained and defended that notorious custom in terms that were commonplace. for the time: “The chastity of women [is] of JOHN ALLEN STEVENSON...

... Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740-1769. By FREDERICKA. POTTLE.New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill, 1985 (1966). xviii + 606 pp. $24.95. James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769-1795. By FRANKBRADY. New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill, 1984. xii + 609 pp. $24.95. Reckoning from...

... account for the notes to his edition of Boswell. Hill, however, like some other Victorians whom the notorious affair of Major Byron and the Shelley forgeries had made extra sensitive about such matters, had sneaking doubts as to the genuineness of the account. Nevertheless, Campbell’s...

... were obliged to depend on the evidence given in Sotheby’s sale catalogue. The statement (p. 2) that the Johnsonian has busied himself with reading Boswell runs counter to D. Nichol Smith’s dictum that it is the Boswellians who depend on Boswell and the true Johnsonians who read Johnson...