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Johnson and Boswell : a biography of friendship
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Johnson and Boswell : a biography of friendship / John B. Radner.
ISBN
9780300178753 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300178751 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.
Physical Description
xii, 415 p. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 12, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Taking charge of Boswell (1763)
"Perpetual friendship"? (1764-1767)
Jostling for control (1768-1771)
New collaborations (1772)
Embracing the biographer (1772-1773)
Cooperation and rivalry in Scotland (14 August to 22 November 1773)
Negotiating and competing for narrative control (14 August to 22 November 1773)
Collaboration manqué (November 1773 to May 1775)
Renegotiating the friendship, part 1 (1775-1777): depression, defiance, and dependency
Renegotiating the friendship, part 2 (1777-1778): confrontation, collaboration, and celebration
"Strangers to each other" (May 1778 to March 1781)
The lives of the poets and Johnson's (auto)biography (1777-1781)
Reconnecting (1781-1783)
"Some time together before we are parted" (March 1783 to May 1784)
"Love me as well as you can" (1784)
Rewriting the Hebrides trip (1785)
Boswell claiming his inheritance (1786-1791)
Winning Johnson's blessing.
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