Designing the Life of Johnson (Lyell Lectures in Bibliography) - Hardcover

Redford, Bruce

 
9780198187394: Designing the Life of Johnson (Lyell Lectures in Bibliography)

Synopsis

What makes a biographical masterpiece? By decoding the manuscript of Boswell's Life of Johnson, this innovative study reveals the methods and the models that shaped his monumental portrait. The result is a more subtle, more vital assessment of Boswell the designer--and an enhanced awareness of biography's power to make life into art.

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About the Author

Editor of the OUP/Princeton UP 5-volume edition of the Letters of Samuel Johnson, 1992-4; now editor of the Yale UP/Edinburgh UP edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript (vol. 2)

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9780199284832: Designing the Life of Johnson: The Lyell Lectures in Bibliography, 2001-2

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ISBN 10:  0199284830 ISBN 13:  9780199284832
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2005
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