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A comparative treatment of James Boswell's methods for dramatizing his primary factual material in the Account of Corsica, theTour to the Hebrides, and the Life of Johnson. The author argues that Boswell's aims and methods differ significantly in each of his major biographical works, a departure from the traditional view of his development as a linear progression. v, iii , 82 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..
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