Description:
Deeply informed and accessibly written, The Enduring Work of Biography explores Boswell's many forms of collaboration in researching, writing, revising, proofing, publishing, and promoting the Life of Johnson. The volume highlights the dramatic narrative and "authenticity" of Boswell's portrait of Johnson that are among the Life's most prominent and enduring literary features, while also illuminating the dynamic, flexible, and inventive concept of memory that is central to his biographical method.