Description: Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell's ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets, and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he worked influenced what he wrote and how he wrote it. This book will also be of interest to historians of journalism and the publishing industry of eighteenth-century Britain.
Review Quotes: "Boswell and the Press is a powerful, intellectually stimulating, and persuasively written book, offering a range of compelling and often luminous chapters by authors expert in Boswellian studies. The book breaks new ground in surveying a large corpus--for example, The Cub, at New-market; A Letter to the People of Scotland; An Account of Corsica--and finds fresh things to say about an author who most of us thought we knew as well as the back of our hand."--Anthony Lee "editor of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle"