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Title: | Out of Johnson's shadow : James Boswell as travel writer | ||||||
Author: | Griffin, Julian Marc |
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0000 0004 6497 2079
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Awarding Body: | Open University | ||||||
Current Institution: | Open University | ||||||
Date of Award: | 2017 | ||||||
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James Boswell has generally been regarded as a key figure in the evolution of the biography via his work on Samuel Johnson. Ranging over his public, published writing, his private-public unpublished journal writing (read by his friend John Johnston), and his private-private unpublished writing (his personal journals) this thesis sets out to address how he should also be seen as a travelogue writer of note. The most important contention is that the rise of Boswell as a travel writer is key to understanding his prowess as an auto/biographical writer – with the topography of the man-monument central. The principal aim is to stress that he was ‘Corsica Boswell’ long before he was ‘Johnson Boswell’.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.728878 | DOI: | |||||
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