Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell

By James Boswell

James Boswell (1740-1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a generous and varied selection of Boswell's journalistic writings, most of which have not been published since the eighteenth century. It offers a new angle on the history of journalism, an idiosyncratic view of literature, politics, and public life in late eighteenth-century Britain, and an original perspective on a complex and engaging literary personality.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300141262
• ISBN13: 9780300141269
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"