Name: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (en Inglés)
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Author: Johnson, Samuel ; Boswell, James ; Lynch, Jack
ISBN: 9780198798743

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Samuel Johnson

James Boswell

Ilustrado por

Jack Lynch

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

576

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.3x12.7x2.5 cm

Peso

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9780198798743

Categorías

Reino unido
Historia
Literatura de viajes

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (en Inglés)

Samuel Johnson (Autor) · James Boswell (Autor) · Jack Lynch (Ilustrado por) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), a kind of locodescriptive ethnography and Johnson's most important work between his Shakespeare edition and his Lives of the Poets. The other, Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson (1785), a travel narrative experimenting with biography, the first application of the techniques he would use in his Life of Samuel Johnson (1791). These two works form a natural pair and, owing that they cover much of the same material, are often read together, focusing on the Scottish highlands. The text presents a lightly-edited version of both works, preserving the original orthography and corrected typographical errors to fit modern grammar standards. The introduction and notes provide clear and concise explanations on Johnson and Boswell's respective careers, their friendship and grand biographical projects. It also examines the Scottish Enlightenment, the status of England and Scotland during the Reformation through to the Union of the Crowns, and the Jacobite