Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Boswell, James, 1740-1795.

Title Facts and inventions : selections from the journalism of James Boswell / edited by Paul Tankard ; with the assistance of Lisa Marr
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2014]

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xlviii, 442 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Series JSTOR EBA
Contents Reports and interviews -- Execution intelligence -- The rampager -- The lives of Johnson
Summary 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 18th century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Available through University Press Scholarship Online (SHEDL)
In English
Print version record
Subject Journalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY -- Essays.
Journalism
Great Britain
Genre/Form essays.
Essays
History
Essays.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Tankard, Paul, editor
LC no. 2014003422
ISBN 9780300210941
0300210949
0300141262
9780300141269
Other Titles Essays. Selections