Title Boswell's enlightenment / Robert Zaretsky

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (278 pages) Contents Prologue: The view from Arthur's Seat -- In the Kirk's shadow -- At home with Hume -- A journal is born -- Enter Johnson -- Derelict in Utrecht -- Belle de Zuylen -- Waiting for Frederick -- The distance between Môtiers and Ferney -- On libertines and liberty -- After Corsica, before futurity Summary "In 1763, the young James Boswell left Great Britain for a 'Grand Tour' of the Continent. The tour was a tradition among British and Scottish youths; by visiting the great historical sites, especially those of Roman and Greek antiquity, they would complete the studies they had begun at universities back home. Boswell's tour, however, was different: he was less concerned with the ruins of the past than the thinkers of the present. In particular, he was eager to question the leading figures of the Enlightenment on matters of faith and God--of particular importance to Boswell, who had been raised in the dour and dire atmosphere of the Church of Scotland. In his remarkable conversations with figures like Voltaire, Rousseau, and Hume, we see a man struggling with the claims of reason and needs of faith--a struggle that remains very much our own 250 years later"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-269) and index Notes In English Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EbscoHost platform, viewed April 10, 2015) Subject Boswell, James, 1740-1795 -- Travel -- Europe SUBJECT Boswell, James, 1740-1795 fast Subject Enlightenment -- Scotland Philosophy and religion -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century Authors, Scottish -- 18th century -- Biography Scots -- Europe -- History -- 18th century Travelers -- Europe -- 18th century BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. HISTORY -- Europe -- General. Authors, Scottish Enlightenment Philosophy and religion Scots Travel Travelers SUBJECT Europe -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045661 Subject Europe Scotland Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674425231 0674425235

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