Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell

By: Donald J. Newman and Paul Tankard and James J. Caudle and Terry Seymour and Celia Barnes and Allan Ingram and Jennifer Preston Wilson and Nigel Aston

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Synopsis: Boswell and the Press is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s ephemeral writings—his journalism, pamphlets, and broadsides—which, taken together, prove worthy of critical study. These new essays enhance our comprehension of Boswell’s interests and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he worked influenced what he wrote and how he wrote it. Contributors further illuminate a print culture in the throes of transformation, providing useful fodder for historians of journalism and publishing in eighteenth- century Britain, while offering up rich new material for seasoned Boswell scholars.