The Club Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age
Presentación del editor: "In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members...
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press
2019
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42848799*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue
- Johnson before Boswell : the years of struggle
- Johnson before Boswell : fame at last
- Boswell before Johnson : setting out for the wide world
- Boswell before Johnson : the search for self
- The fateful meeting
- Boswell abroad
- The Club is born
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Edmund Burke
- David Garrick
- The spirit of mirth
- A new life at Streatham
- Boswell in Scotland-and Stratford
- Among the farthest Hebrides
- The widening river
- Empire
- Adam Smith
- Edward Gibbon
- Infidels and believers
- Johnson nearing the end
- Boswell on the downhill slope
- Epilogue
- Appendix : members of the Club in its first twenty years.
