Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia

ISBN-13: 9780198182597 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 256 str.

Pat Rogers; Pat Rogers

Opis

This is the first comprehensive treatment of Johnson and Boswell in relation to Scotland, as revealed in their accounts of their trip to the Hebrides in 1773. Locating the famous journey both within the context of travel writing in the decade of Cook's Pacific voyages, and in an intellectual, cultural, and literary context, Rogers explores the motives of both men in making the "Grand Detour" in the face of the anti-Scottish feeling of the period.

Recenzje

Waingrow's edition is a treasure-trove of previously hidden detail, rich in implication for our understanding of the Life of Johnson, of Boswell, and of the late eighteenth century in general. Pat Rogers's deft and gracious collection of studies of the tour the two men made to Scotland can in this respect be seen as a companion volume to Waingrow. In what has become a hectic battle-ground of charge and counter-charge, few have written with Rogers's wit and psychological insight, and fewer still have hit upon a formulation which catches better Johnson's involvement with dynastic politics than the notion of him as a 'secret sharer' in Jacobitism.