James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Modern critical interpretations
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Boswell, James, 1740-1795; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784; Authors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism; Biography as a literary form
Other titles: Life of Samuel Johnson.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 153-154.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Literary form in factual narrative / Ralph W. Rader; title: Boswell's control of aesthetic distance / Paul K. Alkon; title: The Life of Johnson / Frederick A. Pottle; title: Johnson's Johnson / Richard B. Schwartz; title: Factual appearances and fictional effects / William R. Siebenschuh; title: James Boswell / Frank Brady; title: Gossip / Patricia Meyer Spacks.