Designing the Life of Johnson
What makes a biographical masterpiece? By decoding the manuscript of Boswell's Life of Johnson, this innovative study reveals the methods and the models that shaped his monumental portrait. The result is a more subtle, more vital assessment of Boswell the designer - and an enhanced awareness of biography's power to make life into art.
Print Book, English, 2005, ©2002
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, ©2002
Lyell lectures in bibliography, 2001-2
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 181 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm.
9780199284832, 0199284830
877743936
Imprinting Johnson
Representing Johnson
Dramatizing Johnson
Transmitting Johnson
Taming Johnson