Strutting
Linda Colley, 21 September 1995
All the Sweets of Being: The Life of James Boswell
by Roger Hutchinson.
Mainstream, 238 pp., £17.50, May 1995,1 85158 702 0 Show More
by Roger Hutchinson.
Mainstream, 238 pp., £17.50, May 1995,
James Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’
edited by Marshall Waingrow.
Edinburgh, 518 pp., £75, March 1995,0 7486 0471 5 Show More
edited by Marshall Waingrow.
Edinburgh, 518 pp., £75, March 1995,
Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia
by Pat Rogers.
Oxford, 245 pp., £30, April 1995,0 19 818259 7 Show More
by Pat Rogers.
Oxford, 245 pp., £30, April 1995,
“... he trusted that ‘I should be liberally understood as knowing very well what I was about.’ Marshall Waingrow’s remarkable new research edition of the Life, which follows on from his earlier edition of Boswell’s correspondence in connection with the Life, allows us to unpick as never before this writer’s use and exploitation of language. The ... ”
