James Boswell

James Boswell Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Essays
  • Boswell's Control of Aesthetic Distance
  • Boswell's Notes toward a Supreme Fiction: From London Journal to Life of Johnson
  • Introduction
  • Self-Restraint and Self-Display in the Authorial Comments in the Life of Jonson
  • 'Casts a Kind of Glory Round It': Metaphor and The Life of Johnson
• Further Reading