Full title: The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age / Leo Damrosch.

Author/creator: Damrosch, Leopold.

Call Numbers: G 2019/1650

Record Identifier: 74VKVBMerEN3

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: vi, 473 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm, , , , , Prologue -- Johnson before Boswell : the years of struggle -- Johnson before Boswell : fame at last -- Boswell before Johnson : setting out for the wide world -- Boswell before Johnson : the search for self -- The fateful meeting -- Boswell abroad -- The Club is born -- Sir Joshua Reynolds -- Edmund Burke -- David Garrick -- The spirit of mirth -- A new life at Streatham -- Boswell in Scotland--and Stratford -- Among the farthest Hebrides --The widening river -- Empire -- Adam Smith -- Edward Gibbon -- Infidels and believers -- Johnson nearing the end -- Boswell on the downhill slope -- Epilogue -- Appendix : members of the Club in its first twenty years.

Publishers: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-443) and index.

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DDC: 941.073

MMS ID: 991024238496702626