Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia [Hardcover]

Pat Rogers (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198182597 | ISBN-13: 978-0198182597 | Publication Date: May 25, 1995

This is the first comprehensive treatment of Johnson and Boswell in relation to Scotland, as revealed in their accounts of their trip to the Hebrides in 1773. Locating the famous journey both within the context of travel writing in the decade of Cook's Pacific voyages, and in an intellectual, cultural, and literary context, Rogers explores the motives of both men in making the "Grand Detour" in the face of the anti-Scottish feeling of the period.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The Boswell-Johnson adventure has never been seen as clearly before as Rogers has now revealed it."--Times Literary Supplement

"[The author] offers an eleant study of currents and of undercurrents in the travellers' separate accounts of their journey to the Western Islands...Take Rogers' study for the very good book it is, question it here and there, argue with it at need, but above all be grateful for the imaginative light it throws on the mythic-seeming journey and on those mythic-seeming voyagers whose travels still haunt some of our waking dreams."--The Albion

About the Author

Pat Rogers is at University of South Florida.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (May 25, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198182597
• ISBN-13: 978-0198182597
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,184,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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