Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia Hardcover - 1995
by Pat Rogers
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This is the first comprehensive treatment of Johnson and Boswell in relation to Scotland, as revealed in their respective accounts of their trip to the Hebrides in 1773, the Journey to the Western Islands and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Locating the Scottish Journey both within the context of travel writing in the decade of Cook's Pacific voyages, and in an intellectual, cultural, and literary context, Pat Rogers' new interpretation of the writers' famous accounts describes the 'Grand Detour' which the travellers made in opposition to the standard Grand Tour expectations. Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia suggests a reason why Johnson undertook his long-planned visit in old age, and explores the relation between his Journey and the letters he wrote to Hester Thrale. Boswell's complex motives in making the tour are also explored, including his divided views concerning his Scottish identity, and his desire at a concealed level to replay the heroic venture of Prince Charles Edward thirty years before. Setting the journey in the context of anti-Scottish feeling in the period, the book relates the themes and motifs of the two narratives to the background of the Scottish Enlightenment on such issues as emigration and primitivism, and offers fresh readings of the major surveys by Johnson and Boswell of Scotland after the Jacobite risings.
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- Title Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia
- Author Pat Rogers
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition. F
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Clarendon Press, Oxford
- Date 1995-05-25
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780198182597 / 0198182597
- Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.91 cm)
- Reading level 1390
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Scotland - History - 18th century, Authors, English - 18th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94030111
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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