Boswell's creative gloom : a study of imagery and melancholy in the writings of James Boswell / Allan Ingram
1982, 1st edition. Totowa, N.J. London : Barnes & Noble ; Macmillan. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #407434
Physical description; xi, 219 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-210) and index. Contents; Introduction -- Melancholy and the imagination -- Madness and the role of the image in thought -- The pressures of society -- Freedom and the pen -- "Scribo ergo sum" : the world of Boswell's journals -- Balancing the accounts : the Life of Johnson -- Conclusion : the final reckoning. Subjects; Boswell, James 1740-1795 Literary style. Boswell, James 1740-1795. Boswell, James 1740-1795 Journal intime. Boswell, James 1740-1795 Criticism and interpretation. Boswell, James 1740-1795 Diaries. 18th century. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.). Figures of speech. Melancholy. Depression, Mental. Creative ability. Depressive Disorder. Prose in English Boswell, James 1740-1795 Critical studies. Prose in English Boswell, James 1740-1795,
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