The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age

The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age pdf

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Leo Damrosch è un autore e professore americano. Nel 2001 è stato nominato Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature all'Università di Harvard.[1] Ha conseguito un B.A. dalla Yale University, un Master presso l'Università di Cambridge, dove è stato Marshall Scholar, e un Ph.D. dell'Università di Princeton. Le sue aree di specializzazione accademica includono il Romanticismo, l'Illuminismo e il Puritanesimo.[1] "I dolori di Gesù quacchero" di Damrosch è una delle più importanti esplorazioni recenti della storia antica della Società degli amici. Il suo Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005) è stato finalista del National Book Award per la saggistica e vincitore del 2006 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award per il miglior lavoro di saggistica. Tra i suoi altri libri ci sono "Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth" (1980), "God's Plot and Man's Stories: Studies in the Fictional Imagination from Milton to Fielding" (1985), "Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson" (1987) e "La scoperta dell'America di Tocqueville" (2010).

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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age pdf da Leo Damrosch

The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern

Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review  • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 •  A Kirkus Best Book of 2019
 
“Damrosch brings the Club’s redoubtable personalities—the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie—to vivid life.” New York Times Book Review

“Magnificently entertaining.”— Washington Post

In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as “the Club.”  
 
In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the “odd couple” Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth‑century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.

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