Boswell's enlightenment [electronic resource] / Robert Zaretsky.
Zaretsky, Robert, 1955- author.
2015
B1302.E65 Z37 2015eb
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Title Boswell's enlightenment [electronic resource] / Robert Zaretsky.
Author Zaretsky, Robert, 1955- author.
ISBN 9780674425231
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674425231
Published Cambridge, Masschusetts : Harvard University Press, [2015].
Copyright ©2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (278 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674425231 doi
Call Number B1302.E65 Z37 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 828/.609
Summary "In 1763, the young James Boswell left Great Britain for a 'Grand Tour' of the Continent. The tour was a tradition among British and Scottish youths; by visiting the great historical sites, especially those of Roman and Greek antiquity, they would complete the studies they had begun at universities back home. Boswell's tour, however, was different: he was less concerned with the ruins of the past than the thinkers of the present. In particular, he was eager to question the leading figures of the Enlightenment on matters of faith and God--of particular importance to Boswell, who had been raised in the dour and dire atmosphere of the Church of Scotland. In his remarkable conversations with figures like Voltaire, Rousseau, and Hume, we see a man struggling with the claims of reason and needs of faith--a struggle that remains very much our own 250 years later"-- Provided by publisher.
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After Corsica, before futurity.

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