This Element documents the details and implications of Boswell's risky publication history. It argues that the success of the first edition of the Life of Samuel Johnson was the result not only of Boswell's biographical genius but also of collaboration with a devoted support network.
Richard Primack Book order




- 2023
- 2023
"A comprehensive look at Living Colour and the timelessness (and timeliness) of the album in 2020 given its critical engagement with racism, classism, police brutality, and our (even then) dire environmental crisis"--
- 2019
Reading Old Books
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from the middle ages to the 21st century, revealing in new ways how it helps writers and readers make new works and meanings.
- 2015
Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment
- 424 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment has come to be regarded as a classic work in 18th-century Scottish history and Enlightenment studies. This collective biography portrays the 'Moderate Iiterati' as zealous activists for the cause in which they believed, ranging from support for a Scots militia to the Jacobite rebellion of 1745.