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Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Notes on contributors;Introduction: Boswell's Ambiguity David Daiches; Part I. Boswell andEighteenth-Century Scottish Culture; 1. Boswell and the rhetoric offriendship Thomas Crawford; 2. Scottish divines and legal lairds: Boswell'sScots presbyterian identity Richard B. Sher; 3. Boswell and the ScotticismPat Rogers; 4. Boswell as man of letters Joan H. Pittock; Part II. Contextsfor the Life of Johnson: 5. Boswell's liberty-loving Account of Corsica andthe art of travel literature Thomas M. Curley; 6. Boswell and sympathy: thetrial and execution of John Reid Gordon Turnbull; 7. Boswell and Hume: thedeathbed interview Richard B. Swchwrtz; 8. 'This philosophical melancholy':style and self in Boswell and Hume Susan Manning; Part III. The Life ofJohnson Reconsidered: 9. The originality of Boswell's version of Johnson'squarrel with Lord Chesterfield John J. Burke, Jr.; 10. Self-restraint andself-display in the authorial comments in the Life of Johnson Marlies K.Danziger; 11. The conversations in the Life of Johnson Paul J. Korshin; 12.Remembering the hero in Boswell's Life of Johnson Donna Heiland; 13. Truthand artifice in Boswell's Life of Johnson Greg Clingham; Index.