‘Reading’ Edition of Boswell’s Journals
Boswell’s London Journal 1762–1763, ed. Frederick A. Pottle (New York: McGraw-Hill; London: Heinemann, 1950, 1963; Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991, 2004; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992, 2004)
Boswell’s London Journal 1762–1763, together with Journal of My Jaunt, Harvest 1762, ed. Frederick A. Pottle (London: Heinemann, 1951)
Boswell in Holland, 1763–1764, ed. Frederick A. Pottle (New York: McGraw-Hill; London: Heinemann, 1952)
Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764, ed. Frederick A. Pottle (New York: McGraw-Hill; London: Heinemann, 1953)
Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765– 1766, ed. Frank Brady and Frederick A. Pottle (New York: McGraw-Hill; London: Heinemann, 1955)
Boswell in Search of a Wife, 1766–1769, ed. Frank Brady and Frederick A. Pottle (New York: McGraw-Hill; London: Heinemann, 1956)
Boswell for the Defence, 1769–1774, ed. William K. Wimsatt, Jr, and Frederick A. Pottle (New York: McGraw-Hill; London: Heinemann, 1959)
Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 1773, ed. Frederick A. Pottle and Charles H. Bennett (New York: McGraw-Hill; London: Heinemann, 1961)
Boswell: The Ominous Years, 1774–1776, ed. Charles Ryskamp and Frederick A. Pottle (New York: McGraw-Hill; London: Heinemann, 1963)
Boswell in Extremes, 1776–1778, ed. Charles McC. Weis and Frederick A. Pottle (New York: McGraw-Hill; London: Heinemann, 1970)
Boswell: Laird of Auchinleck, 1778–1782, ed. Joseph W. Reed and Frederick A. Pottle (New York: McGraw-Hill; London: Heinemann, 1977; Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993)
Boswell: The Applause of the Jury, 1782–1785, ed. Irma S. Lustig and Frederick A. Pottle (New York: McGraw-Hill; London: Heinemann, 1981)
Boswell: The English Experiment, 1785–1789, ed. Irma S. Lustig and Frederick A. Pottle (New York: McGraw-Hill; London: Heinemann, 1986)
Boswell: The Great Biographer 1789–1795, ed. Marlies K. Danziger and Frank Brady (New York: McGraw-Hill; London: Heinemann, 1989)
Selection
Boswell’s Edinburgh Journals, 1767–1786, ed. Hugh M. Milne (Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 2001; rev. edn 2003)
Research Edition
Catalogue
Catalogue of the Papers of James Boswell at Yale University, by Marion S. Pottle, Claude Colleer Abbott and Frederick A. Pottle, 3 vols. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993)
Correspondence
The Correspondence of James Boswell and John Johnston of Grange, ed. Ralph S. Walker (London: Heinemann; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966)
The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the ‘Life of Johnson’, ed. Marshall Waingrow (London: Heinemann; New York: McGraw Hill, 1969; 2nd edn, corrected and enlarged, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001)
The Correspondence of James Boswell with Certain Members of the Club, ed. Charles N. Fifer (London: Heinemann; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976)
The Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone, ed. Peter S. Baker, Thomas W. Copeland, George M. Kahrl, Rachel McClellan and James Osborn with the assistance of Robert Mankin and Mark Wollaeger (London: Heinemann; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986)
The General Correspondence of James Boswell 1766–1769, vol. 1: 1766–1767, ed. Richard C. Cole, with Peter S. Baker and Rachel McClellan, and with the assistance of James J. Caudle (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993)
The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756–1795, vol. 1: 1756–1777, ed. Thomas Crawford (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997)
The General Correspondence of James Boswell 1766–1769, vol. 2: 1768–1769, ed. Richard C. Cole, with Peter S. Baker and Rachel McClellan, and with the assistance of James J. Caudle (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997)
The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb, Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate, ed. Nellie Pottle Hankins and John Strawhorn (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998)
The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757–1763, ed. David Hankins and James J. Caudle (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006)
‘Life of Johnson’ Manuscript Edition
James Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: An Edition of the Original Manuscript, in Four Volumes, vol. 1: 1709–1765, ed. Marshall Waingrow (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994)
James Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: An Edition of the Original Manuscript, in Four Volumes, vol. 2: 1766–1776, ed. Bruce Redford, with Elizabeth Goldring (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998)
James Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: An Edition of the Original Manuscript, in Four Volumes, vol. 3: 1776–1780, ed. Thomas F. Bonnell (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012)
James Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: An Edition of the Original Manuscript, in Four Volumes, vol. 4: 1780–1784, ed. Thomas F. Bonnell (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming 2016)
Journals
James Boswell: The Journal of his German and Swiss Travels, 1764, ed. Marlies K. Danziger (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New Haven, Yale University Press, 2008)
Buchanan, David, The Treasure of Auchinleck: The Story of the Boswell Papers (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974)
Pottle, Frederick A., Pride and Negligence: The History of the Boswell Papers (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982)
Pottle, Frederick A., James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740– 1769 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966, repr. 1985)
Brady, Frank, James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984)
Martin, Peter, A Life of James Boswell (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000)
Bell, Robert H., ‘Boswell’s Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, from London Journal [1762–1763] to Life of Johnson’, Modern Language Quarterly 38, 2 (June 1977), pp. 132–48
Bond, Erik, Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007), Ch. 5, ‘Agitation and Dramatic Criticism in Boswell’s London Journal [1762–1763]’, pp. 138–82
Bruss, Elizabeth W., Autobiographical Acts: The Changing Situation of a Literary Genre (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976), Ch. 3, ‘James Boswell: Genius and Stenography’, pp. 61–92
Carter, Philip, ‘James Boswell’s Manliness’, in Tim Hitchcock and Michèle Cohen, eds., English Masculinities 1660–1800 (Longman: London and New York, 1999), pp. 111–30
Caudle, James J., ‘James Boswell and the Bi-Confessional State’, in William Gibson and Robert C. Ingram, eds., Religious Identities in Britain, 1660–1832 (Aldershot, UK; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005)
—— ‘Young Boswell and the London Stationers: The Authorial Collaboration of James Boswell with William Flexney, Bookseller, and Samuel Chandler, Printer, 1763’, in John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong, eds., Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries (Newcastle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 2008), pp. 93–113
—— ‘James Boswell (“H. Scoticus Londoniensis”)’, in Stana Nenadic, ed., Scots in London in the Eighteenth Century (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 2010), pp. 109–138
Ellison, Katherine, ‘James Boswell’s Revisions of Death as “The Hypochondriack” and in his London Journals’, Eighteenth-Century Fiction 21, 1 (fall 2008), pp. 37–59
Friedman, Michael D., ‘ “He was Just a Macheath”: Boswell and The Beggar’s Opera’, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 4 (1991), pp. 97–114
Fussell, Paul, ‘The Force of Memory in Boswell’s London Journal [1762–1763]’, Studies in English Literature 2 (summer 1962), pp. 351–7
Gottlieb, Evan, Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707–1832 (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 2007), Ch.3, ‘ “We Are Now One People”: Boswell, Johnson, and the Renegotiation of Anglo-Scottish Relations’, pp. 99–133
Hatzberger, William F., ‘Boswell’s London Journal [1762–1763]: Lord Eglinton, and the Politics of Preferment’, in 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, vol. 10, ed. Kevin L. Cope (New York: AMS Press, 2004), pp. 173–88
Ingram, Allan, Boswell’s Creative Gloom: A Study of Imagery and Melancholy in the Writings of James Boswell (London: Macmillan, 1982; Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1982)
–––– ‘Boswell’s Big Adventures: London, Scotland, London’, in Serge Soupel, Kevin L. Cope and Alexander Pettit, eds, Adventure, An Eighteenth-Century Idiom: Essays on the Daring and the Bold as a Pre-Modern Idiom (New York: AMS Press, 2009), pp. 3–22
Kay, Donald, ‘Boswell in the Green Room: Dramatic Method in the London Journal [1762–1763]’, Philological Quarterly 57, 2 (spring 1978), pp. 195–212
Kiley, Frederick S., ‘Boswell’s Literary Art in the London Journal [1762–1763]’, College English 23, 8 (May, 1962), pp. 629–32
King, Thomas A., The Gendering of Men, 1600–1750, vol. 2: Queer Articulations (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008), Ch. 4, ‘How (Not) to Queer Boswell’, pp.305–43
Loar, Christopher F., ‘Nostalgic Correspondence and James Boswell’s Scottish Malady’, Studies in English Literature 4 (summer 2004), pp. 595–615
McKeon, Michael, ‘Writer as Hero: Novelistic Prefigurations and the Emergence of Literary Biography’, in William H. Epstein, ed., Contesting the Subject: Essays in the Postmodern Theory of Biography and Biographical Criticism (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1991), pp. 17–41
Mackie, Erin, Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates: The Making of the Modern Gentleman in the Eighteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), Ch. 3, ‘Romancing the Highwayman’, pp. 71–113
Manning, Susan, ‘Boswell’s Pleasures, the Pleasures of Boswell’, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 20 (1997), pp. 17–31
Newman, Donald J., ed., James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1995)
——‘ “A Pretty Trifle”: Art and Identity in Boswell’s London Journal [1762–1763]’, Prose Studies 25, 2 (August 2002), pp. 25–50
Nussbaum, Felicity, The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), Ch. 5, ‘Manly Subjects: Boswell’s Journals and the Life of Johnson’, pp. 103–26
Pape, Walter, ‘The Battle of the Signs: Robert Crumb’s Visual Reading of James Boswell’s “London Journal [1762–1763]” ’, in Peter Wagner, ed., Icons – Texts – Iconotexts: Essays on Ekphrasis and Intermediality, European Cultures: Studies in Literature and the Arts, vol. 6 (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1996), pp. 324–45
Pittock, Murray, James Boswell (Aberdeen: AHRC Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, 2007)
Primeau, Ronald, ‘Boswell’s “Romantic Imagination” in the London Journal [1762–1763]’, Papers on Language and Literature 9, 1 (winter 1973), pp. 15–27
Pritchard, Will, ‘New Light on Crumb’s Boswell’, Eighteenth-Century Studies 42, 2 (winter 2009), pp. 289–307
Sherman, Stuart, Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660–1785 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
Spacks, Patricia Meyer, Imagining a Self: Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976)
Turnbull, Gordon, ‘Boswell and the Insistence of the Letter’, in William H. Epstein, ed., Contesting the Subject: Essays in the Postmodern Theory of Biography and Biographical Criticism (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1991), pp. 43–52
——‘Boswell’s London Journal 1762–1763, and Frances Sheridan’s The Discovery: Imagining the Maternal’, in Elise Lauterbach and Rivka Swenson, eds., Imagining Selves: Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks (Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 2008), pp. 191–206
Turner, James Grantham, ‘The Properties of Libertinism’, in Robert Purks Maccubbin, ed., ’Tis Nature’s Fault: Unauthorized Sexuality during the Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
Wall, Cynthia, ‘ “At Shakespear’s-Head, Over-Against Catharine-Street in the Strand”: Forms of Address in London Streets’, in Tim Hitchcock and Heather Shore, eds., The Streets of London: From the Great Fire to the Great Stink (London, Sydney and Chicago: Rivers Oram Press, 2003)
Weed, David, ‘Sexual Positions: Men of Pleasure, Economy, and Dignity in Boswell’s London Journal [1762–1763]’, Eighteenth-Century Studies 31, 2 (winter 1997–8), pp. 215–34
Woodruff, James F., ‘The Development of Boswell’s Technique of the “Epiphany” in the London Journal [1762–1763]’, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 305 (1992), pp. 1399–401
Zeitz, Lisa M., ‘Writing Boswell: Form, Text, and Identity in the London Journal [1762–1763]’, in Josiane Boulad-Ayoub et al., eds., Man and Nature: Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 10 (Edmonton: Academic Printing and Publishing, 1991), pp. 227–38
Zickler, Elaine Perez, ‘Boswell’s London Journal [1762–1763]: Binding a Life’, in Donald J. Newman, ed., James Boswell: Psychological Interpretations (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1995), pp. 33–50