Alexander Pope

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Thomas Hudson, National Portrait Gallery, London, Alexander Pope

Friday, June 17, 2011

Book links to Johnson-Boswell comments by Craig Ferguson

Hi Jordan,

James Boswell also commented on his new friendship.
James wrote: "Craig Ferguson was making things up for fun, the way Boswell did. To clarify, this is a page about the historical figure, James Boswell, not an 'impersonation page': I am not a historical re-enactor. My facebook page on Boswell is not, alas, authored by an individual named James Boswell. Neither Johnson nor Boswell were gay...and Johnson, at least by the time he knew Boswell, was not indulging with prostitutes (his earlier sex life is much murkier). There is good material on sexuality in eighteenth century literature. If you find the topic of intellectual interest, you should probably read Rictor Norton's book Mother Clap's Molly House ( http://www.facebook.com/l/ca144/www.amazon.com/Mother-Claps-Molly-House-Subculture/dp/0854491880). And Thomas A. King, “How (Not) to Queer Boswell,” in *Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700–1800*, ed. Chris Mounsey and Caroline Gonda (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ. Press, 2007), pp. 114–58. I do not work on the history of sexuality, but a lot of careful historical writing has been done on it."


See: The comment page of James Boswell on Facebook





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