TY - BOOK AU - Zaretsky,Robert TI - Boswell's enlightenment SN - 9780674425231 AV - B1302.E65 Z37 2015eb U1 - 828/.609 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Boswell, James, KW - Enlightenment KW - Scotland KW - Philosophy and religion KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Authors, Scottish KW - Biography KW - Scots KW - Europe KW - Travelers KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Literary KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - fast KW - Travel KW - HISTORY / Europe / General KW - Description and travel KW - Electronic books KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-269) and index; Prologue: The view from Arthur's Seat -- In the Kirk's shadow -- At home with Hume -- A journal is born -- Enter Johnson -- Derelict in Utrecht -- Belle de Zuylen -- Waiting for Frederick -- The distance between Môtiers and Ferney -- On libertines and liberty -- After Corsica, before futurity N2 - "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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=966641 ER -