Category: Literature
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The British Periodical Essay: Johnson, Boswell & the Rest
Tidying my bookshelf led me to Marr’s Periodical Essayists of the Eighteenth Century — and down a rabbit hole into the British periodical essay itself. From Johnson’s Rambler to Boswell’s secret Rampager, discover the strange, brief, brilliant fifty-year genre that shaped English prose, and the writers who made it.