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Article: An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to That Island - and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli (Book)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2008
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An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to That Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. By JAMES BOSWELL. Ed. with introduction and notes by JAMES T. BOULTON and T. O. MCLOUGHLIN. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. lii+ 250 pp. 52 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-516583-8.
Boswell's private journals, with their introspective analysis and frank accounts of sexual exploits, were one of the sensational manuscript finds of the twentieth century. Boswell' account of his time in Corsica (October-November 1765), by contrast, was a deliberate publication. While the puppyish enthusiasm is all here, Boswell is consciously and purposefully more on public display. His ...