Four illuminating 18th-century lives   

This course examines the public representation of four 18th-century lives: Richard ‘Beau’ Nash (lawyer and fashionista), Olaudah Equiano (writer and abolitionist), Sarah Duchess of Marlborough (courtier and close friend of Queen Anne), and James Boswell (biographer of Samuel Johnson). These are four lives with much to tell us about 18th-century society and culture; four lives that illuminate the 18th-century genre of life-writing and literary constructions of the self.