Loving Dr. JohnsonUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 Feb 2011 - 304 halaman The autopsy of Samuel Johnson (1709-84) initiated two centuries of Johnsonian anatomy-both in medical speculation about his famously unruly body and in literary devotion to his anecdotal remains. Even today, Johnson is an enduring symbol of individuality, authority, masculinity, and Englishness, ultimately lending a style and a name—the Age of Johnson—to the eighteenth-century English literary canon. Loving Dr. Johnson uses the enormous popularity of Johnson to understand a singular case of author love and to reflect upon what the love of authors has to do with the love of literature. Helen Deutsch's work is driven by several impulses, among them her affection for both Johnson's work and Boswell's biography of him, and her own distance from the largely male tradition of Johnsonian criticism—a tradition to which she remains indebted and to which Loving Dr. Johnson is ultimately an homage. Limning sharply Johnson's capacious oeuvre, Deutsch's study is also the first of its kind to examine the practices and rituals of Johnsonian societies around the world, wherein Johnson's literary work is now dwarfed by the figure of the writer himself. An absorbing look at one iconic author and his afterlives, Loving Dr. Johnson will be of enormous value to students of English literature and literary scholars keenly interested in canon formation. |
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Helen Deutsch. LOVING DR . JOHNSON HELEN DEUTSCH THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO & LONDON HELEN DEUTSCH is professor of English at the University of.
Helen Deutsch. LOVING DR . JOHNSON HELEN DEUTSCH THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO & LONDON HELEN DEUTSCH is professor of English at the University of.
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... London © 2005 by THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO All rights reserved . Published 2005 Printed in the United States of America 14 13 12 II 10 09 08 07 06 05 I 2 3 4 5 ISBN : 0-226-14382-1 Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data ...
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... London; and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University. Special thanks to Simon Chaplin, curator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Annette French of the Samuel Johnson Birthplace ...
... London; and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University. Special thanks to Simon Chaplin, curator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Annette French of the Samuel Johnson Birthplace ...
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... London meetings of the belletrists, statesmen, and academics who called themselves the Johnson Club at the turn of the nineteenth century. At the annual meetings of the Johnson Society of Southern California, by contrast, professors ...
... London meetings of the belletrists, statesmen, and academics who called themselves the Johnson Club at the turn of the nineteenth century. At the annual meetings of the Johnson Society of Southern California, by contrast, professors ...
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1 Johnsonian Romance | 43 |
The Case of Dr Johnson | 71 |
Uncritical Reading and Johnsonian Communion | 105 |
4 The Ephesian Matron and Johnsons Corpse | 155 |
Anecdotal Errancy Three Authors | 195 |
Notes | 241 |
Index | 309 |
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