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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... attempting to dissuade her, attended on her journey and when they came to the irremeable Stream that separated the two kingdoms, walked by her side into the water, in the middle of which he seized her bridle, and with earnestness ...
... attempting to dissuade her, attended on her journey and when they came to the irremeable Stream that separated the two kingdoms, walked by her side into the water, in the middle of which he seized her bridle, and with earnestness ...
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... attempting to participate in and to understand a largely all-male form of author love so passionately institutionalized as the proper form of literary authority that its roots in the subjective (as a form of love and thus of personal ...
... attempting to participate in and to understand a largely all-male form of author love so passionately institutionalized as the proper form of literary authority that its roots in the subjective (as a form of love and thus of personal ...
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... attempt to monopolize the Johnsonian monument. Still, my use of the personal voice is at once an attempt to distinguish myself from abstract certainties about Johnson himself (certainties that mark the male Johnsonian tradition) while ...
... attempt to monopolize the Johnsonian monument. Still, my use of the personal voice is at once an attempt to distinguish myself from abstract certainties about Johnson himself (certainties that mark the male Johnsonian tradition) while ...
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... attempt to keep him forever whole, alive, and before their eyes. (This almost certainly apocryphal anecdote resonates interestingly with the true story an anonymous reader of an early version of this manuscript reported of nightmares ...
... attempt to keep him forever whole, alive, and before their eyes. (This almost certainly apocryphal anecdote resonates interestingly with the true story an anonymous reader of an early version of this manuscript reported of nightmares ...
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... attempt to recover, indeed defend, from such misattributions plays a crucial role in my exploration of anecdotal form. As some of the shrewdest readers of the Life have noticed, the interplay (with which this book began) in and beyond ...
... attempt to recover, indeed defend, from such misattributions plays a crucial role in my exploration of anecdotal form. As some of the shrewdest readers of the Life have noticed, the interplay (with which this book began) in and beyond ...
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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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