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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... biographer who lived with Johnson for intermittent short periods during almost twenty of his happiest years in the realm of domestic privacy that he himself considered the stuff of the genre—pro- vides the tonal counterpoint to ...
... biographer who lived with Johnson for intermittent short periods during almost twenty of his happiest years in the realm of domestic privacy that he himself considered the stuff of the genre—pro- vides the tonal counterpoint to ...
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... biographer's grandiosity in the recording and mass distributing of Johnsonian trivia cheapens even Tacitus and Livy , while eclipsing them only in egotism . Wolcot articulates the threat that published anecdote poses not only to the ...
... biographer's grandiosity in the recording and mass distributing of Johnsonian trivia cheapens even Tacitus and Livy , while eclipsing them only in egotism . Wolcot articulates the threat that published anecdote poses not only to the ...
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... biographers capable of stylistically rising to the occasion afforded by Johnson's death: “Tommy Tyers is such a quaint ... biographer, Burney's first target, compulsive anecdotalist and alluder, and the only contemporary to speculate in ...
... biographers capable of stylistically rising to the occasion afforded by Johnson's death: “Tommy Tyers is such a quaint ... biographer, Burney's first target, compulsive anecdotalist and alluder, and the only contemporary to speculate in ...
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... biographer. Boswell took this injunction, and Johnson's authorial example, powerfully enough to heart to turn it into a new form of biography, told primarily in “scenes” of conversation enlivened by and interspersed with the most ...
... biographer. Boswell took this injunction, and Johnson's authorial example, powerfully enough to heart to turn it into a new form of biography, told primarily in “scenes” of conversation enlivened by and interspersed with the most ...
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... biographer, the truth that he uncovered from “occasional talk” would have been proved—or so Boswell imagines—universal. Despite the tautology of Johnson's fantasy that mankind will come to “write all aphoristically, except in narrative ...
... biographer, the truth that he uncovered from “occasional talk” would have been proved—or so Boswell imagines—universal. Despite the tautology of Johnson's fantasy that mankind will come to “write all aphoristically, except in narrative ...
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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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