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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... conversation and association. I am deeply grateful to Jerome Christensen for the orange peel; to Wayne Gochenour for James Merrill on the orange peel and to Steven Yenser on Merrill, the orange peel, and “Oranges”; to Elin Diamond for ...
... conversation and association. I am deeply grateful to Jerome Christensen for the orange peel; to Wayne Gochenour for James Merrill on the orange peel and to Steven Yenser on Merrill, the orange peel, and “Oranges”; to Elin Diamond for ...
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... conversations, Sharon Achinstein, Eva Cherniavsky, Joe DiMuro, Jennifer Fleissner, Deanna Kreisel, Rachel Lee, Chris Looby, David Wong Louie, Claire McEachern, Kathleen McHugh, Valerie Smith, and Wendy Wall heard more than they needed ...
... conversations, Sharon Achinstein, Eva Cherniavsky, Joe DiMuro, Jennifer Fleissner, Deanna Kreisel, Rachel Lee, Chris Looby, David Wong Louie, Claire McEachern, Kathleen McHugh, Valerie Smith, and Wendy Wall heard more than they needed ...
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... conversation culminating in the title that pulled everything into place. Permission has been granted to reprint part of chapter , which was originally published as “Doctor Johnson's Autopsy,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and ...
... conversation culminating in the title that pulled everything into place. Permission has been granted to reprint part of chapter , which was originally published as “Doctor Johnson's Autopsy,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and ...
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... charming and commodifiable as the image of his cat Hodge that festoons the entries of a recent popular abridgement of his Dictionary . He is known for his quotable conversation and for his emblematic gestures—kick- Introduction.
... charming and commodifiable as the image of his cat Hodge that festoons the entries of a recent popular abridgement of his Dictionary . He is known for his quotable conversation and for his emblematic gestures—kick- Introduction.
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Helen Deutsch. known for his quotable conversation and for his emblematic gestures—kick- ing the stone to refute Berkeley thus, comparing women preachers to dancing dogs, toasting the next insurrection of slaves in the West Indies ...
Helen Deutsch. known for his quotable conversation and for his emblematic gestures—kick- ing the stone to refute Berkeley thus, comparing women preachers to dancing dogs, toasting the next insurrection of slaves in the West Indies ...
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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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