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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... desire.10 Johnson uses this historical anecdote to persuade Thrale to return home, but the anecdote renders home as threateningly unattainable. We will return to the anecdote and the idea of wandering throughout what follows. For now I ...
... desire.10 Johnson uses this historical anecdote to persuade Thrale to return home, but the anecdote renders home as threateningly unattainable. We will return to the anecdote and the idea of wandering throughout what follows. For now I ...
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... desire, a desire that has possessed many readers of Johnson to know the author himself. While Stephen's Johnson is transparent, his heart laid open (with the anatomical undertones common to the eighteenth-century discourse of sentiment ...
... desire, a desire that has possessed many readers of Johnson to know the author himself. While Stephen's Johnson is transparent, his heart laid open (with the anatomical undertones common to the eighteenth-century discourse of sentiment ...
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... desire to see the thing itself, a seeing by oneself and of oneself (as the word's etymology indicates) is not, as it turns out, so different from the familiar introductory impulse to focus upon an anecdote, since Johnson's selected ...
... desire to see the thing itself, a seeing by oneself and of oneself (as the word's etymology indicates) is not, as it turns out, so different from the familiar introductory impulse to focus upon an anecdote, since Johnson's selected ...
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... desire that might easily be branded excessive, romantic, perverse, unreasonable, and queer—demonstrates the ways in which, in the case of British literature (a canon often enlisted in defense against abstract [French] theory), what is ...
... desire that might easily be branded excessive, romantic, perverse, unreasonable, and queer—demonstrates the ways in which, in the case of British literature (a canon often enlisted in defense against abstract [French] theory), what is ...
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... desire and involuntary tic, to which we will return in chapter ) is left strangely moved, “as if, after long search, she had found a kindred spirit,” while feeling that “he had behaved as if she were less real than he was.” When she ...
... desire and involuntary tic, to which we will return in chapter ) is left strangely moved, “as if, after long search, she had found a kindred spirit,” while feeling that “he had behaved as if she were less real than he was.” When she ...
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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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