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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... early tutoring on ancient romance; to Al Braunmuller for his thoughts on the Ephesian matron and her history; to Jonathan Crewe for Foucault's Virginity; to Felicity Nussbaum for Inkle and Yarico; to Daniel Brownstein and Anita Guerrini ...
... early tutoring on ancient romance; to Al Braunmuller for his thoughts on the Ephesian matron and her history; to Jonathan Crewe for Foucault's Virginity; to Felicity Nussbaum for Inkle and Yarico; to Daniel Brownstein and Anita Guerrini ...
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... early fieldwork in Australia—a realm in which his body figures in vexed opposition and connection to those of his primitive objects of study—Torgovnick insists “that we reverse the ethnographer's traditional gaze and look inward toward ...
... early fieldwork in Australia—a realm in which his body figures in vexed opposition and connection to those of his primitive objects of study—Torgovnick insists “that we reverse the ethnographer's traditional gaze and look inward toward ...
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... early version of this manuscript reported of nightmares she had as a first-year graduate student “that I was undergoing a personality metamorphosis and turning into Boswell.”) The next joke (and the book contains others) was on me. When ...
... early version of this manuscript reported of nightmares she had as a first-year graduate student “that I was undergoing a personality metamorphosis and turning into Boswell.”) The next joke (and the book contains others) was on me. When ...
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... early twentieth-century British scholars such as Walter Raleigh and R. W. Chapman; the gentlemanly curiosity of the Royal College of Surgeons dining out at their annual London ans meeting on details from the manuscript of Johnson's ...
... early twentieth-century British scholars such as Walter Raleigh and R. W. Chapman; the gentlemanly curiosity of the Royal College of Surgeons dining out at their annual London ans meeting on details from the manuscript of Johnson's ...
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... early twentiethcentury British Janeites that Claudia Johnson analyzes—“committed to club rather than domestic society,” to a queer form of literary reproduction rather than the heterosexual imperative, and to a love of tangential detail ...
... early twentiethcentury British Janeites that Claudia Johnson analyzes—“committed to club rather than domestic society,” to a queer form of literary reproduction rather than the heterosexual imperative, and to a love of tangential detail ...
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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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