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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... letter right, you are ignominiously married, if it is yet undone, let us once talk together. If You have abandoned your children and your religion, God forgive your wickedness; if you have ... letters, I burn ·
... letter right, you are ignominiously married, if it is yet undone, let us once talk together. If You have abandoned your children and your religion, God forgive your wickedness; if you have ... letters, I burn ·
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Helen Deutsch. If I meet with one of her letters, I burn it instantly.”11Her abandonment earns him a permanent place in future sentimental imaginations of the eighteenth century.12 My delineation of this double Johnson—the clubbable ...
Helen Deutsch. If I meet with one of her letters, I burn it instantly.”11Her abandonment earns him a permanent place in future sentimental imaginations of the eighteenth century.12 My delineation of this double Johnson—the clubbable ...
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... letters for two centuries. Thrale's lives on in literature. When Henry Thrale raises his hand to silence Johnson from “provocation” at his “wild” self-condemnation, his gesture is one of disavowal. He leaves the room, ordering his wife ...
... letters for two centuries. Thrale's lives on in literature. When Henry Thrale raises his hand to silence Johnson from “provocation” at his “wild” self-condemnation, his gesture is one of disavowal. He leaves the room, ordering his wife ...
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... letters, years to overcome. But more important is the way in which his words struck me, even at that moment, as true. In some way this strange praise, at once offered and withdrawn, was appropriate. I did like, even love, the authors I ...
... letters, years to overcome. But more important is the way in which his words struck me, even at that moment, as true. In some way this strange praise, at once offered and withdrawn, was appropriate. I did like, even love, the authors I ...
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... letters. A sampling of recent panel titles indicates this current state of Johnsonian affairs: “Johnson at the Millennium,” “Is There Room in Samuel Johnson for the New Eighteenth Century?” and the one we might ponder longest, “Whatever ...
... letters. A sampling of recent panel titles indicates this current state of Johnsonian affairs: “Johnson at the Millennium,” “Is There Room in Samuel Johnson for the New Eighteenth Century?” and the one we might ponder longest, “Whatever ...
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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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