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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... moral effects of the work against the inevitable mortal shortcomings of an individual life.5 No biographer of Johnson experienced this potential conflict between “vulgar greatness” and “minute details” more intensely than Thrale, in ...
... moral effects of the work against the inevitable mortal shortcomings of an individual life.5 No biographer of Johnson experienced this potential conflict between “vulgar greatness” and “minute details” more intensely than Thrale, in ...
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... moral outrage, literary Johnsonihave preserved their hero in anecdotal detail, just as medical Johnsonians have preserved his corpse in parts. Both are inspired by author love, a kind of secular religion based on the necessary ...
... moral outrage, literary Johnsonihave preserved their hero in anecdotal detail, just as medical Johnsonians have preserved his corpse in parts. Both are inspired by author love, a kind of secular religion based on the necessary ...
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... moral analysis, the love of Johnson has supported both those same elite Janeites and professional literary critics alike. While the love of Austen, whatever form it takes, is inherently proprietary, marking distinctions between proper ...
... moral analysis, the love of Johnson has supported both those same elite Janeites and professional literary critics alike. While the love of Austen, whatever form it takes, is inherently proprietary, marking distinctions between proper ...
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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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