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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... readers, interlocutors, and, above all, indispensable friends. Claudia Johnson has been this book's ideal reader from the start and has helped to find it an ideal audience. Estelle Shane has overseen and enabled the growth of both this ...
... readers, interlocutors, and, above all, indispensable friends. Claudia Johnson has been this book's ideal reader from the start and has helped to find it an ideal audience. Estelle Shane has overseen and enabled the growth of both this ...
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... Reading for his generous assistance with “Human Wishes” and for his permission (along with that of Edward Beckett of ... readers of the manuscript for their tremendously helpful and detailed responses, to Erin DeWitt for her intelligent ...
... Reading for his generous assistance with “Human Wishes” and for his permission (along with that of Edward Beckett of ... readers of the manuscript for their tremendously helpful and detailed responses, to Erin DeWitt for her intelligent ...
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... 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 of which Stephen is an heir) to inspire a ...
... 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 of which Stephen is an heir) to inspire a ...
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... reader of the Life of Johnson and the periodical press of the time is aware, was hardly united; and throughout what follows, anecdotes by Thomas Tyers, John Hawkins, and (most symbolically significant for my purposes) Hester Thrale ...
... reader of the Life of Johnson and the periodical press of the time is aware, was hardly united; and throughout what follows, anecdotes by Thomas Tyers, John Hawkins, and (most symbolically significant for my purposes) Hester Thrale ...
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... reader of an 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) ...
... reader of an 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) ...
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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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