Loving Dr. JohnsonUniversity of Chicago Press, 2011年2月15日 - 304 頁 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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... Thrale , ” caricature ( 1788 ) 145 FIG . 18 “ The Bust of Johnson Frowning at Boswell , Courtenay , and Mrs. Thrale , ” caricature ( 1786 ) » 146 FIG . 19 Basement kitchen tableau , Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum , Lichfield 152 FIG ...
... Thrale , ” caricature ( 1788 ) 145 FIG . 18 “ The Bust of Johnson Frowning at Boswell , Courtenay , and Mrs. Thrale , ” caricature ( 1786 ) » 146 FIG . 19 Basement kitchen tableau , Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum , Lichfield 152 FIG ...
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... THRALE PIOZZI , Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson , LL.D. , during the Last Twenty Years of His Life The names of many greater writers are inscribed on the walls of Westminster Abbey ; but scarcely anyone lies there whose heart was ...
... THRALE PIOZZI , Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson , LL.D. , during the Last Twenty Years of His Life The names of many greater writers are inscribed on the walls of Westminster Abbey ; but scarcely anyone lies there whose heart was ...
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... Thrale to sympathize with the poor who love the smells of Porridge Island, praying annually for his dead wife ... Thrale's anecdote reminds us that the popular idealization of a man who comes to encapsulate all the famous English dead is ...
... Thrale to sympathize with the poor who love the smells of Porridge Island, praying annually for his dead wife ... Thrale's anecdote reminds us that the popular idealization of a man who comes to encapsulate all the famous English dead is ...
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... Thrale, who married (in a Roman Catholic ceremony) the Italian singing master Gabriel Piozzi after her husband's death and shortly before Johnson's own death, became for many an ungrateful betrayer of both her famous friend and her ...
... Thrale, who married (in a Roman Catholic ceremony) the Italian singing master Gabriel Piozzi after her husband's death and shortly before Johnson's own death, became for many an ungrateful betrayer of both her famous friend and her ...
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... Thrale's Johnson speaks his own dark secret so harrowingly that her husband involuntarily raises his hand to silence him.15 Stephen's Johnson inspires an impersonal love that cements community; Thrale's Johnson, potentially mad, almost ...
... Thrale's Johnson speaks his own dark secret so harrowingly that her husband involuntarily raises his hand to silence him.15 Stephen's Johnson inspires an impersonal love that cements community; Thrale's Johnson, potentially mad, almost ...
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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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