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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... dead wife, standing in the rain at Uttoxeter market to do penance for long-past neglect of a paternal command. This ... dead applies to Johnson. Thrale's anecdote reminds us that the popular idealization of a man who comes to encapsulate ...
... dead wife, standing in the rain at Uttoxeter market to do penance for long-past neglect of a paternal command. This ... dead applies to Johnson. Thrale's anecdote reminds us that the popular idealization of a man who comes to encapsulate ...
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... an acknowledgment of loss: “The tears stand in my eyes.” Thrale from that time on was dead to Johnson; as he told Frances Burney, “I drive her quite from my mind. If I meet with one of her letters, I burn ·
... an acknowledgment of loss: “The tears stand in my eyes.” Thrale from that time on was dead to Johnson; as he told Frances Burney, “I drive her quite from my mind. If I meet with one of her letters, I burn ·
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... dead care about the living?”28 As it turns out, the story—im- mensely popular and as old as Homer—is one of the most serious and multivalent jokes in the history of literature. Playing on the gendered relation between life and death ...
... dead care about the living?”28 As it turns out, the story—im- mensely popular and as old as Homer—is one of the most serious and multivalent jokes in the history of literature. Playing on the gendered relation between life and death ...
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... dead husband by refusing to leave his tomb, refusing to eat or drink, in essence giving up her life along with his own. A nearby soldier, guarding a crucified corpse, hears her weeping, enters the tomb, offers her sustenance, and ...
... dead husband by refusing to leave his tomb, refusing to eat or drink, in essence giving up her life along with his own. A nearby soldier, guarding a crucified corpse, hears her weeping, enters the tomb, offers her sustenance, and ...
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... dead (the latter recent Christian news to the Satyricon's sophisticated pagan world in the first century . .). And it is to the love of the dead in the study of literature that I now turn. I was flattered when as a beginning young ...
... dead (the latter recent Christian news to the Satyricon's sophisticated pagan world in the first century . .). And it is to the love of the dead in the study of literature that I now turn. I was flattered when as a beginning young ...
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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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