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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... ( eighteenth century ) 31 FIG.4 Thomas Trotter , “ Dr. Johnson in his Travelling Dress ” ( 1786 ) 34 FIG.5 King George II's heart from Gentleman's Magazine 32 ( 1762 ) 47 FIG . 6 William Cumberland Cruikshank , Samuel Johnson ( 1784 ) 52 ...
... ( eighteenth century ) 31 FIG.4 Thomas Trotter , “ Dr. Johnson in his Travelling Dress ” ( 1786 ) 34 FIG.5 King George II's heart from Gentleman's Magazine 32 ( 1762 ) 47 FIG . 6 William Cumberland Cruikshank , Samuel Johnson ( 1784 ) 52 ...
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... Eighteenth-Century Studies for providing essential and unflagging research support (often at the eleventh hour) and an ideal environment in which to work. This support took the most miraculous form in a series of research assistants ...
... Eighteenth-Century Studies for providing essential and unflagging research support (often at the eleventh hour) and an ideal environment in which to work. This support took the most miraculous form in a series of research assistants ...
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... Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation , no. (Summer ): ‒ , © Texas Tech University Press, ; an earlier version of chapter , which was published as “The Author as Monster: The Case of Doctor ...
... Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation , no. (Summer ): ‒ , © Texas Tech University Press, ; an earlier version of chapter , which was published as “The Author as Monster: The Case of Doctor ...
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... eighteenth century.12 My delineation of this double Johnson—the clubbable authority at the center of public masculine feeling and the tortured soul at the limit of private feminine sympathy—is not new.13What is new is my consideration ...
... eighteenth century.12 My delineation of this double Johnson—the clubbable authority at the center of public masculine feeling and the tortured soul at the limit of private feminine sympathy—is not new.13What is new is my consideration ...
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... eighteenth-century English 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 ...
... eighteenth-century English 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 ...
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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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