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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... examples. Lowell Gallagher's translation of Beckett's French was just a small part of his contribution—his imagination, originality, and sheer brilliance still keep me going. Lorna Clymer, Jayne Lewis, and Julia Stern were each in their ...
... examples. Lowell Gallagher's translation of Beckett's French was just a small part of his contribution—his imagination, originality, and sheer brilliance still keep me going. Lorna Clymer, Jayne Lewis, and Julia Stern were each in their ...
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... examples of Johnson the familiar. But Stephen, let's not forget, is walking through an illustrious graveyard, and each of the categories with which he characterizes that eclectic and “strange gathering” of the dead applies to Johnson ...
... examples of Johnson the familiar. But Stephen, let's not forget, is walking through an illustrious graveyard, and each of the categories with which he characterizes that eclectic and “strange gathering” of the dead applies to Johnson ...
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... example, over the dearth of biographers capable of stylistically rising to the occasion afforded by Johnson's death: “Tommy Tyers is such a quaint, feeble, fumble-fisted writer, as is only fit for Mother Goose's tales—& Boswell with all ...
... example, over the dearth of biographers capable of stylistically rising to the occasion afforded by Johnson's death: “Tommy Tyers is such a quaint, feeble, fumble-fisted writer, as is only fit for Mother Goose's tales—& Boswell with all ...
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... example of the ways in which bodily difference has in fact distinguished the English literary canon— itself a product of the eighteenth century and to some extent of Johnson's authority as the author of the prefatory but nonetheless ...
... example of the ways in which bodily difference has in fact distinguished the English literary canon— itself a product of the eighteenth century and to some extent of Johnson's authority as the author of the prefatory but nonetheless ...
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... example, served as president of the Lichfield society to whom he quoted Samuel Beckett (who himself made a pilgrimage to Johnson's Lichfield birthplace) on his undying love for their mutual hero. The ritual at Lichfield, we might also ...
... example, served as president of the Lichfield society to whom he quoted Samuel Beckett (who himself made a pilgrimage to Johnson's Lichfield birthplace) on his undying love for their mutual hero. The ritual at Lichfield, we might also ...
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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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