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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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 66 筆
第 6 頁
... narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. If a man is to wait till he weaves anecdotes into a system, we may be long in getting them, and get but few, in ...
... narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. If a man is to wait till he weaves anecdotes into a system, we may be long in getting them, and get but few, in ...
第 10 頁
... narrative, that we laugh at in order to return to some semblance of the normal.25Johnson's friend Charles Burney despaired, for example, over the dearth of biographers capable of stylistically rising to the occasion afforded by ...
... narrative, that we laugh at in order to return to some semblance of the normal.25Johnson's friend Charles Burney despaired, for example, over the dearth of biographers capable of stylistically rising to the occasion afforded by ...
第 16 頁
... narrative impetus.42 My title is meant to highlight the many forms and objects of love—the complex with me.”40 interaction of desire, fantasy, narcissistic misrecognition, and unsettling confrontation with ·
... narrative impetus.42 My title is meant to highlight the many forms and objects of love—the complex with me.”40 interaction of desire, fantasy, narcissistic misrecognition, and unsettling confrontation with ·
第 20 頁
... narrative—the concerns of preparation, connection, illustration, of context, of, in short, history—are discarded forever. Instead of the “big books” with which the great author (largely because of the Dictionary and paradoxically ...
... narrative—the concerns of preparation, connection, illustration, of context, of, in short, history—are discarded forever. Instead of the “big books” with which the great author (largely because of the Dictionary and paradoxically ...
第 21 頁
... narrative,” I take his effusion on behalf of anecdotes as my starting point for narrating Johnsonian desire. This desire—both Johnson's own for an anecdotal record of a life that must be “seen before it can be known”52 and that of ...
... narrative,” I take his effusion on behalf of anecdotes as my starting point for narrating Johnsonian desire. This desire—both Johnson's own for an anecdotal record of a life that must be “seen before it can be known”52 and that of ...
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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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