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 42 筆
第 xiii 頁
... Speak to It, Horatio': Uncritical Reading and Johnsonian Romance,” in Polemic: Critical or Uncritical, ed. Jane Gallop (New York: Routledge, ), ‒ . Heartfelt thanks to my family, especially to Betty Capaldi, Ruthanne ...
... Speak to It, Horatio': Uncritical Reading and Johnsonian Romance,” in Polemic: Critical or Uncritical, ed. Jane Gallop (New York: Routledge, ), ‒ . Heartfelt thanks to my family, especially to Betty Capaldi, Ruthanne ...
第 6 頁
... speak an unintelligible private language. Rather than reassure, his words, unspeakable words that Mr. Thrale cannot stand to hear, might alienate, cause shock, fear, and pain. The fact that they are lost to us now is what gives Thrale's ...
... speak an unintelligible private language. Rather than reassure, his words, unspeakable words that Mr. Thrale cannot stand to hear, might alienate, cause shock, fear, and pain. The fact that they are lost to us now is what gives Thrale's ...
第 7 頁
... speak, his basis for generalization,” in the particularized anecdotal, personal realm of the diary he kept during his early fieldwork in Australia—a realm in which his body figures in vexed opposition and connection to those of his ...
... speak, his basis for generalization,” in the particularized anecdotal, personal realm of the diary he kept during his early fieldwork in Australia—a realm in which his body figures in vexed opposition and connection to those of his ...
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... impregnated with the Johnsonian aether,”31 Boswell abandons pride for devotion, defensive self-assertion for self-effacing worship; speaking of the many who supplied him with anecdotes ·
... impregnated with the Johnsonian aether,”31 Boswell abandons pride for devotion, defensive self-assertion for self-effacing worship; speaking of the many who supplied him with anecdotes ·
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Helen Deutsch. worship; speaking of the many who supplied him with anecdotes in his advertisement to the first edition, Boswell likens their efforts to “the grateful tribes of ancient nations, of which every individual was eager to throw ...
Helen Deutsch. worship; speaking of the many who supplied him with anecdotes in his advertisement to the first edition, Boswell likens their efforts to “the grateful tribes of ancient nations, of which every individual was eager to throw ...
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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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