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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... thing itself, a seeing by oneself and of oneself (as the word's etymology indicates) is not, as it turns out, so different from the familiar introductory impulse to focus upon an anecdote, since Johnson's selected remains, claimed by ...
... thing itself, a seeing by oneself and of oneself (as the word's etymology indicates) is not, as it turns out, so different from the familiar introductory impulse to focus upon an anecdote, since Johnson's selected remains, claimed by ...
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... things as they are, and in the usual ways that we order those things in 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 ...
... things as they are, and in the usual ways that we order those things in 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 ...
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... things. It is the man they seek and the atmosphere in which he lives. Such is the force and charm of Dr. Johnson ... things in their bringing of their subject to momentary life—far outweighs the collector's usual reverent impulse to ...
... things. It is the man they seek and the atmosphere in which he lives. Such is the force and charm of Dr. Johnson ... things in their bringing of their subject to momentary life—far outweighs the collector's usual reverent impulse to ...
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... things, the relation of Johnson's embodied presence to the invisible mid-twentieth-century intelligence communities of the American New Criticism so provocatively analyzed by William Epstein. But this is not the history I'm going to ...
... things, the relation of Johnson's embodied presence to the invisible mid-twentieth-century intelligence communities of the American New Criticism so provocatively analyzed by William Epstein. But this is not the history I'm going to ...
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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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