Loving Dr. JohnsonUniversity of Chicago Press, 2011 M02 15 - 304 páginas 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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... CHAPTER ONE Johnsonian Romance 43 CHAPTER TWO Style's Body : The Case of Dr. Johnson 71 CHAPTER THREE “ Look , my Lord , it comes ” : Uncritical Reading and Johnsonian Communion 105 CHAPTER FOUR The Ephesian Matron and Johnson's Corpse 155 ...
... CHAPTER ONE Johnsonian Romance 43 CHAPTER TWO Style's Body : The Case of Dr. Johnson 71 CHAPTER THREE “ Look , my Lord , it comes ” : Uncritical Reading and Johnsonian Communion 105 CHAPTER FOUR The Ephesian Matron and Johnson's Corpse 155 ...
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... chapter . Luke Bresky, Stephen Dilks, Anita Guerrini, Nicole Horejsi, Kate Marshall, Sean Silver, Cheryl Wanko, and Richard Wendorf shared unpublished work that facilitated my thinking. Felicity Nussbaum's conversation and critique ...
... chapter . Luke Bresky, Stephen Dilks, Anita Guerrini, Nicole Horejsi, Kate Marshall, Sean Silver, Cheryl Wanko, and Richard Wendorf shared unpublished work that facilitated my thinking. Felicity Nussbaum's conversation and critique ...
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... chapter , which was originally published as “Doctor Johnson's Autopsy,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation , no. (Summer ): ‒ , © Texas Tech University Press, ; an earlier version of chapter ...
... chapter , which was originally published as “Doctor Johnson's Autopsy,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation , no. (Summer ): ‒ , © Texas Tech University Press, ; an earlier version of chapter ...
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... chapter . In this story, a wife renowned for her virtue mourns her dead husband by refusing to leave his tomb, refusing to eat or drink, in essence giving up her life along with his own. A nearby soldier, guarding a crucified corpse ...
... chapter . In this story, a wife renowned for her virtue mourns her dead husband by refusing to leave his tomb, refusing to eat or drink, in essence giving up her life along with his own. A nearby soldier, guarding a crucified corpse ...
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... chapter on the eucharistic dimensions of the autopsy and its aftermath for a English Institute panel on the subject of “Author Love,” I was asked during the question period about my own investment in the panel's topic. After ...
... chapter on the eucharistic dimensions of the autopsy and its aftermath for a English Institute panel on the subject of “Author Love,” I was asked during the question period about my own investment in the panel's topic. After ...
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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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