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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... of its underlying sexual interestedness. He is, in short, sentimental art without nature.18 His emotion is always disinterested, unattached does to one object, and thus capable of moving many others, ·
... of its underlying sexual interestedness. He is, in short, sentimental art without nature.18 His emotion is always disinterested, unattached does to one object, and thus capable of moving many others, ·
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... nature of the love for Johnson that had excluded scholars such as the young woman from participating in and inevitably transforming the nature of that love.35 I added that I felt it was now acceptable, even hip, to love literature ...
... nature of the love for Johnson that had excluded scholars such as the young woman from participating in and inevitably transforming the nature of that love.35 I added that I felt it was now acceptable, even hip, to love literature ...
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... nature, material and immortal, of Johnson's body. I propose to take the profession in yet another direction by repeating an old pattern with a difference; my goal is to trace the path of an embodied anecdotal afterlife that takes the ...
... nature, material and immortal, of Johnson's body. I propose to take the profession in yet another direction by repeating an old pattern with a difference; my goal is to trace the path of an embodied anecdotal afterlife that takes the ...
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... nature of this focus. This returns me to my fourth epigraph and to Johnson's love of anecdote, what he defined in his Dictionary as “something yet unpublished; secret history,” and to which he added in the fourth edition, “a minute ...
... nature of this focus. This returns me to my fourth epigraph and to Johnson's love of anecdote, what he defined in his Dictionary as “something yet unpublished; secret history,” and to which he added in the fourth edition, “a minute ...
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Contenido
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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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