TY - BOOK ID - 2967052 TI - Loving Dr. Johnson PY - 2005 SN - 0226143821 0226143848 0226143856 9780226143859 9780226143828 PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Authors, English KW - Johnson, Samuel, KW - Influence. KW - Authors, English - 18th century. KW - Authors, English --18th century --Biography. KW - Johnson, Samuel. KW - Johnson, Samuel - Influence. KW - Johnson, Samuel, --1709-1784 --Influence. KW - Johnson, Samuel, --1709-1784. KW - English KW - English Literature KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Johnson, Samuel KW - Influence KW - Authors [English ] KW - 18th century KW - Biography KW - Jonsan, Śāmuʼél, KW - Author of the Rambler, KW - Rambler, Author of the, KW - Gʹonson, Samyuʼel, KW - صمويل جونسون KW - samuel johnson, boswell, literature, england, individuality, authority, masculinity, englishness, nationalism, identity, 18th century, canon, classic, fame, authors, cat, science, anatomy, autopsy, tics, tourettes, disability, control, body, criticism, literary critic, nonfiction, scars, chronic illness, language, biography, british, britain. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2967052 AB - 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. ER -