Loving Dr. Johnson
- ISBN-10
- 0226143821
- ISBN-13
- 9780226143828
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 322
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-12
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Helen Deutsch
Description
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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