Doctor Johnson

Author : Helen Deutsch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226143859

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Loving Dr. Johnson by Helen Deutsch Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Armitage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : WISC:89099962128

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Doctor Johnson by Robert Armitage Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018640835

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Doctor Johnson: his religious life and his death. By the author of “Dr. Hookwell,” etc. [Robert Armitage]. by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Norman Page
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1987-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349082865

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Dr Johnson by Norman Page Pdf

Author : Dr. Sue Johnson
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780316251082

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Love Sense by Dr. Sue Johnson Pdf

The bestselling author of Hold Me Tight presents a revolutionary new understanding of why and how we love, based on cutting-edge research. Every day, we hear of relationships failing and questions of whether humans are meant to be monogamous. Love Sense presents new scientific evidence that tells us that humans are meant to mate for life. Dr. Johnson explains that romantic love is an attachment bond, just like that between mother and child, and shows us how to develop our "love sense" -- our ability to develop long-lasting relationships. Love is not the least bit illogical or random, but actually an ordered and wise recipe for survival. Love Sense covers the three stages of a relationship and how to best weather them; the intelligence of emotions and the logic of love; the physical and psychological benefits of secure love; and much more. Based on groundbreaking research, Love Sense will change the way we think about love.

Author : William Shakespeare,William Harness
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015010848268

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The Complete Works of William Shakspeare: with Dr. Johnson's Preface by William Shakespeare,William Harness Pdf

Author : Lee Morgan
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0761810307

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Dr. Johnson's "own Dear Master" by Lee Morgan Pdf

In this biography, Lee Morgan tells the story of Henry Thrale, a successful but flawed and troubled businessman and Member of Parliament who was at the center of the life of the most famous man of letters of the eighteenth century, Dr. Samuel Johnson. Thrale was also married to an exceptionally talented diarist and, perhaps, the most brilliant society leader of the period, Hester Salusbury Thrale, later Mrs. Gabriel Piozzi. In chronicling both the domestic life and the career of Thrale, Dr. Johnson's "Own Dear Master" also affords an interesting glimpse of eighteenth-century business, political, and social life of the age of Johnson as it was played out by some of the principal figures of the day.

Author : John Bailey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752372045

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Dr. Johnson and His Circle by John Bailey Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Dr. Johnson and His Circle by John Bailey

Author : Norma Clarke
Publisher : Random House
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446475713

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Dr Johnson's Women by Norma Clarke Pdf

Dr Johnson's friendships with the leading women writers of the day was an important feature of his life and theirs. He was willing to treat women as intellectual equals and to promote their careers: something ignored by his main biographer, James Boswell. Dr Johnson's Women investigates the lives and writings of six leading female authors Johnson knew well: Elizabeth Carter, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Montagu, Hester Thrale, Hannah More and Fanny Burney. It explores their relationships with Johnson, with each other and with the world of letters. It shows what it was like to be a woman writer in the 'Age of Johnson'. It is often assumed that women writers in the eighteenth century suffered the same restrictions and obstacles that confronted their Victorian successors. Norma Clarke shows that this was by no means the case. Highlighting the opportunities available to women of talent in the eighteenth century, Dr Johnson's Women makes clear just how impressive and varied their achievements were.

Author : David Noy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443893251

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Dr Johnson's Friend and Robert Adam's Client Topham Beauclerk by David Noy Pdf

Dr Johnson said that he would walk to the ends of the earth to save Beauclerk. Other people who claimed to be his friends rejoiced at his early death. How did the beautiful youth of Francis Coates’ 1756 portrait become a man whose greatest claim to fame was causing an infestation of lice at Blenheim Palace through lack of personal hygiene? A great-grandson of Charles II and Nell Gwyn, he lived a privileged life thanks to fortuitously inherited wealth. He employed Robert Adam to build him a house at Muswell Hill which has almost completely disappeared from the records of Adam’s work due to a dispute about the bill. He was one of the leading book-collectors of the time, with a library of 30,000 volumes whose sale after his death was a major literary event. He also used his wealth to indulge interests in science and astronomy and a passion for gambling. As a result, he ran through his inheritance as quickly as he could sell it, falling into ever-increasing debt as his lawyer grew richer. Beauclerk knew all the leading figures of the British and French Enlightenments. He was a friend of Johnson, Adam Smith, David Hume, Horace Walpole, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Wilkes and David Garrick. He met Rousseau and Voltaire, and immersed himself in French salon culture. He could charm people when he chose to, but did not always try. Recently he has been overshadowed by his wife, Lady Di (née Spencer), whose life by Carola Hicks (Improper Pursuits, 2001) has made her artistic talent and unconventional life well-known. The story of their adultery and marriage has not previously been told from Beauclerk’s point of view, and many other inaccuracies have crept into authoritative works such as the ODNB; he is regularly and unfairly dismissed as a bad husband. This biography shows that he was much more than the close associate of Johnson known from the pages of Boswell: a man of widely varied interests, from the Grand Tour to the contemporary theatre, who lived Enlightenment life to the full in a way which would not have been possible a generation earlier or later. Based on research in unpublished letters, legal documents and financial records, including some concerning the Adam house, as well as published diaries, letters and memoirs, it shows that he may have left no enduring legacy of his many talents, as even his friends admitted, but he made the most of all the opportunities available and lived a fascinating life which illuminates every aspect of Georgian elite society, from auctions to zoology, from care of one’s wig to building an observatory, and from mishaps in Venice to sea-therapy in Brighton.

Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : English literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858019949043

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Dr. Johnson's writings. Crabbe. William Hazlitt. Disraeli's novels. Massinger. Fielding's novels. Cowper and Rousseau. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Wordsworth's ethics. Landor's imaginary conversations. Macaulay by Leslie Stephen Pdf

Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007386789

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Dr Johnson and Mr Savage by Richard Holmes Pdf

A classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0898702372

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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton by G. K. Chesterton Pdf

The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton is an ongoing project, edited by many of the most prominent Chesterton scholars in the world, including Dale Ahlquist, Denis Conlon, George Marlin, Lawrence Clipper, and many others. These handsome editions include explanatory footnotes, introductory essays, and much more.

Author : Dr. Sue Johnson
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780316031998

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Hold Me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson Pdf

Strengthen and deepen your relationships with this "much-needed" (Harville Hendrix, PhD) guide that has sold over one million copies, through revelatory practical exercises, seven profound conversations, and sage advice from “the best couple’s therapist in the world” (John Gottman, PhD, bestselling author) Are you looking to enrich a healthy relationship, revitalize a tired one, or rescue one gone awry? We all want a lifetime of love, support, and companionship. But sometimes we need a little help. Enter Dr. Sue Johnson, developer of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and “the most original contributor to couple’s therapy to come along in the last thirty years,” according to Dr. William J. Doherty, PhD. In Hold Me Tight, Dr. Johnson shares her groundbreaking and remarkably successful program for creating stronger, more secure relationships. The message of Hold Me Tight is simple: Forget about learning how to argue better, analyzing your early childhood, making grand romantic gestures, or experimenting with new sexual positions. Instead, get to the emotional underpinnings of your relationship by recognizing that you are emotionally attached to and dependent on your partner in much the same way that a child is on a parent for nurturing, soothing, and protection. Dr. Johnson teaches that the way to enhance or save a relationship is to be open, attuned, and responsive to each other and to reestablish emotional connection. With this in mind, she focuses on key moments in a relationship and uses them as touch points for seven healing conversations, including: Recognizing the Demon Dialogues Finding the Raw Spots Revisiting a Rocky Moment Forgiving Injuries Keeping Your Love Alive These conversations give you insight into the defining moments in your relationship and guide you in reshaping these moments to create a secure and lasting bond. Through stories from Dr. Johnson’s practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, you will learn how to nurture, protect, and grow your relationship, ensuring a lifetime of love.

Author : James Edward Tobin
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819601888

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Eighteenth Century English Literature and Its Cultural Background by James Edward Tobin Pdf