Loving Dr. Johnson
Loving Dr. Johnson

Author: Helen Deutsch

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2005-12

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0226143821

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"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.

Doctor Johnson and Others
Doctor Johnson and Others

Author: S. C. Roberts

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-02-02

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9781107685673

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First published in 1958, this book contains four essays on various aspects of Johnson's personality and achievement as well as a survey of the work of Thomas Fuller; a comparison of Pepys and Boswell as diarists; a study of Thomas Gray's life in Cambridge; an essay on James Beresford, author of The Miseries of Human Life, a best-seller of 200 years ago; a brief account, based upon an unpublished diary, of B. W. Beatson, an early nineteenth-century don; and, finally, an essay on the 'inimitable' Max Beerbohm, whom Sir Sydney once dared to imitate.

Dr Johnson and the Law
Dr Johnson and the Law

Author: Arnold McNair

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-12-19

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1107631343

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This book, originally published in 1948, presents an engaging study of the relationship between Doctor Johnson and various aspects of law. The text reveals the legal context in which Johnson lived, providing information on his legal friends and contemporaries, his library, his views on professional ethics, his arguments and other legal activities.