Archive for February 8th, 2010
Melancholic Johnson at Dr Johnson’s House
Monday, February 8th, 2010Thursday 18 February 2010, 7pm
Melancholic Johnson
A lecture by Dr Jane Darcy
Boswell was keen to present Johnson as an exemplary eighteenth-century Man of Feeling, a man whose melancholic moods were evidence of his refined sensibility. In so doing, he could play down evidence of Johnson’s distinctly odd behaviour, and most importantly, insist that Johnson had never [...]