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 [...]