Samuel Johnson and the Culture of PropertyCambridge University Press, 28.09.1999 г. Kevin Hart traces the vast literary legacy and reputation of Samuel Johnson. Through detailed analyses of the biographers, critics and epigones who carefully crafted and preserved Johnson's life for posterity, Hart explores the emergence of what came to be called 'The Age of Johnson'. Hart shows how late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain experienced the emergence and consolidation of a rich and diverse culture of property. In dedicating himself to Johnson's death, Hart argues, James Boswell turned his friend into a monument, a piece of public property. Through subtle analyses of copyright, forgery and heritage in eighteenth-century life, this study traces the emergence of competing forms of cultural property: a Hanoverian politics of property engages a Jacobite politics of land. Kevin Hart places Samuel Johnson within this rich cultural context, demonstrating how Johnson came to occupy a place at the heart of the English literary canon. |
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... become a split figure , writer and talker , with Boswell ultimately respon- sible for the scission . More than that , Boswell divides Johnson only to appropriate his idiom : after all , the proper name ' Boswell ' has come to stand for ...
... become a split figure , writer and talker , with Boswell ultimately respon- sible for the scission . More than that , Boswell divides Johnson only to appropriate his idiom : after all , the proper name ' Boswell ' has come to stand for ...
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... becomes larger ( and certainly more comfortable ) than the original house . The move- ment is a familiar one : what seems secondary and supplemental can displace the primary figure ; the excessive becomes successive . And equally ...
... becomes larger ( and certainly more comfortable ) than the original house . The move- ment is a familiar one : what seems secondary and supplemental can displace the primary figure ; the excessive becomes successive . And equally ...
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... becomes a mastery : the Life preserves a memory of Johnson and programmes it for future generations , so effectively ... becomes a kind of property in nineteenth- and twentieth- century arguments about biography and editing . Boswell's ...
... becomes a mastery : the Life preserves a memory of Johnson and programmes it for future generations , so effectively ... becomes a kind of property in nineteenth- and twentieth- century arguments about biography and editing . Boswell's ...
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... become the most important to do so . Then as now others placed a stronger stress on his writings . Thus Richard Brocklesby , one of the doctors who attended Johnson during his last illness , offered ' to take a share to the amount of 4 ...
... become the most important to do so . Then as now others placed a stronger stress on his writings . Thus Richard Brocklesby , one of the doctors who attended Johnson during his last illness , offered ' to take a share to the amount of 4 ...
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... become more and more entrenched in the canon yet his monumentality has all but faded, while Ossian is now a grim monument mouldering outside the canon. And there are writers who become canonical without ever having gained a sense of the ...
... become more and more entrenched in the canon yet his monumentality has all but faded, while Ossian is now a grim monument mouldering outside the canon. And there are writers who become canonical without ever having gained a sense of the ...
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CHAPTER 2 The Age of Johnson | 39 |
CHAPTER 3 Property lines | 70 |
CHAPTER 4 Subordination and exchange | 101 |
CHAPTER 5 Cultural properties | 129 |
CHAPTER 6 Everyday life in Johnson | 156 |
CONCLUSION Property contract trade and profits | 180 |
Notes | 184 |
Bibliography | 223 |
Index of persons | 242 |
Index of subjects | 244 |
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