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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... begins by pondering how Boswell makes Johnson into a monument , a piece of public property , and ends by meditating on what escapes all monumentalisation , that cluster of repetitive appropriations we call ' everyday life ' . In between ...
... begins by pondering how Boswell makes Johnson into a monument , a piece of public property , and ends by meditating on what escapes all monumentalisation , that cluster of repetitive appropriations we call ' everyday life ' . In between ...
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... begins his Tour by giving us a glimpse of Johnson's fame as it stood then , before the biographer's books had started to shape it . He remarks that ' Dr Samuel Johnson's character – religious , moral , political and literary nay his ...
... begins his Tour by giving us a glimpse of Johnson's fame as it stood then , before the biographer's books had started to shape it . He remarks that ' Dr Samuel Johnson's character – religious , moral , political and literary nay his ...
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... begins to separate Johnson's work from his life : on the one hand we have his writings , and on the other his personal oddities . There is some point in the distinction , but before dwelling on it I would look elsewhere . Boswell is ...
... begins to separate Johnson's work from his life : on the one hand we have his writings , and on the other his personal oddities . There is some point in the distinction , but before dwelling on it I would look elsewhere . Boswell is ...
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... begins to appear truly ridiculous : the principal places have been long occupied , and the difficulty of finding a new nook or corner every year increases . While this Gothic structure is encumbered and overloaded with ornaments which ...
... begins to appear truly ridiculous : the principal places have been long occupied , and the difficulty of finding a new nook or corner every year increases . While this Gothic structure is encumbered and overloaded with ornaments which ...
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... begin with, despite my invocation of Dante, Goethe and Shakespeare, the category I have in mind is not restricted to the highest figures of a national canon: Robert Burns is a wonderful poet but his wider significance rests on his ...
... begin with, despite my invocation of Dante, Goethe and Shakespeare, the category I have in mind is not restricted to the highest figures of a national canon: Robert Burns is a wonderful poet but his wider significance rests on his ...
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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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