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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... example , although a very important one , all these changes in the notion of property are caught up in the long and often heated debate that finally resulted in the modern understanding of intellectual property . Three events are of ...
... example , although a very important one , all these changes in the notion of property are caught up in the long and often heated debate that finally resulted in the modern understanding of intellectual property . Three events are of ...
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... example. This last group is made of minor figures, one might say, and that is often the case. Yet canons can and do ... examples suggest. But it also needs something else. A monument is a rallying point for a community; it must be the ...
... example. This last group is made of minor figures, one might say, and that is often the case. Yet canons can and do ... examples suggest. But it also needs something else. A monument is a rallying point for a community; it must be the ...
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... example , he longs to have ' Johnsonised the land ' ( Life , 1 , 13 ) . When seen clearly , Boswell's project is nothing less than the monumen- talisation of Johnson's name . But this act has an inevitable side effect : to present ...
... example , he longs to have ' Johnsonised the land ' ( Life , 1 , 13 ) . When seen clearly , Boswell's project is nothing less than the monumen- talisation of Johnson's name . But this act has an inevitable side effect : to present ...
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... examples of follies that call out for moral censure but it is also informed by a nagging second - order concern ... example , are not short apologues or treatises on the subject . It never becomes a ' subject ' . We read the story ...
... examples of follies that call out for moral censure but it is also informed by a nagging second - order concern ... example , are not short apologues or treatises on the subject . It never becomes a ' subject ' . We read the story ...
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... example . Christopher Smart commended it to the world as ' a work I look upon with equal pleasure and amazement , as I do upon St Paul's cathedral ' . That image of the monumental persists through generation after generation , from John ...
... example . Christopher Smart commended it to the world as ' a work I look upon with equal pleasure and amazement , as I do upon St Paul's cathedral ' . That image of the monumental persists through generation after generation , from John ...
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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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