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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... give a better idea of my concern . Certainly some explanation is necessary , for schol- ars of eighteenth - century British writing are far more cautious now about associating these two writers than we were even a generation ago . In ...
... give a better idea of my concern . Certainly some explanation is necessary , for schol- ars of eighteenth - century British writing are far more cautious now about associating these two writers than we were even a generation ago . In ...
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... gives invaluable insights into Boswell's writing habits.28 In reading these documents and editions along with his books we can identify several layers of Boswell's self- mythologising , one copious seam of which consists of his ...
... gives invaluable insights into Boswell's writing habits.28 In reading these documents and editions along with his books we can identify several layers of Boswell's self- mythologising , one copious seam of which consists of his ...
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... give my vote for Mr Johnson to fill that great and arduous post . And I hereby declare that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language , as a free - born British subject , to the said Mr Johnson ...
... give my vote for Mr Johnson to fill that great and arduous post . And I hereby declare that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language , as a free - born British subject , to the said Mr Johnson ...
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... gives us a certain ' Dr Johnson ' , a powerful and seductive character who derives as much from Boswell's mastery of realism as from reality . That folk who know little or nothing of the Rambler or ' The Vanity of Human Wishes ' still ...
... gives us a certain ' Dr Johnson ' , a powerful and seductive character who derives as much from Boswell's mastery of realism as from reality . That folk who know little or nothing of the Rambler or ' The Vanity of Human Wishes ' still ...
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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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