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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... Hands , we may say , are properly his . Whatsoever then he removes out of the State that Nature hath provided , and left it in , he hath mixed his Labour with , and joyned to it something that is his own , and thereby makes it his ...
... Hands , we may say , are properly his . Whatsoever then he removes out of the State that Nature hath provided , and left it in , he hath mixed his Labour with , and joyned to it something that is his own , and thereby makes it his ...
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... hand in glove than was once thought . If this gives Johnsonians a tonic satisfaction , it also causes them a flicker of anxiety now and then . For Johnson has been extricated only at the cost of revealing a Boswell who competes for our ...
... hand in glove than was once thought . If this gives Johnsonians a tonic satisfaction , it also causes them a flicker of anxiety now and then . For Johnson has been extricated only at the cost of revealing a Boswell who competes for our ...
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... 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 captivated by Johnson's character and genius , his scope as well ...
... 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 captivated by Johnson's character and genius , his scope as well ...
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... hand and specialist bookshops . Even here , though , there is much that has been built around the monument , not least of all biography and criticism , some of which attracts by its own lights . Then there are sumptuous or rare editions ...
... hand and specialist bookshops . Even here , though , there is much that has been built around the monument , not least of all biography and criticism , some of which attracts by its own lights . Then there are sumptuous or rare editions ...
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... Hand.25 One aspect of this wish to ' fix our doubtful speech ' was a deeply felt need for a dictionary of the English language . Addison and Pope had collec- ted materials , and with their work at hand Ambrose Philips went so far as to ...
... Hand.25 One aspect of this wish to ' fix our doubtful speech ' was a deeply felt need for a dictionary of the English language . Addison and Pope had collec- ted materials , and with their work at hand Ambrose Philips went so far as to ...
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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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