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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... importance of landed property for the continued health of the nation . As the century wore on , two developments aided ... important about what the old rallying cry ' Liberty and Property ! ' often meant in practice . ' Pray , what is ...
... importance of landed property for the continued health of the nation . As the century wore on , two developments aided ... important about what the old rallying cry ' Liberty and Property ! ' often meant in practice . ' Pray , what is ...
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... 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 particular significance in ...
... 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 particular significance in ...
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... 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 or 500 to build ...
... 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 or 500 to build ...
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... national hero , of almost mythic proportions . It is important to recognise , right at the start , that while Johnson is a canonical figure of English literature 17 this is not the sole ground and origin of his The monument 15.
... national hero , of almost mythic proportions . It is important to recognise , right at the start , that while Johnson is a canonical figure of English literature 17 this is not the sole ground and origin of his The monument 15.
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... importance of the writer's powers of invention over the critic's rules and regulations . ' It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom , or that which is estab- lished because it is right , from that ...
... importance of the writer's powers of invention over the critic's rules and regulations . ' It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom , or that which is estab- lished because it is right , from that ...
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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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