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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... letters , a growing complete edition of his works , and a better sense of his canon ; we have Frances Burney's journal and letters , along with other memoirs ; there is all the genealogical research of Aleyn Llyll Reade , diverse ...
... letters , a growing complete edition of his works , and a better sense of his canon ; we have Frances Burney's journal and letters , along with other memoirs ; there is all the genealogical research of Aleyn Llyll Reade , diverse ...
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... letter of 26 July 1779 to the Duke of Portland ( Pw F 2149 ) . Most of this study was written while on study leave from Monash University in the first semester of 1994 and in my term as a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University in ...
... letter of 26 July 1779 to the Duke of Portland ( Pw F 2149 ) . Most of this study was written while on study leave from Monash University in the first semester of 1994 and in my term as a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University in ...
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... letters , wishing to be a monument . We catch him on an unspecified day , though certainly after 1759 or so when he met Goldsmith who was then a Grub Street hack just emerging from obscurity . Johnson is in his early fifties . It is a ...
... letters , wishing to be a monument . We catch him on an unspecified day , though certainly after 1759 or so when he met Goldsmith who was then a Grub Street hack just emerging from obscurity . Johnson is in his early fifties . It is a ...
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... letter to Robert , Earl of Oxford . Like others before him , Swift suggests that a society be formed to establish and supervise proper linguistic usage . But what I have most at Heart , is , that some Method should be thought on for ...
... letter to Robert , Earl of Oxford . Like others before him , Swift suggests that a society be formed to establish and supervise proper linguistic usage . But what I have most at Heart , is , that some Method should be thought on for ...
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... letters or deeds , can be recorded only in stone . No writer will trust a medium that itself has no chance of survival : ' This is like employing an excellent Statuary to work upon mouldering Stone ' ( Proposal , 18 ) . That Johnson at ...
... letters or deeds , can be recorded only in stone . No writer will trust a medium that itself has no chance of survival : ' This is like employing an excellent Statuary to work upon mouldering Stone ' ( Proposal , 18 ) . That Johnson at ...
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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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