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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... mind ' , as Claude Rawson judges.30 Yet it is a debate about Boswell , and for once ' Boswell ' does not stand for Johnson ' . The new - found independence of both writers means that their relationship must be rethought , both in itself ...
... mind ' , as Claude Rawson judges.30 Yet it is a debate about Boswell , and for once ' Boswell ' does not stand for Johnson ' . The new - found independence of both writers means that their relationship must be rethought , both in itself ...
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... noting how Boswell teases out the elements in his expression ' the illustrious Philosopher of this age ' . Johnson's mind , he suggests , powerfully — - encompasses a wide range of human concerns - religious The monument 13.
... noting how Boswell teases out the elements in his expression ' the illustrious Philosopher of this age ' . Johnson's mind , he suggests , powerfully — - encompasses a wide range of human concerns - religious The monument 13.
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... mind ' , and ' genius ' ( again , in the relevant sense ) as ' a man endowed with superior faculties ' . Writing , for Johnson , was not a natural consequence of his character or his genius . The idea would have struck him as cant ...
... mind ' , and ' genius ' ( again , in the relevant sense ) as ' a man endowed with superior faculties ' . Writing , for Johnson , was not a natural consequence of his character or his genius . The idea would have struck him as cant ...
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... mind at least since 1781 when he was visiting Flanders and Holland . New sculptures erected in the Abbey , he wrote then , ' are so stuck up in odd holes and corners , that it begins to appear truly ridiculous : the principal places ...
... mind at least since 1781 when he was visiting Flanders and Holland . New sculptures erected in the Abbey , he wrote then , ' are so stuck up in odd holes and corners , that it begins to appear truly ridiculous : the principal places ...
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... mind is not restricted to the highest figures of a national canon: Robert Burns is a wonderful poet but his wider significance rests on his monumentality. Poems like 'Holy Willie's Prayer', 'To a Louse' and 'A Red, Red Rose' may rightly ...
... mind is not restricted to the highest figures of a national canon: Robert Burns is a wonderful poet but his wider significance rests on his monumentality. Poems like 'Holy Willie's Prayer', 'To a Louse' and 'A Red, Red Rose' may rightly ...
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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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