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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... once thought. Ifthis givesJohnsonians a tonic satisfaction, it also causes them a flicker of anxiety now and then. ForJohnson has been extricated only at the cost of revealing a Boswell who competes for our attention. This revelation ...
... once thought. Ifthis givesJohnsonians a tonic satisfaction, it also causes them a flicker of anxiety now and then. ForJohnson has been extricated only at the cost of revealing a Boswell who competes for our attention. This revelation ...
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... once 'Boswell' does not stand for 'Johnson'. The new-found independence ofboth writers means that their relationship must be rethought, both in itself and as received in literary history. In part this project requires us to examine ...
... once 'Boswell' does not stand for 'Johnson'. The new-found independence ofboth writers means that their relationship must be rethought, both in itself and as received in literary history. In part this project requires us to examine ...
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... Once that is realised there begins a slow and usually incomplete process of demonumentalisation: a quest for the individual, the idiom, the question. At the very least, it is a search for what he wrote and for the overlaid contexts in ...
... Once that is realised there begins a slow and usually incomplete process of demonumentalisation: a quest for the individual, the idiom, the question. At the very least, it is a search for what he wrote and for the overlaid contexts in ...
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... once and for all is a vain wish: When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the ...
... once and for all is a vain wish: When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the ...
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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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