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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... story lies in knowing that Johnson , not Goldsmith , was proved right , that whatever real or imagined Jacobite sympathies they may have had both writers kept their heads . After Goldsmith died in 1774 and was buried in the Abbey ...
... story lies in knowing that Johnson , not Goldsmith , was proved right , that whatever real or imagined Jacobite sympathies they may have had both writers kept their heads . After Goldsmith died in 1774 and was buried in the Abbey ...
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... story – perhaps apocryphal – of Boswell trying to defend Lady Diana Beauclerk , who had been di- vorced and remarried . ' Seduced , perhaps , by the charms of the lady in question , I thus attempted to palliate what I was sensible could ...
... story – perhaps apocryphal – of Boswell trying to defend Lady Diana Beauclerk , who had been di- vorced and remarried . ' Seduced , perhaps , by the charms of the lady in question , I thus attempted to palliate what I was sensible could ...
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... story of a prostitute , Misella , told from her perspective ; and her imagined response to her situation , banishment to a colony , seems to her the only feasible way of escaping perpetual misery , living , as she does , amidst people ...
... story of a prostitute , Misella , told from her perspective ; and her imagined response to her situation , banishment to a colony , seems to her the only feasible way of escaping perpetual misery , living , as she does , amidst people ...
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... story of overcoming a temptation to fix English , to make it a language of stone . It begins with the lexicographer at the start of his labours gazing at the chaos of the English language - ' I found our speech copious without order ...
... story of overcoming a temptation to fix English , to make it a language of stone . It begins with the lexicographer at the start of his labours gazing at the chaos of the English language - ' I found our speech copious without order ...
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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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