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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... true and solid foundation of man's dominion over external things'.2 It is rare to find Blackstone evoking the imagination or expressing such a sense of awe. And yet it is understandable here: for he is confronting the ground and abyss ...
... true and solid foundation of man's dominion over external things'.2 It is rare to find Blackstone evoking the imagination or expressing such a sense of awe. And yet it is understandable here: for he is confronting the ground and abyss ...
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... true Johnson, the challenging writer, is to read what he wrote and what his contemporaries wrote about him. Certainly we have more information aboutJohnson, his early years in particular, than was available to Boswell.26 We have a fine ...
... true Johnson, the challenging writer, is to read what he wrote and what his contemporaries wrote about him. Certainly we have more information aboutJohnson, his early years in particular, than was available to Boswell.26 We have a fine ...
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... true of ' acts ' . Usually the word denotes simply a deed or an exploit . On occasion , though , its legal sense is brought into the foreground ; while at other times , the word evokes the theatre . It is not irrelevant that Boswell the ...
... true of ' acts ' . Usually the word denotes simply a deed or an exploit . On occasion , though , its legal sense is brought into the foreground ; while at other times , the word evokes the theatre . It is not irrelevant that Boswell the ...
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... true Genius ' , he wrote in later life , ' is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction'.11 For Johnson , being a writer was a result of having to make a choice of life that best suited his ...
... true Genius ' , he wrote in later life , ' is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction'.11 For Johnson , being a writer was a result of having to make a choice of life that best suited his ...
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... true , it is impossible to refute it . I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered , striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone , till he rebounded from it , " I refute it thus " ( Life , 1 , 471 ) . The ...
... true , it is impossible to refute it . I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered , striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone , till he rebounded from it , " I refute it thus " ( Life , 1 , 471 ) . 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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