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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... writing are far more cautious now about associating these two writers than we were even a generation ago . In 1951 Bertrand H. Bronson expressed what many had felt , that Boswell's ' Flemish portrait ' of Johnson had fundamentally ...
... writing are far more cautious now about associating these two writers than we were even a generation ago . In 1951 Bertrand H. Bronson expressed what many had felt , that Boswell's ' Flemish portrait ' of Johnson had fundamentally ...
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... writing.27 When we take all this into account we see that Boswell's perspective on Johnson was not the only one , or perhaps always the most telling one . It is also true that , with the recovery of his journals and letters , we know ...
... writing.27 When we take all this into account we see that Boswell's perspective on Johnson was not the only one , or perhaps always the most telling one . It is also true that , with the recovery of his journals and letters , we know ...
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... written while on study leave from Monash University in the first semester of 1994 and in my term as a Visiting ... writing on Johnson . The book is dedicated to my daughters , Sarah and Claire , who were born while this study was in ...
... written while on study leave from Monash University in the first semester of 1994 and in my term as a Visiting ... writing on Johnson . The book is dedicated to my daughters , Sarah and Claire , who were born while this study was in ...
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... writing in The Bee , drew a flattering portrait of Johnson being praised by the old coachman of ' The Fame Machine ' . After admitting several notables to his carriage , the coachman sees ' a very grave personage ' who , on closer ...
... writing in The Bee , drew a flattering portrait of Johnson being praised by the old coachman of ' The Fame Machine ' . After admitting several notables to his carriage , the coachman sees ' a very grave personage ' who , on closer ...
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... Writing , for Johnson , was not a natural consequence of his character or his genius . The idea would have struck him ... written on political , moral and religious themes , and some of these compositions may have been of immense value ...
... Writing , for Johnson , was not a natural consequence of his character or his genius . The idea would have struck him ... written on political , moral and religious themes , and some of these compositions may have been of immense value ...
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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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