Samuel Johnson and the Culture of PropertyCambridge University Press, 1999. szept. 28. 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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... literary canon . Kevin Hart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Monash University in Melbourne , Australia . He is the author of Trespass of the Sign ( 1990 ) , A. D. Hope ( 1992 ) , and editor of The Oxford Book of ...
... literary canon . Kevin Hart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Monash University in Melbourne , Australia . He is the author of Trespass of the Sign ( 1990 ) , A. D. Hope ( 1992 ) , and editor of The Oxford Book of ...
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... literary works were the personal property of the author or booksel- ler , and a term of copyright was set at twenty - one years for books already in print , and at fourteen years for new titles ( extendable to twenty - eight years , if ...
... literary works were the personal property of the author or booksel- ler , and a term of copyright was set at twenty - one years for books already in print , and at fourteen years for new titles ( extendable to twenty - eight years , if ...
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... literary property – may not be as well known as it deserves to be , and these writings will be of interest to me . But they are not my main focus , which is given in the title of this introduction . In coining the expression ' economic ...
... literary property – may not be as well known as it deserves to be , and these writings will be of interest to me . But they are not my main focus , which is given in the title of this introduction . In coining the expression ' economic ...
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... literary history . In part this project requires us to examine Boswell's diverse appropriations of Johnson , and in part it invites us to study the desire to expropriate Boswell from the reading of Johnson . Both acts mark ' Samuel ...
... literary history . In part this project requires us to examine Boswell's diverse appropriations of Johnson , and in part it invites us to study the desire to expropriate Boswell from the reading of Johnson . Both acts mark ' Samuel ...
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... literary fame is set firmly on national pride and has some of the lustres of heroism . With the benefit of hindsight , literary historians with a taste for periodisation will place this day firmly within the Age of Johnson ' , an ...
... literary fame is set firmly on national pride and has some of the lustres of heroism . With the benefit of hindsight , literary historians with a taste for periodisation will place this day firmly within the Age of Johnson ' , an ...
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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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