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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... present himself in his own words. Inevitably, this passivity becomes a mastery: the Life preserves a memory of Johnson and programmes it for future generations, so effectively in fact that it is often taken to be the memory ofJohnson ...
... present himself in his own words. Inevitably, this passivity becomes a mastery: the Life preserves a memory of Johnson and programmes it for future generations, so effectively in fact that it is often taken to be the memory ofJohnson ...
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... present SamuelJohnson as he wishes, as a living man in conversation with himself and others, he must also create and maintain another literary figure, one James Boswell, Esq. As biographer, Boswell gives us a certain 'DrJohnson', a ...
... present SamuelJohnson as he wishes, as a living man in conversation with himself and others, he must also create and maintain another literary figure, one James Boswell, Esq. As biographer, Boswell gives us a certain 'DrJohnson', a ...
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... present Felicity to reign in their Subjects Hearts; but these are too perishable to preserve their Memories, which can only be done by the Pens of able and faithful Historians. ( ) A monumental history, of letters or deeds, can be ...
... present Felicity to reign in their Subjects Hearts; but these are too perishable to preserve their Memories, which can only be done by the Pens of able and faithful Historians. ( ) A monumental history, of letters or deeds, can be ...
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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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