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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... proper Owners of the Country : It is their own , and the other Inhabitants are but Sojourners , like Lodgers in a House , and ought to be subject to such Laws as the Freeholders impose upon them , or else they must remove ; because the ...
... proper Owners of the Country : It is their own , and the other Inhabitants are but Sojourners , like Lodgers in a House , and ought to be subject to such Laws as the Freeholders impose upon them , or else they must remove ; because the ...
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... the scission . More than that , Boswell divides Johnson only to appropriate his idiom : after all , the proper name ' Boswell ' has come to stand for the Life of Johnson , and therefore for 6 Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property.
... the scission . More than that , Boswell divides Johnson only to appropriate his idiom : after all , the proper name ' Boswell ' has come to stand for the Life of Johnson , and therefore for 6 Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property.
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... proper and profitable to him . So much so that the biographer is raised by many readers above his subject : the annex becomes larger ( and certainly more comfortable ) than the original house . The move- ment is a familiar one : what ...
... proper and profitable to him . So much so that the biographer is raised by many readers above his subject : the annex becomes larger ( and certainly more comfortable ) than the original house . The move- ment is a familiar one : what ...
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... proper check : “ My dear Sir , never accustom your mind to mingle virtue and vice . The woman's a whore , and there's an end on't " ( Life , II , 247 ) . And there is the even better - known story of Johnson answering Boswell on the ...
... proper check : “ My dear Sir , never accustom your mind to mingle virtue and vice . The woman's a whore , and there's an end on't " ( Life , II , 247 ) . And there is the even better - known story of Johnson answering Boswell on the ...
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... proper linguistic usage . But what I have most at Heart , is , that some Method should be thought on for Ascertaining and Fixing our Language for ever , after such Alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite . For I am of ...
... proper linguistic usage . But what I have most at Heart , is , that some Method should be thought on for Ascertaining and Fixing our Language for ever , after such Alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite . For I am of ...
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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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