Samuel Johnson and the culture of property / Kevin Hart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Kevin, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Knowledge--Economics.

Johnson, Samuel.

Boswell, James, 1740-1795. Life of Samuel Johnson.

Boswell, James.

Property--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Property.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Literature and society.

Intellectual property--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Intellectual property.

Cultural property--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Cultural property.

Biography as a literary form.

Economics in literature.

Great Britain--Civilization--18th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Samuel Johnson & the Culture of Property

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction: Economic Acts; Chapter 1: The Monument; Chapter 2: 'The Age of Johnson'; Chapter 3: Property Lines; Chapter 4: Subordination and Exchange; Chapter 5: Cultural Properties; Chapter 6: Everyday Life in Johnson; Conclusion : 'Property, Contract, Trade and Profits'; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Persons; Index of Subjects

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-241) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-11727-5

0-521-12140-X

1-280-16204-X

0-511-11770-1

0-511-14950-6

0-511-30296-7

0-511-48428-3

0-511-04813-0

OCLC:

47011415