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UNINA9910455068203321 |
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Hart Kevin <1954-> |
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Titolo |
Samuel Johnson and the culture of property / / Kevin Hart [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999 |
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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 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (v, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Property - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Intellectual property - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Cultural property - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Biography as a literary form |
Economics in literature |
Great Britain Civilization 18th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-241) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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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