Samuel Johnson and the culture of property / / Kevin Hart [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Hart Kevin <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (v, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 828/.609
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Civilization 18th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-241) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Samuel Johnson & the Culture of Property
• Titolo autorizzato: Samuel Johnson and the culture of property
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455068203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II