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Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property.(Review)

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From: Biography
Date: 20010322
Author:Scherwatzky, Steven D.

Hart, Kevin. Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. 244 pp. ISBN 0-521-65182-4, $59.95.

Kevin Hart's Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property sets a far more ambitious agenda than its title suggests. Hart's aim, broadly described, is to examine and assess Johnson's place both in his world and in the Anglo-American cultural imagination. His observations take an extensive view of property, one that includes ownership of many kinds, such as land, literature, even life itself. The book is also as much about James Boswell as it is about Samuel ...

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