Hart, Kevin. Samuel Johnson and the...

Hart, Kevin. Samuel Johnson and the improvement of Property. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1999 244 pp ISBN 0-521-65182-4 $5995

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