Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… Image Edward Matthew Ward, ‘Doctor Johnson in the Ante-Room of the Lord Chesterfield Waiting for an Audience’, 1748, Tate, N00430. Résumé In the absence of … of the writers and critics who, for many of his contemporaries, came to exemplify the antagonism against patronage was Samuel Johnson. The most famous illustration of the decline of the system of patronage was surely Johnson’s interchange … it, ‘the Magna Carta of the modern author’. 8 Johnson writes: 8 . Alvin Kernan, Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987), p. 105. Is not a patron my lord, one who looks with …
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