Johnson, Writing, and Memory - Softcover

Clingham, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521021855 ISBN 13: 9780521021852

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Greg Clingham examines Johnson's writing, including his biographical writing, as it intersects with eighteenth-century thought on literature, history, fiction and law and in its subsequent compatibility with and resistance to modern theory. Clingham offers a theoretically nuanced and original account of Johnson's work.

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'This is a wide-ranging, intelligent study ... an authoritative contribution to Johnson scholarship, which suggests how his works may benefit from more theoretical reading.' The Times Literary Supplement

'... probingly intellectual'. British Association for Romantic Studies

Reseña del editor:

Johnson, Writing, and Memory demonstrates the importance of memory in Samuel Johnson's oeuvre. Greg Clingham argues that this is a notion of memory that is derived from the process of historical and creative writing, and is found to be embodied in works of literature and other cultural forms. He examines Johnson's writing, including his biographical writing, as it intersects with eighteenth-century thought on literature, history, fiction and law and in its subsequent compatibility with and resistance to modern theory. Clingham's widely researched study provides an account of Johnson's intellectual positions that incorporates the challenges they pose to recent critical theory, and argues for Johnson's inclusion in a new theorisation of terms such as 'authority', 'nature' and 'memory'. Clingham does this work of intellectual abstraction while remaining focused in the concrete realities of Johnson's writing itself, offering a theoretically nuanced and original account of Johnson's work.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521021855
• ISBN 13: 9780521021852
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236