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Negociating with the Dead : a writer on writing
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ISBN: 0521662605 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

Johnson, writing, and memory
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ISBN: 0521816114 0521021855 1107134331 0511120796 0511042620 0511148550 0511330383 0511484143 128015974X 0511045859 9780511042621 9780511120794 9780521816113 9780511484148 9780511045851 9780511148552 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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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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