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Samuel Johnson and the Tragic Sense
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Samuel Johnson and the Tragic Sense
Contributors:
By (Author) Leopold Damrosch
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Literary reference works
Dewey:
828.609
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
280
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
567g
Description
Tragedy in the eighteenth century is often said to have expired or been deflected into nondramatic forms like history and satire, and to have survived mainly as a "tragic sense" in writers like Samuel Johnson. Leopold Damrosch shows that many readers were still capable of an imaginative response to tragedy. In Johnson, however, moral and aesthetic
