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Samuel Richardson and the Theory of Tragedy

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Samuel Richardson and the Theory of Tragedy

By James Smith

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Samuel Richardson and the theory of tragedy is a bold new interpretation of one of the greatest European novels, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. It argues that this text needs to be rethought as a dangerous exploration of the ethics of tragedy, on the scale of the great arguments of post-Romantic tragic theory, from Hoelderlin to Nietzsche, to Benjamin, Lacan and beyond. Taking the reader through the novel from beginning to end, it also acts as a guidebook for newcomers to Richardson's notoriously...Show more

Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

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9780719097935

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published year

2016

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Samuel Richardson and the Theory of Tragedy

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