Samuel Johnson and the Tragic Sense

by Leopold Damrosch

Book Overview

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 assumptions limited his ability to appreciate or create tragedy, despite a deep understanding of human...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691062331
• ISBN13: 9780691062334
• Release Date: October 1972
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.