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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



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*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xi*Chapter 1. Introduction, pg. 3*Chapter 2. Tragic Theory and Its Limitations, pg. 10*CHAPTER 3. Tragedy Perceived: Other Evidence, pg. 28*CHAPTER 4. Johnson's Tragic Sense of Life, pg. 59*CHAPTER 5. Irene, pg. 109*CHAPTER 6. The Vanity of Human Wishes, pg. 139*CHAPTER 7. A Johnsonian Theory of Tragedy, pg. 163*CHAPTER 8. Shakespeare, pg. 200*CHAPTER 9. Conclusion, pg. 243*APPENDIX. A Note on Sources, pg. 256*INDEX, pg. 261

Samuel Johnson and the Tragic Sense

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 8 March 2015
      ISBN-13 9780691619590
      978-0691619590
      ISBN-10 069161959X
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      Book Synopsis

      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



      Table of Contents
      *Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xi*Chapter 1. Introduction, pg. 3*Chapter 2. Tragic Theory and Its Limitations, pg. 10*CHAPTER 3. Tragedy Perceived: Other Evidence, pg. 28*CHAPTER 4. Johnson's Tragic Sense of Life, pg. 59*CHAPTER 5. Irene, pg. 109*CHAPTER 6. The Vanity of Human Wishes, pg. 139*CHAPTER 7. A Johnsonian Theory of Tragedy, pg. 163*CHAPTER 8. Shakespeare, pg. 200*CHAPTER 9. Conclusion, pg. 243*APPENDIX. A Note on Sources, pg. 256*INDEX, pg. 261

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