Abstract
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 Hölderlin to Nietzsche, to Benjamin, Lacan and beyond.
Original language | English |
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Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Number of pages | 192 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-7849-9797-7 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-7190-9793-5, 978-1-5261-1398-6 |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2016 |