TY - BOOK ID - 147373218 TI - Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets : Ethical Literary Criticism PY - 2024 SN - 9783031618420 3031618424 3031618416 PB - Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Literature KW - Literature, Modern KW - Literary form. KW - Literary Criticism. KW - Eighteenth-Century Literature. KW - Literary Genre. KW - History and criticism. KW - 18th century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:147373218 AB - This open access book seeks to explain how the literary commentary of the Lives of the Poets speaks to us today because of its ethical goals. Edward Tomarken elucidates this element of Johnson’s literary criticism by using Ralph Cohen’s genre method, the topic of Chapter One, “Why Genre”. Chapters two to five address the most prevalent genres of the Lives: tragedy, metaphysical poetry, the epic, the pastoral elegy, and the mock epic. Chapter six considers the rise of literary criticism as a genre. Chapter Seven demonstrates how ethical genre criticism relates literature to life. And the final chapter explains why, although Johnson considers ‘moral’ and ‘ethical’ as nearly interchangeable terms, Tomarken prefers ‘ethical’ because it relates genre criticism to present problems in literary and non-literary worlds. ER -