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An annotated bibliography of twentieth-century critical studies of women and literature, 1660-1800
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ISBN: 0824099346 9780824099343 Year: 1977 Volume: 64 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Garland,


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New approaches to eighteenth-century literature
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ISBN: 023103928X 9780231039284 Year: 1974 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Columbia university press,

Visits to Bedlam: madness and literature in the eighteenth century
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ISBN: 0872493121 9780872493124 Year: 1975 Publisher: Columbia (S.C.): University of South Carolina press,

English fiction of the eighteenth century, 1700-1789
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ISBN: 0582493692 0582493706 9780582493704 9780582493698 Year: 1987 Publisher: London: Longman,


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Samuel Johnson and the tragic sense
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ISBN: 0691062331 9780691062334 069161959X 0691646465 1322884676 1400868009 Year: 1972 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press,

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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 assumptions limited his ability to appreciate or create tragedy, despite a deep understanding of human suffering. This limitation, Mr. Damrosch argues, derived partly from his Christian belief, and more largely from a view of reality that did not allow exclusive focus on its tragic aspects.The author discusses Irene, The vanity of Human Wishes, and Johnson's criticism of tragedy, particularly that of Shakespeare. A Final chapter places Johnson's view in the context of modern theories.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Changing perspectives in literature and the visual arts, 1650-1820
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ISBN: 1400860911 9781400860913 0691067953 9780691603049 0691603049 9780691067957 0691015392 Year: 1990 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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Continuing with the theme of his work Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, Murray Roston applies to a later period the same critical principle: that for each generation there exists a central complex of inherited ideas and urgent contemporary concerns to which each creative artist and writer responds in his or her own way. Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture. "A sumptuous book. . . . Clearly and gracefully written and cogently argued, Roston's admirable achievement is of paramount significance to literary studies, to cultural and art history, and to aesthetics. . . . Outstanding."--ChoiceOriginally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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A concise companion to the Romantic age
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ISBN: 0631233555 1444308564 9786612116452 1405197994 1782682848 1282116452 1444308572 9780631233558 Year: 2009 Publisher: Malden: Wiley,

The edges of Augustanism: : the aesthetics of spirituality in Thomas Ken, John Byrom and William Law
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ISBN: 902471317X 9401028214 9401028192 9789024713172 Year: 1972 Volume: 53 Publisher: The Hague: Nijhoff,

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