Download or read book Neoclassical Tragedy in Elizabethan England written by Howard B. Norland and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the development of neoclassical tragedy during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), this work investigates the varied manifestations of tragedy modelled upon the classical heritage of ancient Greek drama as adapted by Seneca.

Download or read book England in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century written by H. T. Swedenberg Jr. and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Samuel Johnson and the Tragic Sense written by Leopold Damrosch Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Britain in the Hanoverian Age 1714 1837 written by Gerald Newman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1714, king George I ushered in a remarkable 123-year period of energy that changed the face of Britain and ultimately had a profound effect on the modern era. The pioneers of modern capitalism, industry, democracy, literature, and even architecture flourished during this time and their innovations and influence spread throughout the British empire, including the United States. Now this rich cultural period in Britain is effectively surveyed and summarized for quick reference in a first-of-its-kind encyclopedia, which contains entries by British, Canadian, American, and Australian scholars specializing in everything from finance and the fine arts to politics and patent law. More than 380 illustrations, mostly rare engravings, enhance the coverage, which runs the whole gamut of political, economic, literary, intellectual, artistic, commercial, and social life, and spotlights some 600 prominent individuals and families.

Download or read book English Literature in Eighteenth Century written by Lopa Sanyal and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of authors. An excellent book, which will serve as a sound and lively introduction for students, and also will, makes and impressive and substantial contribution to scholarly study of the English-century Literature. Contents: The Eighteenth Century: Pseudo-Classicism and The Beginnings of Modern Romanticism, Eighteenth-Century Thought, Type of Literature in Eighteenth Century, Drama in Eighteenth Century, Primitivism in Eighteenth Century, Novel in Eighteenth Century, Poem in Eighteenth Century, Periodicals in Eighteenth Century, John Evelyn (1620-1706), John Dryden (1631-1700), Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), Thomas Otway (1652-1685), John Dennis (1657- 1734), Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), Matthew Prior (1664-1721), Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Joseph Addison (1672-1719), Richard Steele (1672-1729), Edward Young (1683-1785), John Gay (1685- 1732), Allan Ramsay (1685-1758), Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), James Thomson (1700-1748), Henry Fielding (1707-1754), Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), Horace Walpole (1717-1797), Richard Hurd (1720-1808), William Collins (1721-1759), Mark Akenside (1721- 1770), Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771), Christopher Smart (1722- 1771), Thomas Warton (1728-1790), Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Charles Churchill (1731-1764), William Cowper (1731-1800), James Beattie (1735-1803), James Macpherson (1736-1796), Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), James Boswell (1740-1795), Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale) (1741-1821), Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), George Crabbe (1754-1832), Robert Burns (1759-1796), Minor Authors.

Download or read book Tragedy and Theory written by Michelle Zerba and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelle Zerba engages current debates about the relationship between literature and theory by analyzing responses of theorists in the Western tradition to tragic conflict. Isolating the centrality of conflict in twentieth-century definitions of tragedy, Professor Zerba discusses the efforts of modern critics to locate in Aristotle's Poetics the origins of this focus on agon. Through a study of ethical and political ideas formative of the Poetics, she demonstrates why Aristotle and his Renaissance and Neoclassical beneficiaries exclude conflict from their accounts of tragedy. The agonistic element, the book argues, first emerges in dramatic criticism in nineteenth-century Romantic theories of the sublime and, more influentially, in Hegel's lectures on drama and history. This turning point in the history of speculation about tragedy is examined with attention to a dynamic between the systematic aims of theory and the subversive conflicts of tragic plays. In readings of various Classical and Renaissance dramatists, Professor Zerba reveals that strife in tragedy undermines expectations of coherence, closure, and moral stability, on which theory bases its principles of dramatic order. From Aristotle to Hegel, the philosophical interest in securing these principles determines attitudes toward conflict. Originally published in 1988. 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.

Download or read book A Companion to Tragedy written by Rebecca Bushnell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Tragedy is an essential resource for anyone interested in exploring the role of tragedy in Western history and culture. Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity Features 28 essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, including classics, English, drama, anthropology and philosophy Broad in its scope and ambition, it considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history Offers a fresh assessment of Ancient Greek tragedy and demonstrates how the practice of reading tragedy has changed radically in the past two decades

Download or read book A History of Modern Criticism 1750 1950 Volume 1 The Later Eighteenth Century written by René Wellek and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1981-08-13 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 2 is missing from the series.

Download or read book Reader in Tragedy written by Marcus Nevitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique anthology presents the important historical essays on tragedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span, it traces the development of theories and philosophies of tragedy, enabling readers to consider the ways in which different varieties of environmentalist, feminist, leftist and postcolonial thought have transformed the status of tragedy, and the idea of the tragic, for recent generations of artists, critics and thinkers. Students of literature and theatre will find this collection an invaluable and accessible guide to writing from Plato and Aristotle through to Freud, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and 21st century theorists. Ideas of tragedy and the tragic have been central to the understanding of culture for the past two millennia. Writers and thinkers from Plato through to Martha Nussbaum have analyzed the genre of tragedy to probe the most fundamental of questions about ethics, pleasure and responsibility in the world. Does tragedy demand that we enjoy witnessing the pain of others? Does it suggest that suffering is inevitable? Is human sexuality tragic? Is tragedy even possible in a world of rolling news on a digitally connected planet, where atrocity and trauma from around the globe are matters of daily information? In order to illustrate the different ways that writers have approached the answers to such questions, this Reader collects together a comprehensive selection of canonical writings on tragedy from antiquity to the present day arranged in six sections, each featuring an introduction providing concise and informed historical and theoretical frameworks for the texts.

Download or read book An Essay on Criticism written by Alexander Pope and published by . This book was released on 1711 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book English Literary Criticism 1726 1750 written by Samuel John Sackett and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics written by Roland Greene and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 1678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of British Literature 3 Volume Set written by Gary Day and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration of the English monarchy to the onset of the French Revolution Comprises over 340 entries arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Written by an international team of leading and emerging scholars Features an impressive scope and range of subjects: from courtship and circulating libraries, to the works of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Scott Includes coverage of both canonical and lesser-known authors, as well as entries addressing gender, sexuality, and other topics that have previously been underrepresented in traditional scholarship Represents the most comprehensive resource available on this period, and an indispensable guide to the rich diversity of British writing that ushered in the modern literary era 3 Volumes www.literatureencyclopedia.com

Download or read book Tragedy and the Modernist Novel written by Manya Lempert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the study of modern fiction, tragedy, chance, and the natural world. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in British and European modernism, philosophy, science and literature, and classical reception studies. It will also interest scholars studying the novel or tragedy more generally.

Download or read book ENGLISH LITERATURE ADVANCING THROUGH HISTORY 3 The Seventeenth Century written by Petru Golban and published by Transnational Press London. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book is third in a series of works which aim to expose the complexity and essence, power and extent of the major periods, movements, trends, genres, authors, and literary texts in the history of English literature. Following this aim, the series will consist of monographs which cover the most important ages and experiences of English literary history, including Anglo-Saxon or Old English period, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Restoration, neoclassicism, romanticism, Victorian Age, and the twentieth-century and contemporary literary backgrounds. The reader of these volumes will acquire the knowledge of literary terminology along with the theoretical and critical perspectives on certain texts and textual typology belonging to different periods, movements, trends, and genres. The reader will also learn about the characteristics and conventions of these literary periods and movements, trends and genres, main writers and major works, and the literary interaction and continuity of the given periods. Apart from an important amount of reference to literary practice, some chapters on these periods include information on their philosophy, criticism, worldview, values, or episteme, in the Foucauldian sense, which means that even though the condition of the creative writing remains as the main concern, it is balanced by a focus on the condition of thought as well as theoretical and critical writing during a particular period. Preface Introduction: Approaching Literary Practice and Studying British Literature in History Preliminaries: Learning Literary Heritage through Critical Tradition or Back to Tynyanov Genre Theory for Poetry The Intellectual Background 1.1 The Period and Its Historical, Social and Cultural Implications 1.2 The Philosophical Advancement of Modernity 1.2.1 Francis Bacon and the “New Method” 1.2.2 The Advancement of Classicism: French Contribution 1.2.3 The Social and Political Philosophy: Thomas Hobbes and Leviathan 1.2.4 Rationalists and Empiricists 1.3 The Idea of Literature as a Critical Concern in the Seventeenth Century 1.3.1 The English “Battle of the Books” or “La Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes” in the European Context 1.3.2 Restoration, John Dryden and Prescribing Neoclassicism The Literary Background 2.1 The British Seventeenth Century and Its Literary Practice 2.2 Metaphysical Poetry, Its Alternatives and Aftermath 2.3 The Puritan Period and Its Literary Expression 2.4 The Restoration Period and Its Literature 2.5 The Picaresque Tradition in European and English Literature Major Literary Voices 3.1 The Metaphysical Poets I: John Donne 3.2 The Metaphysical Poets II: George Herbert 3.3 The Metaphysical Poets III: Andrew Marvell 3.4 John Milton: The Voice of the Century 3.4.1 L’Allegro and Il Penseroso 3.4.2 Lycidas and Sonnets 3.4.3 Paradise Lost and the Epic of Puritanism 3.5 John Dryden and His Critical Theory and Literary Practice Conclusion: The Literature of a Turbulent Age References and Suggestions for Further Reading Index

Download or read book The Celebrated Hannah Cowley written by Angela Escott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Cowley (1743–1809) was a very successful dramatist, and something of an eighteenth-century celebrity. New critical interest in the drama of this period has meant a resurgence of interest in Cowley’s writing and in the performance of her plays. This is the first substantial monograph study to examine Cowley’s life and work.

Download or read book British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan written by George Winchester Stone and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representative selections from Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, comedy, satire, tragedy, and farce are prefaced by descriptions of the theaters, acting styles, methods of play production, and audiences.