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Subject(s)

• Literature—History and criticism [Browse]
• Literature, Modern—18th century [Browse]
• Literary form [Browse]

Series

• Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print, [More in this series]
• Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print, 2634-6524 [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Contents

• Chapter 1: Why Genre
• Chapter 2: A Literary Critical Tragedy: The Interpretive Turn In The Life Of Savage
• Chapter 3: Johnson On Metaphysical Poetry And Pastoral: Genre In Relation To Value Judgements And History
• Chapter 4: Genre Combination And Interpretation: Johnson On Paradise Lost
• Chapter 5: Genre And Periodization: Macro- And Micro-History In
• Chapter 6: The Rise Of Literary Criticism As A Genre
• Chapter 7: Life And Literature
• Chapter 8: Conclusion.

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ISBN

3-031-61842-4

Doi

• 10.1007/978-3-031-61842-0

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