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 Hlderlin to Nietzsche, to Benjamin, Lacan and beyond..
Samuel Richardson and the Theory of tragedy is a bold new interpretation of one of the greatest European novels, Samuel Richardson\'s Clarissa