Le tragique dans Roxana : Defoe avait-il lu The Complete Art of Poetry (1718) de Charles Gildon ?
It is commonly assumed that Daniel Defoe, as a Dissenting writer, was not familiar with the renewed interest in the poetic discussions of tragedy that flourished in early-18th century Britain. However, his strategic use of the term “tragedy” at the end of his last novel Roxana (1724), to account for...
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/5174 |