The Making Of British Bourgeois Tragedy
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The Making Of British Bourgeois Tragedy
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Author : Alex Eric Hernandez
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-03
The Making Of British Bourgeois Tragedy written by Alex Eric Hernandez and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
The 'rise of the middle class' in the eighteenth century has long been taken to usher in a prosaic age synonymous with the death of tragedy, an age in which the sheer ordinariness of bourgeois life was both antithetical and inured to the tragic. But the period's literature tells a very different story. Re-assembling a body of print and performance concerned with the misfortunes of the middling sort, The Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy argues that these works imagined a particularly modern sort of affliction, an 'ordinary suffering' proper to ordinary life, divested of the sorts of meanings, rhetorics, and affective resonances once deployed to understand it. Whereas neoclassical aesthetics aligned tragedy with the heroic and the admirable, this 'bourgeois and domestic tragedy' treated the pain of common people with dignity and seriousness, meditating upon a suffering that was homely, familiar, entangled in the nascent values of capitalism, yet no less haunted by God. Hence, where many have seen aesthetic stagnation, misfiring emotion, and the absence of an idealized tragicness in the genre, this volume sees instead a sustained engagement in the emotional processes and representational techniques through which the middle rank feels its way into modernity. By attending closely to this long neglected subject, The Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy turns the critical account of eighteenth-century tragedy on its head. It reads the genre's emergence in the period as a vigorous cultural conversation on whose life—and whose way of life—is grievable, as well as how mourning might be performed
The Making Of British Bourgeois Tragedy
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Author : Alex Eric Hernandez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Making Of British Bourgeois Tragedy written by Alex Eric Hernandez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with English drama categories.
A study of eighteenth-century dramatic and narrative tragedies that explores the relation between personal misfortune and the emerging values that would define the everyday experience of the middle class. The volume discusses the work of George Lillo, Samuel Richardson, Aaron Hill, and Sarah Fielding, among others.
The Making Of British Bourgeois Tragedy
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Author : Alex Eric Hernandez
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-03
The Making Of British Bourgeois Tragedy written by Alex Eric Hernandez and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
The 'rise of the middle class' in the eighteenth century has long been taken to usher in a prosaic age synonymous with the death of tragedy, an age in which the sheer ordinariness of bourgeois life was both antithetical and inured to the tragic. But the period's literature tells a very different story. Re-assembling a body of print and performance concerned with the misfortunes of the middling sort, The Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy argues that these works imagined a particularly modern sort of affliction, an 'ordinary suffering' proper to ordinary life, divested of the sorts of meanings, rhetorics, and affective resonances once deployed to understand it. Whereas neoclassical aesthetics aligned tragedy with the heroic and the admirable, this 'bourgeois and domestic tragedy' treated the pain of common people with dignity and seriousness, meditating upon a suffering that was homely, familiar, entangled in the nascent values of capitalism, yet no less haunted by God. Hence, where many have seen aesthetic stagnation, misfiring emotion, and the absence of an idealized tragicness in the genre, this volume sees instead a sustained engagement in the emotional processes and representational techniques through which the middle rank feels its way into modernity. By attending closely to this long neglected subject, The Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy turns the critical account of eighteenth-century tragedy on its head. It reads the genre's emergence in the period as a vigorous cultural conversation on whose life—and whose way of life—is grievable, as well as how mourning might be performed
The Making Of British Bourgeois Tragedy
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Author : Alex Eric Hernandez
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019-10-03
The Making Of British Bourgeois Tragedy written by Alex Eric Hernandez and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
The 'rise of the middle class' in the eighteenth century has long been taken to usher in a prosaic age synonymous with the death of tragedy, an age in which the sheer ordinariness of bourgeois life was both antithetical and inured to the tragic. But the period's literature tells a very different story. Re-assembling a body of print and performance concerned with the misfortunes of the middling sort, The Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy argues that these works imagined a particularly modern sort of affliction, an 'ordinary suffering' proper to ordinary life, divested of the sorts of meanings, rhetorics, and affective resonances once deployed to understand it. Whereas neoclassical aesthetics aligned tragedy with the heroic and the admirable, this 'bourgeois and domestic tragedy' treated the pain of common people with dignity and seriousness, meditating upon a suffering that was homely, familiar, entangled in the nascent values of capitalism, yet no less haunted by God. Hence, where many have seen aesthetic stagnation, misfiring emotion, and the absence of an idealized tragicness in the genre, this volume sees instead a sustained engagement in the emotional processes and representational techniques through which the middle rank feels its way into modernity. By attending closely to this long neglected subject, The Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy turns the critical account of eighteenth-century tragedy on its head. It reads the genre's emergence in the period as a vigorous cultural conversation on whose life--and whose way of life--is grievable, as well as how mourning might be performed
Tragedy In Paradise
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Author : Gail Kathleen Hart
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 1996
Tragedy In Paradise written by Gail Kathleen Hart and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Drama categories.
Hart's study views bourgeois tragedy and related forms of "family" drama as being the enactment of a threat to stability, to bourgeois or domestic order, organized so as to defeat that threat and relieve the anxieties of a middle-class audience.
Tragedy Walks The Streets
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Author : Matthew S. Buckley
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2006-09-19
Tragedy Walks The Streets written by Matthew S. Buckley and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
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Eclipse Of Action
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Author : Richard Halpern
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-03-13
Eclipse Of Action written by Richard Halpern and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama then falls into a marked decline. While disputing the notion that tragedy has died, this wide-ranging study argues that it faces an unprecedented challenge in modern times from an unexpected quarter: political economy. Since Aristotle, tragedy has been seen as uniquely exhibiting the importance of action for human happiness. Beginning with Adam Smith, however, political economy has claimed that the source of happiness is primarily production. Eclipse of Action examines the tense relations between action and production, doing and making, in playwrights from Aeschylus, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Milton to Beckett, Arthur Miller, and Sarah Kane. Richard Halpern places these figures in conversation with works by Aristotle, Smith, Hegel, Marx, Hannah Arendt, Georges Bataille, and others in order to trace the long history of the ways in which economic thought and tragic drama interact.
Modern Tragedy
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Author : Raymond Williams
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2006-02-06
Modern Tragedy written by Raymond Williams and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Modern Tragedy, first published in 1966, is a study of the ideas and ideologies which have influenced the production and analysis of tragedy. Williams sees tragedy both in terms of literary tradition and in relation to the tragedies of modern society, of revolution and disorder, and of individual experience. Modern Tragedy is available only in this Broadview Encore Edition, now edited and with a critical introduction by Pamela McCallum.
The London Merchant
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Author : George Lillo
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1965-01-01
The London Merchant written by George Lillo and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965-01-01 with Drama categories.
Mrs. Millwood is beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious, but London gives her no means of support except to seduce men. Love for her leads eighteen-year-old Barnwell to deceit, theft, and murder. "What are your laws," Mrs. Millwood asks, "but the fool?s wisdom and the coward?s valor, the instrument and screen of all your villainies by which you punish in others what you act out yourselves, had you been in their circumstances? The judge who condemns the poor man for being a thief had been a thief himself, had he been poor. Thus you go on deceiving and being deceived, harassing, plaguing, and destroying one another, but women are your universal prey." First performed in 1731, The London Merchant became on of the most popular plays of the century. A chronicler of the age, Theophilus Cibber called it "almost a new species of tragedy."
Sentimental Opera
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Author : Stefano Castelvecchi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Sentimental Opera written by Stefano Castelvecchi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Opera categories.