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- Summary
- 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. 0Whereas 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 the0emotional 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- viii, 262 pages
- Isbn
- 9780198846574
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- The making of British bourgeois tragedy : modernity and the art of ordinary suffering
- Title
- The making of British bourgeois tragedy
- Title remainder
- modernity and the art of ordinary suffering
- Statement of responsibility
- Alex Eric Hernandez
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. 0Whereas 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 the0emotional 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
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- Hernandez, Alex Eric,
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- Literary form
- non fiction
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- English drama (Tragedy)
- English drama
- Middle class in literature
- English drama
- English drama (Tragedy)
- Middle class in literature
- 18.05 English literature
- Label
- The making of British bourgeois tragedy : modernity and the art of ordinary suffering, Alex Eric Hernandez
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-247)and index
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- 1121096569
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- 23 cm
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- First edition
- Extent
- viii, 262 pages
- Isbn
- 9780198846574
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- The making of British bourgeois tragedy : modernity and the art of ordinary suffering, Alex Eric Hernandez
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-247)and index
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- 1121096569
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- viii, 262 pages
- Isbn
- 9780198846574
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- unmediated
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