Hernandez Alex Eric (Assistant Professor University Of Toronto)
Hernandez Alex Eric (Assistant Professor University Of Toronto) - The Making Of British Bourgeois Tragedy Modernity And The Art Of Ordinary Suffering - Hardcover
Hernandez Alex Eric (Assistant Professor University Of Toronto) - The Making Of British Bourgeois Tragedy Modernity And The Art Of Ordinary Suffering - Hardcover
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Description: 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
Title: The Making Of British Bourgeois Tragedy Modernity And The Art Of Ordinary Suffering
Author(s): Hernandez Alex Eric (Assistant Professor University Of Toronto)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198846574
Pages: 288 Pages, 16 Illustrations
Publication Date: 12/3/2019
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
Description: 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
Title: The Making Of British Bourgeois Tragedy Modernity And The Art Of Ordinary Suffering
Author(s): Hernandez Alex Eric (Assistant Professor University Of Toronto)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198846574
Pages: 288 Pages, 16 Illustrations
Publication Date: 12/3/2019
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
