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Alex Eric Hernandez

The Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy

Modernity and the Art of Ordinary Suffering

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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 theseworks 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… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-258575-2
  • EAN: 9780192585752
  • Produktnummer: 32680608
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 3'138 KB
  • Abbildungen: 16 Illustrations

Über den Autor


Alex Eric Hernandez is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture. This is his first book.

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