Shadows of the Enlightenment tragic drama during Europe's age of reason
Medæa in petticoats: she-tragedy and the domestication of passion / Alex Eric Hernandez -- "Sentiments raisonnables": Houdar de La Motte’s tragedies of interest / Logan J. Connors -- Zara’s enthusiastic passions / James Harriman-Smith -- Joanna Baillie, the Gothic bard, and her tragedies o...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Columbus
The Ohio State University Press
2022
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| Schriftenreihe: | Classical memories/modern identities
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Medæa in petticoats: she-tragedy and the domestication of passion / Alex Eric Hernandez -- "Sentiments raisonnables": Houdar de La Motte’s tragedies of interest / Logan J. Connors -- Zara’s enthusiastic passions / James Harriman-Smith -- Joanna Baillie, the Gothic bard, and her tragedies of fear / Blair Hoxby -- Nil Volentibus Arduum, Baruch Spinoza, and the reason of tragedy / Russ Leo -- Voltaire’s subliminal Enlightenment: Sophoclean "simplicity" and the purpose of tragedy / Cécile Dudouyt -- The rules of tragedy: Johann Christoph Gottsched and the question of modern tragedy / Adrian Daub -- Jesuit tragedy: an underestimated stage of Enlightenment discourse / Stefan Tilg -- Historicizing tragedy in the Enlightenment, or reading dramatic interiority in Racine / Larry F. Norman -- The aesthetics of torture: Diderot’s theater of cruelty / Joseph Harris -- Lament and the temporality of philhellenism / Joshua Billings "Analyzes a diverse set of works-including Johann Christoph Gottsched, Voltaire, and Joanna Baillie- to show how the long eighteenth century experimented with dominant, residual, and emergent ideas of tragedy across Europe, revealing the paradoxical entanglement of antiquity and modernity within Enlightenment tragedy" |
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| Beschreibung: | vii, 320 Seiten Illustration 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780814215005 978-0-8142-1500-5 |