Alex Eric Hernandez

The Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198846574
• ISBN-10: 0198846576
• Artikelnr.: 56971892

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* An Introduction to British Bourgeois Tragedy: or, 'Silently and
Smoothly Thro' the World'
* 1: The Bourgeois Revaluation of Tragedy: Dignity and the Ordinary in
George Lillo's London
* 2: Close to Home: The Uncanny of Georgian Domestic Tragedy
* 3: A Fine Subject for Tragedy: Providence, Poetic Justice, and
Clarissa's Real Affliction
* 4: Prosaic Suffering: Edward Moore, Diderot, and the Natural Picture
of Drama
* 5: Tragic Sensibilities: Sentimental Fiction and the Serious Genre
* Conclusion: Modern Tragedy and Ordinary Suffering
* Bibliography