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The Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy - Modernity and the Art of Ordinary Suffering (Hardcover)
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The Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy - Modernity and the Art of Ordinary Suffering (Hardcover)
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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
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
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