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Corrosive Solace - Affect, Biopolitics, and the Realignment of the Repertoire, 1780-1800 (Hardcover)
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Corrosive Solace - Affect, Biopolitics, and the Realignment of the Repertoire, 1780-1800 (Hardcover)
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In Corrosive Solace, Daniel O'Quinn argues that the loss of the
American colonies instantiated a complex reorganization in
sociability and politics in the British metropole that has had
long-lasting effects on British national and imperial culture,
which can be seen and analyzed within its performative repertoire.
He examines how the analysis of feeling or affect can be deployed
to address the inchoate causal relation between historical events
and their mediation. In this sense, Corrosive Solace's goals are
twofold: first, to outline the methodologies necessary for dealing
with the affective recognition of historical crisis; and second, to
make the historically familiar strange again, and thus make visible
key avenues for discussion that have remained dormant. Both of
these objectives turn on recognition: How do we theorize the
implicit affective recognition of crisis in a distant historical
moment? And how do we recognize what we, in our present moment,
cannot discern? Corrosive Solace addresses this complex cultural
reorientation by attending less to "new" cultural products than to
the theoretical and historical problems posed by looking at the
transformation of "old" plays and modes of performance. These "old"
plays-Shakespeare, post-Restoration comedy and she-tragedy-were a
vital plank of the cultural patrimony, so much of O'Quinn's
analysis lies in how tradition was recovered and redirected to meet
urgent social and political needs. Across the arc of Corrosive
Solace, he tracks how the loss of the American War forced Britons
to refashion the repertoire of cultural signs and social
dispositions that had subtended its first empire in the Atlantic
world in a way more suited to its emergent empire in South Asia.
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