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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire
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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
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This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and
the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations,
revolutions, and empires, roughly delimited by the French
Revolution and the First World War. Its starting point is the
recognition that tragedy did not die with Romanticism, as George
Steiner famously argued over half a century ago, but rather mutated
and dispersed, converging into a variety of unstable, productive
forms both on the stage and off. In turn, the tragic as a concept
and mode transformed itself under the pressure of multiple social,
historical and political-ideological phenomena. This volume
therefore deploys a narrative centred on hybridization extending
across media, genres, demographics, faiths both religious and
secular, and national boundaries. The essays also tell a story of
how tragedy and the tragic offered multiple means of capturing the
increasingly fragmented perception of reality and history that
emerged in the 19th century. Each chapter takes a different theme
as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and
circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy
and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and
nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
The Cultural Histories Series |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Editors: |
Michael Gamer
• Diego Saglia
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Series editors: |
Rebecca Bushnell
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Dimensions: |
244 x 169mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
216 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-41680-2 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-350-41680-0 |
Barcode: |
9781350416802 |
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