{"product_id":"the-making-of-british-bourgeois-tragedy-9780198846574","title":"The Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy","description":"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\u003cbr\u003edifferent story. Re-assembling a body of print and performance concerned with the misfortunes of the middling sort, \u003cem\u003eThe Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e argues that these works imagined a particularly modern sort of affliction, an 'ordinary suffering' proper to ordinary life, divested of the\u003cbr\u003esorts of meanings, rhetorics, and affective resonances once deployed to understand it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhereas 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\u003cbr\u003ehaunted 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\u003cbr\u003emodernity. By attending closely to this long neglected subject, \u003cem\u003eThe Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003egrievable, as well as how mourning might be performed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex Eric Hernandez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198846574\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlex Eric Hernandez, \u003cem\u003eAssistant Professor, University of Toronto\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlex 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40042125426803,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":87.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d47c1f9e-8d3c-4d5e-8dd7-94cf354d55c6.jpg?v=1651014366","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-making-of-british-bourgeois-tragedy-9780198846574","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}