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Shadows of the Enlightenment : tragic drama during Europe's age of reason / edited by Blair Hoxby.
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Title:Shadows of the Enlightenment : tragic drama during Europe's age of reason / edited by Blair Hoxby.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Hoxby, Blair, 1966- editor.
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Published/Created:Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022]
©2022
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Call Number: PN1898.E85 S53 2022
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:European drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
European drama (Tragedy)--18th century--History and criticism.
European drama (Tragedy)--Classical influences.
Enlightenment--Europe.
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Description:vi, 320 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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Series:Classical memories/modern identities.
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Summary:"Analyzes a diverse set of works-including Johann Christoph Gottsched, Voltaire, and Joanna Baillie- to show how the long eighteenth century experimented with dominant, residual, and emergent ideas of tragedy across Europe, revealing the paradoxical entanglement of antiquity and modernity within Enlightenment tragedy"-- Provided by publisher.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-303) and index.
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ISBN:9780814215005 (cloth)
0814215009 (cloth)
9780814281819 (ebook)
0814281818 (ebook)
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I ANCIENT FORMS, MODERN AFFECTS
ch. 1 Medaea in Petticoats: She-Tragedy and the Domestication of Passion / Alex Eric Hernandez
ch. 2 "Sentiments Raisonnables": Houdar de La Motte's Tragedies of Interest / Logan J. Connors
ch. 3 Zara's Enthusiastic Passions / James Harriman-Smith
ch. 4 Joanna Baillie, the Gothic Bard, and Her Tragedies of Fear / Blair Hoxby
pt. II PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND THE INSTITUTIONS OF TRAGEDY
ch. 5 Nil Volentibus Arduum, Baruch Spinoza, and the Reason of Tragedy / Russ Leo
ch. 6 Voltaire's Subliminal Enlightenment: Sophoclean "Simplicity" and the Purpose of Tragedy / Cecile Dudouyt
ch. 7 Rules of Tragedy: Johann Christoph Gottsched and the Question of Modern Tragedy / Adrian Daub
ch. 8 Jesuit Tragedy: An Underestimated Stage of Enlightenment Discourse / Stefan Tilg
pt. III ANCIENTS, MODERNS, AND THE HISTORICAL TURN
ch. 9 Historicizing Tragedy in the Enlightenment, or Reading Dramatic Interiority in Racine / Larry F. Norman
ch. 10 Aesthetics of Torture: Diderot's Theater of Cruelty / Joseph Harris
ch. 11 Lament and the Temporality of Philhellenism / Joshua Billings.