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    Shadows of the Enlightenment : tragic drama during Europe's age of reason / edited by Blair Hoxby.

    • 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.
    • Published/Created:Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022]
      ©2022
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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.
    • Description:vi, 320 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
    • Series:Classical memories/modern identities.
    • 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.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-303) and index.
    • ISBN:9780814215005 (cloth)
      0814215009 (cloth)
      9780814281819 (ebook)
      0814281818 (ebook)
    • 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.
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