A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire

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Professor Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Professor Diego Saglia (University of Parma, Italy)

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire

Professor Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Professor Diego Saglia (University of Parma, Italy), Professor Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic
16 November 2023

Theatre Studies; Plays & playscripts; European history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

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.

Edited by: Professor Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania USA), Professor Diego Saglia (University of Parma, Italy)
Series edited by: Professor Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 169mm,
ISBN: 9781350416802
ISBN 10: 1350416800
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 16 November 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Gamer is British Academy Global Professor of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Diego Saglia is Professor of English Literature at the University of Parma, Italy.