The Transformations of Tragedy
Christian Influences from Early Modern to Modern
Published on 21. November 2019
Book
Hardback
340 pages
978-90-04-41653-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Transformations of Tragedy: Christian Influences from Early Modern to Modern explores the influence of Christian theology and culture upon the development of post-classical Western tragedy. The volume is divided into three parts: early modern, modern, and contemporary. This series of essays by established and emergent scholars offers a sustained study of Christianity's creative influence upon experimental forms of Western tragic drama.
Both early modern and modern tragedy emerged within periods of remarkable upheaval in Church history, yet Christianity's diverse influence upon tragedy has too often been either ignored or denounced by major tragic theorists. This book contends instead that the history of tragedy cannot be sufficiently theorised without fully registering the impact of Christianity in transition towards modernity.
Both early modern and modern tragedy emerged within periods of remarkable upheaval in Church history, yet Christianity's diverse influence upon tragedy has too often been either ignored or denounced by major tragic theorists. This book contends instead that the history of tragedy cannot be sufficiently theorised without fully registering the impact of Christianity in transition towards modernity.
Reviews / Votes
"Through rich, powerfully argued case studies this collection provides proof positive of the radically informing relationship between Christianity and understandings of the tragic experience in the sixteenth century and the modern era. The essays take a variety of approaches from the historical materialist to the philosophical and theological, but the twin images of humanity at bay, self-alienated, subject to savage violence; and humanity struggling to understand and represent its collective suffering, victimhood, and capacity for transcendence punctuate the volume, giving it a satisfying, challenging coherence." - Greg Walker, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of EdinburghMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
649 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-41653-6 (9789004416536)
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Fionnuala O'Neill Tonning is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in English Renaissance Literature at the University of Agder. She is currently completing a monograph on early modern tragedy and Reformation iconoclasm.
Erik Tonning is Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen. He is the author of Modernism and Christianity (Palgrave, 2014), and co-editor of Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse (Brill, 2015) and David Jones: A Christian Modernist? (Brill, 2018).
Jolyon Mitchell is Professor specialising in Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding (with special reference to the Arts) at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include: Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence (Routledge, 2012) and Media Violence and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Contributors are: Linzy Brady, Paul S. Fiddes, Beatrice Groves, Ronan McDonald, Jolyon Mitchell, Stuart Sillars, Adrian Streete, Olga Taxidou, Erik Tonning, Fionnuala O'Neill Tonning, Peter Svare Valeur, Jennifer Wallace, Giles Waller, Rowan Williams
Erik Tonning is Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen. He is the author of Modernism and Christianity (Palgrave, 2014), and co-editor of Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse (Brill, 2015) and David Jones: A Christian Modernist? (Brill, 2018).
Jolyon Mitchell is Professor specialising in Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding (with special reference to the Arts) at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include: Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence (Routledge, 2012) and Media Violence and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Contributors are: Linzy Brady, Paul S. Fiddes, Beatrice Groves, Ronan McDonald, Jolyon Mitchell, Stuart Sillars, Adrian Streete, Olga Taxidou, Erik Tonning, Fionnuala O'Neill Tonning, Peter Svare Valeur, Jennifer Wallace, Giles Waller, Rowan Williams