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Fatal autonomy : Romantic drama and the rhetoric of agency /

Describing an enduring moral puzzle and explaining how it helped shape a key moment in the history of poetic drama, Fatal Autonomy represents Romanticism as a reckoning with the costs of individual agency. No moral calculus can ever fully determine the relation of events to an individual's acti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jewett, William
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Tragic Agents and the Origins of Romanticism, 1794-1797. 1. The Sublime Machine of History: The Fall of Robespierre and Wat Tyler. 2. The Claim of Compulsion: The Borderers. 3. Fancy and the Spell of Enlightenment: Osorio
  • pt. 2. Shelley, Byron, and the Body Politic, 1819-1822. 4. Performing Skepticism: The Cenci. 5. Fatal Autonomy: Marino Faliero. 6. History's Lethean Song: Charles the First and The Triumph of Life.