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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jewett, William
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English drama > 19th century > History and criticism.
Verse drama, English > History and criticism.
Political plays, English > History and criticism.
English drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Autonomy (Psychology) in literature.
Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
Moral conditions in literature.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Self in literature.
Théâtre anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Théâtre en vers anglais > Histoire et critique.
Théâtre politique anglais > Histoire et critique.
Tragédie anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Autonomie (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Agent (Philosophie) dans la littérature.
Conditions morales dans la littérature.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
DRAMA > General.
English drama.
English drama (Tragedy)
Political plays, English.
Romanticism.
Verse drama, English.
Drama
Englisch
Politisches Handeln
Engels.
Toneelstukken.
Politiek.
Autonomie (algemeen)
Geschichte 1794-1822.
Great Britain.
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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