Autore	Hoxby Blair <1966->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (333 p.)
Disciplina	821/.4
Soggetto topico	Commerce in literature Economics and literature - Great Britain - History - 17th century Economics in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-73043-2 9786611730437 0-300-12963-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Conventions and Texts -- Introduction -- 1. The Trade of Truth Advanced -- 2. Republican Experiments, Royalist Responses -- 3. The King of Trade -- 4. Royalist Topography and the Epic of Trade -- 5. Speculation in Paradise -- 6. From Amboyna to Windsor Forest -- 7. Idleness Had Been Worse -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910451781403321

Autore	Hoxby Blair <1966->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (333 p.)
Disciplina	821/.4
Soggetto topico	Commerce in literature Economics and literature - Great Britain - History - 17th century Economics in literature
ISBN	9786611730437 9781281730435 1281730432 9780300129632 0300129637
Classificazione	HK 2575
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Conventions and Texts -- Introduction -- 1. The Trade of Truth Advanced -- 2. Republican Experiments, Royalist Responses -- 3. The King of Trade -- 4. Royalist Topography and the Epic of Trade -- 5. Speculation in Paradise -- 6. From Amboyna to Windsor Forest -- 7. Idleness Had Been Worse -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910955662503321

Autore	Hoxby Blair <1966->
Edizione	[First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Disciplina	809.2512
Soggetto topico	Tragedy - History and criticism Drama Music, Dance, Drama & Film
Soggetto genere / forma	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN	0-19-181328-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	I. The philosophy of the tragic and the poetics of tragedy -- 1. Our tragic culture -- The early modern conception of tragedy -- The philosophy of the tragic -- Literary form, the philosophy of history, and the canon -- Tragedy born anew from the spirit of music? -- Decadence and primitivism -- The post-structural assault on tragic freedom -- Reassessing the legacy of idealism -- Approaching the world we have lost -- 2. An early modern poetics of tragedy -- Definitions -- The objects of tragic imitation -- Fables -- Manners -- Sentiments -- Diction -- The player's passions -- Spectacle -- The chorus -- Tragic pleasure -- II. The world we have lost -- 3. Simple pathetic tragedy -- Classical exemplars -- Recovery and invention: Trissino's Sofonisba (1515) -- A theoretical interlude -- Racine's Bérénice (1670) -- Milton's Samson Agonistes (1671) -- Simplicity and reformation -- Gluck's Alceste (1779) -- La Harpe's philoctète (1781) -- From pathos to moral freedom -- 4. Operatic discoveries: The complex tragedy with a happy ending -- Did tragic heroes sing? -- Euripides and the operatic repertoire -- The Euripidean tragedy of anticipated woe -- Idomeneo and the tragedy of averted sacrifice -- 5. Counter-reformation tragedy: The laurel and the cypress -- Tragedy as spiritual exercise -- Jesuit defenses of counter-reformation tragedy -- Enlightened critiques and idealist defenses -- Final reckonings -- 6. History as tragedy, tragedy as design: Where Shakespeare and Dryden part company -- Antony and Cleopatra as a great occurence -- The art of portraiture -- Sublimity raised from the very elements of littleness -- Dryden's artificial order -- Portraiture and history painting -- Tides that swell and retire to seas -- Language -- The world well lost -- Tragedy and history.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910157823503321