The Transformations of Tragedy

Christian Influences from Early Modern to Modern
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41653-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Studies in Religion and the Arts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Neill Tonning, Fionnuala

Tonning, Erik

Mitchell, Jolyon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Über Autor(innen)

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