Beschreibung:
Alex Eric Hernandez is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture. This is his first book.
A study of eighteenth-century dramatic and narrative tragedies that explores the relation between personal misfortune and the emerging values that would define the everyday experience of the middle class. The volume discusses the work of George Lillo, Samuel Richardson, Aaron Hill, and Sarah Fielding, among others.
An Introduction to British Bourgeois Tragedy: or, 'Silently and Smoothly Thro' the World'