The flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / by Kaye, Richard A., 1960-

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Marrow of tragedy the health crisis of the American Civil War / by Humphreys, Margaret, 1955-

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Philosophy and tragedy

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Tragedy walks the streets the French Revolution in the making of modern drama / by Buckley, Matthew S., 1965-

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Macaulay the tragedy of power / by Sullivan, Robert E.

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Fanatical schemes proslavery rhetoric and the tragedy of consensus / by Roberts-Miller, Patricia, 1959-

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Madness, love and tragedy in nineteenth and twentieth century Spain /

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Exemplarity and mediocrity the art of the average from bourgeois tragedy to realism / by Fleming, Paul, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Exemplarity and mediocrity -- Common heroes : the making of an exemplary audience (Lessing on bourgeois tragedy) -- Mediocre artists : the aesthetic education of the dilettante (Goethe and Schiller) -- Average life : the art of prosaic reality (Grillparzer and Stifter).…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Explorers of the Nile the triumph and tragedy of a great Victorian adventure / by Jeal, Tim

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Die Tragödie der Moderne Gattungsgeschichte, Kulturtheorie, Epochendiagnose /

Subjects: “…Tragedy.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

White unto harvest: triumph and tragedy in Central America; a history o the conservative Baptist movement in Central America 1950- 2000./ by O'Connor, Patrick

The Total Work of Art in European Modernism / by Roberts, David, 1937-

Table of Contents: Full text available:

Exiled royalties Melville and the life we imagine / by Milder, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Melville and Polynesia -- The broken circle: Melville and (post-)romanticism -- The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (1): Melville's metaphysics of democracy: "Hawthorne and his mosses" -- The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (2): Ishmael's grand erections -- Exiled royalties -- "The ugly Socrates": Melville, Hawthorne, and the varieties of Homoerotic experience -- An arch between two lives: Melville and the Mediterranean, 1856-1857 -- Uncivil wars -- Unworldly yearners: agnostic spirituality in Clarel -- Alms for oblivion.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The Origins of Agnosticism : Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge / by Lightman, Bernard V., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The power of modern agnosticism -- The adnostic conundrum -- Mansel and the Kantian tradition -- Herbert Spencer and the worship of the unknowable -- Disillusionment with attack on orthodoxy -- Religion, theology, and the church agnostic -- The new natural theology and the holy trinity of agnosticism -- The tragedy of agnosticism.…”
Full text available:

Women with mustaches and men without beards gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity / by Najmabadi, Afsaneh, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Beauty, love, and sexuality: early Qajar -- Beauty, love, and sexuality: nineteenth-century transformations -- The eclipse of the (fe)male sun -- Vatan, the beloved: Vatan, the mother -- Women's veil and unveil -- The tragedy of romantic marriage -- Crafting an educated wife and mother -- Women or wives of the nation? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Jews and the military a history / by Penslar, Derek Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…Jews in the Tsar's army: conscription as national tragedy? -- Fighting for rights: conscription and Jewish emancipation -- The military as a Jewish occupation -- When may we kill our brethren? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Literary Executions Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925 / by Barton, John Cyril

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: literary executions -- Anti-gallows activism in antebellum American law & literature -- Simms, Child, & the aesthetics of crime and punishment -- Literary executions in popular antebellum fiction -- Hawthorne & the evidentiary value of literature -- Melville, Mackenzie & the Somers affair -- An American travesty: capital punishment & the criminal justice system in Dreiser's An American tragedy -- Epilogue: the death penalty in literature.…”
Full text available:

Ever Faithful : Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba / by Sartorius, David A.

Table of Contents: “…Liberalism and slave emancipation -- The price of integrity : limited loyalties in revolution -- Conclusion : Subject citizens and the tragedy of loyalty.…”
Full text available:

Helping humanity American policy and genocide rescue / by Pomakoy, Keith

Table of Contents: “…-- American philanthropy -- The good Samaritan : America and the war with Spain -- They fear that the matter will have to run its course : America and the Armenian tragedy -- No cardinals in Russia : America and the terror-famine -- Jews, Zionists and social workers : American rescue policy in the caldron of World War II -- The United Nations is silent : facing genocide in the Cold War -- The world now stands as one : novus ordo seclorum.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Classic short stories

Table of Contents: “…The celestial railroad (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 8. The princess's tragedy (William Makepeace Thackeray) 9. The story of Richard Doubledick (Charles Dickens) 10. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view