Philosophy and tragedy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Die Tragödie der Moderne Gattungsgeschichte, Kulturtheorie, Epochendiagnose /

Subjects: “…Tragedy.…”
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The Total Work of Art in European Modernism / by Roberts, David, 1937-

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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.…”
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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.…”
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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? …”
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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? …”
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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.…”
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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.…”
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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.…”
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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. …”
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Stolen childhood slave youth in nineteenth-century America / by King, Wilma, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…In the beginning : the transatlantic trade in children of African descent -- "You know I am one man that do love my children" : slave children and youth in the family and community -- "Us ain't never idle" : the work of enslaved children and youth -- "When day is done" : the play and leisure activities of enslaved children and youth -- "Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave" : temporal and spiritual education -- "What has ever become of my presus little girl" : the traumas and tragedies of slave children and youth -- "Free at last" : the quest for freedom -- "There's a better day a-coming" : the transition from slavery to freedom.…”
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