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Steintrager, James Alvin.

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Stages of cruelty in eighteenth-century France, England and Germany.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Stages of cruelty in eighteenth-century France, England and Germany./
作者:	Steintrager, James Alvin.
面頁冊數:	422 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-04, Section: A, page: 1269.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-04A.
標題:	Literature, Comparative. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9728305
ISBN:	9780591393514

Stages of cruelty in eighteenth-century France, England and Germany.
Steintrager, James Alvin.

Stages of cruelty in eighteenth-century France, England and Germany. - 422 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-04, Section: A, page: 1269.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1997.

This thesis examines the possible enjoyment of another's pain as a troublesome aspect of sentimental discourse. At the most basic level of self-description, the Enlightenment as a project proclaimed that cruelty would end with the spread of reason. This statement was supported by a philosophical anthropology that declared benevolence to be both natural and logical. Rather than turning its back on cruelty, however, the Enlightenment as a system found itself engaged in the production of images and texts depicting acts of "inhumanity." These texts and images played various roles: eliciting "proper" affective response, creating forms of group identity, and determining sites and modes of intervention against malevolence. On the one hand, I explore how those who saw themselves as a part of the enlightening process sometimes blindly, sometimes self-reflectively, represented cruelty. On the other hand, I investigate moments where such representations overstepped the boundaries set for them by the partisans of sentimental rationality.

ISBN: 9780591393514Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

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520 $a The sources that I have analyzed range from dramas, philosophy and libertine novels to theatrical reviews and everyday periodicals. At the center of my project are two chapters on the stage. In the first place, I trace the emergence of horror drama in France, using Crebillon's version of the Atreus myth as a point of reference to explore audience toleration of cruel spectacles. This is complemented by an examination of the way the theater of the Sturm und Drang uses violence in order to indicate a break with social systems (including the system of theater itself). These core dramatic chapters are surrounded by analyses of philosophical, aesthetic and journalistic discussions of the scientific gaze and the voyeuristic gaze.
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