Title: Timely Responses: Violence and Immediacy in Inchbald's<i>The Massacre</i>
Abstract:The scholarly commentary on Elizabeth Inchbald's drama The Massacre has tended to value the work for its immediacy. The play does respond viscerally to the early days of the Terror, while it also offe...The scholarly commentary on Elizabeth Inchbald's drama The Massacre has tended to value the work for its immediacy. The play does respond viscerally to the early days of the Terror, while it also offers a significant opportunity to think about what it means to associate violence with immediacy. Finally, an examination of the play allows us to assess how the author encountered her distance from events in Paris in 1792. Placing her work within the context of recent considerations of sublime violence, the paper asks, can ethical engagement with pressing events also challenge the complexity of violence rather than assume its immediate intelligibility, a challenge that lengthens and foreshortens our imagined distance from terror?Read More
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-10-30
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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