Transformations of Tragedy

Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in English Renaissance Literature at the University of Agder. She is currently completing a monograph on early modern tragedy and Reformation iconoclasm.Erik Tonning is Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen. He is the author of Modernism and Christianity (Palgrave, 2014), and co-editor of Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse (Brill, 2015) and David Jones: A Christian Modernist? (Brill, 2018).Jolyon Mitchell is Professor specialising in Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding (with special reference to the Arts) at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include: Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence (Routledge, 2012) and Media Violence and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2007).Contributors are: Linzy Brady, Paul S. Fiddes, Beatrice Groves, Ronan McDonald, Jolyon Mitchell, Stuart Sillars, Adrian Streete, Olga Taxidou, Erik Tonning, Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning, Peter Svare Valeur, Jennifer Wallace, Giles Waller, Rowan Williams

"Through rich, powerfully argued case studies this collection provides proof positive of the radically informing relationship between Christianity and understandings of the tragic experience in the sixteenth century and the modern era. The essays take a variety of approaches from the historical materialist to the philosophical and theological, but the twin images of humanity at bay, self-alienated, subject to savage violence; and humanity struggling to understand and represent its collective suffering, victimhood, and capacity for transcendence punctuate the volume, giving it a satisfying, challenging coherence." - Greg Walker, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh