Tragedy Since 9/11

Jennifer Wallace is Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK, and editor of A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2019). Her previous books include Digging the Dirt: The Archaeological Imagination (2004) and The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy (2007).

• List of Figures1 Tragic Events and the Idea of Tragedy2 Lamenting 9/113 The Dogs of War4 Shooting Conflict5 The Year of Revolutions6 Claiming Asylum7 Hamartia in the AnthropoceneCoda: Figuring TragedyNotesAcknowledgementsIndex

This rich analysis is valuable not only because it underlines the importance of a broader cultural horizon, showing the topicality of more or less “ancient” literary and philosophical resources, but also because it celebrates different evaluations of current events and historical consciousness in a remarkably original approach.