The hurt(ful) body (eBook, ePUB)

Performing and beholding pain, 1600-1800
Redaktion: Macsotay, Tomas; Vanhaesebrouck, Karel; Haven, Cornelis van der

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period, based on research in the fields of literary studies, art history, theatre studies, cultural history and the study of emotions. The volume's two-fold approach to the hurt body, defining 'hurt' from the perspectives of both victim and beholder - as well as their combined creation of a gaze - is unique. It establishes a double perspective about the riddle of 'cruel' viewing by tracking the shifting cultural meanings of victims' bodies and confronting them with the values of audiences, religious and popular institutional settings and practices of punishment. It encompasses both the victim's presence as an image or performed event of pain and the conundrum of the look - the transmitted 'pain' experienced by the watching audience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526113528
• Artikelnr.: 57471476

Autorenporträt

Tomas Macsotay is Research Lecturer in Art History at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona Cornelis van der Haven is Senior Lecturer in Dutch Literature at Ghent University Karel Vanhaesebrouck is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Tomas Macsotay, Cornelis van der Haven and Karel
Vanhaesebrouck Part I: Performing bodies 1 Spectacle and martyrdom: bloody
suffering, performed suffering and recited suffering in French tragedy
(late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries) - Christian Biet 2 The
Massacre of the Innocents: infanticide and solace in the
seventeenth-century Low Countries - Stijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt 3
To travel to suffer: towards a reverse anthropology of the early modern
colonial body - Karel Vanhaesebrouck Part II: Beholders 4 'I feel your
pain': some reflections on the (literary) perception of pain - Jonathan
Sawday 5 Masochism and the female gaze - John Yamamoto-Wilson 6 Epicurean
tastes: towards a French eighteenth-century criticism of the image of pain
- Tomas Macsotay 7 Wounding realities and 'painful excitements': real
sympathy, the imitation of suffering and the visual arts after Burke's
sublime - Aris Sarafianos 8 Forced witnessing of pain and horror in the
context of colonial and religious massacres: the case of the Irish
Rebellion, 1641-53 - Nicolás Kwiatkowski Part III: Institutions 9
Theatrical torture versus dramatic cruelty: subjection through
representation or praxis: Frans-Willem Korsten 10 Palermo's past public
executions and their lingering memory - Maria Pia Di Bella 11 The economics
of pain: pain in Dutch stock trade discourses and practices 1600-1750 -
Inger Leemans Epilogue - Javier Moscoso Index