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The hurt(ful) body : performing and beholding pain, 1600-1800

Title
The hurt(ful) body : performing and beholding pain, 1600-1800 / edited by Tomas Macsotay, Cornelis van der Haven and Karel Vanhaesebrouck.
Publication
  • Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Macsotay, Tomas
  • Haven, Kornee van der
  • Vanhaesebrouck, Karel
Description
xv, 311 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
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 to 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.
Alternative Title
Hurtful body
Subject
  • Pain in the performing arts
  • Performing arts > History > 17th century
  • Performing arts > History > 18th century
  • Pain in literature
  • Literature, Modern > 17th century > History and criticism
  • Literature, Modern > 18th century > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
JFE 17-8968
ISBN
  • 9781784995164
  • 1784995169
OCLC
974856827
Title
The hurt(ful) body : performing and beholding pain, 1600-1800 / edited by Tomas Macsotay, Cornelis van der Haven and Karel Vanhaesebrouck.
Publisher
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Macsotay, Tomas, editor.
Haven, Kornee van der, editor.
Vanhaesebrouck, Karel, editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 17-8968
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