The Hurt(Ful) Body - Performing and Beholding Pain, 1600-1800 (Hardcover)

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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2017
First published:	2017
Editors:	Tomas Macsotay • Cornelis Van Der Haven • Karel Vanhaesebrouck
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-1-78499-516-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	1-78499-516-9
Barcode:	9781784995164

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