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

Macsotay, Tomas, editor, Haven, Kornee van der, editor, Vanhaesebrouck, Karel, editor

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• 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.
• ISBN: 9781784995164, 1784995169

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
NX650.P32 H87 2017	1	BOOK	ARTS