The hurt(ful) body: Performing and beholding pain, 1600–1800
By: and and
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2017
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 328 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781526113528
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781784995164, 9781526143587, 9781526113511
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/24/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Manchester University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Health, Mind and Body, Literature and Fiction, Psychology, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater, Philosophy
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Karel Vanhaesebrouck
- Edited by:
- Cornelis van Haven
- Edited by:
- Tomas Macsotay
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