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The hurt(ful) body : performing and beholding pain, 1600-1800 /
Brings into mutual dialogue several existing strands of the study of pain and embodied violence. The volume's two-fold approach, themed both on the hurt and hurt-inducing body, is unique. It encompasses both the victim's presence as an image or performed event of pain and the transmitted b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Figures; List of contributors; Introduction; Part I Performing bodies; 1 Spectacle and martyrdom: bloody suffering, performed suffering and recited suffering in French tragedy (late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries); 2 The Massacre of the Innocents: infanticide and solace in the seventeenth-century Low Countries; 3 To travel to suffer: towards a reverse anthropology of the early modern colonial body; Part II Beholders; 4 'I feel your pain': some reflections on the (literary) perception of pain; 5 Masochism and the female gaze.
- 6 Epicurean tastes: towards a French eighteenth-century criticism of the image of pain7 Wounding realities and 'painful excitements': real sympathy, the imitation of suffering and the visual arts after Burke's sublim; 8 Forced witnessing of pain and horror in the context of colonial and religious massacres: the case of the Irish Rebellion, 1641-53; Part III Institutions; 9 Theatrical torture versus dramatic cruelty: subjection through representation or praxis; 10 Palermo's past public executions and their lingering memory.
- 11 The economics of pain: pain in Dutch stock trade discourses and practices, 1600-1750Epilogue; Index.