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The Hurt(ful) Body: Performing and Beholding Pain, 1600-1800

The Hurt(ful) Body: Performing and Beholding Pain, 1600-1800

Macsotay, Tomas
Haven, Cornelis Van Der
Vanhaesebrouck, Karel

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ISBN10: 1784995169
ISBN13: 9781784995164
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jul 19 2017
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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