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

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by Tomas Macsotay (Editor), Cornelis Van Der Haven (Editor), Karel Vanhaesebrouck (Editor)

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.

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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. It has a sustained focus on visual sources, textual material and documents about actual events rather than well-known thinkers or 'masterpieces' of art history, and a preference for cases and historical contexts over systematic theory-building. The hurt(ful) body brings under discussion visual and performative representations of embodied pain, using an insistently dialectical approach that takes into account the perspective of the hurt body itself, the power and afflictions of its beholder and, finally, the routinising and redeeming of hurt within institutional contexts. The volume's two-fold approach of the hurt body, defining 'hurt' both from the perspective of the victim and the 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. This is achieved through three different focuses: the early modern performing body, beholder or audience responses and the operations of institutional power. Because of its interdisciplinary approach to the history of pain and the hurt(ful) body, the book will be of interest to lecturers and students from various fields, such as the history of ideas, the history of the body, urban history, theatre studies, literary studies, art history, emotion studies and performance studies

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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. It has a sustained focus on visual sources, textual material and documents about actual events rather than well-known thinkers or 'masterpieces' of art history, and a preference for cases and historical contexts over systematic theory-building.

The hurt(ful) body brings under discussion visual and performative representations of embodied pain, using an insistently dialectical approach that takes into account the perspective of the hurt body itself, the power and afflictions of its beholder and, finally, the routinising and redeeming of hurt within institutional contexts. The volume's two-fold approach of the hurt body, defining 'hurt' both from the perspective of the victim and the 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. This is achieved through three different focuses: the early modern performing body, beholder or audience responses and the operations of institutional power.

Because of its interdisciplinary approach to the history of pain and the hurt(ful) body, the book will be of interest to lecturers and students from various fields, such as the history of ideas, the history of the body, urban history, theatre studies, literary studies, art history, emotion studies and performance studies

Author Biography


Tomas Macsotay is Research Lecturer in Art History at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

Cornelis van der Haven is Lecturer in Dutch Literature at Ghent University

Karel Vanhaesebrouck is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Number of Pages: 328
Dimensions: 0.69 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: January 01, 2020
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