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Author:   Tomas Macsotay ,  Cornelis van der Haven ,  Karel Vanhaesebrouck
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
ISBN:  

9781526143587

ISBN 10:   1526143585
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   07 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction – Tomas Macsotay, Cornelis van der Haven and Karel Vanhaesebrouck Part I: Performing bodies 1 Spectacle and martyrdom: bloody suffering, performed suffering and recited suffering in French tragedy (late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries) – Christian Biet 2 The Massacre of the Innocents: infanticide and solace in the seventeenth-century Low Countries – Stijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt 3 To travel to suffer: towards a reverse anthropology of the early modern colonial body – Karel Vanhaesebrouck Part II: Beholders 4 ‘I feel your pain’: some reflections on the (literary) perception of pain – Jonathan Sawday 5 Masochism and the female gaze – John Yamamoto-Wilson 6 Epicurean tastes: towards a French eighteenth-century criticism of the image of pain – Tomas Macsotay 7 Wounding realities and ‘painful excitements’: real sympathy, the imitation of suffering and the visual arts after Burke’s sublime – Aris Sarafianos 8 Forced witnessing of pain and horror in the context of colonial and religious massacres: the case of the Irish Rebellion, 1641–53 – Nicolás Kwiatkowski Part III: Institutions 9 Theatrical torture versus dramatic cruelty: subjection through representation or praxis: Frans-Willem Korsten 10 Palermo’s past public executions and their lingering memory – Maria Pia Di Bella 11 The economics of pain: pain in Dutch stock trade discourses and practices 1600–1750 – Inger Leemans Epilogue – Javier Moscoso Index -- .

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'This edited volume is critical for anyone working on the representations and functions of the suffering body, its effects on the onlooker, and the ways in which the hurt(ful) body is inscribed and deployed in various political, judicial, and economic institutions of the early modern period. The diverse methodological approaches to the study of the body in pain illustrate the complexity of the topic, and the book will surely inspire scholars to continue their reflection on the roles and stakes of the harmed body and the body that harms.' Michael Meere, Wesleyan University, Bulletin of the Comediantes volume 70.2 '[...] the collection brims with archival discoveries, and scholars interested in the cultural history of pain, pain management, affect, performance, art and aesthetics will find The Hurt(ful) Body a timely addition to the bibliography of the period.' The British Journal for the History of Science -- .

'This edited volume is critical for anyone working on the representations and functions of the suffering body, its effects on the onlooker, and the ways in which the hurt(ful) body is inscribed and deployed in various political, judicial, and economic institutions of the early modern period. The diverse methodological approaches to the study of the body in pain illustrate the complexity of the topic, and the book will surely inspire scholars to continue their reflection on the roles and stakes of the harmed body and the body that harms.' Michael Meere, Wesleyan University, Bulletin of the Comediantes volume 70.2 '[.] the collection brims with archival discoveries, and scholars interested in the cultural history of pain, pain management, affect, performance, art and aesthetics will find The Hurt(ful) Body a timely addition to the bibliography of the period.' The British Journal for the History of Science -- .

'This edited volume is critical for anyone working on the representations and functions of the suffering body, its effects on the onlooker, and the ways in which the hurt(ful) body is inscribed and deployed in various political, judicial, and economic institutions of the early modern period. The diverse methodological approaches to the study of the body in pain illustrate the complexity of the topic, and the book will surely inspire scholars to continue their reflection on the roles and stakes of the harmed body and the body that harms.' Michael Meere, Wesleyan University, Bulletin of the Comediantes volume 70.2 '[…] the collection brims with archival discoveries, and scholars interested in the cultural history of pain, pain management, affect, performance, art and aesthetics will find The Hurt(ful) Body a timely addition to the bibliography of the period.' The British Journal for the History of Science -- .

'This edited volume is critical for anyone working on the representations and functions of the suffering body, its effects on the onlooker, and the ways in which the hurt(ful) body is inscribed and deployed in various political, judicial, and economic institutions of the early modern period. The diverse methodological approaches to the study of the body in pain illustrate the complexity of the topic, and the book will surely inspire scholars to continue their reflection on the roles and stakes of the harmed body and the body that harms.' Michael Meere, Wesleyan University, Bulletin of the Comediantes volume 70.2 -- .

Author Information

Tomas Macsotay is Research Lecturer in Art History at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona Cornelis van der Haven is Senior Lecturer in Dutch Literature at Ghent University Karel Vanhaesebrouck is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles -- .

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