The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque

John D. Lyons (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

912 Seiten

2019
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-067844-9 (ISBN)

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Baroque, the cultural period extending from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, created some of the world's most striking monuments, music, artworks, and literature. This Handbook goes beyond all existing studies by presenting Baroque not only as a style, but also as a global cultural phenomenon arising in response to enormous religious, political, and technological changes.

Few periods in history are so fundamentally contradictory as the Baroque, the culture flourishing from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries in Europe. When we hear the term Baroque, the first images that come to mind are symmetrically designed gardens in French chateaux, scenic fountains in Italian squares, and the vibrant rhythms of a harpsichord. Behind this commitment to rule, harmony, and rigid structure, however, the Baroque also embodies a deep fascination with wonder, excess, irrationality, and rebellion against order. The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque delves into this contradiction to provide a sweeping survey of the Baroque not only as a style but also as a historical, cultural, and intellectual concept. With its thirty-eight chapters edited by leading expert John D. Lyons, the Handbook explores different manifestations of Baroque culture, from theatricality in architecture and urbanism to opera and dance, from the role of water to innovations in fashion, from mechanistic philosophy and literature to the tension between religion and science. These discussions present the Baroque as a broad cultural phenomenon that arose in response to the enormous changes emerging from the sixteenth century: the division between Catholics and Protestants, the formation of nation-states and the growth of absolutist monarchies, the colonization of lands outside Europe and the mutual impact of European and non-European cultures. Technological developments such as the telescope and the microscope and even greater access to high-quality mirrors altered mankinds view of the universe and of human identity itself. By exploring the Baroque in relation to these larger social upheavals, this Handbook reveals a fresh and surprisingly modern image of the Baroque as a powerful response to an epoch of crisis.

John D. Lyons teaches at the University of Virginia and writes about early modern French literature and culture. He is the author of many books, including Tragedy and the Return of the Dead (2018), The Phantom of Chance: From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature (2011), Before Imagination: Embodied Thought From Montaigne to Rousseau (2005), and French Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2010). He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to French Literature (2015). In 2007 he was named chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.

Acknowledgments
Contributors

Introduction

1. The Crisis of the Baroque
John D. Lyons

Part 1. Visual, Spatial, and Performing Arts

2. Decentering the European Imaginary: A Baroque Taste for India
Faith Beasley

3. Line and Trait of the Baroque River
Tom Conley

4. Baroque Theatricality
Julia Gros de Gasquet

5. Water in the Baroque Garden
Stephanie Hanke

6. Fashioning the Baroque Male
Martha Hollander

7. Antinomies of the 21st-Century Neobaroque: Cormac McCarthy and Demian Schopf
Monika Kaup

8. The Automaton
Jessica Keating

9. The Baroque City
David Mayernick

10. Surface and Substance: Baroque Dress in Spain and France, 1600-1720
Lesley Ellis Miller

11. Baroque Dance
Jennifer Nevile

12. Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism
Paul Niell

13. Baroque Organ Music
David Ponsford

14. Ottoman Baroque
Ünver Rüstem

15. Baroque Opera
Downing A. Thomas

16. Machine Plays
Hélène Visentin

17. Ornamentation
Michael Yonan

Part 2. Literary and Philosophical Writing

18. Organization of Knowledge from Ramus to Diderot
Emmanuel Bury

19. Experience and Knowledge in the Baroque
Anthony J. Cascardi

20. Conversation and Civility
Delphine Denis

21. The Philosopher's Baroque: Benjamin, Lacan, Deleuze
William Egginton

22. The Spanish Baroque Novel
Enrique Garcia-Santo-Tomás

23. Baroque Tragedy
Blair Hoxby

24. The Baroque as a Literary Concept
Katherine Ibbett and Anna More

25. Baroque Discourse
Christopher D. Johnson

26. Classical Defense of the Baroque
Hélène Merlin-Kajman

27. The Baroque and Philosophy
Michael Moriarty

28. The Baroque as Anti-Classicism: The French Case
Larry F. Norman

29. Is There a Baroque Style of Preaching in Early Modern France?
Anne Régent-Susini and Laurent Susini

Part 3. Society, Institutions, and Practices

30. Prayer, Meditation, and Retreat
Mette Birkedal Bruun

31. Baroque Sexualities
Gary Ferguson

32. Paradoxes: Baroque Science
Ofer Gal

33. Baroque Diplomacy
Timothy Hampton

34. The End of Witch Hunting
Erik Midelfort

35. Time and Chronometry
Roland Racevskis

36. Court Spectacle and Entertainment
Guy Spielmann

37. The Baroque State
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

38. Saints and Baroque Piety
Thomas Worcester

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.08.2019
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Zusatzinfo	135
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	249 x 180 mm
Gewicht	1656 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-067844-5 / 0190678445
ISBN-13	978-0-19-067844-9 / 9780190678449
Zustand	Neuware