The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-067844-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 908 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1660 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lyons, John D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Barock, Klassizismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.