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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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 ...
