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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.

Note biographique

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.

Table des matières

• 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

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