{"product_id":"the-hurt-ful-body-performing-and-beholding-pain-1600-1800-9781526143587","title":"The Hurt(Ful) Body: Performing and Beholding","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period, based on research in the fields of literary studies, art history, theatre studies, cultural history and the study of emotions. The volume’s two-fold approach to the hurt body, defining ‘hurt’ from the perspectives of both victim and beholder - as well as their combined creation of a gaze - is unique. It establishes a double perspective about the riddle of ‘cruel’ viewing by tracking the shifting cultural meanings of victims’ bodies and confronting them with the values of audiences, religious and popular institutional settings and practices of punishment. It encompasses both the victim’s presence as an image or performed event of pain and the conundrum of the look – the transmitted ‘pain’ experienced by the watching audience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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.'\u003cbr\u003eMichael Meere, Wesleyan University, \u003ci\u003eBulletin of the Comediantes\u003c\/i\u003e volume 70.2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[…] the collection brims with archival discoveries, and scholars interested in the cultural history of pain, pain management, affect, performance, art and aesthetics will find \u003ci\u003eThe Hurt(ful) Body\u003c\/i\u003e a timely addition to the bibliography of the period.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe British Journal for the History of Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction – Tomas Macsotay, Cornelis van der Haven and Karel Vanhaesebrouck\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Performing bodies\u003cbr\u003e1 Spectacle and martyrdom: bloody suffering, performed suffering and recited suffering in French tragedy (late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries) – Christian Biet\u003cbr\u003e2 The Massacre of the Innocents: infanticide and solace in the seventeenth-century Low Countries – Stijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt \u003cbr\u003e3 To travel to suffer: towards a reverse anthropology of the early modern colonial body – Karel Vanhaesebrouck\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Beholders\u003cbr\u003e4 ‘I feel your pain’: some reflections on the (literary) perception of pain – Jonathan Sawday\u003cbr\u003e5 Masochism and the female gaze – John Yamamoto-Wilson\u003cbr\u003e6 Epicurean tastes: towards a French eighteenth-century criticism of the image of pain – Tomas Macsotay\u003cbr\u003e7 Wounding realities and ‘painful excitements’: real sympathy, the imitation of suffering and the visual arts after Burke’s sublime – Aris Sarafianos\u003cbr\u003e8 Forced witnessing of pain and horror in the context of colonial and religious massacres:  the case of the Irish Rebellion, 1641–53 – Nicolás Kwiatkowski  \u003cbr\u003ePart III: Institutions\u003cbr\u003e9 Theatrical torture versus dramatic cruelty: subjection through representation or praxis: Frans-Willem Korsten\u003cbr\u003e10 Palermo’s past public executions and their lingering memory – Maria Pia Di Bella \u003cbr\u003e11 The economics of pain: pain in Dutch stock trade discourses and practices 1600–1750 – Inger Leemans\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue – Javier Moscoso\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041004683607,"sku":"9781526143587","price":44.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526143587.jpg?v=1750948570","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-hurt-ful-body-performing-and-beholding-pain-1600-1800-9781526143587","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}