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Subject(s)

• Arts, Baroque—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Music—17th century—History and criticism—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Music—18th century—History and criticism—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Europe—Civilization—17th century—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Europe—Civilization—18th century—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Editor

• Lyons, John D., 1946- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Handbooks and manuals [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 4, 2019).

Contents

• Decentering the European imaginary: a Baroque taste for India / Faith E. Beasley
• Line and trait of the Baroque River / Tom Conley
• Baroque theatricality / Julia Gros de Gasquet
• Water in the Baroque garden / Stephanie Hanke
• Fashioning the Baroque male / Martha Hollander
• Antinomies of the twenty-first-century neobaroque : Cormac McCarthy and Demian Schopf / Monika Kaup
• The automaton / Jessica Keating
• The Baroque city / David Mayernick
• Surface and substance: Baroque dress in Spain and France, 1600-720 / Lesley Ellis Miller
• Baroque dance / Jennifer Nevile
• Ibero-American architecture and urbanism / Paul Niell
• Baroque organ music / David Ponsford
• Ottoman Baroque / Unver Rustem
• Baroque opera / Downing Thomas
• Machine plays / Helene Visentin
• Ornamentation / Michael Yonan
• The organization of knowledge from Ramus to Diderot / Emmanuel Bury
• Experience and knowledge in the Baroque / Anthony J. Cascardi
• Converstion and Civility / Delphine Denis
• The philosopher's Baroque: Benjamin, Lucan, Deluze / William Egginton
• The spanish baroque novel / Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas
• Baroque tragedy / Blair Hoxby
• The Baroque as a literary concept / Katherine Ibbett and Anna More
• Baroque discourse / Christopher Johnson
• Classical defense of the Baroque / Helene Merlin-Kajman
• The Baroque and philosophy / Michael Moriarty
• The Baroque as Anti-Classicism: The French case / Larry F. Norman
• Is there a Baroque style of preaching in early modern France? / Anne Regent and Laurent Susini
• Prayer, meditation, and retreat / Mette Bruun
• Baroque sexualities / R. Gary Ferguson
• Paradoxes: Baroque science / Ofer Gal
• Baroque diplomacy / Timothy Hampton
• The end of witch hunting / H.C. Erik Midelfort
• Time and chronometry / Roland Racevskis
• Court spectacle and entertainment / Guy Spielmann
• The Baroque state / Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
• Saints and Baroque piety / Thomas Worcester.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of the Baroque
• Baroque

ISBN

• 9780190678470
• 019067847X
• 9780190678463
• 0190678461
• 9780190678456
• 0190678453

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