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.
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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.
Other title(s)
Handbook of the Baroque
Baroque
ISBN
9780190678470
019067847X
9780190678463
0190678461
9780190678456
0190678453
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