Details

Subject(s)

• Civilization, Baroque [Browse]

Editor

• Lyons, John D., 1946- [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]

Frequency

monthly

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).
• Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Decentering the European Imaginary: A Baroque Taste for India / Faith E. Beasley
• Paradoxes: Baroque Science / Ofer Gal
• The Spanish Baroque Novel / Enrique Garcâia Santo-Tomâas
• Baroque Theatricality / Julia Gros de Gasquet
• Baroque Diplomacy / Timothy Hampton
• Water in the Baroque Garden / Stephanie Hanke
• Fashioning the Baroque Male / Martha Hollander
• Baroque Tragedy / Blair Hoxby
• The Baroque as a Literary Concept / Katherine Ibbett, Anna More
• Baroque Discourse / Christopher D. Johnson
• Prayer, Meditation, and Retreat / Mette Birkedal Bruun
• Antinomies of the 21st-Century Neobaroque: Cormac McCarthy and Demian Schopf / Monika Kaup
• The Crisis of the Baroque / John D. Lyons
• Classical Defense of the Baroque / Hâeláene Merlin-Kajman
• The End of Witch-Hunting / H. C. Erik Midelfort
• Surface and Substance: Baroque Dress in Spain and France, 1600-1720 / Lesley Ellis Miller
• The Baroque and Philosophy / Michael Moriarty
• The Baroque as Anti-Classicism: The French Case / Larry F. Norman
• Baroque Organ Music / David Ponsford
• Time and Chronometry / Roland Racevskis
• The Organization of Knowledge from Ramus to Diderot / Emmanuel Bury
• Is There a Baroque Style of Preaching in Early Modern France? / Anne Râegent-Susini, Laurent Susini
• Ottoman Baroque / èUnver Rèustem
• Court Spectacle and Entertainment / Guy Spielmann
• The Baroque State / Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
• Machine Plays / Hâeláene Visentin
• Ornamentation / Michael Yonan
• Experience and Knowledge in the Baroque / Anthony J. Cascardi
• The Automaton / Jessica Keating
• The Baroque City / David Mayernik
• Baroque Opera / Downing A. Thomas
• Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism / Paul Niell
• Baroque Dance / Jennifer Nevile
• Saints and Baroque Piety / Thomas Worcester
• Line and Trait of the Baroque River / Tom Conley
• Conversation and Civility / Delphine Denis
• The Philosopher's Baroque: Benjamin, Lacan, Deleuze / William Egginton
• Baroque Sexualities / Gary Ferguson.

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ISBN

• 0-19-067847-X
• 0-19-067846-1
• 0-19-067845-3

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