The Hurt(ful) Body: Performing and Beholding Pain, 1600-1800 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781784995164)

This 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.

Author: Tomas Macsotay
ISBN-10: 1784995169
ISBN-13: 9781784995164
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/19/2017
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d