The Oxford handbook of the baroque /
Few periods in history are so fundamentally contradictory as the Baroque, the culture flourishing from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries in Europe. When we hear the term Baroque, the first images that come to mind are symmetrically designed gardens in French chateaux, scenic fountain...
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Table of Contents:
- Decentering the European imaginary: a Baroque taste for India / Faith Beasley
- Mapping the Baroque world / Tom Conley
- Baroque theatricality / Julia Gros de Gasquet
- Water in the Baroque garden / Stephanie Hanke
- Fashioning the Baroque male / Martha Hollander
- Antinomies of the postmodern Baroque / Monika Kaup
- Baroque automata / Jessica Keating
- The Baroque city / David Mayernick
- Baroque dress / Lesley Miller
- Ibero-American architecture and urbanism / Paul Niell
- Baroque dance / Jennifer Nevile
- Baroque organ / David Ponsford
- Baroque gardens / Denis Ribouillault
- Ottoman Baroque / Unver Rustem
- Baroque opera / Downing Thomas
- Machine plays / Helene Visentin
- Ornamentation / Michael Yonan
- Organization of knowledge / Emmanuel Bury
- The subject of knowledge and experience / Anthony Cascardi
- Civility and conversation / Delphine Denis
- The philosopher's Baroque / William Egginton
- Windmills in motion: the spanish novel in its wider contexts / Enrique Garcia-Santo-Tomas
- Baroque embassy / Timothy Hampton
- Baroque tragedy / Blair Hoxby
- Baroque in literary scholarship / Katherine Ibbett and Anna More
- Essay and discourse in the Baroque / Christopher Johnson
- Baroque philosophy / Michael Moriarty
- Ancient, modern and Baroque / Larry Norman
- Sacred eloquence / Anne Regent and Laurent Susini
- Prayer, meditation, and retreat / Mette Bruun
- Baroque sexualities / R. Gary Ferguson
- The anxieties, dilemmas and paradoxes that made the new science / Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris
- Absolutism and the culture of the classico-Baroque / Helene Merlin-Kajman
- The end of witch hunting / Erik Midelfort
- Time and chronometry / Roland Racevskis
- Entertainment / Guy Spielmann Court
- The Baroque state / Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger.