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. -- .
| ISBN: | 9781526143587 |
| Publication date: | 7th October 2019 |
| Author: | Tomas Macsotay |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 328 pages |
| Genres: |
History of medicine Social and cultural history Pain and pain management Performance art European history |
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. -- .
The Hurt(Ful) Body features in the following genres: History of medicine, Social and cultural history, Pain and pain management, Performance art, European history
The Hurt(Ful) Body is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Hurt(Ful) Body was written by Tomas Macsotay and published by Manchester University Press
The Hurt(Ful) Body has 328 pages
£27.00