The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque / edited by John D. Lyons.

Other author Lyons, John D., 1946-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Descriptionxvii, 888 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm
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Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018045242
ISBN9780190678449 (hardcover)