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.
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Tomas Macsotay is Research Lecturer in Art History at Pompeu Fabra University, BarcelonaCornelis van der Haven is Senior Lecturer in Dutch Literature at Ghent UniversityKarel Vanhaesebrouck is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
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Introduction Tomas Macsotay, Cornelis van der Haven and Karel VanhaesebrouckPart I: Performing bodies1 Spectacle and martyrdom: bloody suffering, performed suffering and recited suffering in French tragedy (late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries) Christian Biet2 The Massacre of the Innocents: infanticide and solace in the seventeenth-century Low Countries Stijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt 3 To travel to suffer: towards a reverse anthropology of the early modern colonial body Karel VanhaesebrouckPart II: Beholders4 'I feel your pain': some reflections on the (literary) perception of pain Jonathan Sawday5 Masochism and the female gaze John Yamamoto-Wilson6 Epicurean tastes: towards a French eighteenth-century criticism of the image of pain Tomas Macsotay7 Wounding realities and 'painful excitements': real sympathy, the imitation of suffering and the visual arts after Burke's sublime Aris Sarafianos8 Forced witnessing of pain and horror in the context of colonial and religious massacres: the case of the Irish Rebellion, 164153 Nicolás Kwiatkowski Part III: Institutions9 Theatrical torture versus dramatic cruelty: subjection through representation or praxis: Frans-Willem Korsten10 Palermo's past public executions and their lingering memory Maria Pia Di Bella 11 The economics of pain: pain in Dutch stock trade discourses and practices 16001750 Inger LeemansEpilogue Javier MoscosoIndex