UID:
edocfu_9958353143702883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442673656
Content:
Culture and Authority in the Baroque explores the baroque across a wide range of disciplines, from poetics to politics, to the rituals of musical, dramatic, and religious performance.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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Chapter One. ‘Believing and Not Believing’: Shakespeare and the Archaeology of Wonder --
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Chapter Two. Philosophical Tours of the Universe in British Poetry, 1700–1729, Or, The Soaring Muse --
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Chapter Three. Marino and the Meraviglia --
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Chapter Four. I Would Rather Drown, Than Not Find New Worlds --
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Chapter Five. Truth and Wonder in Naples circa 1640 --
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Chapter Six. ‘Particolar gusto e diletto alle orecchie’: Listening in the Early Seicento --
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Chapter Seven. From Liturgy to Literature: Prayer and Play in the Early Russian Baroque --
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Chapter Eight. Reconciling Divine and Political Authority in Racine’s Esther --
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Chapter Nine. Apostles and Apostates: The Court of Peter the Great as a Chivalrous Religious Order --
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Chapter Ten. Self-Knowledge and the Advantages of Concealment: Pierre Nicole’s ‘On Self-Knowledge’ --
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Chapter Eleven. The Baroque Social Bond in the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz --
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Chapter Twelve. A Different Kind of Wonder? Women’s Writing in Early Modern Spain --
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Contributors --
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Index
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442673656
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442673656
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