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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 fountains in Italian squares, and the vibrant rhythms of a harpsichord. Behind this commitment to rule, harmony, and rigid structure, however, the Baroque also embodies a deep fascination with wonder, excess, irrationality, and rebellion against order. The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque delves into this contradiction to provide a sweeping survey of the Baroque not only as a style but also as a historical, cultural, and intellectual concept. With its thirty-eight chapters edited by leading expert John D. Lyons, the Handbook explores different manifestations of Baroque culture, from theatricality in architecture and urbanism to opera and dance, from the role of water to innovations in fashion, from mechanistic philosophy and literature to the tension between religion and science. These discussions present the Baroque as a broad cultural phenomenon that arose in response to the enormous changes emerging from the sixteenth century: the division between Catholics and Protestants, the formation of nation-states and the growth of absolutist monarchies, the colonization of lands outside Europe and the mutual impact of European and non-European cultures. Technological developments such as the telescope and the microscope and even greater access to high-quality mirrors altered mankinds view of the universe and of human identity itself. By exploring the Baroque in relation to these larger social upheavals, this Handbook reveals a fresh and surprisingly modern image of the Baroque as a powerful response to an epoch of crisis.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Lyons, John D., 1946 editor.

Title: The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque / edited by John D. Lyons. Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018045242 | ISBN 9780190678449 (hardcover) | ebook ISBN 9780190678470

Subjects: LCSH: Civilization, Baroque.

Classification: LCC CB401 .O94 2019 | DDC 940.2/52dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018045242

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Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America

Contents

Introduction: The Crisis of the Baroque
John D. Lyons

Decentering the European Imaginary: A Baroque Taste for India
Faith E. Beasley

Line and Trait of the Baroque River
Tom Conley

Baroque Theatricality
Julia Gros de Gasquet

Water in the Baroque Garden
Stephanie Hanke

Fashioning the Baroque Male
Martha Hollander

Antinomies of the Twenty-First-Century Neobaroque: Cormac McCarthy and Demian Schopf
Monika Kaup

The Automaton
Jessica Keating

The Baroque City
David Mayernik

Surface and Substance: Baroque Dress in Spain and France, 16001720
Lesley Ellis Miller

Baroque Dance
Jennifer Nevile

Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism
Paul Niell

Baroque Organ Music
David Ponsford

Ottoman Baroque
nver Rstem

Baroque Opera
Downing A. Thomas

Machine Plays
Hlne Visentin

Ornamentation
Michael Yonan

The Organization of Knowledge from Ramus to Diderot
Emmanuel Bury

Experience and Knowledge in the Baroque
Anthony J. Cascardi

Conversation and Civility
Delphine Denis

The Philosophers Baroque: Benjamin, Lacan, Deleuze
William Egginton

The Spanish Baroque Novel
Enrique Garca Santo-Toms

Baroque Tragedy
Blair Hoxby

The Baroque as a Literary Concept
Katherine Ibbett and Anna More

Baroque Discourse
Christopher D. Johnson

Classical Defense of the Baroque
Hlne Merlin-Kajman

The Baroque and Philosophy
Michael Moriarty

The Baroque as Anti-Classicism: The French Case
Larry F. Norman

Is There a Baroque Style of Preaching in Early Modern France?
Anne Rgent-Susini and Laurent Susini

Prayer, Meditation, and Retreat
Mette Birkedal Bruun

Baroque Sexualities
Gary Ferguson

Paradoxes: Baroque Science
Ofer Gal

Baroque Diplomacy
Timothy Hampton

The End of Witch-Hunting
H. C. Erik Midelfort

Time and Chronometry
Roland Racevskis

Court Spectacle and Entertainment
Guy Spielmann

The Baroque State
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

Saints and Baroque Piety
Thomas Worcester

This Handbook spans so many arts, media, disciplines, and languages that it would have been impossible to put it together without the generous help of many peoplemost particularly that of the contributors themselves. By generously sharing their expertise with the volume editor they made this project a truly collaborative one. Special thanks go to the two editors at Oxford Handbooks: Julia Kostova, for her encouragement and advice from the inception of this work, and to Elda Granata, who brought it to its happy conclusion. Evonne Levy provided many ideas in the early phase of planning, and Cecily Berberat oversaw the almost infinite number of details that needed to come together for the whole enterprise to take shape.

Faith E. Beasley is Professor of French and Womens and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College. A specialist of early modern French culture, she is the author of numerous books and articles on French women writers and salon culture, including Revising Memory: Womens Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France (1990), and Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory (2006). Her book Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal: Franois Bernier, Marguerite de La Sablire and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France (2018), supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, explores the effect that Frances encounter with India had on early Enlightenment thought, material culture, and literature.
Mette Birkedal Bruun is Professor of Church History at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Parables: Bernard of Clairvauxs Mapping of Spiritual Topography (2007), editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Cistercian Order (2012), and co-editor of several volumes, including Negotiating Heritage: Memories of the Middle Ages (2008) and Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period (2011). She was awarded the Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize in 2017.
Emmanuel Bury is Professor of French Literature at Sorbonne University. His research is devoted to the study of the relations between literature and society in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and to the study of the influence of the culture of Antiquity (pagan and Christian) on the culture of the French classical age, from humanism to the beginning of the Enlightenment. His earlier work focused on classical rhetoric and poetics and the theory of translation (in particular creative mistranslation, the Belles Infidles). His current work concerns learned discourse and the intellectual life of the Republic of Letters, with particular concentration on the relations between literature and philosophy (Lucianism, libertinage rudit, and philosophical dialogue).
Anthony J. Cascardi is Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also Professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish. He is former Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities and of the Arts Research Center. His many books include Literature and the Question of Philosophy (1987), The Subject of Modernity (1992), Consequences of Enlightenment (1999), and Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics (2012).
Tom Conley is Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He studies relations of space and writing in literature, cartography, and cinema. Among his many books are Film Hieroglyphs (1991, new edition 2006), The Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern Writing
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