Culture and Authority in the Baroque / / Massimo Ciavolella, Patrick Coleman.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Ciavolella, Massimo,; Coleman, Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
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The cultural forms often referred to as ?baroque? are the most spectacular expressions of early modern Europe?s effort to mediate between knowledge and power at a time when political authority was being centralized, the authority of religion undermined by the division of Christianity, and science an...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter One. 'Believing and Not Believing': Shakespeare and the Archaeology of Wonder / Platt, Peter G.
• Chapter Two. Philosophical Tours of the Universe in British Poetry, 1700-1729, Or, The Soaring Muse / Clymer, Lorna
• Chapter Three. Marino and the Meraviglia / Cherchi, Paolo
• Chapter Four. I Would Rather Drown, Than Not Find New Worlds / Fasoli, Paolo
• Chapter Five. Truth and Wonder in Naples circa 1640 / Snyder, Jon R.
• Chapter Six. 'Particolar gusto e diletto alle orecchie': Listening in the Early Seicento / Antonio, Andrew Dell'
• Chapter Seven. From Liturgy to Literature: Prayer and Play in the Early Russian Baroque / Vroon, Ronald
• Chapter Eight. Reconciling Divine and Political Authority in Racine's Esther / Ehanty, Ann Del
• Chapter Nine. Apostles and Apostates: The Court of Peter the Great as a Chivalrous Religious Order / Zitser, Ernest A.
• Chapter Ten. Self-Knowledge and the Advantages of Concealment: Pierre Nicole's 'On Self-Knowledge' / Lyons, John D.
• Chapter Eleven. The Baroque Social Bond in the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz / Stefanovska, Malina
• Chapter Twelve. A Different Kind of Wonder? Women's Writing in Early Modern Spain / Vollendorf, Lisa
• Contributors
• Index