Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contributors

Introduction

1. The Crisis of the Baroque
John D. Lyons

Part 1. Visual, Spatial, and Performing Arts

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

3. Line and Trait of the Baroque River
Tom Conley

4. Baroque Theatricality
Julia Gros de Gasquet

5. Water in the Baroque Garden
Stephanie Hanke

6. Fashioning the Baroque Male
Martha Hollander

7. Antinomies of the 21st-Century Neobaroque: Cormac McCarthy and Demian Schopf
Monika Kaup

8. The Automaton
Jessica Keating

9. The Baroque City
David Mayernick

10. Surface and Substance: Baroque Dress in Spain and France, 1600-1720
Lesley Ellis Miller

11. Baroque Dance
Jennifer Nevile

12. Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism
Paul Niell

13. Baroque Organ Music
David Ponsford

14. Ottoman Baroque
Ünver Rüstem

15. Baroque Opera
Downing A. Thomas

16. Machine Plays
Hélène Visentin

17. Ornamentation
Michael Yonan


Part 2. Literary and Philosophical Writing

18. Organization of Knowledge from Ramus to Diderot
Emmanuel Bury

19. Experience and Knowledge in the Baroque
Anthony J. Cascardi

20. Conversation and Civility
Delphine Denis

21. The Philosopher's Baroque: Benjamin, Lacan, Deleuze
William Egginton

22. The Spanish Baroque Novel
Enrique Garcia-Santo-Tomás

23. Baroque Tragedy
Blair Hoxby

24. The Baroque as a Literary Concept
Katherine Ibbett and Anna More

25. Baroque Discourse
Christopher D. Johnson

26. Classical Defense of the Baroque
Hélène Merlin-Kajman

27. The Baroque and Philosophy
Michael Moriarty

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

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


Part 3. Society, Institutions, and Practices

30. Prayer, Meditation, and Retreat
Mette Birkedal Bruun

31. Baroque Sexualities
Gary Ferguson

32. Paradoxes: Baroque Science
Ofer Gal

33. Baroque Diplomacy
Timothy Hampton

34. The End of Witch Hunting
Erik Midelfort

35. Time and Chronometry
Roland Racevskis

36. Court Spectacle and Entertainment
Guy Spielmann

37. The Baroque State
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

38. Saints and Baroque Piety
Thomas Worcester


Index

About the Author

John D. Lyons teaches at the University of Virginia and writes about early modern French literature and culture. He is the author of many books, including Tragedy and the Return of the Dead (2018), The Phantom of Chance: From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature (2011), Before Imagination: Embodied Thought From Montaigne to Rousseau (2005), and French Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2010). He is the editor of The Cambridge
Companion to French Literature (2015). In 2007 he was named chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.