The Hurt(Ful) Body

Introduction - Tomas Macsotay, Cornelis van der Haven and Karel Vanhaesebrouck
Part I: Performing bodies
1 Spectacle and martyrdom: bloody suffering, performed suffering and recited suffering in French tragedy (late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries) - Christian Biet
2 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 Vanhaesebrouck
Part II: Beholders
4 'I feel your pain': some reflections on the (literary) perception of pain - Jonathan Sawday
5 Masochism and the female gaze - John Yamamoto-Wilson
6 Epicurean tastes: towards a French eighteenth-century criticism of the image of pain - Tomas Macsotay
7 Wounding realities and 'painful excitements': real sympathy, the imitation of suffering and the visual arts after Burke's sublime - Aris Sarafianos
8 Forced witnessing of pain and horror in the context of colonial and religious massacres: the case of the Irish Rebellion, 1641-53 - Nicolas Kwiatkowski
Part III: Institutions
9 Theatrical torture versus dramatic cruelty: subjection through representation or praxis: Frans-Willem Korsten
10 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 1600-1750 - Inger Leemans
Epilogue - Javier Moscoso
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