1st Edition
Sense and Spectacle in the Age of Philip IV Performing Empire in Word, Music, and Image
By Mary Quinn
Copyright 2024
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book accounts for the outpouring of celebrations in the Habsburg Empire upon the 1657 birth of Felipe Próspero, heir to Philip IV of Spain. These celebrations allow us to interrogate the shifting uses of performance in the empire’s center and periphery. Such spectacles could work to contain and manipulate public sentiment, but at other moments they questioned sanctioned power structures. A... Read more
Dedication and Acknowledgements, List of Figures, Introduction Prince Felipe Próspero, Festival Culture, and the Performative Sense, Chapter 1: Calderón de la Barca, Rubens, and Apollo's Desire, Chapter 2: Antonio de Solís, Velázquez, and Minerva's Competition, Chapter 3: Naples, Opera, and Parthenope's Song, Chapter 4: Florence, Cavalli, and Ipermestra's Choice, Chapter 5: Parades, Poetry, and Plus Ultra in Lima and Manila, Epilogue Making Sense of Spectacle, Index, Works Cited.
Biography
Mary B. Quinn (University of New Mexico) is the author of The Moor and the Novel: Narrating Absence in Early Modern Spain and co-editor of Aural Culture and Poetics in the Early Modern Hispanic World: Sound, Rhythm, and Music.
"By dissecting cultural artefacts into layers of meaning, Mary B. Quinn’s book convincingly shows how writers and artists used the performative sense to obtain new forms of communication."
Ascension Mazuela-Anguita, Universidad de Granada, in Music and Letters, gcaf145
