Table of Contents

Introduction Feeling Baroque in Art and Neuroscience: Joy, Sadness, Pride, and a Spinozist Solution to the Quest for Happiness by Monika Kaup The Baroque Sublime: The Affective Power of Landscape by Helen Langdon "Their Jarring Spheres Confound": John Milton's Paradise Lost as a Counter-Baroque War Machine by Justin Clemens "To Make Them Gaze in Wonder": Emotional Responses to Stage Scenery in Seventeenth-Century Opera by Katrina Grant The Role of Emotions in the Characters of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Autos by Javier de la Rosa, Adriana Soto-Corominas, and Juan Luis Suarez Clouds and Calculated Emotions in the Production of Neo-Baroque Spatial Illusions in Las Vegas Hotels and Casinos by Peter Krieger Mirrors of Reason, Illusion, and Infinity: The Case of the Villa Patrizi by David Marshall Infinite Bodies: The Baroque, the Counter-Reformation Relic and the Body of James II by Matthew Martin Chican@ Saints: The Persistence of Religious Bodies in Mexican America by Kat Austin The Ecstasy (?) of Saint Teresa by John Weretka Faith and Fetish: Objects and the Body in Catholic Devotional Practice by Lisa Beaven Hannibal: Baroque Horror Vacui and the Theatre of Senses by Angela Ndalianis

About the Author

Lisa Margaret Beaven and Angela Ndalianis, University of Melbourne, Australia.