Structures of feeling in seventeenth-century cultural expression /edited by Susan McClary.

Structures of feeling in seventeenth-century cultural expression /edited by Susan McClary. - Toronto : Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xiii, 382 pages) : illustrations. - UCLA Center Clark Library series ; 14 .

Essays based on papers presented at four international conferences held at the UCLA Clark Library, 2005.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: On Bodies, Affects, and Cultural Identities in the Seventeenth Century / The Science of Affect -- Disciplining Feeling: The Seventeenth-Century Idea of a Mathematical Theory of the Emotions / Clockwork or Musical Instrument? Some English Theories of Mind-Body Interaction before and after Descartes / The Sound World of Father Mersenne / Colonial Extensions -- "Voluntary Subjection": France's Theory of Colonization/ Culture in the Seventeenth Century / Fear of Singing: (Episodes from Early Latin America) / The Illicit Voice of Prophecy / The Politics of Opera -- Daphne's Dilemma: Desire as Metamorphosis in Early Modern Opera / A Viceroy behind the Scenes: Opera, Production, Politics, and Financing in 1680s Naples / Baroque Bodies -- Crashaw and the Metaphysical Shudder; Or, How to Do Things with Tears / "Law's Bloody Inflictions": Judicial Wounding and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century England / Excursions to See "Monsters": Odd Bodies and Itineraries of Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century / Toward a History of Time and Subjectivity -- Temporality and Ideology: Qualities of Motion in Seventeenth-Century French Music / Temporal Interventions: Music, Modernity, and the Presentation of the Self / Susan Mc Clary -- Daniel Garber; -- Penelope Gouk; -- Thomas Christensen -- Sara E. Melzer; -- Gary Tomlinson; -- Olivia Bloechl -- Wendy Heller; -- Louise K. Stein -- Richard Rambuss; -- Sarah Covington; -- Kathryn A. Hoffmann -- Susan McClary; -- Richard Leppert.

Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression explores how artists made use of various cultural forms --



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