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

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

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

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