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

Published 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, [2013] ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 382 pages) : illustrations Series UCLA Center Clark Library series ; 14 UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 14. Contents Introduction: On Bodies, Affects, and Cultural Identities in the Seventeenth Century / Susan Mc Clary -- Part I. The Science of Affect: 1. Disciplining Feeling: The Seventeenth-Century Idea of a Mathematical Theory of the Emotions / Daniel Garber; 2. Clockwork or Musical Instrument? Some English Theories of Mind-Body Interaction before and after Descartes / Penelope Gouk; 3. The Sound World of Father Mersenne / Thomas Christensen -- Part II. Colonial Extensions: 4. "Voluntary Subjection": France's Theory of Colonization/ Culture in the Seventeenth Century / Sara E. Melzer; 5. Fear of Singing: (Episodes from Early Latin America) / Gary Tomlinson; 6. The Illicit Voice of Prophecy / Olivia Bloechl -- Part III. The Politics of Opera: 7. Daphne's Dilemma: Desire as Metamorphosis in Early Modern Opera / Wendy Heller; 8. A Viceroy behind the Scenes: Opera, Production, Politics, and Financing in 1680s Naples / Louise K. Stein -- Part IV. Baroque Bodies: 9. Crashaw and the Metaphysical Shudder; Or, How to Do Things with Tears / Richard Rambuss; 10. "Law's Bloody Inflictions": Judicial Wounding and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century England / Sarah Covington; 11. Excursions to See "Monsters": Odd Bodies and Itineraries of Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century / Kathryn A. Hoffmann -- Part V. Toward a History of Time and Subjectivity: 12. Temporality and Ideology: Qualities of Motion in Seventeenth-Century French Music / Susan McClary; 13. Temporal Interventions: Music, Modernity, and the Presentation of the Self / Richard Leppert Summary Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression explores how artists made use of various cultural forms -- notably the visual arts, poetry, theatre, music, and dance -- to grapple with human values in the increasingly heterodox world of the 1600s Notes Essays based on papers presented at four international conferences held at the UCLA Clark Library, 2005 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Arts, Modern -- 17th century -- Congresses Emotions -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses Expression -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses Emotions -- History -- 17th century Expression -- History -- 17th century HISTORY -- Renaissance. Arts, Modern Emotions Expression Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings History Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author McClary, Susan, editor William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, host institution. University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies, co-publisher. ISBN 9781442685857 1442685859 9781442669512 1442669519

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