Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression / / Susan McClary.

• VerfasserIn: McClary, Susan,
• MitwirkendeR: Bloechl, Olivia,; Christensen, Thomas,; Covington, Sarah,; Garber, Daniel,; Gouk, Penelope,; Heller, Wendy,; Hoffmann, Kathryn A.,; Leppert, Richard,; McClary, Susan,; Mcclary, Susan,; Melzer, Sara E.,; Rambuss, Richard,; Stein, Louise K.,; Tomlinson, Gary,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

Between the waning of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Enlightenment, many fundamental aspects of human behaviour - from expressions of gender to the experience of time - underwent radical changes. While some of these transformations were recorded in words, others have survived in non-verbal cultural media, notably the visual arts, poetry, theatre, music, and dance. Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression explores how artists made use of these various cultural forms to grapple with human values in the increasingly heterodox world of the 1600s.Essays from prominent historians, musicologists, and art critics examine methods of non-verbal cultural expression through the broad themes of time, motion, the body, and global relations. Together, they show that seventeenth-century cultural expression was more than just an embryonic stage within Western artistic development. Instead, the contributors argue that this period marks some of the most profound changes in European subjectivities.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction: On Bodies, Affects, and Cultural Identities in the Seventeenth Century -- Part I: The Science of Affect -- 1. Disciplining Feeling: The Seventeenth-Century Idea of a Mathematical Theory of the Emotions -- 2. Clockwork or Musical Instrument? Some English Theories of Mind-Body Interaction before and after Descartes -- 3. The Sound World of Father Mersenne -- Part II: Colonial Extensions -- 4. 'Voluntary Subjection': France's Theory of Colonization/ Culture in the Seventeenth Century -- 5. Fear of Singing (Episodes from Early Latin America) -- 6. The Illicit Voice of Prophecy -- Part III: The Politics of Opera -- 7. Daphne's Dilemma: Desire as Metamorphosis in Early Modern Opera -- 8. A Viceroy behind the Scenes: Opera, Production, Politics, and Financing in 1680s Naples -- Part IV: Baroque Bodies -- 9. Crashaw and the Metaphysical Shudder; Or, How to Do Things with Tears -- 10. 'Law's Bloody Inflictions': Judicial Wounding and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century England -- 11. Excursions to See 'Monsters': Odd Bodies and Itineraries of Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century -- Part V: Toward a History of Time and Subjectivity -- 12. Temporality and Ideology: Qualities of Motion in Seventeenth-Century French Music -- 13. Temporal Interventions: Music, Modernity, and the Presentation of the Self -- Contributors -- Index