Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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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

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