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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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