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

Publication Info. 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]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 382 pages) : illustrations.
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Series UCLA Center Clark Library series ; 14
UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 14.
Note Essays based on papers presented at four international conferences held at the UCLA Clark Library, 2005.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: On Bodies, Affects, and Cultural Identities in the Seventeenth Century / Susan Mc Clary -- Part I. 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. 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. Illicit Voice of Prophecy / Olivia Bloechl -- Part III. 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author McClary, Susan.
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.
Other Form: Print version: 9781442640627 1442640626
Print version: Structures of feeling in seventeenth-century cultural expression. 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] 9781442640627 (DLC) 2013435029 (OCoLC)823506307
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