Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression
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Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression

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Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression

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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.

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781442685857
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
European Renaissance History
Index
History

Table of contents

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