Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression

Acknowledgments viii
List of Illustrations ix
Notes on Contributors xi

Introduction: On Bodies, Affects, and Cultural Identities in the Seventeenth Century 1
SUSAN McCLARY (University of California Los Angeles, Musicology)

I  The Science of Affect

1 Disciplining Feeling: The Seventeenth-Century Idea of a Mathematical Theory of the Emotions
DANIEL GARBER (Princeton University, Philosophy)

2 Clockwork or Musical Instrument? Some English Theories of Mind-Body Interaction Before and After Descartes
PENELOPE GOUK (University of Manchester, History)

3 The Sound World of Father Mersenne
THOMAS CHRISTENSEN (University of Chicago, Music)

II  Colonial Extensions

4 Transforming Amerindian “Savages” into Civilized French Catholics: The Art of “Voluntary Subjugation” as the French Colonial Ideal
SARA MELZER (University of California Los Angeles, French and Francophone Studies)

5 Fear of Singing
GARY TOMLINSON (Yale University, Music)

6 The Illicit Voice of Prophecy
OLIVIA BLOECHL (University of California Los Angeles, Musicology)

III  The Politics of Opera

7 Daphne’s Dilemma: Desire as Metamorphosis in Early Modern Opera
WENDY HELLER (Princeton University, Music)

8. A Viceroy Behind the Scenes: Opera, Production, Politics, and Financing in 1680s Naples
LOUISE STEIN (University of Michigan, Musicology)

IV  Baroque Bodies

9 Crashaw and the Metaphysical Shudder; Or, How to Do Things with Tears
RICHARD RAMBUSS (Emory University, English)

10 Cutting, Branding, Whipping, Burning: The Performance of Judicial Wounding in Early Modern England
SARAH COVINGTON (Queens College of the City University of New York, History)

11 Excursions to See Monsters: Odd Bodies and Itineraries of Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century
KATHRYN HOFFMAN (Northwestern University, Anthropology)

V  Toward a History of Time and Subjectivity

12 Temporality and Ideology: Qualities of Motion in Seventeenth-Century French Music
SUSAN McCLARY (University of California Los Angeles, Musicology)

13  Temporal Interventions: Music, Modernity and the Presentation of the Self
RICHARD LEPPERT (University of Minnesota, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature)

Index