Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression

Susan McClary is Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University and Distinguished Professor Emerita at UCLA

• Acknowledgments viiiList of Illustrations ixNotes on Contributors xiIntroduction: On Bodies, Affects, and Cultural Identities in the Seventeenth Century 1SUSAN McCLARY (University of California Los Angeles, Musicology)I  The Science of Affect1 Disciplining Feeling: The Seventeenth-Century Idea of a Mathematical Theory of the EmotionsDANIEL GARBER (Princeton University, Philosophy)2 Clockwork or Musical Instrument? Some English Theories of Mind-Body Interaction Before and After DescartesPENELOPE GOUK (University of Manchester, History)3 The Sound World of Father MersenneTHOMAS CHRISTENSEN (University of Chicago, Music)II  Colonial Extensions4 Transforming Amerindian “Savages” into Civilized French Catholics: The Art of “Voluntary Subjugation” as the French Colonial IdealSARA MELZER (University of California Los Angeles, French and Francophone Studies)5 Fear of SingingGARY TOMLINSON (Yale University, Music)6 The Illicit Voice of ProphecyOLIVIA BLOECHL (University of California Los Angeles, Musicology)III  The Politics of Opera7 Daphne’s Dilemma: Desire as Metamorphosis in Early Modern OperaWENDY HELLER (Princeton University, Music)8. A Viceroy Behind the Scenes: Opera, Production, Politics, and Financing in 1680s NaplesLOUISE STEIN (University of Michigan, Musicology)IV  Baroque Bodies9 Crashaw and the Metaphysical Shudder; Or, How to Do Things with TearsRICHARD RAMBUSS (Emory University, English)10 Cutting, Branding, Whipping, Burning: The Performance of Judicial Wounding in Early Modern EnglandSARAH 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 CenturyKATHRYN HOFFMAN (Northwestern University, Anthropology)V  Toward a History of Time and Subjectivity12 Temporality and Ideology: Qualities of Motion in Seventeenth-Century French MusicSUSAN McCLARY (University of California Los Angeles, Musicology)13  Temporal Interventions: Music, Modernity and the Presentation of the SelfRICHARD LEPPERT (University of Minnesota, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature)Index

‘There is much to be gained from reading the work of a distinguished group of scholars working at the top of their game, drawing broadly on literary, musical, art historical, and colonial histories to particularize what McClary, borrowing a term from Raymond Williams, calls ‘‘the structures of feeling’’ of early modernity.’ - Gail Kern Paster (Renaissance Quarterly vol 66:04:2013) ‘In a series of provocative essays on an array of topics in seventeenth-century studies, Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expressions contributes to our understanding of the messiness of thought in early modern Europe.’- Rebecca Cypess (H-France vol 15:53:2015) ‘The essays in this collection demonstrate smart approaches to thinking about fleeting feeling in the widely diverse cultures of seventeenth-century Europe… These essays will be useful to scholars of art, music, culture, history, and literary works.’- Aleksondra Hultquist (Francia-Recensio -Perspectiva.net August 2015)