9781442640627

1442640626

UCLA Center Clark Library series ; 14

Part I. The 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. The 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. The illicit voice of prophecy / Olivia Bloechl

Part III. The 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 B. 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.

Arts, Modern > 17th century > Congresses.

Emotions > History > 17th century > Congresses.

Expression > History > 17th century > Congresses.

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.