Description
Book SynopsisOffering insights on the wide range of sources that are available from across the globe and throughout history for the study of the history of emotions, this book provides students with a handbook for beginning their own research within the field.
Divided into three parts, Sources for the History of Emotions begins by giving key starting points into the ethical, methodological and theoretical issues in the field. Part II shows how emotions historians have proved imaginative in their discovering and use of varied materials, considering such sources as rituals, relics and religious rhetoric, prescriptive literature, medicine, science and psychology, and fiction, while Part III offers introductions to some of the big or emerging topics in the field, including embodied emotions, comparative emotions, and intersectionality and emotion. Written by key scholars of emotions history, the book shows readers the ways in which different sources can be used to extract information ab
Trade Review
'This collection will doubtless become a core reference work, both for historians of the emotions, and scholars concerned with emotions more generally. It will be of huge value to students seeking to navigate this exciting field for research dissertations, as it places various source types in careful and critical scholarly context, without becoming esoteric in language or focus. The authors and editors have done a fine job. This book will be of immense practical use, and a stimulating intellectual resource, for all concerned with the emotions and their expression, in the discipline of history and beyond.'
Chris Millard, University of Sheffield, UK
Table of ContentsPart I: Introducing the history of emotions 1. Introduction: a guide to sources for the history of emotions 2. Theories and methods in the history of emotions 3. The practice and ethics of the history of emotions Part II: Sources for the history of emotions 4. Rituals, relics and religious rhetoric 5. Prescriptive literature 6. Medicine, science and psychology 7. Legal records 8. Institutional records: a comment 9. Narratives of the self 10. Emotions in fiction 11. Performing emotions 12. Visual sources 13. The material world Part III: Emerging themes in the history of emotions 14. Comparative emotions 15. Intersectional identities 16. Emotions of protest 17. Technology and feeling 18. Emotions and the body 19. Epilogue
