Histories of Sensibilities Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment

List of Figures
List of Contributors

Introduction: Intersecting Histories of Sensibility and Emotion: A Plural Legacy

Isabel Burdiel, Ester García Moscardó, and Elena Serrano

Section I: Making Sense, Making Difference

1.       Androginopolis or the Racialization of the Peruvian Strange Society

Magally Alegre Henderson

2.       Embodied Colonial Experiences of Enlightenment: Pierre Bailly’s Defense of Equality and Citizenship. A Free Mulatto’s Voice in Spanish New Orleans (1791–1794)

Estela Roselló Soberón

3.       Sensibility on Stage: Gender, Race and the Modulations of Feeling in the Hispanic Theatre

Ester García Moscardó

4.       Sweet Affinities: The Gendering of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Spain

Marta Manzanares Mileo

5.       Quivering Hearts: The Intimate Union of Bodies and Souls

Elena Serrano

6.       Rewriting Romantic Love: Women, Celebrity, and the Politics of Emotion in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Spain (Avellaneda’s Farewell)

Mónica Burguera

Section II. Crossing Contexts, Unsettling Sensibilities

7.       Performing Sensibilities: Women’s Voices in a Transnational and Transatlantic Correspondence of the Enlightenment

Mónica Bolufer

8.       Translating Transgender and Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Mediatic Ecosystem of Transmission, Reworking, and Perception of The Brief Story of Catterina Vizzani

Clorinda Donato

9.       Hidden or Forbidden: Taboo, Circumnavigation, and Women in New Cythera (1768)

Manuel Burón and Juan Pimentel

10.    Vicious Sensibilities: The Role of Ethnosexual Violence in the Patriarchalization of Tåno’ Låguas yan Gåni (the Mariana Islands) during the Eighteenth Century

Enrique Moral de Eusebio

11.    Entangled Sensibilities and the Broken Circulation of Mary W. Shelley’s Frankenstein: Gender, Race, and Otherness

Isabel Burdiel

Index

Biography

Isabel Burdiel is Professor of History at the Universitat de València (Spain) and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia (UK). She is a specialist in the political and cultural history of European liberalism. Her book Isabel II. Una biografía won the National Prize of History (Spain) in 2011. She is the author of the first critical edition in Spanish of Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein (1996).

Ester García Moscardó is Assistant Professor at the UNED in Madrid (Spain), and has been Postdoctoral Researcher in CIRGEN (ERC AdG-707815) at the Universitat de València (Spain). Her current research focuses on the construction of racial and gender imaginaries within the culture of sensibility and their reworking throughout the nineteenth century.

Elena Serrano is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Institut d’Història de la Ciència (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain). She has published on Enlightened female networks, gender and the history of science, and the history of science and emotions. Her last book is Ladies of Honor and Merit: Gender, Useful Knowledge and Politics in Enlightened Spain (2022).