The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World

1. Introduction

Katie Barclay and Peter Stearns

2. Love

Niamh Cullen

3. Global Happiness: From Providential Moments to Hedonic Treadmills?

Mark Seymour

4. Normal and Pathological Sadness in the Age of Depression

Åsa Jansson

5. Anger, Hate and Aggression

Angelika C. Messner

6. Pain

Rob Boddice

7. Fear, Anxiety and Terror post 9/11

Frank Biess

8. Honour, Shame and Guilt

Peter N. Stearns

9. Africa

Kathleen Vongasthorn

10. Eastern Europe

Valeria Sobol

11. Love and Heartbreak: The Creation of a Popular Culture of Emotion and Romance in Latin America

Olivia López Sánchez

12. Emotional Spleens: Death by Overthinking in Classical Chinese Texts

Lan A. Li

13. Disgust and the Making of Early Catholic Communities in South Asia

Ananya Chakravarti

14. Emotions in the Pacific

Michael P.J. Reilly

15. At the Mercy of Emotions: Archives, Egodocuments and Microhistory

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon

16. Feelings for Nature: Emotions in Environmental History

Andy Flack and Dolly Jørgenson

17. The ‘Mutuality of Being’: Family Emotions in Greece, 1850-1900

Dimitra Vassiliadou

18. Family, Childhood, and Emotions

Karen Vallgårda

19. Bodies, Embodiment and Feeling

Sneha Krishnan

20. Pets and Emotion in Modern History

Peter N. Stearns

21. Science, Medicine and Psychology

Bettina Hitzer

22. The Machinery of Modern Emotion

Susan J. Matt and Luke Fernandez

23. Music and Emotions

Wiebke Thormählen

24. Literature, Film and TV

Jodi McAlister

25. Materialities

Freya Gowrley

26. Off the Record: Archive, Ruination, and Postcolonial Affects

Srirupa Prasad

27. Emotions and Nationalism

Reetta Eiranen

28. A Legal History of Emotions

Alecia Simmonds and Eric H. Reiter

29. Capitalism and Consumption

Katie Barclay

30. Slavery

Michael E. Woods

31. Settler-Colonial Emotions: Fear, Desire and Romance in Nineteenth-Century Historical Representations of the William Buckley Story

Crystal McKinnon and Claire McLisky

32. Emotions and Migrations

Marcelo J. Borges and María Bjerg

33. Emotion and War: Conflict and Affect in the Global Age

Richard Reid

34. Media and the Question of Emotional Intensification

Brent J. Malin

35. Pandemic Emotions

Katie Barclay

36. Epilogue

Rob Boddice

Biography

Katie Barclay is Deputy-Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions and Associate Professor in History at the University of Adelaide. She writes on the history of emotions, family and gender, and with Andrew Lynch and Giovanni Taratino edits Emotions: History, Culture, Society.

Peter N. Stearns is University Professor of History at George Mason University. He has written widely on the history of emotions, with books including American Cool and Shame: A Brief History. He regularly teaches an undergraduate course on emotions history, and has collaborated with a number of students on research projects in the field.

‘Barclay and Stearns have provided an edition that excels well beyond a summary of the state of the field, as they highlight fresh connections between modern history and the global history of emotions. The consummate introduction may become the standard historiography for the history of emotions and sets up an edition that succeeds through purposeful diversification within each of its multiple themes: global contexts, geographical perspectives, embodiment and place, structures of power, and emotional exchanges.’

Andrew Kettler, Kenyon College, USA

‘This is a ground-breaking work that brings together the histories of emotions as a global history. A maturing field of scholarship, the history of emotions has done remarkable work in tracking the development of anger, love, jealousy, pity, happiness and other human (and animal) emotions. This collection of essays takes carefully toll of this work and moves beyond the national and regional boundaries by tracing the makeup and changes of emotions in their linguistic, bodily, and material expressions in global contexts. This highly readable book is a must for advanced undergraduate students as well as graduate students and established scholars of the history of emotions.’

Heikki Lempa, Moravian University, USA