1st Edition
The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World
The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World brings together a diverse array of scholars to offer an overview of the current and emerging scholarship of emotions in the modern world. Across thirty-six chapters, this work enters the field of emotion from a range of angles.
Named emotions – love, anger, fear – highlight how particular categories have been deployed to make sense of feeling and their evolution over time. Geographical perspectives provide access to the historiographies of regions that are less well-covered by English-language sources, opening up global perspectives and new literatures. Key thematic sections are designed to intersect with critical historiographies, demonstrating the value of an emotions perspective to a range of areas. Topical sections direct attention to the role of emotions in relations of power, to intimate lives and histories of place, as products of exchanges across groups, and as deployed by new technologies and medias. The concepts of globalisation and modernity run through the volume, acting as foils for comparison and analytical tools.
The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World is the perfect resource for all students and scholars interested in the history of emotions across the world from 1700.
1. Introduction
Katie Barclay and Peter Stearns
Part 1: Emotions in Global Context
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
Part 2: Geographical Perspectives
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
Part 3: Intimacies, Embodiment and Place
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
Part 4: Technologies, Medias and the Representation of Emotion
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
Part 5: The Emotions of Power
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
Part 6: Emotional Exchanges
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
