A History of Emotions, 1200–1800

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Editor: Jonas Liliequist

Studies for the International Society for Cultural History

The history of emotions is an expanding field of research. The essays in this collection examine emotional responses to art and music, the role of emotions in contemporary notions of gender and sexuality, and theoretical questions as to their use. Bringing together a series of case-studies from points across the medieval and early modern periods, the authors in this volume provide fascinating glimpses into human emotional experience across a variety of cultures.

Readership

Early Modern Europe, Cultural History

Contents

Introduction – Jonas Liliequist
Theoretical Issues
1 Theories of Change in the History of Emotions – Barbara Rosenwein
2 Ottoman Love: Preface to a Theory of Emotional Ecology – Walter Andrews
Emotional Repertoires
3 Preachers, Saints and Sinners: Emotional Repertoires in High Medieval Religious Role Models – Christina Lutter
4 Theology and Interiority: Emotions as Evidence of the Working of Grace in Elizabethan and Stuart Conversion Narratives – Paola Baseotto
5 'Finer' Feelings: Sociability, Sensibility and the Emotions of gens de lettres in Eighteenth-Century France – Anne C Vila
Music and Art
6 Music as Wonder and Delight: Construction of Gender in Early Modern Opera through Musical Representation and Arousal of Emotions – Johanna Ethnersson Pontara
7 Sensing Watteau: A History of the Emotions in the Painted Musical Images of Antoine Watteau – Pamela Whedon
Gender, Sexuality and the Body
8 Emotions and Gender: The Case of Anger in Early Modern English Revenge Tragedies – Kristine Steenbergh
9 Beauty, Masculinity and Love between Men: Configuring Emotions with Michael Drayton's Piers Gaveston – Anu Korhonen
10 'Pray, Dr, Is There Reason to Fear a Cancer?' Fear of Breast Cancer in Early Modern Britain – Marjo Kaartinen
Uses of Emotions
11 The Girl Who Could Not Stop Crying: The Use of Emotions as Signifiers of True Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Greenland – Allan Sortkζr
12 The Political Rhetoric of Tears in Early Modern Sweden – Jonas Liliequist

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