ABSTRACT
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 Part 1: Emotions in Global Context 2. Love 3. Global Happiness: From Providential Moments to Hedonic Treadmills? 4. Normal and Pathological Sadness in the Age of Depression 5. Anger, Hate and Aggression 6. Pain 7. Fear, Anxiety and Terror post 9/11 8. Honour, Shame and Guilt Part 2: Geographical Perspectives 9. Africa 10. Eastern Europe 11. Love and Heartbreak: The Creation of a Popular Culture of Emotion and Romance in Latin America 12. Emotional Spleens: Death by Overthinking in Classical Chinese Texts 13. Disgust and the Making of Early Catholic Communities in South Asia 14. Emotions in the Pacific 15. At the Mercy of Emotions: Archives, Egodocuments and Microhistory Part 3: Intimacies, Embodiment and Place 16. Feelings for Nature: Emotions in Environmental History 17. The ‘Mutuality of Being’: Family Emotions in Greece, 1850-1900 18. Family, Childhood, and Emotions 19. Bodies, Embodiment and Feeling 20. Pets and Emotion in Modern History Part 4: Technologies, Medias and the Representation of Emotion 21. Science, Medicine and Psychology 22. The Machinery of Modern Emotion 23. Music and Emotions 24. Literature, Film and TV 25. Materialities 26. Off the Record: Archive, Ruination, and Postcolonial Affects Part 5: The Emotions of Power 27. Emotions and Nationalism 28. A Legal History of Emotions 29. Capitalism and Consumption 30. Slavery Part 6: Emotional Exchanges 31. Settler-Colonial Emotions: Fear, Desire and Romance in Nineteenth-Century Historical Representations of the William Buckley Story 32. Emotions and Migrations 33. Emotion and War: Conflict and Affect in the Global Age 34. Media and the Question of Emotional Intensification 35. Pandemic Emotions 36. Epilogue
