Emotional Bodies: The Historical Performativity of Emotions

Author:   Dolores Martín-Moruno ,  Beatriz Pichel ,  Jon Arrizabalaga ,  Rob Boddice
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
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Pages:   304
Publication Date:   02 December 2019
Format:   Paperback
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What do emotions actually do? Recent work in the history of emotions and its intersections with cultural studies and new materialism has produced groundbreaking revelations around this fundamental question. In Emotional Bodies, contributors pick up these threads of inquiry to propose a much-needed theoretical framework for further study of materiality of emotions, with an emphasis on emotions' performative nature. Drawing on diverse sources and wide-ranging theoretical approaches, they illuminate how various persons and groups—patients, criminals, medieval religious communities, revolutionary crowds, and humanitarian agencies—perform emotional practices. A section devoted to medical history examines individual bodies while a section on social and political histories studies the emergence of collective bodies. Contributors: Jon Arrizabalaga, Rob Boddice, Leticia Fernández-Fontecha, Emma Hutchison, Dolores Martín-Moruno, Piroska Nagy, Beatriz Pichel, María Rosón, Pilar León-Sanz, Bertrand Taithe, and Gian Marco Vidor.

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Author:   Dolores Martín-Moruno ,  Beatriz Pichel ,  Jon Arrizabalaga ,  Rob Boddice
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9780252084713


ISBN 10:   0252084713
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   02 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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This wide-ranging and rigorously historicized collection of essays gives new insights into how emotions have changed and been deployed over time. The stress on emotions as a practical engagement with the world that has tangible effects is especially welcome.--Jo Labanyi, editor of Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice


Recommended. --Choice This well-constructed and consistently high-quality collection makes a compelling case for the usefulness of performativity as a mode of biocultural and emotional analysis. --Journal of Interdisciplinary History This wide-ranging and rigorously historicized collection of essays gives new insights into how emotions have changed and been deployed over time. The stress on emotions as a practical engagement with the world that has tangible effects is especially welcome. --Jo Labanyi, editor of Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice This well-constructed and consistently high-quality collection makes a compelling case for the usefulness of performativity as a mode of biocultural and emotional analysis. --Journal of Interdisciplinary History


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Dolores Martín-Moruno holds a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship at the Institute for Ethics, History, and the Humanities at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva. Her books include On Resentment: Past and Present. Beatriz Pichel is VC2020 Lecturer in Photographic History at the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University.

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