Emotions as Engines of History

Author:   Rafał Borysławski (University of Silesia, Poland) ,  Alicja Bemben (University of Silesia, Poland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032100531


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   31 May 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Seeking to bridge the gap between various approaches to the study of emotions, this volume aims at a multidisciplinary examination of connections between emotions and history and the ways in which these connections have manifested themselves in historiography, cultural, and literary studies. The book offers a selected range of insights into the idea of emotions, affects, and emotionality as driving forces and agents of change in history. The fifteen essays it comprises probe into the emotional motives and dispositions behind both historical phenomena and the ways they were narrated.

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Author:   Rafał Borysławski (University of Silesia, Poland) ,  Alicja Bemben (University of Silesia, Poland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781032100531


ISBN 10:   1032100532
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   31 May 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Introduction: Emotions as the Engines of Change Part 1: Narrating Past Emotions 1. The Wonders of Creation: The Affective Poetics of Alterity in the Old English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle 2. Nice Guys Finish Last: Emotional Leaders and Political Action in Selected Íslendingasögur 3. The Deceit of Emotions: Henry More’s Conception of Passion and Religious Polemic in Early Modern England 4. How British Lyric Poetry Came to be Angry After Three Hundred Years of Stiff Upper Lips 5. Empathy, ""Empathic Unsettlement,"" and Human-Animal Relationships in Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Part 2: Emotive Histories, Emotional Historiographies 6. Cicero and His Daughter Tullia: Grief and History in a Latin Epistolary Collection 7. ""They Could Not Let Her Go with Dry Eyes . . ."": Manifesting Emotions in the Encomium Emmae Reginae 8. Worlds Emerge, Worlds Collapse: Traumatic Affect in Medieval Historiography and the Reception of Sturlunga Saga in the Twentieth Century 9. Controlling Female Emotions. Monstrous Births and Maternal Imagination in Iceland 10. Disgust and Parasites in Nineteenth-Century Science and Fiction Part 3: Emotions Shaping History 11. The Guilt, the Trial, and the Execution: The Case of the Cross at Cheapside Revisited 12. Love, Actually . . . Pricing Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century Greece 13. Melancholia in Contemporary Spain: Digging Up a Past That Did Not Pass Away 14. Persecutory Anxiety and the Fear of Death as Emotional Qualities of the Cultural Revolution in China 15. Historical Understanding—A Romance of Many Dimensions"

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Rafał Borysławski is an Associate Professor at the University of Silesia, Poland. Alicja Bemben is an Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia, Poland.

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