Histories of Sensibilities

Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment
Herausgeber: Burdiel, Isabel; Serrano, Elena; García Moscardó, Ester

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Produktbeschreibung

Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment explores the historical character of sensibility in the global Enlightenment. It is aimed at postgraduate students and scholars researching histories of literature and science, cultural studies, history of emotions, and gender studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781032373362
• ISBN-10: 1032373369
• Artikelnr.: 70242770

Autorenporträt

Isabel Burdiel is Professor of History at the Universitat de València (Spain) and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia (UK). She is a specialist in the political and cultural history of European liberalism. Her book Isabel II. Una biografía won the National Prize of History (Spain) in 2011. She is the author of the first critical edition in Spanish of Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein (1996). Ester García Moscardó is Assistant Professor at the UNED in Madrid (Spain), and has been Postdoctoral Researcher in CIRGEN (ERC AdG-707815) at the Universitat de València (Spain). Her current research focuses on the construction of racial and gender imaginaries within the culture of sensibility and their reworking throughout the nineteenth century. Elena Serrano is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Institut d'Història de la Ciència (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain). She has published on Enlightened female networks, gender and the history of science, and the history of science and emotions. Her last book is Ladies of Honor and Merit: Gender, Useful Knowledge and Politics in Enlightened Spain (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Intersecting Histories of Sensibility and Emotion: A Plural
Legacy Section I. Making Sense, Making Difference 1. Androginopolis or the
Racialization of the Peruvian Strange Society 2. Embodied Colonial
Experiences of Enlightenment: Pierre Bailly's Defense of Equality and
Citizenship. A Free Mulatto's Voice in Spanish New Orleans (1791-1794) 3.
Sensibility on Stage: Gender, Race, and the Modulations of Feeling in the
Hispanic Theatre 4. Sweet Affinities: The Gendering of Taste in
Eighteenth-Century Spain 5. Quivering Hearts: The Intimate Union of Bodies
and Souls 6. Rewriting Romantic Love: Women, Celebrity, and the Politics of
Emotion in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Spain (Avellaneda's Farewell) Section II.
Crossing Contexts, Unsettling Sensibilities 7. Performing Sensibilities:
Women's Voices in a Transnational and Transatlantic Correspondence of the
Enlightenment 8. Translating Transgender and Sensibility in
Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Mediatic Ecosystem of Transmission,
Reworking, and Perception of The Brief Story of Catterina Vizzani 9. Hidden
or Forbidden: Taboo, Circumnavigation, and Women in New Cythera (1768) 10.
Vicious Sensibilities: The Role of Ethnosexual Violence in the
Patriarchalization of Tåno' Låguas yan Gåni (the Mariana Islands) during
the Eighteenth Century 11. Entangled Sensibilities and the Broken
Circulation of Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein: Gender, Race, and Otherness