Emotions as Engines of History (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Boryslawski, Rafal; Bemben, Alicja

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Driven by their curiosity about how emotional catalysts function in history, the volume's authors offer a collection of texts that give insight into the emotional aspects of particular events, processes, texts, and works of history; they show how history happens because of emotions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000452372
• Artikelnr.: 62331229

Autorenporträt

Rafä Borys¿awski is an Associate Professor at the University of Silesia, Poland. Alicja Bemben is an Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia, Poland.

Inhaltsangabe

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