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
Katie Barclay is Deputy-Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions and Associate Professor in History at the University of Adelaide. She writes on the history of emotions, family and gender, and with Andrew Lynch and Giovanni Taratino edits Emotions: History, Culture, Society. Peter N. Stearns is University Professor of History at George Mason University. He has written widely on the history of emotions, with books including American Cool and Shame: A Brief History. He regularly teaches an undergraduate course on emotions history, and has collaborated with a number of students on research projects in the field.
Reviews for The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World
‘Barclay and Stearns have provided an edition that excels well beyond a summary of the state of the field, as they highlight fresh connections between modern history and the global history of emotions. The consummate introduction may become the standard historiography for the history of emotions and sets up an edition that succeeds through purposeful diversification within each of its multiple themes: global contexts, geographical perspectives, embodiment and place, structures of power, and emotional exchanges.’ Andrew Kettler, Kenyon College, USA ‘This is a ground-breaking work that brings together the histories of emotions as a global history. A maturing field of scholarship, the history of emotions has done remarkable work in tracking the development of anger, love, jealousy, pity, happiness and other human (and animal) emotions. This collection of essays takes carefully toll of this work and moves beyond the national and regional boundaries by tracing the makeup and changes of emotions in their linguistic, bodily, and material expressions in global contexts. This highly readable book is a must for advanced undergraduate students as well as graduate students and established scholars of the history of emotions.’ Heikki Lempa, Moravian University, USA
