ABSTRACT

Offering insights on the wide range of sources that are available from across the globe and throughout history for the study of the history of emotions, this book provides students with a handbook for beginning their own research within the field.

Divided into three parts, Sources for the History of Emotions begins by giving key starting points into the ethical, methodological and theoretical issues in the field. Part II shows how emotions historians have proved imaginative in their discovering and use of varied materials, considering such sources as rituals, relics and religious rhetoric, prescriptive literature, medicine, science and psychology, and fiction, while Part III offers introductions to some of the big or emerging topics in the field, including embodied emotions, comparative emotions, and intersectionality and emotion. Written by key scholars of emotions history, the book shows readers the ways in which different sources can be used to extract information about the history of emotions, highlighting the kind of data available and how it can be used in a field for which there is no convenient archive of sources.

The focused discussion of sources offered in this book, which not only builds on existing research, but encourages further efforts, makes it ideal reading and a key resource for all students of emotions history.

part I|37 pages

Introducing the history of emotions

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

A guide to sources for the history of emotions

part II|133 pages

Sources for the history of emotions

chapter 5|13 pages

Prescriptive literature

chapter 6|13 pages

Medicine, science and psychology

chapter 7|13 pages

Legal records

chapter 8|7 pages

Institutional records

A comment

chapter 9|15 pages

Narratives of the self

chapter 10|13 pages

Emotions in fiction

chapter 11|16 pages

Performing emotions

chapter 12|16 pages

Visual sources

chapter 13|13 pages

The material world

part III|70 pages

Emerging themes in the history of emotions

chapter 14|10 pages

Comparative emotions

chapter 16|14 pages

Emotions of protest

chapter 17|12 pages

Technology and feeling

chapter 18|16 pages

Emotions and the body

chapter 19|3 pages

Epilogue