A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Baroque and Enlightenment Age

by David Lemmings (Editor), Claire Walker (Editor), Katie Barclay (Editor)

Overview

During the period of the Baroque and Enlightenment the word “emotion”, denoting passions and feelings, came into usage, albeit in an irregular fashion. “Emotion” ultimately emerged as a term in its own right, and evolved in English from meaning physical agitation to describe mental feeling. However, the older terminology of “passions” and “affections” continued as the dominant discourse structuring thinking about feeling and its wider religious, political, social, economic, and moral imperatives. The emotional cultures described in these essays enable some comparative discussion about the history of emotions, and particularly the causes and consequences of emotional change in the larger cultural contexts of the Baroque and Enlightenment. Emotions research has enabled a rethinking of dominant narratives of the period-of histories of revolution, state-building, the rise of the public sphere, religious and scientific transformation, and more. As a new and dynamic field, the essays here are just the beginning of a much bigger history of emotions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350345249
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/22/2022
Series:	The Cultural Histories Series
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Katie Barclay is Senior Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She co-edits (with Andrew Lynch) the journal Emotions: History, Culture, Society.

David Lemmings is Professor of History at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and Leader of the Change Programme of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. He co-edits (with William Reddy) the series Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions.

Claire Walker is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and Deputy Director of the Adelaide node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Series Editors' Preface
Introduction, Katie Barclay (University of Adelaide, Australia), David Lemmings (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Claire Walker (University of Adelaide, Australia)
1. Medical and Scientific Understandings, Stephen Pender (University of Windsor, Canada)
2. Religion and Spirituality, Giovanni Tarantino (University of Western Australia, Australia)
3. Music and Dance, Tim Carter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
4. Drama, Peter Holbrook (University of Queensland, Australia)
5. The Visual Arts, Lisa Beaven (University of Melbourne, Australia)
6. Literature, John D. Staines (John Jay College, City University of New York, USA)
7. In Private: The Individual and the Domestic Community, Laura Alston (University of Sheffield, UK) and Karen Harvey (University of Birmingham, UK)
8. In Public: Collectivities and Polities, Brian Cowan (McGill University, Canada)
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index