Beschreibung:
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. It is a key resource for students of emotions history.
Part I: Introducing the history of emotions 1. Introduction: a guide to sources for the history of emotions 2. Theories and methods in the history of emotions 3. The practice and ethics of the history of emotions Part II: Sources for the history of emotions 4. Rituals, relics and religious rhetoric 5. Prescriptive literature 6. Medicine, science and psychology 7. Legal records 8. Institutional records: a comment 9. Narratives of the self 10. Emotions in fiction 11. Performing emotions 12. Visual sources 13. The material world Part III: Emerging themes in the history of emotions 14. Comparative emotions 15. Intersectional identities 16. Emotions of protest 17. Technology and feeling 18. Emotions and the body 19. Epilogue