Table Of ContentSources for the History of Emotions
Offeringinsightsonthewiderangeofsourcesthatareavailablefromacrosstheglobe
and throughout history for the study of the history of emotions, this book provides
studentswitha handbook forbeginning theirownresearchwithin thefield.
Divided into three parts, Sources for the History of Emotions begins bygiving key
starting pointsintotheethical, methodologicalandtheoreticalissuesinthefield.Part
IIshowshowemotionshistorianshaveprovedimaginativeintheirdiscoveringanduse
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
embodiedemotions,comparativeemotions,andintersectionalityandemotion.Written
bykey scholars of emotions history, thebook shows readersthewaysin which differ-
ent sources can be used to extract information about the history of emotions, high-
lighting the kindof data availableandhow itcan be usedin afield for whichthereis
noconvenient archiveofsources.
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
resourceforallstudentsofemotionshistory.
Katie Barclay is Deputy-Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of
Emotions andAssociateProfessorinHistoryattheUniversityofAdelaide,Australia.
Shewritesonthehistoryofemotions,familyandgender,andwithAndrewLynchand
GiovanniTaratino editsEmotions:History,Culture,Society.
Sharon Crozier-De Rosa is Associate Professor in History at the University of Wol-
longong, Australia. She writes on the history of emotions, gender, militancy and
transnationalism, and her books include Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash and
RememberingWomen’sActivism.SheisDeputyEditorofWomen’sHistoryReview.
PeterN.Stearns isUniversity ProfessorofHistoryat George MasonUniversity, USA.
Hehaswrittenwidelyonthehistoryofemotions, withbooks including AmericanCool
andShame:ABriefHistory.Heregularlyteachesanundergraduatecourseonemotions
history,andhascollaboratedwithanumberofstudentsonresearchprojectsinthefield.
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Contents
List of figures vii
List of contributors viii
PARTI
Introducing the history of emotions 1
1 Introduction: a guide to sources for the historyof emotions 3
KATIEBARCLAY,SHARONCROZIER-DEROSAANDPETERN.STEARNS
2 Theories and methods in the historyof emotions 15
THOMASDODMAN
3 The practice and ethics of the historyof emotions 26
KATIEBARCLAY
PARTII
Sources for the history of emotions 39
4 Rituals, relics and religious rhetoric 41
PIROSKANAGY,XAVIERBIRON-OUELLETANDANNE-GAËLLEWEBER
5 Prescriptive literature 53
PETERN.STEARNS
6 Medicine, science and psychology 66
ROBBODDICE
7 Legal records 79
ALECIASIMMONDS
8 Institutional records: a comment 92
CATHARINECOLEBORNEANDPETERN.STEARNS
vi Contents
9 Narratives of the self 99
MARCELOJ.BORGES
10 Emotions in fiction 114
LOUISED’ARCENS
11 Performing emotions 127
ALANMADDOX
12 Visual sources 143
SARAHHANDMEACHAM
13 The material world 159
SARAHRANDLES
PARTIII
Emerging themes in the history of emotions 173
14 Comparative emotions 175
JOSEPHBENPRESTEL
15 Intersectional identities 185
KATIEBARCLAYANDSHARONCROZIER-DEROSA
16 Emotions of protest 198
SHARONCROZIER-DEROSA
17 Technology and feeling 212
SUSANJ.MATTANDLUKEFERNANDEZ
18 Emotions and the body 224
MARKNEUENDORF
19 Epilogue 240
PETERN.STEARNS
Index 243
Figures
5.1 The two Google Books Ngram Viewer graphs represent the
frequency of ‘gratitude’ in American English (top) and British
English (bottom) from 1800 to 2008 62
11.1 Emotional gestures in John Bulwer’s Chirologia, or the Naturall
Language of the Hand (London: Thomas Harper, 1644) 132
11.2 Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1. Frontispiece to Hamlet in Nicholas
Rowe’s 1709 edition (The Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock
Photo) 133
11.3 Performing the reverence in a basse danse. ‘Turn the body and
face towards the lady and cast a gracious look upon her.’
Thoinot Arbeau, Orchesographie (1588), 26v, Library of
Congress 134
11.4 Albert Graefle, Die Intimen bei Beethoven. Published by Franz
Hanfstaengl, Munich, ca. 1892 (Lebrecht Music & Arts/ Alamy
Stock Photo) 138
11.5 Theodor Hosemann, Liszt and his Admirers (1842) (Granger
Historical Picture Archive/ Alamy Stock Photo) 139
12.1 Colossal heads of Olmec statue in Museo Nacional de
Antropología, Federal District, Mexico (Pascopi/Alamy Stock
Photo) 146
12.2 Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, c. 1664, oil on
canvas, Widener Collection, 1942.9.97, National Galleryof Art,
Washington 148
12.3 Currier & Ives, Low Water in the Mississippi, ca. 1867. New
York: Currier & Ives, photograph, Library of Congress 150
12.4 John Smibert, The Bermuda Group (Dean Berkeley and his
Entourage),1728,reworked1739,oiloncanvas,YaleUniversity
Art Gallery 152
Contributors
Katie Barclay isDeputyDirectoroftheARCCentreofExcellencefortheHistory
ofEmotionsand Associate Professor in History, Universityof Adelaide, Aus-
tralia.SheistheauthorofLove,IntimacyandPower:MarriageandPatriarchy
in Scotland, 1650–1850 (2011), Men on Trial: Performing Emotion, Embodi-
ment, and Identity in Ireland, 1800–1845 (2019), and numerous articles on
emotion, gender and family life. She is the editor, with Andrew Lynch and
GiovanniTarantino,ofthejournalEmotions:History,Culture,Society.
Xavier Biron-Ouellet obtained his PhD at Université du Québec à Montréal,
Canada, and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and is
presently a post-doctoral fellow at Università Ca’Foscari in Venice, Italy.
His thesis concerns the fourteenth-century Italian preacher Simone Fidati
da Cascia and how he uses emotions to encourage spiritual reform in the
urban context of Florence.
Rob Boddice is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in the Department of History
and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Adjunct Professor in the
Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, and will
take up a post of University Researcher at the Finnish National Academy
Centre of Excellence for the Historyof Experiences at Tampere University
in 2020. He is the authorof six books, including The Science of Sympathy
(2016), The History of Emotions (2018) and A History of Feelings (2019).
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
MarceloJ.BorgesisProfessorofHistoryandtheBoydLeeSpahrChairinthe
HistoryoftheAmericasatDickinsonCollege,USA,whereheteachesLatin
American history and migration history. He has been a research fellow at
the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and
Social Sciences and the Nantes Institute of Advanced Studies. He is the
author of Chains of Gold: Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transat-
lantic Perspective (2009) and co-editorof Migrant Letters: Emotional Lan-
guage, Mobile Identities, and Writing Practices in Historical Perspective
(with Sonia Cancian, 2018) and Emotional Landscapes: Love, Gender, and
Migration (with Sonia Cancian and Linda Reeder, forthcoming 2021). His
List of contributors ix
current research focuses on personal letters, identity, and emotional con-
nections among migrants from southern Europe to the Americas and their
families.
Catharine Coleborne is a Professor and the current Head of School of
Humanities and Social Science, Faculty of Education and Arts, University
of Newcastle (NSW), Australia. She is the author of four books including
Insanity, Identity and Empire: Colonial Institutional Confinement in Aus-
tralia and New Zealand, 1870–1910 (2015). She is currently part of two
Australian Research Council funded projects, one focused on psychiatric
records and convict lives, and the other on the development of Australian
community psychiatry.
Sharon Crozier-De Rosa is Associate Professor in Historyat the Universityof
Wollongong, Australia. Her research is situated at the intersections of
emotions, gender, imperial/colonial and violence histories. It is transna-
tional in scope, spanning Ireland, Britain, Australia and the USA. She is
the author of Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: Britain, Ireland and
Australia, 1890–1920 (2018) and co-author of Remembering Women’s
Activism (with Vera Mackie, 2019). Her current project on the emotional
and material dimensions of women’s efforts to preserve and archive their
own memory has been awarded a National Library of Australia Fellow-
ship (2020). She is the Deputy Editorof Women’s History Review.
Louise D’Arcens is Professor in the Department of English at Macquarie
University, Australia, and Director of the Macquarie node of the ARC
Centre for the History of Emotions. Her publications include Comic Med-
ievalism: Laughing at the Middle Ages (2014), Old Songs in the Timeless
Land: Medievalism in Australian Literature 1840–1910 (2011), and the co/
edited volumes The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism (2016) and
International Medievalism and Popular Culture (2014). She is currently
writing World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Global Textual Cultures
(2020). Her work in emotions history has included recently co-editing the
journal issues ‘Emotions, History and Philosophy’, Screening the Past
(2016) and ‘Feeling for the Premodern’, Exemplaria (2018).
Thomas Dodman is Assistant Professor of French History at Columbia Uni-
versity, USA. He is the author of What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and
the Time of a Deadly Emotion (2018) and has co-edited Une Histoire de la
Guerre, du XIXe siècle à nos jours (2018). He has worked at Emotion
Review and currently co-edits the journal Sensibilités.
Luke Fernandez is Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at Weber
State University, USA. He is co-author with Susan J. Matt of Bored,
Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology from the Tel-
egraphtoTwitter(2019).Hiswriting hasappearedintheWashingtonPost,
Slate, Lapham’s Quarterly and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
