Sources for the History of Emotions A Guide

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.

PartI: Introducing the history of emotions 1. Introduction:a guide to sources for the history of emotions Katie Barclay, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa and Peter N. Stearns 2. Theories and methods in the history of emotions Thomas Dodman 3. The practice and ethics of the history of emotions Katie Barclay Part II: Sources for the history of emotions 4. Rituals, relics and religious rhetoric Piroska Nagy, Xavier Biron-Oullet and Anne-Gaëlle Weber 5. Prescriptive literature Peter N. Stearns 6. Medicine, science and psychology Rob Boddice 7. Legal records Alecia Simmonds 8. Institutional records:a comment Catharine Coleborne and Peter N. Stearns 9. Narratives of the self Marcelo J. Borges 10. Emotions in fiction Louise D’Arcens 11. Performing emotions Alan Maddox 12. Visual sources Sarah Hand Meacham 13. The material world Sarah Randles PartIII:Emerging themes in the history of emotions 14. Comparative emotions Joseph Ben Prestel 15. Intersectional identities Katie Barclay and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa 16. Emotions of protest Sharon Crozier-De Rosa 17. Technology and feeling Susan J. Matt and Luke Fernandez 18. Emotions and the body Mark Neuendorf 19. Epilogue Peter N. Stearns

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, Australia. She writes on the history of emotions, family and gender, and with Andrew Lynch and Giovanni Taratino edits Emotions: History, Culture, Society. Sharon Crozier-De Rosa is Associate Professor in History at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She writes on the history of emotions, gender, militancy and transnationalism, and her books include Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash and Remembering Women’s Activism. She is Deputy Editor of Women’s History Review. Peter N. Stearns is University Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. 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.