The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World

The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World brings together a diverse array of scholars to offer an overview of the current and emerging scholarship of emotions in the modern world. Across thirty-six chapters, this work enters the field of emotion from a range of angles. Named emotions – love, anger, fear – highlight how particular categories have been deployed to make sense of feeling and their evolution over time. Geographical perspectives provide access to the historiographies of regions that are less well-covered by English-language sources, opening up global perspectives and new literatures. Key thematic sections are designed to intersect with critical historiographies, demonstrating the value of an emotions perspective to a range of areas. Topical sections direct attention to the role of emotions in relations of power, to intimate lives and histories of place, as products of exchanges across groups, and as deployed by new technologies and medias. The concepts of globalisation and modernity run through the volume, acting as foils for comparison and analytical tools. The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World is the perfect resource for all students and scholars interested in the history of emotions across the world from 1700.

1. Introduction Katie Barclay and Peter Stearns Part 1:Emotions in Global Context 2. Love Niamh Cullen 3. Global Happiness: From Providential Moments to Hedonic Treadmills? Mark Seymour 4. Normal and Pathological Sadness in the Age of Depression Åsa Jansson 5. Anger, Hate and Aggression Angelika C. Messner 6. Pain Rob Boddice 7. Fear, Anxiety and Terror post 9/11 Frank Biess 8. Honour, Shame and Guilt Peter N. Stearns Part 2: Geographical Perspectives 9. Africa Kathleen Vongasthorn 10. Eastern Europe Valeria Sobol 11. Love and Heartbreak: The Creation of a Popular Culture of Emotion and Romance in Latin America Olivia López Sánchez 12. Emotional Spleens: Death by Overthinking in Classical Chinese Texts Lan A. Li 13. Disgust and the Making of Early Catholic Communities in South Asia Ananya Chakravarti 14. Emotions in the Pacific Michael P.J. Reilly 15. At the Mercy of Emotions: Archives, Egodocuments and Microhistory Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon Part3:Intimacies, Embodiment and Place 16. Feelings for Nature: Emotions in Environmental History Andy Flack and Dolly Jørgenson 17. The ‘Mutuality of Being’: Family Emotions in Greece, 1850-1900 Dimitra Vassiliadou 18. Family, Childhood, and Emotions Karen Vallgårda 19. Bodies, Embodiment and Feeling Sneha Krishnan 20. Pets and Emotion in Modern History Peter N. Stearns Part 4:Technologies, Medias and the Representation of Emotion 21. Science, Medicine and Psychology Bettina Hitzer 22. The Machinery of Modern Emotion Susan J. Matt and Luke Fernandez 23. Music and Emotions Wiebke Thormählen 24. Literature, Film and TV Jodi McAlister 25. Materialities Freya Gowrley 26. Off the Record: Archive, Ruination, and Postcolonial Affects Srirupa Prasad Part 5:The Emotions of Power 27. Emotions and Nationalism Reetta Eiranen 28. A Legal History of Emotions Alecia Simmonds and Eric H. Reiter 29. Capitalism and Consumption Katie Barclay 30. Slavery Michael E. Woods Part 6:Emotional Exchanges 31. Settler-Colonial Emotions: Fear, Desire and Romance in Nineteenth-Century Historical Representations of the William Buckley Story Crystal McKinnon and Claire McLisky 32. Emotions and Migrations Marcelo J. Borges and María Bjerg 33. Emotion and War: Conflict and Affect in the Global Age Richard Reid 34. Media and the Question of Emotional Intensification Brent J. Malin 35. Pandemic Emotions Katie Barclay 36. Epilogue Rob Boddice

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. She writes on the history of emotions, family and gender, and with Andrew Lynch and Giovanni Taratino edits Emotions: History, Culture, Society. Peter N. Stearns is University Professor of History at George Mason University. 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.