ABSTRACT
Seeking to bridge the gap between various approaches to the study of emotions, this volume aims at a multidisciplinary examination of connections between emotions and history and the ways in which these connections have manifested themselves in historiography, cultural, and literary studies. The book offers a selected range of insights into the idea of emotions, affects, and emotionality as driving forces and agents of change in history. The fifteen essays it comprises probe into the emotional motives and dispositions behind both historical phenomena and the ways they were narrated.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|90 pages
Narrating Past Emotions
chapter 1|16 pages
The Wonders of Creation
chapter 2|17 pages
Nice Guys Finish Last
chapter 3|11 pages
The Deceit of Emotions
part II|90 pages
Emotive Histories, Emotional Historiographies
chapter 7|19 pages
“They Could Not Let Her Go With Dry Eyes…”
chapter 8|21 pages
Worlds Emerge, Worlds Collapse
part III|85 pages
Emotions Shaping History