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What is the History of Emotions?

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What is the History of Emotions? offers an accessible path through the thicket of approaches, debates, and past and current trends in the history of emotions. Although historians have always talked about how people felt in the past, it is only in the last two decades that they have found systematic and well-grounded ways to treat the topic.

Rosenwein and Cristiani begin with the science of emotion, explaining what contemporary psychologists and neuropsychologists think emotions are. They continue with the major early, foundational approaches to the history of emotions, and they treat in depth new work that emphasizes the role of the body and its gestures. Along the way, they discuss how ideas about emotions and their history have been incorporated into modern literature and technology, from children's books to videogames.

Students, teachers, and anyone else interested in emotions and how to think about them historically will find this book to be an indispensable and fascinating guide not only to the past but to what may lie ahead.

Author: Rosenwein Barbara
Publisher: POLITY PRESS
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9781509508501
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2018

List of Plates and Boxed Text

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Science

Chapter 2: Approaches

Chapter 3: Bodies

Chapter 4: Futures

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Reading

Index

Barbara H. Rosenwein is professor emerita at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of numerous books, including Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages and Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions, 600–1700.

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