Derek Hillard is Professor of German at Kansas State University. He is the author of Poetry as Individuality: The Discourse of Observation in Paul Celan (2010) as well as recent essays on Alfred Doeblin and Ernst Junger.Heikki Lempa is Professor of Modern European and German History at Moravian College. He is the author of Beyond the Gymnasium: Educating the Middle-Class Bodies in Classical Germany (2007) and Bildung der Triebe. Der deutsche Philanthropismus (1768-1788) (1993).Russell A. Spinney is an independent historian and instructor at the Thacher School in Ojai, California. He recently co-authored and edited a special issue of Contemporary European History on the history of emotions in twentieth-century Europe.

"This important contribution to the history of emotions opens up an interesting, theoretically valid, and yet largely overlooked area of the field. The editors have produced a stimulating collection of studies that will inspire further discussion of the bodily and material dimensions of the history of emotions." Agnes Arndt, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDerek Hillard, Heikki Lempa, and Russell SpinneyPART I: EMOTIONS AND BODIESChapter 1. Mesmerizing Encounters: Affect and Animal MagnetismSara LulyChapter 2. Emotional Contagions: Franz Liszt and the Materiality of Celebrity Culture in the 1830s and 1840sHannu SalmiChapter 3. Reading Embodied Emotions in Rilke's Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids BriggeDerek HillardChapter 4. Embodied Emotions: On the Communist Habitus of AgitpropSabine HakeChapter 5. A Skin of Hatred: How Bodies Are Involved in the Memory of Emotions and Anti-Semitic Practice of the Weimar RepublicRussell SpinneyPART II: EMOTIONS, SPACES, AND MATERIAL INTERESTSChapter 6. Early Modern Embodiments of Laughter: The Journal of Felix PlatterJoy WiltenburgChapter 7. Beyond Interiority: Shame and Empathy in Karl Philipp Moritz's Anton ReiserChristian SiegChapter 8. Gambling and EmotionJared PoleyChapter 9. Emotions and Material Interests in the Sales Talk of German Spa Guides, 1820-1914Heikki LempaPART III: EMOTIONS AND THINGSChapter 10. The Paper Bird: Emotions and Things in the Pedagogy of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and Friedrich FroebelAnn Taylor AllenChapter 11. Reading Early German Photographs for Histories of EmotionSarah LeonardChapter 12. The Emotional Language of FlowersUte FrevertChapter 13. Banners and Flags, Mottoes, Lieder: German Choral Societies and Material Culture, 1871-1918Ruth DewhurstChapter 14. Corporeality, Materiality, and Unnamed Emotions in Rilke's DinggedichteLorna MartensChapter 15. Inscribing Grief: Private Practices of Bereavement in WartimeErika Quinn