Feelings Materialized

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 Döblin and Ernst Jünger.

“All in all, the strength of this collection lies in the theoretical reflexions on the link between physicality and emotions as shown in the different examples. The concept of materiality is in most contributions seen as closely linked with physicality. The publication thus follows on from existing research on the history of emotions as the history of the body and sheds light on new facets of this area of historical and literary studies.” • Dr. Anne Mariss in H-Soz-Kult“This book offers much insight into the relationships between the body and emotion and the ways in which humans are emotionally influenced by spaces and things. With its call to go beyond studies of emotion and language and examine the embodied nature of emotion and the involvement of objects in emotional practices, Feelings Materialized is certain to inspire future work in the field of historical emotion studies.” • The German Quarterly“This important contribution to the study of emotions opens up an interesting, theoretically valid, and yet largely overlooked area of the field. The editors have produced a stimulating collection that will inspire further discussion of the bodily and material dimensions of emotion.” • 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 Moritzʼs 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 FröbelAnn 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