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26 produkter
Thinking About Tears
Crying and Weeping in Long-Eighteenth-Century France
Av Marco Menin
Inbunden, 2022
1586 kr
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A crucial period for the birth of the modern subject, France's 'long eighteenth century' (approximately 1650-1820) was an era marked by the formulation of a new aesthetic and ethical code revolving around the intensification of emotions and the hyperbolic use of weeping. Precisely because tears are …
German Angst
Fear and Democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany
Av Frank Biess
Häftad, 2022
536 kr
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German Angst analyses the relationship between fear and democracy in postwar West Germany. While fear and anxiety have historically been associated with authoritarian regimes, Frank Biess demonstrates the ambivalent role of these emotions in a democratizing society: in West Germany, fear and …
The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany
Inbunden, 2022
1659 kr
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Different people feel different emotions when they are diagnosed with cancer. Both today and a century ago, fear and hope, shame and disgust, sadness and joy are and were the emotions experienced by many cancer patients and their loved ones. But these emotions do not just have significance for the …
The Game of Love in Georgian England
Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture
Häftad, 2022
467 kr
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Courtship in Georgian England was a decisive moment in the life cycle, imagined as a tactical game, an invigorating sport, and a perilous journey across a turbulent sea. This volume brings to life the emotional experience of courtship using the words and objects selected by men and women to …
German Angst
Fear and Democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany
Av Frank Biess
Inbunden, 2020
2258 kr
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German Angst analyses the relationship between fear and democracy in postwar West Germany. While fear and anxiety have historically been associated with authoritarian regimes, Frank Biess demonstrates the ambivalent role of these emotions in a democratizing society: in West Germany, fear and …
Beyond Melancholy
Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England
Inbunden, 2016
2441 kr
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From Shakespeare's Hamlet to Burton's Anatomy to Hilliard's miniatures, melancholy has long been associated with the emotional life of Renaissance England. But what other forms of sadness existed alongside, or even beyond, melancholy, and what kinds of selfhood did they help create?Beyond …
Emotional Arenas
Life, Love, and Death in 1870s Italy
Av Mark Seymour
Inbunden, 2020
1417 kr
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Based on the records of a murder trial that transfixed all of Italy in the late 1870s, this study makes use of a dramatic court case to develop a new paradigm for the history of emotions - the 'emotional arena'. Set in the decade following Italian unification, the context was one of notable …
The History of Emotions
An Introduction
Av Jan Plamper
Häftad, 2017
536 kr
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The history of emotions is one of the fastest growing fields in current historical debate, and this is the first book-length introduction to the field, synthesizing the current research, and offering direction for future study. The History of Emotions is organized around the debate between social …
Civilizing Emotions
Concepts in Nineteenth Century Asia and Europe
Av Margrit Pernau, Helge Jordheim m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2358 kr
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the vocabulary of civility and civilization is very much at the forefront of political debate. Most of these debates proceed as if the meaning of these words were self-evident. This is where Civilizing Emotions intervenes, tracing the history of the …
Emotional Cities
Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910
Inbunden, 2017
2045 kr
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Emotional Cities offers an innovative account of the history of cities in the second half of the nineteenth century. Analyzing debates about emotions and urban change, it questions the assumed dissimilarity of the history of European and Middle Eastern cities during this period. The author shows …
Imagining the Witch
Emotions, Gender, and Selfhood in Early Modern Germany
Inbunden, 2018
1985 kr
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Imagining the Witch explores emotions, gender, and selfhood through the lens of witch-trials in early modern Germany. Witch-trials were clearly a gendered phenomenon, but witchcraft was not a uniquely female crime. While women constituted approximately three quarters of those tried for witchcraft …
Feeling Things
Objects and Emotions through History
Av DOWNES ET AL, Stephanie Downes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2092 kr
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This interdisciplinary essay collection investigates the various interactions of people, feelings, and things throughout premodern Europe. It focuses on the period before mass production, when limited literacy often prioritised material methods of communication. The subject of materiality has been …
The Game of Love in Georgian England
Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture
Inbunden, 2019
1950 kr
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Courtship in Georgian England was a decisive moment in the life cycle, imagined as a tactical game, an invigorating sport, and a perilous journey across a turbulent sea. This volume brings to life the emotional experience of courtship using the words and objects selected by men and women to …
Feeling Revolution
Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin
Inbunden, 2020
1752 kr
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Stalin-era cinema was designed to promote emotional and affective education. The filmmakers of the period were called to help forge the emotions and affects that befitted the New Soviet Person - ranging from happiness and victorious laughter, to hatred for enemies. Feeling Revolution shows how the …
Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291
Inbunden, 2019
1586 kr
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Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number of emotions and affective displays — primarily fear, anger, and weeping — were understood, represented, and utilized in twelfth- and thirteenth-century …
Love, Honour, and Jealousy
An Intimate History of the Italian Economic Miracle
Av Niamh Cullen
Inbunden, 2019
1417 kr
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Love, Honour, and Jealousy investigates the impact of the Italian economic miracle of the 1950s and 1960s on intimate life. Just as Italy was rapidly forged into an urban, industrial nation in these years, the ways in which Italians thought about family, love, and marriage were transformed by …
The Emotions of Internationalism
Feeling International Cooperation in the Alps in the Interwar Period
Inbunden, 2019
1512 kr
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The Emotions of Internationalism follows a number of international people and institutions active in the Alps in the 1920s and 1930s, exploring how they understood emotions and how they tried to employ them to achieve their political and non-political goals. Through the analysis of a broad spectrum …
The Emergence of a Hero
A Tale of Romantic Love in Russia around 1800
Av Andrei Zorin
Inbunden, 2023
1263 kr
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The Emergence of a Hero is dedicated to the history of Russian emotional culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - the epoch when the court Masonic lodges and literature were competing for the monopoly on the 'symbolic images of feeling' that an educated and Europeanised …
Enthusiasm
Emotional Practices of Conviction in Modern Germany
Inbunden, 2020
1576 kr
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Enthusiasm seeks to contribute to a culturally and historically nuanced understanding of how emotions secure and ratify the truth of convictions. More than just pure affective intensity, enthusiasm is about something: a certainty, clarity, or truth. Neither as clearly negative as fanaticism nor as …
The Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking
Health, Pleasure, and Class in Britain, 1870-1918
Inbunden, 2021
1808 kr
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It is often taken for granted that holiday resorts sell intangible commodities such as freedom, enjoyment, pleasure, and relaxation. But how did the desire for a 'happy holiday' emerge, how was 'the right to rest' legitimized, and how are emotions produced by commercial enterprises? To answer these …
Caritas
Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self
Inbunden, 2021
1828 kr
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Caritas, a form of grace that turned our love for our neighbour into a spiritual practice, was expected of all early modern Christians, and corresponded with a set of ethical rules for living that displayed one's love in the everyday. Caritas was not just a willingness to behave morally, to keep …
Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number of emotions and affective displays - primarily fear, anger, and weeping - were understood, represented, and utilized in twelfth- and thirteenth-century …
Divorce in Denmark
Emotional Echoes of Relational Rupture since the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2027
1402 kr
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This book traces the emotional history of marriage breakdown and divorce in Denmark from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first. Drawing on a diverse archive—separation and divorce case records, custody disputes, advice columns, political debates, scientific texts, popular culture, …
The Emotions of Internationalism
Feeling International Cooperation in the Alps in the Interwar Period
Häftad, 2025
448 kr
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The Emotions of Internationalism follows a number of international people and institutions active in the Alps in the 1920s and 1930s, exploring how they understood emotions and how they tried to employ them to achieve their political and non-political goals. Through the analysis of a broad spectrum …
Emotional Lexicons
Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700-2000
Av Ute Frevert, Christian Bailey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2753 kr
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Emotions are as old as humankind. But what do we know about them and what importance do we assign to them? Emotional Lexicons is the first cultural history of terms of emotion found in German, French, and English language encyclopaedias since the late seventeenth century. Insofar as these reference …
Learning How to Feel
Children's Literature and Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970
Av Ute Frevert, Pascal Eitler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2863 kr
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Learning How to Feel explores the ways in which children and adolescents learn not just how to express emotions that are thought to be pre-existing, but actually how to feel. The volume assumes that the embryonic ability to feel unfolds through a complex dialogue with the social and cultural …
