A History of Emotions, 1200-1800

Jonas Liliequist

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781848933569
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317320494
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

The essays in this collection examine emotional responses to art and music, the role of emotions in contemporary notions of gender and sexuality and theoretical questions as to their use.

STUDIES FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR

CULTURAL HISTORY

Series Editors:

Anu Korhonen

Birgitta Svensson

Editorial Board:

Chris Dixon

TITLES IN THIS SERIES

Statistics, Public Debate and the State, 1800–1945: A Social, Political and Intellectual History of Numbers

Jean-Guy Prévost and Jean-Pierre Beaud

FORTHCOMING TITLES

A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area

Anthony Ashbolt

Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century

Marjo Kaartinen

Crime and the Fascist State, 1850–1940

Tiago Pires Marques

A History of Emotions, 1200–1800

Edited By

Jonas Liliequist

First published 2012 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited

Published 2016 by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

© Taylor & Francis 2012

© Jonas Liliequist 2012

To the best of the Publisher’s knowledge every effort has been made to contact relevant copyright holders and to clear any relevant copyright issues. Any omissions that come to their attention will be remedied in future editions.

All rights reserved, including those of translation into foreign languages. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notice:

Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA

A history of emotions, 1200–1800. – (Studies for the International Society for Cultural History)
1. Emotions – History. 2. Emotions – Religious aspects. 3. Affect (Psychology)
4. Sensitivity (Personality trait)

I. Series II. Liliequist, Jonas.

152.4’09-dc23

ISBN-13: 978-1-84893-356-9 (hbk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781315654911

Typeset by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited

Contents

• List of Contributors
• List of Figures
• Introduction – Jonas Liliequist
• I. Theoretical Issues
  • 1 Theories of Change in the History of Emotions – Barbara H. Rosenwein
  • 2 Ottoman Love: Preface to a Theory of Emotional Ecology – Walter Andrews
• II. Emotional Repertoires
  • 3 Preachers, Saints, and Sinners: Emotional Repertoires in High Medieval Religious Role Models – Christina Lutter
  • 4 Theology and Interiority: Emotions as Evidence of the Working of Grace in Elizabethan and Stuart Conversion Narratives – Paola Baseotto
  • 5 ‘Finer’ Feelings: Sociability, Sensibility and the Emotions of Gens de Lettres in Eighteenth-Century France – Anne C. Vila
• III. Music and Art
  • 6 Music as Wonder and Delight: Construction of Gender in Early Modern Opera through Musical Representation and Arousal of Emotions – Johanna Ethnersson Pontara
  • 7 Politesse and Sprezzatura: The History of Emotions in the Art of Antoine Watteau – Pamela W. Whedon
• IV. Gender, Sexuality and the Body
  • 8 Emotions and Gender: The Case of Anger in Early Modern English Revenge Tragedies – Kristine Steenbergh
  • 9 Beauty, Masculinity and Love Between Men: Configuring Emotions with Michael Drayton’s Peirs Gaveston – Anu Korhonen
  • 10 ‘Pray, Dr, is there Reason to Fear a Cancer?’ Fear of Breast Cancer in Early Modern Britain – Marjo Kaartinen
• V. Uses of Emotions
  • 11 The Little Girl who could not Stop Crying: The Use of Emotions as Signifiers of True Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Greenland – Allan Sortkær
  • 12 The Political Rhetoric of Tears in Early Modern Sweden – Jonas Liliequist
• Notes
• Index

List of Contributors

Walter Andrews received his PhD from the University of Michigan Near East Languages and Literature Department in 1970. He taught Turkish and Ottoman literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington from 1968 until his retirement to a research professorship, which he still holds. He has published several books, translations, articles and edited works on Ottoman literature, modern Turkish literature, and literary theory in English and Turkish. Among his books are Poetry’s Voice Society’s Song(University of Washington Press, 1985), revised and translated into Turkish as Şiirin Sesi Toplumun Şarkisi, Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology (with Mehmet Kalpakli and Najaat Black) with an expanded reprint from the University of Washington Press and most recently The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society (with Mehmet Kalpakli, Duke University Press, 2005). His translations of modern Turkish poetry include selected poems by Hilmi Yavuz (Seasons of the Word, Syracuse University Press, 2007) and by Ataol Behramoğlu (I’ve Learned Some Things, University of Texas CMES, 2008). He is also co-director of the Ottoman Texts Archive Project [OTAP], a web-based resource developing tools and methods for the archiving and analysis of Ottoman texts. In 2008, he was awarded The Turkish Republic Order of Merit Medal by vote of the Turkish Parliament ‘for valuable studies and contributions to the Turkish Republic’.

Paola Baseotto holds a PhD from the University of Reading (UK) and teaches English culture and history at Insubria University, Como, Italy. Her research interests centre mainly on the works of Edmund Spenser and on the theological, legal and medical treatises of the Renaissance period. She is the author of articles for academic journals and of the volumes Fighting for God, Queen and Country: Spenser and the Morality of Violence (2004) and ‘Disdeining Life, Desiring Leaue to Die’: Spenser and the Psychology of Despair (2008). She has presented papers at international conferences throughout Europe and has been invited to teach seminars at Loyola University (Chicago), Princeton University and Hunter College (City University of New York).

Johanna Ethnersson Pontara is associate professor of musicology at the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies, Stockholm University. She has specialized in the study of early eighteenth-century opera from interdisciplinary perspectives, with particular emphasis on Performance Theory and Gender Studies. Her publications include ‘Music as Mimetic Representation and Performative Act: Semiramidericonosciuta and Musical Construction of Sexuality and Gender’ (STM-Online 11, 2008). Her current long-term project is The Baroque as Aesthetics and as...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter 1
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• List of Figures
• Introduction– Jonas Liliequist
• 1 Theories of Change in the History of Emotions– Barbara H. Rosenwein
• 2 Ottoman Love: Preface to a Theory of Emotional Ecology– Walter Andrews
• 3 Preachers, Saints, and Sinners: Emotional Repertoires in High Medieval Religious Role Models– Christina Lutter
• 4 Theology and Interiority: Emotions as Evidence of the Working of Grace in Elizabethan and Stuart Conversion Narratives– Paola Baseotto
• 5 ‘Finer’ Feelings: Sociability, Sensibility and the Emotions of Gens de Lettres in Eighteenth-Century France– Anne C. Vila
• 6 Music as Wonder and Delight: Construction of Gender in Early Modern Opera through Musical Representation and Arousal of Emotions– Johanna Ethnersson Pontara
• 7 Politesse and Sprezzatura: The History of Emotions in the Art of Antoine Watteau– Pamela W. Whedon
• 8 Emotions and Gender: The Case of Anger in Early Modern English Revenge Tragedies– Kristine Steenbergh
• 9 Beauty, Masculinity and Love Between Men: Configuring Emotions with Michael Drayton’s Peirs Gaveston– Anu Korhonen
• 10 ‘Pray, Dr, is there Reason to Fear a Cancer?’ Fear of Breast Cancer in Early Modern Britain– Marjo Kaartinen
• 11 The Little Girl who could not Stop Crying: The Use of Emotions as Signifiers of True Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Greenland– Allan Sortkær
• 12 The Political Rhetoric of Tears in Early Modern Sweden– Jonas Liliequist
• Notes
• Index