Emotions as Engines of History

Driven by their curiosity about how emotional catalysts function in history, the volume's authors offer a collection of texts that give insight into the emotional aspects of particular events, processes, texts, and works of history; they show how history happens because of emotions.

Informationen zum Autor Rafal Boryslawski is an Associate Professor at the University of Silesia, Poland. Alicja Bemben is an Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia, Poland. Klappentext Driven by their curiosity about how emotional catalysts function in history, the volume's authors offer a collection of texts that give insight into the emotional aspects of particular events, processes, texts, and works of history; they show how history happens because of emotions. Zusammenfassung Driven by their curiosity about how emotional catalysts function in history, the volume's authors offer a collection of texts that give insight into the emotional aspects of particular events, processes, texts, and works of history; they show how history happens because of emotions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Emotions as the Engines of Change Rafä Borys awski and Alicja Bemben Part 1: Narrating Past Emotions 1. The Wonders of Creation: The Affective Poetics of Alterity in the Old English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle Jacek Olesiejko 2. Nice Guys Finish Last: Emotional Leaders and Political Action in Selected Íslendingasögur Santiago Barreiro and Julián Valle 3. The Deceit of Emotions: Henry More's Conception of Passion and Religious Polemic in Early Modern England Zoya Metlitskaya 4. How British Lyric Poetry Came to be Angry After Three Hundred Years of Stiff Upper Lips Michael Joseph 5. Empathy, "Empathic Unsettlement," and Human-Animal Relationships in Zakes Mda's The Whale Caller and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace Paulina Grz da Part 2: Emotive Histories, Emotional Historiographies 6. Cicero and His Daughter Tullia: Grief and History in a Latin Epistolary Collection Linda McGuire 7. "They Could Not Let Her Go with Dry Eyes . . .": Manifesting Emotions in the Encomium Emmae Reginae Rafä Borys awski 8. Worlds Emerge, Worlds Collapse: Traumatic Affect in Medieval Historiography and the Reception of Sturlunga Saga in the Twentieth Century Mariusz Mayburd 9. Controlling Female Emotions. Monstrous Births and Maternal Imagination in Iceland Arngrímur Vídalín 10. Disgust and Parasites in Nineteenth-Century Science and Fiction Justyna Jajszczok Part 3: Emotions Shaping History 11. The Guilt, the Trial, and the Execution: The Case of the Cross at Cheapside Revisited Jakub Basista 12. Love, Actually . . . Pricing Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century Greece Dimitra Vassiliadou 13. Melancholia in Contemporary Spain: Digging Up a Past That Did Not Pass Away Rafael Pérez Baquero 14. Persecutory Anxiety and the Fear of Death as Emotional Qualities of the Cultural Revolution in China Jun Lu 15. Historical Understanding-A Romance of Many Dimensions Alicja Bemben ...

Autorentext

Rafa Borysawski is an Associate Professor at the University of Silesia, Poland.

Alicja Bemben is an Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia, Poland.

Inhalt

Introduction: Emotions as the Engines of Change

Rafä Borys awski and Alicja Bemben

Part 1: Narrating Past Emotions

1. The Wonders of Creation: The Affective Poetics of Alterity in the Old English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle

Jacek Olesiejko

2. Nice Guys Finish Last: Emotional Leaders and Political Action in Selected Íslendingasögur

Santiago Barreiro and Julián Valle

3. The Deceit of Emotions: Henry More's Conception of Passion and Religious Polemic in Early Modern England

Zoya Metlitskaya

4. How British Lyric Poetry Came to be Angry After Three Hundred Years of Stiff Upper Lips

Michael Joseph

5. Empathy, "Empathic Unsettlement," and Human-Animal Relationships in Zakes Mda's The Whale Caller and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace

Paulina Grz da

Part 2: Emotive Histories, Emotional Historiographies

6. Cicero and His Daughter Tullia: Grief and History in a Latin Epistolary Collection

Linda McGuire

7. "They Could Not Let Her Go with Dry Eyes . . .": Manifesting Emotions in the Encomium Emmae Reginae

Rafä Borys awski

8. Worlds Emerge, Worlds Collapse: Traumatic Affect in Medieval Historiography and the Reception of Sturlunga Saga in the Twentieth Century

Mariusz Mayburd

9. Controlling Female Emotions. Monstrous Births and Maternal Imagination in Iceland

Arngrímur Vídalín

10. Disgust and Parasites in Nineteenth-Century Science and Fiction

Justyna Jajszczok

Part 3: Emotions Shaping History

11. The Guilt, the Trial, and the Execution: The Case of the Cross at Cheapside Revisited

Jakub Basista

12. Love, Actually . . . Pricing Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century Greece

Dimitra Vassiliadou

13. Melancholia in Contemporary Spain: Digging Up a Past That Did Not Pass Away

Rafael Pérez Baquero

14. Persecutory Anxiety and the Fear of Death as Emotional Qualities of the Cultural Revolution in China

Jun Lu

15. Historical Understanding-A Romance of Many Dimensions

Alicja Bemben