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Emotions as engines of history, edited by Rafał Borysławski and Alicja Bemben

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Emotions as engines of history

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edited by Rafał Borysławski and Alicja Bemben

Routledge studies in cultural history;, volume 113Taylor & Francis eBooks

"Seeking to bridge the gap between various approaches to the study of emotions, this volume aims at a multidisciplinary examination of connections between emotions and history and the ways in which these connections have manifested themselves in historiography, cultural, and literary studies. The book offers a selected range of insights into the idea of emotions, affects, and emotionality as driving forces and agents of change in history. The fifteen essays it comprises probe into the emotional motives and dispositions behind both historical phenomena and the ways they were narrated"--, Provided by publisher

Introduction: Emotions as the engines of change / Rafał Borysławski and Alicja Bemben -- The wonders of creation: the affective poetics of alterity in the Old English letter of Alexander to Aristotle / Jacek Olesiejko -- Nice guys finish last: emotional leaders and political action in selected Íslendingasögur / Santiago Barreiro and Julián Valle -- The deceit of emotions: Henry More's Conception of passion and religious polemic in early modern England / Zoya Metlitskaya -- How British lyric poetry came to be angry after three hundred years of stiff upper lips / Michael Joseph -- Empathy, "empathic unsettlement," and human-animal relationships in Zakes Mda's The whale caller and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace / Paulina Grzęda -- Cicero and his daughter Tullia: grief and history in a Latin epistolary collection / Linda McGuire -- "They could not let her go with dry eyes...": manifesting emotions in the Encomium Emmae Reginae / Rafał Borysławski -- Worlds emerge, worlds collapse: traumatic affect in medieval historiography and the reception of Sturlunga Saga in the twentieth century / Miriam Mayburd -- Controlling female emotions: monstrous births and maternal imagination in Iceland / Arngrímur Vídalín -- Disgust and parasites in nineteenth-century science and fiction / Justyna Jajszczok -- The guilt, the trial, and the execution: the case of the cross at Cheapside revisited / Jakub Basista -- Love, actually... pricing romantic love in nineteenth-century Greece / Dimitra Vassiliadou -- Melancholia in contemporary Spain: digging up a past that did not pass away / Rafael Pérez Baquero -- Persecutory anxiety and the fear of death as emotional qualities of the cultural revolution in China / Jun Lu -- Historical understanding-a romance of many dimensions / Alicja Bemben -- Contributors -- Index