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

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Borysławski, Rafał, editor, author.
• Bemben, Alicja, editor, author.
• Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

• Routledge studies in cultural history ; v.113.
• Routledge studies in cultural history ; volume 113

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• History--Psychological aspects.
• Emotions--Social aspects.
• Emotions in literature.
• Historiography--Psychological aspects.
• Emotions--History.
• Emotions--Historiography.
• Social change.
• Emotions.
• Historiography.
• History.
• Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Abingdon : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

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

Contents:

• 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.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 2, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Emotions as engines of history

ISBN:

• 9781000452372
• 1000452379
• 9781003019015
• 1003019013
• 9781000452358
• 1000452352

Publisher Number:

40030899262

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Restricted for use by site license.