Histories of Sensibilities : Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García Moscardó, Ester.

Serrano, Elena.

Series:

Interdisciplinary Research in Gender Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture diffusion.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment explores the historical character of sensibility in the global Enlightenment. It is aimed at postgraduate students and scholars researching histories of literature and science, cultural studies, history of emotions, and gender studies.

Contents:

Introduction: Intersecting Histories of Sensibility and Emotion: A Plural Legacy Section I. Making Sense, Making Difference 1. Androginopolis or the Racialization of the Peruvian Strange Society 2. Embodied Colonial Experiences of Enlightenment: Pierre Bailly's Defense of Equality and Citizenship. A Free Mulatto's Voice in Spanish New Orleans (1791-1794) 3. Sensibility on Stage: Gender, Race, and the Modulations of Feeling in the Hispanic Theatre 4. Sweet Affinities: The Gendering of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Spain 5. Quivering Hearts: The Intimate Union of Bodies and Souls 6. Rewriting Romantic Love: Women, Celebrity, and the Politics of Emotion in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Spain (Avellaneda's Farewell) Section II. Crossing Contexts, Unsettling Sensibilities 7. Performing Sensibilities: Women's Voices in a Transnational and Transatlantic Correspondence of the Enlightenment 8. Translating Transgender and Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Mediatic Ecosystem of Transmission, Reworking, and Perception of The Brief Story of Catterina Vizzani 9. Hidden or Forbidden: Taboo, Circumnavigation, and Women in New Cythera (1768) 10. Vicious Sensibilities: The Role of Ethnosexual Violence in the Patriarchalization of Tåno' Låguas yan Gåni (the Mariana Islands) during the Eighteenth Century 11. Entangled Sensibilities and the Broken Circulation of Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein: Gender, Race, and Otherness.

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781040118061

1040118062

9781003342236

100334223X

OCLC:

1463063282

Publisher Number:

10.4324/9781003342236

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access.