Feelings materialized : emotions, bodies, and things in Germany, 1500-1950 / edited by Derek Hillard, Heikki Lempa, and Russell Spinney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hillard, Derek, 1965- editor.

Lempa, Heikki, editor.

Spinney, Russell, editor.

Series:

Spektrum (New York, N.Y.) ; Volume 21.

Spektrum (New York, N.Y.) ; Volume 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--History.

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2020]

Summary:

Of the many innovative approaches to emerge during the twenty-first century, one of the most productive has been the interdisciplinary nexus of theories and methodologies broadly defined as “the study of emotions.” While this conceptual toolkit has generated significant insights, it has overwhelmingly focused on emotions as linguistic and semantic phenomena. This edited volume looks instead to the material aspects of emotion in German culture, encompassing the body, literature, photography, aesthetics, and a variety of other themes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Part I. Emotions and Bodies

Chapter 1. Mesmerizing Encounters: Affect and Animal Magnetism

Chapter 2. Emotional Contagions: Franz Liszt and the Materiality of Celebrity Culture in the 1830s and 1840s

Chapter 3. Reading Embodied Emotions in Rilke’s Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge

Chapter 4. Embodied Emotions: On the Communist Habitus of Agitprop

Chapter 5. A Skin of Hatred: How Bodies Are Involved in the Memory of Emotions and Anti-Semitic Practice of the Weimar Republic

Part II. Emotions, Spaces, and Material Interests

Chapter 6. Early Modern Embodiments of Laughter: The Journal of Felix Platter

Chapter 7. Beyond Interiority: Shame and Empathy in Karl Philipp Moritz’s Anton Reiser

Chapter 8. Gambling and Emotion

Chapter 9. Emotions and Material Interests in the Sales Talk of German Spa Guides, 1830–1900

Part III. Emotions and Things

Chapter 10. The Paper Bird: Emotions and Things in the Pedagogy of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and Friedrich Fröbel

Chapter 11. Reading Early German Photographs for Histories of Emotion

Chapter 12. The Emotional Language of Flowers

Chapter 13. Banners and Flags, Mottoes, Lieder: German Choral Societies and Material Culture, 1871–1918

Chapter 14. Corporeality, Materiality, and Unnamed Emotions in Rilke’s Dinggedichte

Chapter 15. Inscribing Grief: Private Practices of Bereavement in Wartime Germany

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781789205527

1789205522

OCLC:

1347246442