Feelings Materialized
Subtitle: Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500-1900
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781789205510
Subjects: Emotions; Social psychology; Germany, history
Description: "Of the many innovative historiographical approaches to emerge during the twenty-first century, one of the most productive has been the nexus of theories and methodologies broadly defined as "the history of emotions." While this conceptual toolkit has generated significant insights into the past, 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 body, literature, photography, aesthetics, and a variety of other themes"--