Emotional Bodies: The Historical Performativity of Emotions - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0252084713 ISBN 13 : 9780252084713

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2019

Synopsis

What do emotions actually do? Recent work in the history of emotions and its intersections with cultural studies and new materialism has produced groundbreaking revelations around this fundamental question. In Emotional Bodies, contributors pick up these threads of inquiry to propose a much-needed theoretical framework for further study of materiality of emotions, with an emphasis on emotions' performative nature. Drawing on diverse sources and wide-ranging theoretical approaches, they illuminate how various persons and groups--patients, criminals, medieval religious communities, revolutionary crowds, and humanitarian agencies--perform emotional practices. A section devoted to medical history examines individual bodies while a section on social and political histories studies the emergence of collective bodies.

Contributors: Jon Arrizabalaga, Rob Boddice, Leticia Fernández-Fontecha, Emma Hutchison, Dolores Martín-Moruno, Piroska Nagy, Beatriz Pichel, María Rosón, Pilar León-Sanz, Bertrand Taithe, and Gian Marco Vidor.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Pilar León-Sanz is associate professor of the history of medicine and director of the Department of Biomedical Humanities at the University of Navarra School of Medicine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252084713
• ISBN 13: 9780252084713
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Éditeur: Martín-Moruno Dolores, Pichel Beatriz
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