Emotional Bodies: The Historical Performativity of Emotions
Dolores Martín-Moruno and Beatriz Pichel
Abstract
Emotional Bodies provides a theoretical framework for studying the materiality of emotions. In line with recent research in the history of emotions, cultural studies, and new materialism, this volume focuses on what emotions do. Chapters interrogate how emotions do and undo us as both individual and collective bodies. With this aim, this book proposes “emotional bodies” as a tool to understand the performativity of emotional practices as the origin of particular configurations of bodies, such as patients, criminals, medieval religious communities, revolutionary crowds and contemporary humanita ... More
Emotional Bodies provides a theoretical framework for studying the materiality of emotions. In line with recent research in the history of emotions, cultural studies, and new materialism, this volume focuses on what emotions do. Chapters interrogate how emotions do and undo us as both individual and collective bodies. With this aim, this book proposes “emotional bodies” as a tool to understand the performativity of emotional practices as the origin of particular configurations of bodies, such as patients, criminals, medieval religious communities, revolutionary crowds and contemporary humanitarian agencies. The multidisciplinary approach of this volume, which combines a diversity of sources as well as theoretical and historiographical approaches, challenges traditional notions of the body and the emotions, demonstrating the potential of “emotional bodies” to understand past and present societies.
Keywords:
History of Emotions,
New Materialism,
Performativity,
History of Medicine,
Visual Culture,
Gender Studies,
Bodies,
Humanitarianism,
Emotional Practices
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780252042898 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: September 2020 |
DOI:10.5622/illinois/9780252042898.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Dolores Martín-Moruno, editor
University of Geneva
Beatriz Pichel, editor
De Montfort University
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