Emotions and the Senses in History Writing
Core readings:
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Helen Carr, 'Can Our Emotions Have a History?', in Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb (eds.),What is History Now?
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Lyndal Roper, 'Emotions and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6',History Workshop Journal(2021).
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Sasha Turner,Slavery & Abolition(2017), 1-19.
Overview: Jan Plamper. 鈥楾he History of the History of Emotions鈥�, Chapter One of. Oxford, 2012.
Primary Source activity: Consult Katie Barclay et al., (London, 2020), Part II, chapters 4-13. Thisprovides chapters on different types of primary sources that can be used to access historical emotions. Please identify a primary source connected to your research interests and be prepared to share it with the group.
Further readings:
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Katie Barclay, The History of Emotions: A Student Guide to Methods and Sources, esp. Chapter 1: 'The History of Emotions: An Introduction'
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Rob Boddice,A History of Feelings (2nd edn. 2024)
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Rob Boddice,Knowing Pain: A History of Sensation, Emotion and Experience(2023).
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Thomas Dixon, '"',Emotion Review4: 4 (2012), pp. 338-344
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Thomas Dixon,The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction(2023).
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Ute Frevert,The Power of Emotions: A History of German From 1900 to the Present(2023).
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Ute Frevert,Emotions in History - Lost and Found(2011).
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Andrew Kettler and Will Tullet (eds),The Routledge History of the Senses(2025).
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Laura Kounine, 'Emotions, Mind and Body on Trial: A Cross-Cultural Perspective',51 (2017), pp. 219-230.
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Laura Kounine,Imagining the Witch: emotions, gender, and selfhood in early modern Germany(2017).
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Susan J. Matt, 'Recovering the Invisible: Methods for the Historical Study of Emotions', in Susan Matt and Peter Stearns (eds.),Doing Emotions History (Chicago, 2013), pp. 41-54.
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William J. Reddy,The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions.
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Barbara H. Rosenwein,Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages(2006)
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Barbara H. Rosenwein,Generations of Feeling(2015)
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Ulinka Rublack,'Fluxes: The Early Modern Body and the Emotions',History Workshop Journal53 (2002), pp. 1-16.
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Scheer, Monique, 'Introduction', inEnthusiasm: Emotional Practices of Conviction in Modern Germany (2020), pp. 1-34.
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Monique Scheer, 'Are Emotions A Kind of Practice (and is that what makes them have a history)? A Bourdieuian Approach to Understanding Emotion',History and Theory51 (2) (2012): 193-220.
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Peter Stearns and Carol Stearns, 鈥楨motionology: Clarifying the History of Emotions and Emotional Standards.鈥�American Historical Review, Vol. 90, No. 4 (Oct., 1985), pp. 813-836
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William Tullett,Smell and the Past: Noses, Archives, Narratives(2023).
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Sasha Turner, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).