Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History

Luisa Elena Delgado is Associate Professor of Spanish, Critical Theory, and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.Pura Fernández is Research Professor in the Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Spain's National Research Council.Jo Labanyi is Professor of Spanish at New York University, USA.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Engaging the Emotions—Theoretical, Historical, and Cultural Frameworks1. Reasonable Sentiments: Sensibility and Balance in Eighteenth-Century SpainMónica Bolufer2. “How Do I Love Thee”: The Rhetoric of Patriotic Love in Early Puerto Rican Political DiscourseWadda C. Ríos-Font3. Emotional Readings for New Interpretative Communities in the Nineteenth Century: Agustín Pérez Zaragoza’s Galería fúnebre (1831)Pura Fernández4. Emotional Contagion in a Time of Cholera: Sympathy, Humanity, and Hygiene in Mid-Nineteenth-Century SpainRebecca Haidt5. “Hatred alone warms the heart”: Figures of Ill Repute in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish NovelLou Charnon-Deutsch6. “You will have observed that I am not mad”: Emotional Writings inside the AsylumRafael Huertas7. A Sentient Landscape: Cinematic Experience in 1920s SpainJuli Highfill8. The Battle for Emotional Hegemony in Republican Spain (1931–1936)Javier Krauel9. Love in Times of War: Female Frigidity and Libertarian Revolution in the Workof Anarchist Doctor Félix Martí IbáñezMaite Zubiaurre10. From the History of Emotions to the History of Experience: A Republican Sailor’s Sketchbook in the Civil WarJavier Moscoso11. Affective Variations: Queering Hispanidad in Luis Cernuda’s MexicoEnrique Álvarez12. Sentimentality as Consensus: Imagining Galicia in the Democratic PeriodHelena Miguélez-Carballeira13. Emotional Competence and the Discourses of Suffering in the Television Series Amar en tiempos revueltosJo Labanyi14. From Tear to Pixel: Political Correctness and Digital Emotions in the Exhumation of Mass Graves from the Civil WarFrancisco Ferrándiz15. Public Tears and Secrets of the Heart: Political Emotions in a State of CrisisLuisa Elena DelgadoAfterword: Shameless EmotionsAntonio Muñoz MolinaContributorsIndex

"This impressive collection of essays is set to become a landmark text of the modern period, and its contributors represent the cutting edge of Hispanism, both within Spain and within the Anglo-American critical tradition. This is a timely volume. Emotions are not simply part of the human self, but are provoked, tempered, tolerated, and encouraged by different historical, social, and political situations and circumstances, and this collection is a way of charting a type of sociological as well as psychological history that takes account of local specificity."—Alison Sinclair, University of Cambridge, author of Trafficking Knowledge in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: Centres of Exchange and Cultural Imaginaries and Sex and Society in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: Hildegart Rodríguez and the World League for Sexual Reform