Sources for the History of Emotions

Katie Barclay is Deputy-Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions and Associate Professor in History at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She writes on the history of emotions, family and gender, and with Andrew Lynch and Giovanni Taratino edits Emotions: History, Culture, Society.Sharon Crozier-De Rosa is Associate Professor in History at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She writes on the history of emotions, gender, militancy and transnationalism, and her books include Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash and Remembering Women’s Activism. She is Deputy Editor of Women’s History Review. Peter N. Stearns is University Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. He has written widely on the history of emotions, with books including American Cool and Shame: A Brief History. He regularly teaches an undergraduate course on emotions history, and has collaborated with a number of students on research projects in the field.

• Part I: Introducing the history of emotions 1. Introduction: a guide to sources for the history of emotions 2. Theories and methods in the history of emotions 3. The practice and ethics of the history of emotions Part II: Sources for the history of emotions 4. Rituals, relics and religious rhetoric 5. Prescriptive literature 6. Medicine, science and psychology 7. Legal records 8. Institutional records: a comment 9. Narratives of the self 10. Emotions in fiction 11. Performing emotions 12. Visual sources 13. The material world Part III: Emerging themes in the history of emotions 14. Comparative emotions 15. Intersectional identities 16. Emotions of protest 17. Technology and feeling 18. Emotions and the body 19. Epilogue

'This collection will doubtless become a core reference work, both for historians of the emotions, and scholars concerned with emotions more generally. It will be of huge value to students seeking to navigate this exciting field for research dissertations, as it places various source types in careful and critical scholarly context, without becoming esoteric in language or focus. The authors and editors have done a fine job. This book will be of immense practical use, and a stimulating intellectual resource, for all concerned with the emotions and their expression, in the discipline of history and beyond.'Chris Millard, University of Sheffield, UK