Of the many innovative approaches to emerge during the twenty-first century, one of the most productive has been the interdisciplinary nexus of theories and methodologies broadly defined as the study of emotions. While this conceptual toolkit has generated significant insights, it has overwhelmingly focused on emotions as linguistic and semantic phenomena. This edited volume looks instead to the material aspects of emotion in German culture, encompassing the body, literature, photography, aesthetics, and a variety of other themes.
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All in all, the strength of this collection lies in the theoretical reflexions on the link between physicality and emotions as shown in the different examples. The concept of materiality is in most contributions seen as closely linked with physicality. The publication thus follows on from existing research on the history of emotions as the history of the body and sheds light on new facets of this area of historical and literary studies. H-Soz-Kult
This book offers much insight into the relationships between the body and emotion and the ways in which humans are emotionally influenced by spaces and things. With its call to go beyond studies of emotion and language and examine the embodied nature of emotion and the involvement of objects in emotional practices, Feelings Materialized is certain to inspire future work in the field of historical emotion studies. The German Quarterly
This important contribution to the study of emotions opens up an interesting, theoretically valid, and yet largely overlooked area of the field. The editors have produced a stimulating collection that will inspire further discussion of the bodily and material dimensions of emotion. Agnes Arndt, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Derek Hillard, Heikki Lempa, and Russell Spinney
PART I: EMOTIONS AND BODIES
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1. Mesmerizing Encounters: Affect and Animal Magnetism
Sara Luly
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2. Emotional Contagions: Franz Liszt and the Materiality of
Celebrity Culture in the 1830s and 1840s
Hannu Salmi
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3. Reading Embodied Emotions in Rilkes Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte
Laurids Brigge
Derek Hillard
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4. Embodied Emotions: On the Communist Habitus of Agitprop
Sabine Hake
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5. A Skin of Hatred: How Bodies Are Involved in the Memory of
Emotions and Anti-Semitic Practice of the Weimar Republic
Russell Spinney
PART II: EMOTIONS, SPACES, AND MATERIAL INTERESTS
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6. Early Modern Embodiments of Laughter: The Journal of Felix
Platter
Joy Wiltenburg
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7. Beyond Interiority: Shame and Empathy in Karl Philipp Moritzs
Anton Reiser
Christian Sieg
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8. Gambling and Emotion
Jared Poley
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9. Emotions and Material Interests in the Sales Talk of German Spa
Guides, 18201914
Heikki Lempa
PART III: EMOTIONS AND THINGS
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10. The Paper Bird: Emotions and Things in the Pedagogy of Johann
Heinrich Pestalozzi and Friedrich Fröbel
Ann Taylor Allen
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11. Reading Early German Photographs for Histories of Emotion
Sarah Leonard
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12. The Emotional Language of Flowers
Ute Frevert
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13. Banners and Flags, Mottoes, Lieder: German Choral Societies and
Material Culture, 18711918
Ruth Dewhurst
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14. Corporeality, Materiality, and Unnamed Emotions in Rilkes
Dinggedichte
Lorna Martens
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15. Inscribing Grief: Private Practices of Bereavement in Wartime
Erika Quinn
Derek Hillard is Professor of German at Kansas State University. He is the author of Poetry as Individuality: The Discourse of Observation in Paul Celan (2010) as well as recent essays on Alfred Döblin and Ernst Jünger.
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