A cultural history of the emotions. 4, A cultural history of the emotions in the Baroque and enlightenment age

During the period of the Baroque and Enlightenment the word “emotion”, denoting passions and feelings, came into usage, albeit in an irregular fashion. “Emotion” ultimately emerged as a term in its own right, and evolved in English from meaning physical agitation to describe mental feeling. However, the older terminology of “passions” and “affections” continued as the dominant discourse structuring thinking about feeling and its wider religious, political, social, economic, and moral imperatives. The emotional cultures described in these essays enable some comparative discussion about the history of emotions, and particularly the causes and consequences of emotional change in the larger cultural contexts of the Baroque and Enlightenment. Emotions research has enabled a rethinking of dominant narratives of the period-of histories of revolution, state-building, the rise of the public sphere, religious and scientific transformation, and more. As a new and dynamic field, the essays here are just the beginning of a much bigger history of emotions. Cover Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS GENERAL EDITORS’ PREFACE Introduction What Were Emotions? Definitions, Understandings, and Contributions DEFINITIONS AND MEANINGS EMOTIONAL CULTURES EMOTIONAL CULTURES IN THIS BOOK CONCLUSION CHAPTER ONE Medical and Scientific Understandings THE PASSIONS PASSIONS IN DISCOURSES OF HYGIENE MEDICINE OF THE MIND MADNESSES CONCLUSION CHAPTER TWO Religion and Spirituality FEELINGS (AND SENSES) TOWARDS THE GREATER THE FEAR, THE MORE INTENSE THE PIETY DENOMINATIONAL FEELINGS ON PREACHING (AND ON WIGS, MARIONETTES, AND BAKING) THE “ECUMENICITY OF EVERYDAY LIFE” CHURCHES (FEELING) UNDER SIEGE REASON, SENTIMENT AND RELIGIO(S) IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT CHAPTER THREE Music and Dance THREE LISTENING EXPERIENCES BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE SIGN AND SYMBOL MODES AND KEYS TOWARD A (MUSICAL) VOCABULARY OF THE EMOTIONS DANCE MEASURES WORDLESS RHETORIC TOWARD A (MUSICAL) HISTORY OF THE EMOTIONS CHAPTER FOUR Drama HISTORICAL PRELUDE: CHARACTER, COSMOS, SELF RATIONALISM AND THE HISTORY OF THE DRAMA HOBBESIAN SELVES CHAPTER FIVE The Visual Arts INTRODUCTION THE PASSIONS AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSION: THEORY AND PRACTICE HORROR PICTURES: THE EXPRESSION OF PAIN AND FEAR GIOVANNI PIETRO BELLORI’S IDEA , NICOLAS POUSSIN, AND CHARLES LE BRUN THE CATHOLIC REFORMATION AND THE EXPRESSIVE POWER OF DEVOTIONAL IMAGES SENSUAL AND EROTIC IMAGES DUTCH GENRE PAINTING AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CHAPTER SIX Literature THE PASSIONS OF RHETORIC, POETICS, AND AESTHETICS SUBLIME, PITIFUL, AND CONTAGIOUS PASSIONS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MELANCHOLY SYMPATHIES: THE GENIAL AND MORBID PASSIONS OF POETS AND NOVELISTS CHARACTER, SYMPATHY, AND THE RISE OF THE NOVEL CONCLUSION: RHETORIC AND SENSIBILITY CHPTER SEVEN In Private The Individual and the Domestic Community APPROACHES MEANINGS DEPLOYED DISCOURSE POWER AND AGENCY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE, LOCAL AND STATE CONCLUSION CHAPTER EIGHT In Public Coolectivities and Polities CIVILIZED EMOTIONS CIVILITY AND THE PASSIONS SENTIMENTAL SOCIETIES NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS NOTES REFERENCES INDEX A Cultural History Of The Emotions' Explores How Emotions Have Changed Over The Course Of Human History, As Well As How Emotions Have Themselves Created And Changed History. Emotions Underpin Our Everyday Lives And Shape Our Mental, Physical And Social Well-being. Volume 1 -- In Antiquity. -- Volume 2 -- In The Medieval Age. -- Volume 3 -- In The Late-medieval, Reformation,and Renaissance Age. -- Volume 4 -- In The Baroque And Enlightenment Age. -- Volume 5 -- In The Age Of Romanticism, Revolution, And Empire. -- Volume 6 -- In The Modern And Post-modern Age. General Editors : Susan Broomhall, Jane W. Davidson And Andrew Lynch ; Edited By Douglas Cairns ; Andrew Lynch, Susan Broomhall ; Juanita Feros Ruys, Clare Mongale ; Claire Walker, Katie Barclay, David Lemmings ; Susan J. Matt ; Jane W. Davidson And Joy Damousi. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. A Cultural history of the Emotions' explores how emotions have changed over the course of human history, as well as how emotions have themselves created and changed history. Emotions underpin our everyday lives and shape our mental, physical and social well-being.ISBN : 9781472535764