Feelings Materialized

Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500–1950

Derek Hillard, Heikki Lempa, Russell A. Spinney (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

286 Seiten

2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-551-0 (ISBN)

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Examining the material aspects of emotion, this volume encompasses technology, photography, aesthetics, and a variety of other historical themes in an innovative application of emotion studies. Feelings Materialized brings together an interdisciplinary group of Germanists to unveil the emotions embedded in the world of things and bodies.

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.

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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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Derek Hillard, Heikki Lempa, and Russell Spinney

PART I: EMOTIONS AND BODIES

Chapter 1. Mesmerizing Encounters: Affect and Animal Magnetism

Sara Luly

Chapter 2. Emotional Contagions: Franz Liszt and the Materiality of Celebrity Culture in the 1830s and 1840s

Hannu Salmi

Chapter 3. Reading Embodied Emotions in Rilke’s Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge

Derek Hillard

Chapter 4. Embodied Emotions: On the Communist Habitus of Agitprop

Sabine Hake

Chapter 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

Chapter 6. Early Modern Embodiments of Laughter: The Journal of Felix Platter

Joy Wiltenburg

Chapter 7. Beyond Interiority: Shame and Empathy in Karl Philipp Moritzʼs Anton Reiser

Christian Sieg

Chapter 8. Gambling and Emotion

Jared Poley

Chapter 9. Emotions and Material Interests in the Sales Talk of German Spa Guides, 1820–1914

Heikki Lempa

PART III: EMOTIONS AND THINGS

Chapter 10. The Paper Bird: Emotions and Things in the Pedagogy of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and Friedrich Fröbel

Ann Taylor Allen

Chapter 11. Reading Early German Photographs for Histories of Emotion

Sarah Leonard

Chapter 12. The Emotional Language of Flowers

Ute Frevert

Chapter 13. Banners and Flags, Mottoes, Lieder: German Choral Societies and Material Culture, 1871–1918

Ruth Dewhurst

Chapter 14. Corporeality, Materiality, and Unnamed Emotions in Rilke’s Dinggedichte

Lorna Martens

Chapter 15. Inscribing Grief: Private Practices of Bereavement in Wartime

Erika Quinn

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2020
Reihe/Serie	Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
ISBN-10	1-78920-551-4 / 1789205514
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-551-0 / 9781789205510
Zustand	Neuware