Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History (eBook)

Luisa Elena Delgado, Pura Fernandez, Jo Labanyi (Herausgeber)

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2016
312 Seiten
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-2087-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The first critical analysis of the significance of emotions in Spanish culture

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Rather than being properties of the individual self, emotions are socially produced and deployed in specific cultural contexts, as this collection documents with unusual richness. All the essays show emotions to be a form of thought and knowledge, and a major component of social lifeincluding in the nineteenth century, which attempted to relegate them to a feminine intimate sphere.The collection ranges across topics such as eighteenth-century sensibility, nineteenth-century concerns with the transmission of emotions, early twentieth-century cinematic affect, and the contemporary mobilization of political emotions including those regarding nonstate national identities. The complexities and effects of emotions are explored in a variety of formspolitical rhetoric, literature, personal letters, medical writing, cinema, graphic art, soap opera, journalism, popular music, digital mediawith attention paid to broader European and transatlantic implications.

Inhalt

Introduction: Engaging the Emotions—Theoretical, Historical, and Cultural FrameworksReasonable Sentiments: Sensibility and Balance in Eighteenth-Century SpainMónica Bolufer"How Do I Love Thee": The Rhetoric of Patriotic Love in Early Puerto Rican Political DiscourseWadda C. Ríos-FontEmotional Readings for New Interpretative Communities in the Nineteenth Century: Agustán Pérez Zaragoza's Galería fúnebre (1831)Pura FernándezEmotional Contagion in a Time of Cholera: Sympathy, Humanidad, and Hygiene in Mid-Nineteenth-Century SpainRebecca Haidt"Hatred Alone Warms the Heart": Figures of Ill Repute in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish NovelLou Charnon-Deutsch"You Will Have Observed that I Am Not Mad": Emotional Writings inside the AsylumRafael HuertasA Sentient Landscape: Cinematic Experience in 1920s SpainJuli HighfillThe Battle for Emotional Hegemony in Republican Spain (1931-1936)Javier KrauelLove in Times of War: Female Frigidity and Libertarian Revolution in the Work of Anarchist Doctor Félix Martí IbáñezMaite ZubiaurreFrom the History of Emotions to the History of Experience: A Republican Sailor's Sketchbook in the Civil WarJavier MoscosoAffective Variations: Queering Hispanidad in Luis Cernuda's MexicoEnrique ÁlvarezSentimentality as Consensus: Imagining Galicia in the Democratic PeriodHelena Miguélez-CarballeiraEmotional Competence and the Discourses of Suffering in the Television Series Amar en tiempos revueltosJo LabanyiFrom Tear to Pixel: Political Correctness and Digital Emotions in the Exhumation of Mass Graves from the Civil WarFrancisco FerrándizPublic Tears and Secrets of the Heart: Political Emotions in a State of CrisisLuisa Elena DelgadoAfterword: Shameless EmotionsAntonio Muñoz Molina

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.6.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 29 figures
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Hispanic Studies • Iberian studies • Latin American Studies • Transatlantic Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-8265-2087-1 / 0826520871
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8265-2087-6 / 9780826520876