Feelings Materialized: Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500-1950 / Edition 1

by Derek Hillard, Heikki Lempa, Russell A. Spinney

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789205510
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	01/10/2020
Series:	Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association , #21
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Heikki Lempa is Professor of Modern European and German History at Moravian College. He is the author of Beyond the Gymnasium: Educating the Middle-Class Bodies in Classical Germany (2007) and Bildung der Triebe. Der deutsche Philanthropismus (1768–1788) (1993).

Russell A. Spinney is an independent historian and instructor at the Thacher School in Ojai, California. He recently co-authored and edited a special issue of Contemporary European History on the history of emotions in twentieth-century Europe.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
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

Editorial Reviews

“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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