Feelings Materialized

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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 Moritzs 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, 18201914
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, 18711918
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