History of Emotions and Affect Theory

_The Physiology of Love and Other Writings_ is the first English annotated collection of Mantegazza’s selected works. In my extensive introductory essay, Mantegazza’s hybrid contributions from fiction, travel-writing, and ethnography to physiology, medicine, and politics are reevaluated as instances of a proto-cultural-studies approach attuned to the cross-fertilization of disciplines and the circulation of ideas in a period of European intellectual history that defied the notion of specialization.
Table of contents:
The Physiology of Love
And Selections from:
On The Hygienic and Medicinal Virtues of the Coca Plant and on Nervine Nourishment in General
One Day in Madeira
A Voyage to Lapland with my Friend Stephen Sommier
India
Epicurus: Essay in a Physiology of the Beautiful
The Neurosic Century
The Tartuffe Century
Head: Or, Sowing Ideas to Create New Deeds
Political Memoirs of a Foot Soldier in the Italian Parliament
The Year 3000: A Dream
The Psychology of Translation

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of every thing that is real about us, ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. George Bernard Shaw in Man and Superman Note: Parts one and two of this essay are largely precis of another man's book. Accordingly, I must begin by acknowledging my debt to Dr. Donald Nathanson for all material in those sections on affect theory and shame, and for such understanding of these as I have gained and re-package here. The misunderstandings are my own.

Despite being located faraway from one another, North Korean leader Kim Il Sung and Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe formed an unlikely friendship during the late 1970s and 1980s. As guerilla fighters-turned postcolonial leaders, these two autocrats developed close emotional bonds built around admiration, fear, and trust. Using archival sources from the United Kingdom's National Archives, North Korean press reports, and journalistic accounts, this article emphasizes emotions as a window into examining this Afro-Asian alliance. From wanting to emulate North Korea's land reform program to sending a group of librarians and academics to the communist state to learn from Pyongyang's educational system, Mugabe's government admired the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as a model of socialist development during the 1980s. Fearing instability at home, Mugabe also sought North Korea military assistance to squash his political rivals. Finally, Mugabe trusted Pyongyang as a " wartime friend " that had always been there for his African state. Thus, Zimbabwe continues to align itself in the post-Cold War era with North Korea while much of the world cuts off ties with the increasingly isolated state.

Since the beginning of the Korean War, the North Korean and U.S. governments have been involved in emotional warfare. From North Korea’s stated “eternal hatred” of the U.S. imperialists to Washington’s demonization of Pyongyang as an insidious Soviet pawn, emotions have been at the heart of this hostile bilateral relationship. Using three case studies (the 1968 Pueblo incident, the 1976 axe murder incident, and the 1994 nuclear crisis), I examine the ways in which the two sides have elicited emotional responses from their populations for their respective political goals. By portraying the U.S. as the source of all evilness in its state-run media, the North Korean regime halted internal criticisms and consolidated their political power. Meanwhile, the U.S. media saw North Korea’s aggression as a symbol of Communist treachery and Soviet imperialism.

Recorrido por algunos debates útiles para el laboratorio posterior de las investigaciones históricas sobre la casa morisca en la Granda del siglo XVI y que tomen en consideración esta invitación emocional.
Desde un tiempo contemporáneo, sugiero en esta ponencia, formas de incorporar la materialidad en nuestras historia de las emociones en el pasado.

In A Cultural History of Climate Change (Routledge) Eds. Bristow, T & Ford, T.
This chapter investigates the emergence of the Anthropocene by considering some of the dynamics between European cultural values and natural history in early modernity, and their relations with climate change. In particular, it seeks to disentangle the ways in which certain social processes that emerged in the long seventeenth century from 1550-1750 not only exacerbated global climate change, but also provided a robust foundation for ecocriticial responses to the advance of global climate change in the twenty-first century.

Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: A History of Emotions brings together leading scholars in medieval, early modern, eighteenth-century, and Romantic studies. The assembled essays trace continuities and changes in the emotional register of war, as it has been mediated by the written record over six centuries.

Through its wide selection of sites of utterance, genres of writing and contexts of publication and reception, Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854 analyses the emotional history of war in relation to both the changing nature of conflicts and the changing creative modes in which they have been arrayed and experienced. Each chapter explores how different forms of writing defines war – whether as political violence, civilian suffering, or a theatre of heroism or barbarism – giving war shape and meaning, often retrospectively. The volume is especially interested in how the written production of war as emotional experience occurs within a wider historical range of cultural and social practices.　

Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: A History of Emotions will be of interest to students of the history of emotions, the history of pre-modern war and war literature.

This will be a short talk intended for a general audience. It will be a small part of a wider event which will include poetry, film and song, and it will focus on the importance of tears and other watery offerings in late medieval devotional prose, particularly Passion narratives. It will begin by delineating the relationship between women and water both medically and theologically in the fourteenth century. It will then argue that in many Passion narratives and meditations, particularly those directed primarily at women, water becomes the means through which readers can participate, whether they are washing Christ's feet with their tears, weeping alongside Mary, cleaning the spit from his face or drinking the water and blood from his body.

The treatises on the soul or De anima texts written in the twelfth century by the monks of the Cistercian Order and the regular canons of the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Paris are significant because of the rich symbols, imagery and allegories they use to express the powers of the soul and its interconnectivity with the body. In this paper, I seek to add to histories of medieval memory by showing how the symbol of Jacob and his family chosen in two psychological texts - Isaac of Stella's Sermon 4 and Richard of Saint-Victor's De duodecim patriarchis - was not a random choice, but instead Jacob was utilised for his mnemonic role in helping Cistercian and Victorine novices to understand and interiorise the process of affectivity.

The date in the article's title hints at Virginia Woolf 's famous assertion that in this month "the human character had changed," a change that, according to Woolf, altered the forms of literary representation of subjective experience and marked the rise of twentieth-century modernist literature. Interestingly, in this month or in the month preceding it, the prominent Hebrew writer Y. H. Brenner published his Hebrew novella Nerves.
I argue that in the Jewish Hebrew context December 1910 marked precisely the decline of the early Hebrew modernist turn, parallel to the establishment of a new literary center for Hebrew literature in Eretz Yisrael. I first shed light on the story’s complex treatment of the figure of “nerves” and argue that through this figure Brenner’s story articulates the irresolvable tension between two forms of life as two forms of representation. I then contextualize the tensions inherent to the historical and poetic figure of nerves within the wider discussion of the process of decline of Hebrew modernist poetics at the very moment in which the language performed its national “return” to its native soil.

A conversation about anger in Shakespeare’s tragedy of ungoverned rage and its consequences, King Lear, featuring a group of veterans of the role at The Public Theater, including Sam Waterston, F. Murray Abraham, and James Earl Jones, in conversation with scholar Tanya Pollard and Public Shakespeare Initiative Director Michael Sexton.

By examining the representation of popular and inquisitorial forms of punishment in the works of Cervantes, this essay seeks to recover shame as an emotional register of lived experience in the early modern Mediterranean, an affect which has hitherto remained overshadowed by the abundance of critical literature on honor as well as by large-scale Mediterraneanizing studies.  The identification of an inquisitorial discourse of shaming in the episodes of Don Quijote’s encagement suggests the need, on the one hand, to reevaluate what twentieth-century anthropology denominated the “values” of Mediterranean society and, on the other, to rehabilitate local (hi)stories that are all marked by blood: the blood of shame’s blush; that which was shed through violent conflicts; and that which governed the politics of blood purity.

This article examines the function of the motif of tears in Rosalía de Castro's La hija del mar (Daughter of the Sea). In order to do this, an evolution is traced from the suppositions of the comédie larmoyante to the significance of weeping in the serialized novel. This opposition provokes questions regarding the nature of representation, models of imagination and sensibility proper to modern literature, and concepts of spatiality which prefigure the Foucauldian "thought from the outside". Through its parodic and self-reflexive elements, La hija del mar describes a poetics of weeping fundamentally removed from the enlightenment rationalization of sentiment.

Peter Rogers is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney (Aus-tralia). He has written widely on urban change including the books Resilience and the City: Security (Dis)order and Disaster and The Everyday Resilience of the City (with Jon Coaffee and David Murakami-Wood).

The purpose of this chapter is to unpack the internal process of emotional engineering behind the Cultural Revolution and argue that the transmission of Mao’s persecutory anxiety activated the persecutory feeling in the Chinese, which then manifested itself in people’s reactions. To address this issue, first, the theories of persecutory anxiety developed by Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein are selectively expanded on. The analytic part of the chapter shows how Mao Zedong was the key source of this anxiety and how—during the ten years before the Cultural Revolution—his sense of persecution subsequently intensified persecutory feelings among his people. Then, the persecutory anxiety transmission is shown with the use of selected newspaper and radio propaganda from the period. Next, the chapter’s focus shifts to the class struggle, the cult of Mao, and to the unleashing of people’s violence as manifestations of the masses’ psychic defences against persecutory anxiety and fear of death. The discussion is concluded by emphasising the psychical resonance between the leader and the masses as one of the chief contributions to the tragedy of the Cultural Revolution.

This paper takes its title, and its cue, from a well-known phrase written by Joyce in 1904: “a portrait is not an identificative paper, but rather the curve of an emotion” (Poems and Shorter Writings 11). My aim is to investigate the significance of a pre-modern theory of emotions for Joyce’s poetics. I begin by tracing a discourse on the dramatic passions in Joyce (as developed in his critical writings). I look at early texts such as “Drama and Life” and excerpts from “The Paris Notebook” in order to explore Joyce’s idea of the curve of an emotion as a pre-representational substrate of narrative. I then proceed to discuss Joyce’s treatment of tragic and comic emotions in the fiction (especially Ulysses and Finnegans Wake) in relation to salient motifs drawn from Hamlet. The bulk of the analysis will be a reading of “The Haunted Inkbottle” as a comic transposition of Hamlet’s discourse on tragic passions (especially Hamlet’s reflections on the truth of the passions in Act I). There will be ghosts, disjointed timelines, and, most importantly, a focus on mourning attire.