Usually following a conference, I write some kind of post-conference report, where I reflect on the conversations and ideas that the conference provoked and discussed. For the recent ISCH conference on ‘Senses, Emotions & the Affective Turn Recent Perspectives and New Challenges in Cultural History’, I want to do something a little different. Instead of the report format, I want to compile a bibliography of texts that I made note of speakers referencing. As I’m currently writing my monograph on the relationship between domestic material culture, sociabilities, and emotions between 1750-1850, this list has already been a hugely useful bibliography for my own research, but I had a sense as I was compiling it, that it might also be of use to a broader audience interested in state of the history of the emotions today.
This by no means represents a complete bibliography, as the conference had many parallel sessions, and I was only able to attend two days, but it will hopefully give a sense of some of the scholarship that presenters were using to construct their paper’s critical frameworks, and thereby a sense of how the history of the emotions is ‘being done’ at this present moment.
Day 1
Panel ‘Emotions in Research’
Emily Robinson, ‘Touching the void: Affective history and the impossible’, The Journal of Theory and Practice, 14:4 (2010), 503-520.
Carolyn Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman (Rutgers University Press, 1987)
Joan W. Scott, ‘The Evidence of Experience’, Critical Inquiry, 17:4 (Summer, 1991), 773-797.
Andy Wood, The memory of the people: custom and popular senses of the past in early modern England (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Keynote 1
Erin Sullivan, ‘Art and the Emotional Historian’
Firstly, some relevant publications by Sullivan:
Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England (Oxford University Press, 2016)
(edited, with Richard Meek) The Renaissance of Emotion: Understanding Affect in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Manchester University Press, 2015)
(with Susan Brock and Greg Wells) ‘The Melancholy Earl: Sir William Herbert in the Medical Cases Notes of Dr Barker of Shrewsbury’, Notes and Queries 63:4 (2016)
‘Melancholy’, in Early Modern Emotions: An Introduction, ed. Susan Broomhall (Routledge, 2017)
‘Shakespeare and Emotion: A Review Essay’, in Cahiers Élisabéthains 87 (2015)
‘The History of the Emotions: Past, Present, Future’, Cultural History 2:1 (2013)
‘”The Watchful Spirit”: Religious Anxieties toward Sleep in the Notebooks of Nehemiah Wallington’, Cultural History 1:1 (2012) – winner of the 2011 International Society for Cultural History Essay Prize
‘A Disease unto Death: Sadness in the Time of Shakespeare’, in Emotions and Health, 1200-1700, ed. by Elena Carrera, Brill (Brill, 2013)
Peter Burke, ‘Is there a Cultural History of the Emotions?’ in Penelope Gouk and Helen Hills (eds.), Representing Emotions (Aldershot, 2005)
William M. Reddy, The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE. (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2012)
Thomas Dixon, Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages (1919)
Reddy, William M. “Against Constructionism: The Historical Ethnography of Emotions.” Current Anthropology 38 (1997), 327-351.
Rosenwein, Barbara H. “Worrying about Emotions in History.” The American Historical Review (2002).
Peter N. Stearns and Carol Z. Stearns, ‘Emotionology: Clarifying the History of Emotions and Emotional Standards’, The American Historical Review, 90:4 (October, 1985), 813-836.
Keith Oatley, Emotions: A Brief History (Wiley, 2004)
Stephanie Trigg, Shame and Honor: A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
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Melissa Greg, The Affect Theory Reader (Duke University Press, 2010)
Susan J. Matt, Peter N. Stearns, Doing Emotions History (University of Illinois Press, 2013)
Panel ‘Materialising Love and Loss: Objects and Identity in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain’
Marcia Pointon, ‘”Surrounded with Brilliants”: Miniature Portraits in Eighteenth-Century England, The Art Bulletin, 83:1 (March, 2001), 48-71
Annette Weiner, Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While-Giving (1992)
Anna Moran, Sorcha O’Brien, Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Diana O’hara, ‘The Language of Tokens and the Making of Marriage’, Rural History, 3:1 (1992), 1-40
Diana O’hara, Courtship and constraint: Rethinking the making of marriage in Tudor England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002)
Neil McKendrick, John Brewer, John Harold Plumb, The birth of a consumer society: the commercialization of eighteenth-century England (Europa Publications, 1982)
John Brewer and Roy Porter, eds. Consumption and the World of Goods (Routledge, 1993)
Anne Gerritsen, Giorgio Riello, eds. The Global Lives of Things: The Material Culture of Connections in the Early Modern World (Routledge, 2015)
Cynthia Wall, The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2006)
Frank Trentmann, Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First, (London: Allen Lane/Penguin; New York: HarperCollins 2016)
Michael Brown, ‘Cold Steel, Weak Flesh’: Mechanism, Masculinity and the Anxieties of Late Victorian Empire’, CULTURAL & SOCIAL HISTORY, 14: 2 (2017)
Michael Brown, ‘Surgery and Emotion: The Era Before Anaesthesia’, The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery. T. Schlich ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Matthew McCormack, Embodying the Militia in Georgian England (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Sarah Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion (Routledge, 2007)
Philip Shaw, Suffering and Sentiment in Romantic Military Art (Ashgate, 2013)
Holly Furneaux, and Prichard, S. ‘Contested objects: curating soldier art. Museum & Society 13:4 (2015), 447-461.
Holly Furneaux, Military men of feeling: masculinity, emotion and tactility in the Crimean War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Day 2
Keynote 2
Barbara H. Rosenwein, ‘Affect Theory’s Convergences and Conundrums’
Relevant publications by Rosenwein:
Anger’s Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 1998)
Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 2006)
Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions 600-1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
“Problems and Methods in the History of Emotions,” Passions in Context: Journal of the History and Philosophy of the Emotions, 1:1 (2010)
Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Pan Macmillan, 2017)
Magda Arnold, Emotion and personality (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960)
Bruce R. Smith, The Key of Green: PASSION AND PERCEPTION IN RENAISSANCE CULTURE (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)
Brian Massumi, Politics of Affect (John Wiley & Sons, 2015)
Nicole Eustace, Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution (UNC Press Books, 2012)
Nicole Eustace, 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
Panel: The affective turn in the history of the East-West encounter
Elsbeth Locher-Scholten, Women and the Colonial State: Essays on Gender and Modernity in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942 (Amsterdam University Press, 2000)
Kartini (Raden Adjeng), Kartini: The Complete Writings 1898-1904 (Monash University Publishing, 2014)
Panel: Motherhood, medicine and the emotions
Laura Gowing, Common bodies : women, touch and power in seventeenth-century England (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2002)
Laura Gowing, Gender Relations in Early Modern England (Pearson Longman, 2012)
Adrian Wilson, ‘THE PERILS OF EARLY MODERN PROCREATION: CHILDBIRTH WITH OR WITHOUT FEAR?’ Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 16 (1993), 1–19
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