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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.
List 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 Moritz's 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
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.
Summary
Examining the material aspects of emotion, this volume encompasses technology, photography, aesthetics, and a variety of other historical themes in an innovative application of emotion studies. Feelings Materialized brings together an interdisciplinary group of Germanists to unveil the emotions embedded in the world of things and bodies.
