Early Modern Emotions: An Introduction

Early Modern Emotions is a student-friendly introduction to the concepts, approaches and sources used to study emotions in the early modern period, and to the perspectives that analysis of the history of emotions can offer early modern studies more broadly. The volume is divided into four sections that guide students through the key processes and practices employed in current research on the history of emotions. Each section offers short, accessible commentaries providing students new to the history of emotions the tools to begin their own investigations. This book is the perfect starting point for any student wishing to study early modern emotions.

Author: Susan Broomhall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/16/2016
Pages: 386
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781138925755

About the Author

Susan Broomhall is Professor of Early Modern History at The University of Western Australia and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow attached to the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Previous works on emotions include (as editor) Spaces for Feeling: Emotions and Sociabilities in Britain, 1650-1850 (2015) and Gender and Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Destroying Order, Structuring Disorder (2015).