Contents

pp v-vi

List of Contributors

pp vii-x

List of Figures

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp 1-6

I - Theoretical Issues

1 - Theories of Change in the History of Emotions

pp 7-20

2 - Ottoman Love: Preface to a Theory of Emotional Ecology

pp 21-48

II - Emotional Repertoires

3 - Preachers, Saints, and Sinners: Emotional Repertoires in High Medieval Religious Role Models

pp 49-64

4 - Theology and Interiority: Emotions as Evidence of the Working of Grace in Elizabethan and Stuart Conversion Narratives

pp 65-78

5 - ‘Finer’ Feelings: Sociability, Sensibility and the Emotions of Gens de Lettres in Eighteenth-Century France

pp 79-94

III - Music and Art

6 - Music as Wonder and Delight: Construction of Gender in Early Modern Opera through Musical Representation and Arousal of Emotions

pp 95-104

7 - Politesse and Sprezzatura: The History of Emotions in the Art of Antoine Watteau

pp 105-118

IV - Gender, Sexuality and the Body

8 - Emotions and Gender: The Case of Anger in Early Modern English Revenge Tragedies

pp 119-134

9 - Beauty, Masculinity and Love Between Men: Configuring Emotions with Michael Drayton's Peirs Gaveston

pp 135-152

10 - ‘Pray, Dr, is there Reason to Fear a Cancer?’ Fear of Breast Cancer in Early Modern Britain

pp 153-166

V - Uses of Emotions

11 - The Little Girl who could not Stop Crying: The Use of Emotions as Signifiers of True Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Greenland

pp 167-180

12 - The Political Rhetoric of Tears in Early Modern Sweden

pp 181-206

Notes

pp 207-250

Index

pp 251-259