Routledge Studies in Cultural History- Emotions as Engines of History

Driven by their curiosity about how emotional catalysts function in history, the volume’s authors offer a collection of texts that give insight into the emotional aspects of particular events, processes, texts, and works of history; they show how history happens because of emotions. Seeking to bridge the gap between various approaches to the study of emotions, this volume aims at a multidisciplinary examination of connections between emotions and history and the ways in which these connections have manifested themselves in historiography, cultural, and literary studies. The book offers a selected range of insights into the idea of emotions, affects, and emotionality as driving forces and agents of change in history. The fifteen essays it comprises probe into the emotional motives and dispositions behind both historical phenomena and the ways they were narrated.