Feelings Materialized
Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500-1950
Published on 1. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
286 pages
978-1-83695-067-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"All in all, the strength of this collection lies in the theoretical reflexions on the link between physicality and emotions as shown in the different examples. The concept of materiality is in most contributions seen as closely linked with physicality. The publication thus follows on from existing research on the history of emotions as the history of the body and sheds light on new facets of this area of historical and literary studies." * Dr. Anne Mariss in H-Soz-Kult"This book offers much insight into the relationships between the body and emotion and the ways in which humans are emotionally influenced by spaces and things. With its call to go beyond studies of emotion and language and examine the embodied nature of emotion and the involvement of objects in emotional practices, Feelings Materialized is certain to inspire future work in the field of historical emotion studies." * The German Quarterly
"This important contribution to the study of emotions opens up an interesting, theoretically valid, and yet largely overlooked area of the field. The editors have produced a stimulating collection that will inspire further discussion of the bodily and material dimensions of emotion." * Agnes Arndt, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
12 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
421 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83695-067-7 (9781836950677)
DOI
10.3167/9781789205510
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Derek Hillard | Heikki Lempa | Russell A. Spinney
Feelings Materialized
Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500-1950
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1st Edition
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Derek Hillard | Heikki Lempa | Russell A. Spinney
Feelings Materialized
Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500-1950
E-Book
01/2020
1st Edition
Berghahn Books
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Available for download
Persons
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 Doeblin and Ernst Juenger.
Content
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 Froebel
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
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 Froebel
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