Juxtaposing artistic and musical representations of the emotions with medical, philosophical and scientific texts in Western culture between the Renaissance and the twentieth century, the essays collected in this volume explore the ways in which emotions have been variously conceived, configured, represented and harnessed in relation to broader discourses of control, excess and refinement. Since the essays explore the interstices between disciplines (e.g. music and medicine, history of art and philosophy) and thereby disrupt established frameworks within the histories of art, music and medicine, traditional narrative accounts are challenged. Here larger historical forces come into perspective, as these papers suggest how both artistic and scientific representations of the emotions have been put to use in political, social and religious struggles, at a variety of different levels.
Author(s): Helen Hills, Penelope Gouk
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 256
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
1. Towards Histories of Emotions
2. Is There a Cultural History of the Emotions?
3. Emotions into Words—Or Words into Emotions?
Part II: Emotions and Religious Belief
4. Bodies of Self-Transcendence: The Spirit of Affect in Giotto and Piero
5. Architecture and Affect: Leon Battista Alberti and Edification
6. Spiritual Passion and the Betrayal of Painting in Georges de la Tour
7. Changing Emotions? The Decline of Original Sin on the Eve of the Enlightenment
Part III: Emotions and the Body
8. The Man of Passion: Emotion, Philosophy and Sexual Difference
9. A Woman Weeps: Hogarth’s Sigismunda (1759) and the Aesthetics of Excess
10. Remuer l’Âme or Plaire à l’Oreille? Music, Emotions and the Mind–Body Problem in French Writings of the Later Eighteenth Century
Part IV: Emotions and Discipline
11. Music’s Pathological and Therapeutic Effects on the Body Politic: Doctor John Gregory’s Views
12. The Undulating Self: The Rhythmic Conception of Music and the Emotions
13. Dangerous Liaisons: Science, Amusement and the Civilizing Process
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Index
