Philipp Nielsen

Ute Frevert

Juliane Brauer

Michael Amico

Hannah Malone

Kerstin Maria Pahl

Francesco Buscemi

Agnes Arndt

Karsten Lichau

Julia Wambach

Caroline Moine

Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its effects. The sources range from parliamentary buildings and social movements, to images and speeches of presidents, from fascist cemeteries to the International Criminal Court. Both the timeframe and the geographical focus have been chosen to highlight the increasingly participatory character of nineteenth- and twentieth-century politics, which is inconceivable without the work of emotions.

Emotions and Institutions since 1789

Feeling Political

Daniel Morat

Filippo Carlà-Uhink

Christine Gundermann

Judith Keilbach

Thorsten Logge

Schlüsselbegriffe der Public History

Jan Plamper

Benno Gammerl

Pascal Eitler

Uffa Jensen

Stephanie Olsen

Bettina Hitzer

Margrit Pernau

Anja Laukötter

Daniel Brückenhaus

Magdalena Beljan

Joachim C. Häberlen

Learning How to Feel explores the ways in which children and adolescents learn not just how to express emotions that are thought to be pre-existing, but actually how to feel. The volume assumes that the embryonic ability to feel unfolds through a complex dialogue with the social and cultural environment and specifically through reading material. The fundamental formation takes place in childhood and youth. A multi-authored historical monograph, Learning How to Feel uses children's literature and advice manuals to access the training practices and learning processes for a wide range of emotions in the modern age, circa 1870-1970. The study takes an international approach, covering a broad array of social, cultural, and political milieus in Britain, Germany, India, Russia, France, Canada, and the United States. Learning How to Feel places multidirectional learning processes at the centre of the discussion, through the concept of practical knowledge. The book innovatively draws a framework for broad historical change during the course of the period. Emotional interaction between adult and child gave way to a focus on emotional interactions among children, while gender categories became less distinct. Children were increasingly taught to take responsibility for their own emotional development, to find 'authenticity' for themselves. In the context of changing social, political, cultural, and gender agendas, the building of nations, subjects and citizens, and the forging of moral and religious values, Learning How to Feel demonstrates how children were provided with emotional learning tools through their reading matter to navigate their emotional lives.

Children's Literature and Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970

Learning How to Feel

Juliane Brauer

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