Emotional Bodies: The Historical Performativity of Emotions

What do emotions actually do? Recent work in the history of emotions and its intersections with cultural studies and new materialism has produced groundbreaking revelations around this fundamental question. In Emotional Bodies, contributors pick up these threads of inquiry to propose a much-needed theoretical framework for further study of materiality of emotions, with an emphasis on emotions' performative nature. Drawing on diverse sources...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252084713
• ISBN13: 9780252084713
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"