Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy Across the British Empire

by Jane Lydon

Book Overview

Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on the role of the compassionate emotions, or what today we refer to as empathy, and how they created relations across empire. Jane Lydon examines how empathy was produced, qualified and contested, including via the fear and anger aroused by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108498361
• ISBN13: 9781108498364
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.3" x 6.6"