Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music and Medicine

Contents

• Contents: Introduction: Towards histories of emotions, Penelope Gouk and Helen Hills
• Is there a cultural history of the emotions?, Peter Burke
• Emotions into words-or words into emotions?, Graham Richards. Emotions and Religious Belief: Bodies of self-transcendence: the spirit of affect in Giotto and Piero della Francesca, Michael Schwartz
• Architecture and affetti: Alberti and edification, Helen Hills
• Spiritual passion and the betrayal of painting in Georges de La Tour, Dalia Judovitz
• Changing emotions? The decline of Original Sin on the eve of the Enlightenment, Michael Heyd. Emotions and the Body: The man of passion: emotion, philosophy and sexual difference, Christine Battersby
• A woman weeps: Hogarth's Sigismunda (1759) and the aesthetics of excess, Marcia Pointon
• Remuer l'Acme or plaire A l'oreille? Music, emotions and the mind-body problem in French writings of the later 18th century, Christopher GArtner. Emotions and Discipline: Music's pathological and therapeutic effects on the body politic: Doctor John Grego
• The undulating self: the rhythmic conception of music and the emotions in Anglo-American evolutionary thought, Charles Brotman
• Dangerous liaisons: science, amusement, and the civilizing process, Otniel E. Dror
• Bibliography
• Index.