Overview
Offers new comparative and cross-cultural perspectives on emotions and passions in early modern Asia and Europe
Focuses on diverse non-fictional genres
Features primary materials that have not been studied before, including new translations
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Writing Emotion: Problems and Strategies
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Personal Memoirs: From Elite to Popular Expressions
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book addresses the distinct representations of emotions in non-fictional texts from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century (1600-1850). Focusing on memoirs, autobiographies, correspondences and conduct manuals, it argues that in those writings, passions and emotions are differently expressed than in fiction. It also offers a comparative study of texts from cultures as diverse as English, French, Korean and Chinese, and of emotions in relation to genre, identity, and morality during significant cultural transformation of the early modern period. This book is distinctive in its choice of non-fictional genres, its period, and its cross-cultural approach. It can benefit scholars interested in exploring emotion as a historical and cultural product, and in enriching their knowledge of an emerging scholarly direction: studies in self-narratives (autobiography, memoirs, dream narratives, letters, etc.) often insufficiently explored in earlier historical periods.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Malina Stefanovska is Professor of French Literature in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA, USA, specializing in 16-18th-century French literature and culture, in particular memoirs, autobiographies and other “ego texts.”
Yinghui Wu is assistant professor of Chinese literature at UCLA, USA, specializing in 16-18th-century Chinese literature and culture, in particular drama, print culture, and the interaction of text, sound, and visual media.
Marie-Paule de Weerdt-Pilorge is Professor of French Literature at the Université de Tours, France, specializing in 18th century literature, in particular the genre of memoirs and autobiographies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emotions in Non-Fictional Representations of the Individual, 1600-1850
Book Subtitle: Between East and West
Editors: Malina Stefanovska, Yinghui Wu, Marie-Paule de Weerdt-Pilorge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84005-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84004-4Published: 20 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84007-5Published: 21 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84005-1Published: 01 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 199
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literature, general, Literary History, Eighteenth-Century Literature