Why read Emotional Arenas?

Book cover of Emotional Arenas: Life, Love, and Death in 1870s Italy

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Based on the records of a murder trial that transfixed all of Italy in the late 1870s, this study makes use of a dramatic court case to develop a new paradigm for the history of emotions - the 'emotional arena'. Set in the decade following Italian unification, the context was…

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1 author picked Emotional Arenas as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Barbara H. Rosenwein

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To the many approaches of modern historians—the emotional standards of the Stearnses, the emotional regimes of Reddy, the emotional communities of my own work—Mark Seymour here adds an important dimension, a study of the places and media in which emotions are expressed, from the courtroom to the love letter. He shows not only how emotions aroused by one venue may mean different things to different people, but also how the clash of such emotions may help modify and mold new forms of emotional expression and create new objects of emotional focus.

From Barbara's list on the history of emotions.