Full Description
Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment explores the historical and plural character of sensibility in the Global Enlightenment.
From Tahiti to New Orleans to the Mariana Islands; to Lima, Geneva, London, Oviedo, or Venice, the book investigates how sensibility was brandished by different ethnic, political, and cultural groups to define their identities; how cross-cultural and cross-chronological encounters reconfigured ideas of gendered selves; how sexuality was used to empower or subjugate non-European ethnicities; and how the circulation of theories about the origin of emotions and taste reinforced or challenged hegemonic ideas of masculinity and femininity.
With a primary focus on Southern Europe and the Hispanic World, areas still not well-charted, this edited collection explores the varied forms in which notions of sensibilities circulated within Europe and between Europe, the Americas, and the Hispanic-Asian Pacific, questioning normative and diffusionist views.
Histories of Sensibilities is aimed at postgraduate students and scholars researching the histories of literature and science, cultural studies, the history of emotions, gender studies, and women's history; as well as scholars of Hispanic studies, Latin-America studies, and European studies.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives (CC-BY-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
Introduction: Intersecting Histories of Sensibility and Emotion: A Plural Legacy Section I. Making Sense, Making Difference 1. Androginopolis or the Racialization of the Peruvian Strange Society 2. Embodied Colonial Experiences of Enlightenment: Pierre Bailly's Defense of Equality and Citizenship. A Free Mulatto's Voice in Spanish New Orleans (1791-1794) 3. Sensibility on Stage: Gender, Race, and the Modulations of Feeling in the Hispanic Theatre 4. Sweet Affinities: The Gendering of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Spain 5. Quivering Hearts: The Intimate Union of Bodies and Souls 6. Rewriting Romantic Love: Women, Celebrity, and the Politics of Emotion in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Spain (Avellaneda's Farewell) Section II. Crossing Contexts, Unsettling Sensibilities 7. Performing Sensibilities: Women's Voices in a Transnational and Transatlantic Correspondence of the Enlightenment 8. Translating Transgender and Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Mediatic Ecosystem of Transmission, Reworking, and Perception of The Brief Story of Catterina Vizzani 9. Hidden or Forbidden: Taboo, Circumnavigation, and Women in New Cythera (1768) 10. Vicious Sensibilities: The Role of Ethnosexual Violence in the Patriarchalization of Tåno' Låguas yan Gåni (the Mariana Islands) during the Eighteenth Century 11. Entangled Sensibilities and the Broken Circulation of Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein: Gender, Race, and Otherness
