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

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Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
	1. Towards Histories of Emotions
	2. Is There a Cultural History of the Emotions?
	3. Emotions into Words—Or Words into Emotions?
Part II: Emotions and Religious Belief
	4. Bodies of Self-Transcendence: The Spirit of Affect in Giotto and Piero
	5. Architecture and Affect: Leon Battista Alberti and Edification
	6. Spiritual Passion and the Betrayal of Painting in Georges de la Tour
	7. Changing Emotions? The Decline of Original Sin on the Eve of the Enlightenment
Part III: Emotions and the Body
	8. The Man of Passion: Emotion, Philosophy and Sexual Difference
	9. A Woman Weeps: Hogarth’s Sigismunda (1759) and the Aesthetics of Excess
	10. Remuer l’Âme or Plaire à l’Oreille? Music, Emotions and the Mind–Body Problem in French Writings of the Later Eighteenth Century
Part IV: Emotions and Discipline
	11. Music’s Pathological and Therapeutic Effects on the Body Politic: Doctor John Gregory’s Views
	12. The Undulating Self: The Rhythmic Conception of Music and the Emotions
	13. Dangerous Liaisons: Science, Amusement and the Civilizing Process
Select Bibliography
Index