New Directions in History of Emotion and Affect Theory in Eighteenth-Century Studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 762-770
Author(s):  
Aleksondra Hultquist
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
History Of Emotion ◽  
New Directions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Emotion And Affect

An Introduction to Bourgeois Tragedy

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Alex Eric Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Early Modernity ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
History Of Emotion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
And Performance

This Introduction situates bourgeois tragedy in relation to the period’s literature, social history, and critical theories of tragedy. Against claims of tragedy’s demise in the period, it argues that depictions of middle-rank misfortune formed a vital body of text and performance in the eighteenth century, encompassing not only the drama but also early novels and other cognate forms concerned with the serious representation of what it defines as “ordinary suffering.” Briefly tracing the genre’s history, and reflecting upon the conditions of its emergence in early modernity, the Introduction recuperates these texts as part of a more capacious canon of tragedy that predated and therefore complicates post-Kantian philosophies of the tragic. In doing so, it reads the enactment, depiction, and discourse of everyday affliction enabled by this genre in light of contemporary work on affect theory and the history of emotion. It concludes with an outline of the chapters to follow.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Benedict S. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Faculty Psychology ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
History Of Emotion ◽  
History Of

This chapter describes the largest historical, theoretical, and methodological claims of Passion’s Fictions: that in the early modern period a rhetoric of the passions destabilized a received faculty psychology, only to be itself absorbed into new natural histories of the passions; that the concept of passion in the early modern period was crucially shaped by rhetoric, with its account of passion as a situated, worlded, object-oriented mode of cognition; that the rhetoric of the passions centered on an account of narrative as a mode of the knowledge of the passions in their world-bound particularity; that rhetoric also shaped emerging forms of literary production, from Shakespeare’s drama to the rise of the novel; and that literary studies needs to attend to the active role of its own material in the history of the psychology of the passions. The chapter also situates the arguments made in Passion’s Fictions with respect to a series of related areas of inquiry: the history of emotion; affect theory; cognitive cultural studies; the history of philosophy; and the history of science. Overall, it aims to show the intimate links between literature and the sciences of soul and mind through the whole period from 1500 to 1800, and it makes the case that literary history is a crucial territory for investigating changing ways of thinking about the passions, not just in the rarefied space of philosophical and scientific debate but also in broader areas of discourse and culture.

A history of botanical collections in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-291
Author(s):  
P.S.M. PHIRI ◽  
D.M. MOORE
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Peak Activity ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Made In

Central Africa remained botanically unknown to the outside world up to the end of the eighteenth century. This paper provides a historical account of plant explorations in the Luangwa Valley. The first plant specimens were collected in 1897 and the last serious botanical explorations were made in 1993. During this period there have been 58 plant collectors in the Luangwa Valley with peak activity recorded in the 1960s. In 1989 1,348 species of vascular plants were described in the Luangwa Valley. More botanical collecting is needed with a view to finding new plant taxa, and also to provide a satisfactory basis for applied disciplines such as ecology, phytogeography, conservation and environmental impact assessment.

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