Honour, violence and emotions in history / / edited by Carolyn Strange, Robert Cribb and Christopher E. Forth

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910511656303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New Delhi ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-4725-1949-3; 1-4742-1075-9; 1-4725-1948-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.609
• Soggetti: Emotions; Honor; Psychohistory; Violence; War - Causes
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments -- 1. Historical Perspectives on Honour, Violence, and Emotion Carolyn Strange (Australian National University) and Robert Cribb (Australian National University) -- 2. The Severed Head Speaks: Death, Revenge, Moral Heroism, and Martyrdom in 16th - 17th century China C.D. Alison Bailey (University of British Columbia, Canada) -- 3. From Honour to Virtue: The Shifting Social Logics of Masculinity and Honour in Early Modern Sweden Jonas Liliequist (Umeå University, Sweden) -- 4. 'For the shame of the World, and fear of her Mother's Anger': Emotion and Child Murder in England and Scotland in the Long Eighteenth Century Dana Rabin (University of Illinois, USA) -- 5. 'Unbridled Passions', Honour and Status in Late 18TH Century Cape Town Nigel Worden (University of Cape Town, South Africa) -- 6. Death on a River: Honour and Violence in an Australian Penal Colony, 1826-7 Penny Russell (University of Sydney, Australia) -- 7. Of Clubs and Whiskers: Young Men, Honour, and Violence in the Backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1865-1889 Martha S. Santos (University of Akron, USA) -- 8. Emotion, Gender and Honour in a Fin-de-Siècle Crime of ; Passion: The Case of Marie Bière Eliza Earle Ferguson (University of New Mexico, USA) -- 9. Deeper than the Death: Chaste Suicide, Emotions, and Politics of Honour in Nineteenth-Century Korea Jungwon Kim (Columbia University, USA) -- 10. How the Duel of Honour Promoted Civility and Attenuated Violence in Western Europe Robert A. Nye (Oregon State University, USA) -- Afterword Carolyn Strange -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Honour, Violence and Emotions in History is the first book to draw on emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship on the study of emotions to analyse the history of honour and violence across a broad range of cultures and regions. Written by leading cultural and social historians from around the world, the book considers how emotions - particularly shame, anger, disgust, jealousy, despair and fear - have been provoked and expressed through culturally-embedded and historically specific understandings of honour. The collection explores a range of contexts, from 17th-century China to 18th-century South Africa and 20th-century Europe, offering a broad and wide-ranging analysis of the interrelationships between honour, violence and emotions in history. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to all researchers studying the relationship between violence and the emotions."--Bloomsbury Publishing.