Jeanette Winterson was walking through Amsterdam ‘one snowy Christmas, when the weather had turned the canals into oblongs of ice’. She says: ‘I was wandering happily, alone, playing the flaneur, when I passed a little gallery and in the moment … Continue reading
Jade Shepherd has recently completed her PhD on male patients in Victorian Broadmoor at the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions, and is one of the interviewees in a new Channel 5 series, ‘Inside Broadmoor’. Here she … Continue reading
Dr Thomas Dixon is the Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London. Here he writes about the representations of tears and weeping in Shakespeare’s first tragedy. I have been researching the … Continue reading
Professor William M. Reddy is William T. Laprade Professor of History and Professor of Cultural Anthropology, at Duke University. Here he responds to the reviews of his book by Katherine Clark, David Lederer and Hera Cook for the History of Emotions Blog. Thanks to Thomas … Continue reading
Dr Hera Cook is an historian of emotions and sexuality at the University of Otago, Wellington, with current interests in emotional management and inequality. Here she reviews William Reddy’s new book for the History of Emotions Blog. William Reddy is a historian whose work … Continue reading
Dr David Lederer is an historian of medicine, madness, sexuality, and religion, especially in the early modern period, at NUI Maynooth. Here he reviews William Reddy’s new book, for the History of Emotions Blog. During the Summer of Love in San … Continue reading
Dr Katherine Clark is a medieval historian at the College at Brockport, State University of New York. Here she reviews William Reddy’s new book for the History of Emotions Blog. William Reddy ends his study of the emergence of romantic love … Continue reading
William M. Reddy is a pioneer historian of the emotions. His 2001 book, The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions is one of the landmarks in the field. His most recent book, The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and … Continue reading
Laura Doan, Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality and Women’s Experience of Modern War, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Reviewed by Jane Mackelworth ‘The problem for the historian of sexuality is how to explore the sexual past, even the … Continue reading
In the last week of November, Live Like A Stoic Week is happening for the second year. Everyone who is interested in Stoicism, or who practices it today, is encouraged to take part, get involved in an event or activity, … Continue reading