Literary Emotions Methodology Bibliography
(December 2013 DRAFT)
This should be considered as a work in progress. Please be sure to forward any additions to
Aleksondra Hultquist ahul@unimelb.edu.au for inclusion in later drafts of this bibliography.
Adams, Tracy. ‘Performing the Medieval Art of Love: Medieval Theories of the Emotions and the Social
Logic of the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris,’ Viator (2007): 55-74.
“AHR Conversation: The Historical Study of Emotions.” Participants: Nicole Eustace, Eugenia Lean, Julie
Livingston, Jan Plamper, William M. Reddy, and Barbara H. Rosenwein. American Historical Review. Dec
2012. 1487-1531.
Barker-Benfield, G.J. The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Barnes, Elizabeth. States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1997.
Bowers, Toni. “Erotic Love.” The History of British Women’s Writing, 1690-1750. Vol. 4 Ed. By Ros
Ballaster. (Basingstoke, UK: 2010), 201-214.
Dixon, Thomas. From Passions to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular Psychological Category.
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press, 2003).
Elster, Jon. Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
Eustace, Nicole. Passion is the Gale: Emotion, Power and the Coming of the American Revolution.
(Williamsburg, VA: Omohundro, 2008).
Goodman, Kevin. Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism. Cambridge UP, 2004.
Gregg, Melissa and Gregory J. Seigworth, eds. The Affect Theory Reader. Duke UP, 2010.
Gross, Daniel M., The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s ‘Rhetoric’ to Modern Brain Science.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Henderson, Andrea. “Mastery and Melancholy in Suburbia.” The Eighteenth Century, Volume 50, (2009),
221-244.
Histories of Print, Histories of Emotion. Special Issue of The Eighteenth-Century. Vol 50. No 2-3 (2009).
Jackson, Noel. Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry. Cambridge UP, 2011.
James, Susan. Passion and Action: The Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy. Oxford, Clarendon:
1997.
Lubey, Kathleen. Excitable Imaginations: Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660-1760. Lewisburg,PA:
Bucknell University Press, 2012.
McKenzie, Alan T. Certain Lively Episodes: The Articulation of Passion in Eighteenth-Century Prose.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990.
Sarah McNamer, ‘Feeling,’ Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature, ed. Paul Strohm (OUP,
2009), 241-257.
Nedijie, Bill. Story About Feeling. Ed. Keith Taylor. Magabala, 1989.
Ngai, Sianne. Ugly Feelings. Harvard UP, 2005.
Park ,Suzie. “Compulsory Narration, Sentimental Interface: Going through the Motions of Emotion.” The
Eighteenth Century, 50: 2-3, (2009), 165-183.
Pinch, Adela. Strange fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen. Stanford: Stanford
Univ. Press, 1996.
Plamper, Jan. “The History of Emotions: An Interview with William Reddy, Barbara Rosenwein, and
Peter Sterns.” History and Theory 49 (2010) 237-265.
Pope, Kenneth S. “Defining and Studying Romantic Love.” On Love and Loving. Ed. Kenneth S. Pope. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1980.
Punter, David. Writing the Passions. London: Longman, 2001.
Reddy, William M. The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2001.
———. The Making of Romantic c Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 9001200CE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Rosaldo, Michelle. ‘Toward an Anthropology of Self and Feeling.’ Culture Theory. Eds. Richard A.
Shweder and Robert A. LeVine. Cambridge UP, 198. 137-57.
Rosenwein, Barbara. Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2006.
Scheer, Monique. “Are Emotions a Kind of Practice (and what is it that makes the have a history)? A
Bourdieuian Approach to Understanding Emotion.” History and Theory 51 (2012) 193-220.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Duke UP 2003.
Stern, Julia A. The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Tomkins, Silvan. Shame and Her Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Adam
Frank eds. Duke UP 1995.
Tierney-Hynes, Rebecca. Novel Minds: Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740. Basingstoke:
Palgrave, 2012.
Van Sant, Ann Jessie. Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2004.