Honour, Violence and Emotions in History

Editor(s): Carolyn Strange, Robert Cribb, Christopher E. Forth



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.

Table of contents

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
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