Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment explores the historical character of sensibility in the global Enlightenment. It is aimed at postgraduate students and scholars researching histories of literature and science, cultural studies, history of emotions, and gender studies.
Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment explores the historical and plural character of sensibility in the global Enlightenment.
From Tahiti, to New Orleans to the Mariana Islands; to Lima, Geneva, London, Oviedo, or Venice, the book investigates how sensibility was brandished by different ethnical, political, and cultural groups to define their identities; how cross-cultural and cross-chronological encounters reconfigured ideas of gendered selves; how sexuality was used to empower or subjugate non-European ethnicities and how the circulation of local concepts of the physiology of emotions and taste reinforced or challenged hegemonic ideas of masculinity and femininity.
With a primary focus on Southern Europe and the Hispanic World, areas still not well-charted, this edited collection explores the varied forms in which notions of sensibilities circulated within Europe and between Europe, the Americas, and the Hispanic-Asian Pacific, questioning normative and diffusionist views.
Histories of Sensibilities is aimed at postgraduate students and scholars researching histories of literature and science, cultural studies, history of emotions, gender studies, and womens history; as well as scholars of Hispanic Studies, Latin-America Studies, and European Studies.
Introduction: Intersecting Histories of Sensibility and Emotion: A
Plural Legacy Section I. Making Sense, Making Difference
1. Androginopolis or
the Racialization of the Peruvian Strange Society
2. Embodied Colonial
Experiences of Enlightenment: Pierre Baillys Defense of Equality and
Citizenship. A Free Mulattos Voice in Spanish New Orleans (17911794)
3.
Sensibility on Stage: Gender, Race, and the Modulations of Feeling in the
Hispanic Theatre
4. Sweet Affinities: The Gendering of Taste in
Eighteenth-Century Spain
5. Quivering Hearts: The Intimate Union of Bodies
and Souls
6. Rewriting Romantic Love: Women, Celebrity, and the Politics of
Emotion in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Spain (Avellanedas Farewell) Section II.
Crossing Contexts, Unsettling Sensibilities
7. Performing Sensibilities:
Womens Voices in a Transnational and Transatlantic Correspondence of the
Enlightenment
8. Translating Transgender and Sensibility in
Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Mediatic Ecosystem of Transmission, Reworking,
and Perception of The Brief Story of Catterina Vizzani
9. Hidden or
Forbidden: Taboo, Circumnavigation, and Women in New Cythera (1768)
10.
Vicious Sensibilities: The Role of Ethnosexual Violence in the
Patriarchalization of Tåno Låguas yan Gåni (the Mariana Islands) during the
Eighteenth Century
11. Entangled Sensibilities and the Broken Circulation of
Mary W. Shelleys Frankenstein: Gender, Race, and Otherness
Isabel Burdiel is Professor of History at the Universitat de Valčncia (Spain) and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia (UK). She is a specialist in the political and cultural history of European liberalism. Her book Isabel II. Una biografķa won the National Prize of History (Spain) in 2011. She is the author of the first critical edition in Spanish of Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein (1996).
Ester Garcķa Moscardó is Assistant Professor at the UNED in Madrid (Spain), and has been Postdoctoral Researcher in CIRGEN (ERC AdG-707815) at the Universitat de Valčncia (Spain). Her current research focuses on the construction of racial and gender imaginaries within the culture of sensibility and their reworking throughout the nineteenth century.
Elena Serrano is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Institut dHistņria de la Cičncia (Universitat Autņnoma de Barcelona, Spain). She has published on Enlightened female networks, gender and the history of science, and the history of science and emotions. Her last book is Ladies of Honor and Merit: Gender, Useful Knowledge and Politics in Enlightened Spain (2022).
