 | Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music and Medicine Subjects: Arts; Humanities; Language & Literature; Art & Visual Culture; Music; History; Literature; Early Modern History 1500-1750; History of Medicine; Western Music Styles (Early & Classical); Literature by Period; Juxtaposing artistic and musical representations of the emotions with medical, philosophical and scientific texts in Western culture between the Renaissance and the twentieth century, the essays collected in this volume explore the ways in which emotions have been variously conceived, configured, represented and harnessed in relation to broader discourses of control, excess and refinement. Since the essays explore the interstices between disciplines (e.g. music and medicine, history of art and philosophy) and thereby disrupt established frameworks within the histories of art, music and medicine, traditional narrative accounts are challenged. Here larger historical forces come into perspective, as these papers suggest how both artistic and scientific representations of the emotions have been put to use in political, social and religious struggles, at a variety of different levels. Penelope Gouk, Emerita, University of Manchester. Her recent publications include Musical Healing in Cultural Contexts, and she is currently writing about changing medical explanations for music's effects between the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Helen Hills is Professor of Art History at the University of York, UK. She has published widely on seventeenth-century Italian architecture, including Invisible City: the architecture of devotion in aristocratic convents in baroque Naples, and is the editor of Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe. |
