Richard C Sha

Biographic Data

ID1027059
NAMERichard C Sha
GIVEN NAMESRichard C
FAMILY NAMESha
SIGNATURESHA R C
AFFILIATIONSAmerican University
ORCID0000-0002-9135-8133
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Coupling Imagination with Emotion: Methodological Problems and Opportunities

    Richard C ShaARTICLEEmotions History Culture Society2024

    Coupling emotion and imagination can be very dangerous. In eighteenth-century Europe, the imagination’s tendency to fantasy was much feared. Adding emotion was and is risky. Yet there are ways to combine them without having to give up on imagination

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime

    Open AccessPatrick Glauthier, Dawn Hollis et al.BOOKCambridge Companion to the…2023

    This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion consid…

  • Event, Trauma, and Ethics in Wing Tek Lum’s The Nanjing Massacre

    Open AccessRichard C ShaARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2021References: 8

    Wing Tek Lum’s 2012 poetry collection The Nanjing Massacre raises vital questions about trauma. How do we know when a traumatic event begins? What cognitive options are open to victims of trauma? What are the ethical implications of our theories of trauma? I thus situate this volume between Bessel van der Kolk’s and Jacques Lacan’s theories of trauma because these poems challenge their key assumptions. Lum turns to poetry to think through how tra…

  • Elisabeth Roudinesco, Our Dark Side: A History of Perversion

    Richard C ShaARTICLESocial History of Medicine2010

    Historians of perversion must confront the issue of how capaciously to define the term. On the one hand, while a wide casting of the net will make perversion seem ubiquitous, when perversion is everywhere it might as well be nowhere. The analytical reach of the term diminishes in inverse proportion to its capaciousness. On the other hand, if a narrow definition offers precise conceptual tools, it threatens to marginalise perversion or mistake one…

  • Toward a Physiology of the Romantic Imagination

    Richard C ShaARTICLEConfigurations2009Cited by: 2

    If historicist studies have equated the Romantic imagination with ideology, this essay seeks to recover a physiological imagination. Such recovery will show that historicist studies of the imagination have not been historical enough. Even as physiology attempted to make a science out of the living as opposed to the dead, it turned to concepts like life, predisposition, and potentiality to give the imagination a curious immaterial materiality, one…

  • Vitalising The History Of Science

    Open AccessRichard C ShaARTICLEMetascience2006

  • Nerves: At the Intersection Between Science and Culture

    Open AccessRichard C ShaARTICLEMetascience2006

  • Medicalizing the Romantic Libido: Sexual Pleasure, Luxury, and the Public Sphere

    Richard C ShaARTICLENineteenth Century Contexts2005Cited by: 1References: 2

    I take as my point of departure Jurgen Habermas’s notion that the public sphere in the Eighteenth Century translated private vices into public virtues: from the intimate spaces of the conjugal fami

  • The Power of the English Nineteenth-Century Visual and Verbal Sketch: Appropriation, Discipline, Mastery

    Richard C Sha, Richard ShaARTICLENineteenth Century Contexts2002Cited by: 2References: 8

    (2002). The Power of the English Nineteenth-Century Visual and Verbal Sketch: Appropriation, Discipline, Mastery. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 73-100