Bradley J Irish
Biographic Data
| ID | 1458666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bradley J Irish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bradley J |
| FAMILY NAME | Irish |
| SIGNATURE | IRISH B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8021-6359 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Words in History of Emotion Research
With good reason, there is widespread consensus that words are at the heart of emotion history research: historians of emotion spend an enormous amount of time on lexical analysis, reconstructing and delineating the affective vocabularies of the past. While readily acknowledging the essentialness of our scholarly commitment to words, this commentary offers a friendly reminder that, in some cases, an overly rigid lexical approach risks distorting …
The Universality of Emotion
Not supplied by the author. This Element surveys how a number of major disciplines − psychology, neuroscience, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, linguistics, and literary/cultural studies − have addressed the long-standing research question of whether human emotions should be thought of as meaningfully 'universal.' The Element presents both the universalist and anti-universalist positions, and concludes by considering attempts to move…
Historical Neurodiversity Studies
In Emotion, Sense, Experience (2020), Rob Boddice and Mark Smith put forth a paradigm-shifting argument for how we might employ experience as a master category of historical analysis-one that sees matters of cognition, emotion, and sensation as crucially embraided in human subjectivity. Building on their foundation, this review essay imagines the possibilities of a historical neurodiversity studies, an outlook that sees human neurological diversi…
Introduction to the Special Issue
This introduces the special issue “Literature and Emotion.”
What’s in a Name
It pains me to write this, but lately I have been wondering: is it time to pull the plug on “literary universality”?I do not mean conceptually, of course. Professor Hogan has spent decades amassing indisputable evidence that literary universals exist. It is simply an empirical fact that many aspects of verbal art recur in genetically and areally distinct language traditions at a rate far greater than we would expect by chance. As far as I can tel…
A pre-Darwinian account of the facial expression of emotion
The study of emotional expression," it has recently been said, "has long been the provenance of scientific discovery and heated controversy" (Keltner et al., 2016, p. 467)-and nothing has been more central to this inquiry than attempts to understand the precise connection between affective experience and human facial expression. But as science moves forward, it is also wise to consider where it has been. This Brief Report reproduces a pre-Darwini…
Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture
A Strategic Compromise
Historians of emotion largely agree that their research can be usefully informed by interdisciplinary engagement with disciplines like psychology and neuroscience. There is, however, an immediate barrier to such interdisciplinary work: researchers in the affective sciences largely believe that human emotions are meaningfully universal, while historians of emotion overwhelmingly reject the concept of emotional universality. The current essay argue…
Gender and Politics in the Henrician Court
BL Additional MS 17492, the so-called Devonshire Manuscript of Henrician courtly verse, is a prime example of how social and cultural phenomena contributed to early modern manuscript culture. Among the treasures of the Devonshire MS is a series of lyrics that chronicles a fascinating courtly intrigue of the 1530s: the illicit, clandestine marriage of Lord Thomas Howard and Lady Margaret Douglas, the headstrong niece of Henry VIII. After unpacking…
A Strategic Compromise
Historians of emotion largely agree that their research can be usefully informed by interdisciplinary engagement with disciplines like psychology and neuroscience. There is, however, an immediate barrier to such interdisciplinary work: researchers in the affective sciences largely believe that human emotions are meaningfully universal, while historians of emotion overwhelmingly reject the concept of emotional universality. The current essay argue…
Gender and Politics in the Henrician Court
BL Additional MS 17492, the so-called Devonshire Manuscript of Henrician courtly verse, is a prime example of how social and cultural phenomena contributed to early modern manuscript culture. Among the treasures of the Devonshire MS is a series of lyrics that chronicles a fascinating courtly intrigue of the 1530s: the illicit, clandestine marriage of Lord Thomas Howard and Lady Margaret Douglas, the headstrong niece of Henry VIII. After unpacking…
A Strategic Compromise
Historians of emotion largely agree that their research can be usefully informed by interdisciplinary engagement with disciplines like psychology and neuroscience. There is, however, an immediate barrier to such interdisciplinary work: researchers in the affective sciences largely believe that human emotions are meaningfully universal, while historians of emotion overwhelmingly reject the concept of emotional universality. The current essay argue…
Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Introduction to the Special Issue
This introduces the special issue “Literature and Emotion.”
What’s in a Name
It pains me to write this, but lately I have been wondering: is it time to pull the plug on “literary universality”?I do not mean conceptually, of course. Professor Hogan has spent decades amassing indisputable evidence that literary universals exist. It is simply an empirical fact that many aspects of verbal art recur in genetically and areally distinct language traditions at a rate far greater than we would expect by chance. As far as I can tel…
A pre-Darwinian account of the facial expression of emotion
The study of emotional expression," it has recently been said, "has long been the provenance of scientific discovery and heated controversy" (Keltner et al., 2016, p. 467)-and nothing has been more central to this inquiry than attempts to understand the precise connection between affective experience and human facial expression. But as science moves forward, it is also wise to consider where it has been. This Brief Report reproduces a pre-Darwini…
Words in History of Emotion Research
With good reason, there is widespread consensus that words are at the heart of emotion history research: historians of emotion spend an enormous amount of time on lexical analysis, reconstructing and delineating the affective vocabularies of the past. While readily acknowledging the essentialness of our scholarly commitment to words, this commentary offers a friendly reminder that, in some cases, an overly rigid lexical approach risks distorting …
The Universality of Emotion
Not supplied by the author. This Element surveys how a number of major disciplines − psychology, neuroscience, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, linguistics, and literary/cultural studies − have addressed the long-standing research question of whether human emotions should be thought of as meaningfully 'universal.' The Element presents both the universalist and anti-universalist positions, and concludes by considering attempts to move…
Historical Neurodiversity Studies
In Emotion, Sense, Experience (2020), Rob Boddice and Mark Smith put forth a paradigm-shifting argument for how we might employ experience as a master category of historical analysis-one that sees matters of cognition, emotion, and sensation as crucially embraided in human subjectivity. Building on their foundation, this review essay imagines the possibilities of a historical neurodiversity studies, an outlook that sees human neurological diversi…
Psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History of Emotions Research (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)