Epistolary emotions
Exploring amorous hinterlands in 1870s southern Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11933767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michel Seymour (0000-0002-2441-9629, University of Otago, corresponding author), Mark Seymour (0000-0003-3545-7070) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 148-164 |
| Publication date | 2010-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-1022 • E-ISSN: 1470-1200 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03071021003719139 |
| OpenAlex | W2044396676 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Drawing upon a chance find of a cache of love-letters penned by Italian women in the late nineteenth century, this article investigates an emotional landscape that is rarely documented in the archives: the amorous feelings of ordinary women. The writers were anonymous, literate and presumably fairly well-to-do women from various regions in the southern half of Italy. Each of them had an intensely emotional correspondence with a man who toured the provinces in his professional capacity as an equestrian artiste. We know much about the extent to which women were constrained in the nineteenth century, particularly in Mediterranean societies, but we know less about how they experienced and expressed their emotions within those constraints, or how those feelings and expressions reflected or circumvented prevailing cultural models. Ultimately, using a small but valuable sample of evidence, the article aims to show how sensitivity to emotions as an historical category can open new vistas on the subjective hinterlands of the past
Feeling · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · History of Emotions Research · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |