Representing emotions : new connections in the histories of art, music and medicine / edited by Penelope Gouk and Helen Hills.

Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005], ©2005.

254 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Towards histories of emotions / Penelope Gouk and Helen Hills -- Is there a cultural history of the emotions? / Peter Burke -- Emotions into words--or words into emotions? / Graham Richards -- Bodies of self-transcendence : the spirit of affect in Giotto and Piero / Michael Schwartz -- Architecture and affect : Leon Battista Alberti and edification / Helen Hills -- Spiritual passion and the betrayal of painting in Georges de la Tour / Dalie Judovitz -- Changing emotions? The decline of original sin on the eve of the enlightenment / Michael Heyd -- The man of passion : emotion, philosophy and sexual difference / Christine Battersby -- A woman weeps : Hogarth's Sigismunda (1759) and the aesthetics of excess / Marcia Pointon -- Remuer l'âme or Plaire à l'oreille? Music, emotions and the mind-body problem in French writings of the later eighteenth century / Christopher Gärtner -- Music's pathological and therapeutic effects on the body politic : Doctor John Gregory's views / Penelope Gouk -- The undulating self : the rhythmic conception of music and the emotions / Charles Brotman -- Dangerous liaisons : science, amusement and the civilizing process / Otniel E. Dror.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-246) and index.