Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment [Hardcover]

Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment explores the historical character of sensibility in the global Enlightenment. It?is aimed at postgraduate students and scholars researching histories of literature and science, cultural studies, history of emotions, and gender studies.

Introduction: Intersecting Histories of Sensibility and Emotion: A Plural Legacy Section I. Making Sense, Making Difference  1. Androginopolis or the Racialization of the Peruvian Strange Society  2. Embodied Colonial Experiences of Enlightenment: Pierre Baillys Defense of Equality and Citizenship. A Free Mulattos Voice in Spanish New Orleans (17911794)  3. Sensibility on Stage: Gender, Race, and the Modulations of Feeling in the Hispanic Theatre  4. Sweet Affinities: The Gendering of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Spain  5. Quivering Hearts: The Intimate Union of Bodies and Souls 6. Rewriting Romantic Love: Women, Celebrity, and the Politics of Emotion in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Spain (Avellanedas Farewell)  Section II. Crossing Contexts, Unsettling Sensibilities  7. Performing Sensibilities: Womens Voices in a Transnational and Transatlantic Correspondence of the Enlightenment  8. Translating Transgender and Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Mediatic Ecosystem of Transmission, Reworking, and Perception of The Brief Story of Catterina Vizzani  9. Hidden or Forbidden: Taboo, Circumnavigation, and Women in New Cythera (1768)  10. Vicious Sensibilities: The Role of Ethnosexual Violence in the Patriarchalization of T?no L?guas yan G?ni (the Mariana Islands) during the Eighteenth Century  11. Entangled Sensibilities andl“%