A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Modern and Post-Modern Age

Joy Damousi is Professor of History and Australian Research Council Laureate at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has published on various aspects of grief, trauma and loss during the two world wars. She is author of numerous books, including Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (2010) and Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War (2015). Jane W. Davidson is Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and Professor of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests in emotion are related to conciliation, expression and wellbeing through music performance and listening.

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Series Editors' Preface
Introduction, Joy Damousi (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Jane W. Davidson (University of Melbourne, Australia)
1. Medical and Scientific Understandings, Mark Jackson (University of Exeter, UK)
2. Religion and Spirituality, Anastasia Scrutton (University of Leeds, UK)
3. Music and Dance, Wiebke Thormählen (Royal College of Music in London, UK)
4. Drama, Mary Luckhurst (University of Melboune, Australia) and Peta Tait (La Trobe University, Australia)
5. The Visual Arts, Charles Altieri (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
6. Literature, Gillian Whitlock (University of Queensland, Australia) and Grace Moore (University of Melbourne, Australia)
7. In Private: The Individual and the Domestic Community, Peter Stearns (George Mason University, USA)
8. In Public: Collectivities and Polities, Emma Hutchinson (University of Queensland, Australia) and Roland Bleiker (University of Queensland, Australia)
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