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Author:   Erika Kuijpers ,  Cornelis van der Haven
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   5.157kg
ISBN:  

9781137564894

ISBN 10:   113756489
Pages:   303
Publication Date:   28 December 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction.- Battlefield Emotions 1500-1800: Practices, experience, imagination by Erika Kuijpers and Cornelis van der Haven.- Part I: The Military: Emotional Practices and Community.- 1. Drill and Allocution as Emotional Practices in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Poetry, Plays and Military Treatises. Cornelis van der Haven.- 2. Magical Swords and Heavenly Weapons: Battlefield Fear(lessness) in the Seventeenth Century. Andreas Bähr.- 3. Emotions, Imagination and Surgery: Wounded Warriors in the Work of Ambroise Paré and Johan van Beverwijck. Bettina Noak.- 4. Fear, Honour and Emotional Control on the Eighteenth-Century Battlefield. Ilya Berkovich.- Reflections I. Early Modern Jokes on Fearing Soldiers. Johan Verberckmoes.- Part II: The Combatant: Emotional Experience and Writing.- 5. ‘His Courage Produced More Fear in His Enemies than Shame in His Soldiers’: Siege Combat and Emotional Display in the FrenchWars of Religion. Brian Sandberg.- 6. Emotions in the Making: The Transformation of Battlefield Experiences During the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). Marian Füssel.- 7. Mediated Battlefields of the French Revolution and Emotives at Work. Ian Germani.- Reflections II. Whose Battlefield Emotion? Mary A. Favret.- Part III: The Public: Emotional Re-Creation.- 8. The Sidelong Glance: Tracing Battlefield Emotions in Dutch Art of the Golden Age. Lisa de Boer.- 9. Deflecting the Fire of Eighteenth-Century French Battle Painting. Valerie Mainz.- 10. Picturing Valenciennes: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg and the Emotional Regulation of British Military Art in the 1790s. Philip Shaw.- Conclusions and perspectives.- Battlefield Emotions in Early Modern Europe: Trends, Key Issues and Blind Spots. Dorothee Sturkenboom.- List of Authors    

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Erika Kuijpers teaches cultural history at VU University, the Netherlands. Her previous work concerned the social history of early modern migration and labour relations. From 2008-2013 she worked at Leiden University, the Netherlands, researching memories of the Dutch Revolt, as part of the VICI research project 'Tales of the Revolt: Memory, oblivion and identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1700'. She is co-editor of the volume Memory Before Modernity. Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe (2013), and is working on a monograph about the way early modern witnesses and victims of war dealt with traumatic memories. Cornelis van der Haven is a literary historian who has published on Dutch and German theatre and literature in the 17th and 18th centuries, with a strong focus on the role of literary texts in shaping cultural and social identities. He lectures at the Literary Department of Ghent University, Belgium.

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