Dear all,
Please forgive me for bringing to your attention my new monograph Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens: A Socio-Psychological Approach, which has been published in the US and will be available in the UK in a few weeks.
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/envy-and-jealousy-in-classical-athens-9780199897728;jsessionid=98D6FD790D3FFC6E255F781BFE9A9FEF?cc=gb&lang=en&
The book proposes a methodological development in approaching emotions of the past, through directly utilising social scientific - principally cognitive psychological - research into individual emotions (here Anglophone envy, jealousy and related emotions) to determine emotion scripts, which can then be used to 'read' emotion scenarios in texts from a past culture, even where a lexical approach has limited utility either because emotions (here *phthonos*, covering most aspects of English envy and jealousy) are considered morally bad and so their ascription/disclamation is suspect, or because the language lacks an appropriate label - as ancient Greek does for sexual jealousy, though a sexual jealousy type emotion nevertheless exists. This methodological approach is used to explore Classical Greek texts in a range of literary genres (philosophy, oratory, tragedy, comedy).
Thank you,
Ed Sanders
Department of Classics
Royal Holloway, University of London
The HISTORY OF EMOTIONS email list is run by the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/emotions
The Centre also hosts the History of Emotions Blog
http://emotionsblog.history.qmul.ac.uk/
To modify your subscription to this list, or to unsubscribe, go to:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/historyofemotions
|