Review on the History of Emotions
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Since the 1970s, Emotions has significantly been developed and regarded by several western historians as the newest object of historical studies. One cannot conclude that, however, many of previous historical literatures did not take an interest in human’s emotional dimension at all, but emotions itself have never been the main issue of the early historical investigations. This article examines the background and the recent tendency of the history of emotions, or so called “the Emotional turn in History”, and also indicates the crucial theses and critical arguments in terms of the historical methodology of emotions among the four considerable historians of emotions including Peter N. Stearns, Carol Stearns, William Reddy, and Barbara Rosenwein. Another aim of this paper is to pave the way for Thai researchers and historians who are interested in or would like to take their first step into this dramatically expanding field of history.
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