Emotions in Late Modernity

i) This is the first collection to investigate the changing nature of emotional experience in contemporary late modern society, and does so through investigations canvassing a broad range of the history and sociology of emotions.

ii) – It is a multi-disciplinary book, with studies from sociology, history, literature, cultural studies, film studies, educational studies, health studies, and law studies.

iii) It is an international collection, with contributions from the US, UK, Sweden, Germany, and Australia, and will appeal to authors from each of these countries, as well as from the relevant emotions research networks (ASA, ESA, TASA, etc)

iv) It has contributions ranging across time periods from the medieval ages to contemporary, late modern times.

v) – It includes contributions from several prominent scholars of emotion in historical and contemporary times – Jonathan Turner, Christian Von Scheve, Kathryn Lively, Stina Bergman Blix, Asa Wettergran, Andrew Lynch, Elizabeth Stephens, and with a foreword by Jack Barbalet.