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Staging Authority: Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century
Europe is a comprehensive handbook on how the presentation,
embodiment, and performance of authority changed in the long
nineteenth century. It focuses on the diversification of authority:
what new forms and expressions of authority arose in that critical
century, how traditional authority figures responded and adapted to
those changes, and how the public increasingly participated in
constructing and validating authority. It pays particular attention
to how spaces were transformed to offer new possibilities for the
presentation of authority, and how the mediatization of presence
affected traditional authority. The handbook's fourteen chapters
draw on innovative methodologies in cultural history and the
aligned fields of the history of emotions, urban geography, persona
studies, gender studies, media studies, and sound studies.
Of the many innovative approaches to emerge during the twenty-first
century, one of the most productive has been the interdisciplinary
nexus of theories and methodologies broadly defined as "the study
of emotions." While this conceptual toolkit has generated
significant insights, it has overwhelmingly focused on emotions as
linguistic and semantic phenomena. This edited volume looks instead
to the material aspects of emotion in German culture, encompassing
the body, literature, photography, aesthetics, and a variety of
other themes.
Masculinity, Senses, Spirit brings together current work by leading
scholars in the fields of gender studies, religion, history, and
cultural studies to examine the complex interrelationship between
gender, sexuality, and the realms of the spirit and the senses in
the Atlantic world from the Eighteenth century to the present.
Katherine M. Faull is professor of German and Humanities at
Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA.
Beyond the Gymnasium is the first systematic effort to examine the
history of the body in modern Germany. By looking into medical
dietetics, walking, dancing, gymnastics, cholera, and classrooms,
Heikki Lempa reconstructs the ways the middle-class body became a
source of political and social autonomy and a medium of social
interaction. During the first two decades of the nineteenth
century, German physicians defined the middle class body as
qualitatively different from the lower class body. This belief was
supported by a contemporary science known as dietetics. Lempa
provides a comprehensive history and analysis of this science.
Beyond the Gymnasium also analyzes the social implications of court
dancing and gymnastics. In the eighteenth century, the French court
dances set the standards of upper and middle class conduct. In the
1810s, the gymnastics movement challenged this tradition by
propagating vigorous physical exercise and egalitarian social
interaction. In 1819, the ban on gymnastics contributed to the
rapid spread of dancing clubs, ballrooms, public promenades, and
spas; the old forms of bodily interaction underwent a renaissance.
These two trends-the quest for bodily autonomy and the continuity
of traditional bodily conduct-played an important role in the
status of the German middle class in the nineteenth century. In
social interaction, it continued to cultivate those forms that had
endowed the Old Regime with its specific character and flair. To
explain this, the book explores the forms of social recognition in
dancing, greeting, and walking and discovers that the German middle
class displayed an aptitude for social recognition of asymmetrical
relationships.
Beyond the Gymnasium is the first systematic effort to examine the
history of the body in modern Germany. By looking into medical
dietetics, walking, dancing, gymnastics, cholera, and classrooms,
Heikki Lempa reconstructs the ways the middle-class body became a
source of political and social autonomy and a medium of social
interaction. During the first two decades of the nineteenth
century, German physicians defined the middle class body as
qualitatively different from the lower class body. This belief was
supported by a contemporary science known as dietetics. Lempa
provides a comprehensive history and analysis of this science.
Beyond the Gymnasium also analyzes the social implications of court
dancing and gymnastics. In the eighteenth century, the French court
dances set the standards of upper and middle class conduct. In the
1810s, the gymnastics movement challenged this tradition by
propagating vigorous physical exercise and egalitarian social
interaction. In 1819, the ban on gymnastics contributed to the
rapid spread of dancing clubs, ballrooms, public promenades, and
spas; the old forms of bodily interaction underwent a renaissance.
These two trends-the quest for bodily autonomy and the continuity
of traditional bodily conduct-played an important role in the
status of the German middle class in the nineteenth century. In
social interaction, it continued to cultivate those forms that had
endowed the Old Regime with its specific character and flair. To
explain this, the book explores the forms of social recognition in
dancing, greeting, and walking and discovers that the German middle
class displayed an aptitude for social recognition of asymmetrical
relationships.
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