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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 March 2020
- ISBN 9780198743590
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 232x161x21 mm
- Weight 546 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 black and white figures/illustrations 0
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Short description:
Set in recently unified Italy, the narrative of Emotional Arenas is driven by a failed marriage, the wife's scandalous affair with a circus artiste, and the illicit couple's murder of the hapless husband. Imaginative reading of the criminal prosecution records and newspaper coverage allows reconstruction of the emotional experiences of this story.
MoreLong description:
Based on the records of a murder trial that transfixed all of Italy in the late 1870s, this study makes use of a dramatic court case to develop a new paradigm for the history of emotions - the 'emotional arena'. Set in the decade following Italian unification, the context was one of notable cultural variety. An as-yet unexplored aspect of this was that the experience and expression of emotions were as variable as the regions making up the new nation. Through a close examination of the spaces in which daily lives, loves, and deaths unfolded - from marital homes to places of socializing and entertainment, to a Roman court room - Mark Seymour explores the way social 'arenas' are crucial to the historical development of emotional cultural rules.
The narrative is driven by the failed marriage of a decorated but allegedly impotent Risorgimento soldier, his wife's scandalous affair with a virile circus artiste (who had a string of previous lovers), and the illicit new couple's murder of the hapless husband. Hundreds of witnesses - from local professionals to servants and even circus clowns - interviewed across the length and breadth of the peninsula, left their personal views on marriage, sexuality, and infidelity. These provide an extraordinary series of peepholes into little-known areas of the new nation's social fabric. A careful yet imaginative reading of the prosecution records, as well as contemporary newspaper coverage, allows reconstruction of the highly emotional experiences of all those touched by this extraordinary story. The result is a classic Italian micro-history with relevance for today's emotionally volatile times.
Seymour in any case must be congratulated for having offered a tool that can shed light on what could be called the social "spatiality" of emotional life, a spatiality that surely is not limited to the specific time and place analyzed in this book.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Intimate Arenas: A New Couple for a New Kingdom
Arena of Desire: The Circus
Virtual Arenas: Illicit Love by Letter
Arenas of Mortality: From Eros to Thanatos
Arena or Temple? The trial in Rome's Court of Assizes
Conclusion
