Pensar el siglo XIX desde los afectos

Abstract

This essay goes over the main theoretical contributions of the affective turn (Sara Ahmed, Brian Massumi, Peter Stearns) and the historians of emotion (Barbara Rosenwein, William Reddy) to see how an emotional approach to nineteenth-century texts can help us destabilize, subvert and /or complement deeply rooted canonical readings in our critical imaginary. From this historization of affections, this analysis focuses on the racialization and feminization of emotions to think about the politicization of sentimentality and the need to recover ways of reading the non-referential language of affection that we have lost in the 21st century.