Emotions through Literature

Engaging with the wide sociological literature on emotions, this book explores the social representation of emotions, their management and their effects by making reference to creative sources.

Mariano Longo is Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Salento, Italy, and author of Fiction and Social Reality: Literature and Narratives as Sociological Resources.

1. By Way of Introduction. A Sociology of Emotions through Literature 2. Sociology and Emotions. An Overview 3. Emotions and their History. A Sociological Perspective 4. Emotions and Literature 5. Action, Emotions and Emotional Control. A Reading of Philip Roth's American Pastoral 6. The Emotional Crowd 7. Envy, Social Order and Social Change 8. Of Love, its Semantic and its Social Function References