We are pleased to share the video of Katie Barclay’s presentation for the ‘Emotions, History and the Body’ research seminar, given on 1 March 2021. Katie’s paper was titled ‘From Corporeal Ethics to Carnal Instincts: Sexual Desires in the Long-Eighteenth Century,’ and tackles big questions about the history of embodied emotions.
Katie Barclay is Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions and Head of History at the University of Adelaide. She is the author of many works in the history of emotions, gender and family life, not least her most recent monograph Caritas: Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self. Currently she is thinking about the relationship between embodied feeling, moral emotions and changing ideas of carnal desire.
Featured image credit: A seduction scene with a young woman fending off the advances of a vigorous young man who pulls her towards a bed; on the wall a picture entitled “Before” with cupid lighting a firework. 1736 Etching and engraving on chine collé.
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