Chapter 12. The Emotional Language of Flowers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. Part I. Emotions and Bodies
7. Chapter 1. Mesmerizing Encounters: Affect and Animal Magnetism 23
8. Chapter 2. Emotional Contagions: Franz Liszt and the Materiality of Celebrity Culture in the 1830s and 1840s 41
9. Chapter 3. Reading Embodied Emotions in Rilke’s Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge 62
10. Chapter 4. Embodied Emotions: On the Communist Habitus of Agitprop 77
11. Chapter 5. A Skin of Hatred: How Bodies Are Involved in the Memory of Emotions and Anti-Semitic Practice of the Weimar Republic 95
12. Part II. Emotions, Spaces, and Material Interests
13. Chapter 6. Early Modern Embodiments of Laughter: The Journal of Felix Platter 113
14. Chapter 7. Beyond Interiority: Shame and Empathy in Karl Philipp Moritz’s Anton Reiser 127
15. Chapter 8. Gambling and Emotion 142
16. Chapter 9. Emotions and Material Interests in the Sales Talk of German Spa Guides, 1830–1900 155
17. Part III. Emotions and Things
18. Chapter 10. The Paper Bird: Emotions and Things in the Pedagogy of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and Friedrich Fröbel 169
19. Chapter 11. Reading Early German Photographs for Histories of Emotion 187
20. Chapter 12. The Emotional Language of Flowers 202
21. Chapter 13. Banners and Flags, Mottoes, Lieder: German Choral Societies and Material Culture, 1871–1918 222
22. Chapter 14. Corporeality, Materiality, and Unnamed Emotions in Rilke’s Dinggedichte 235
23. Chapter 15. Inscribing Grief: Private Practices of Bereavement in Wartime Germany 252
24. Index 269