Performing emotion, embodiment and identity in Ireland, 1800–45
by
Katie Barclay
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Men on trial explores how the Irish perform ‘the self’ within the early nineteenth-century courtroom and its implications for law, society and nation. Drawing on new methodologies from the history of emotion, as well as theories of performativity and performative space, it emphasises that manliness...