Please note that the following list is far from exhaustive, but that entries offer introductory and mostly essay-length insights into some of the main approaches and challenges relating to the study of emotions from various scholarly perspectives. Suggestions for additional material are warmly welcomed.
Journals
Emotion Review (Sage Premier). Often includes discipline-specific special issues/papers.
Cognition and Emotion (Taylor and Francis)
Emotion, Space and Society (Elsevier)
Studies
‘AHR Conversation: The Historical Study of Emotions’ (Participants: Nicole Eustace, Eugenia Lean, Julie Livingston, Jan Plamper, William M. Reddy, and Barbara H. Rosenwein) American Historical Review, 117 (2012), 1487–1531
Albrecht, G., et al., ‘Solastalgia: The Distress Caused by Environmental Change’, Australasian Psychiatry, 15. 1 Supp. (2007), S95–S98
Beatty, Andrew, ‘How Did It Feel for You? Emotion, Narrative, and the Limits of Ethnography’, American Anthropologist, 112 (2010), 430–43
Dixon, Thomas, ‘”Emotion”: The History of Keyword in Crisis’, Emotion Review, 4 (2012), 338–44
Grossi, Renata, ‘Understanding Law and Emotion’, Emotion Review, 7 (2015), 55–60
Handbook of Emotions, ed. by Michael Lewis et al., 3rd edn (New York and London: Guildford Press, 2008); includes short-medium length intro. essays from psychological, cognitive, biological and neurophysiological, and sociological perspectives.
Matt, Susan J., ‘Current Emotion Research in History: Or, Doing History from the Inside Out’, Emotion Review, 3 (2011), 117–24
Neblo, Michael A., ‘Impassioned Democracy: The Role of Emotion in Deliberative Theory’, available online as a work-in-progress paper.
Nixon, Rob, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011)
Plamper, Jan, ‘The History of Emotions: An Interview with William Reddy, Barbara Rosenwein, and Peter Stearns’, History and Theory, 49 (2010), 237–65
Rosenwein, Barbara, ‘Problems and Methods in the History of Emotions’, Passions in Context, 1 (2010), 1–31: see also other essays in Passions in Context.
Rosenwein, Barbara, ‘Worrying about Emotions in History’, American Historical Review, 107 (2002), 821–45
Scheer, Monique ‘Are Emotions a Kind of Practice (and is that what makes them have a history)?’, History and Theory 51 (2012), 193–220
Wierzbicka, Anna, ‘Language and Meta-Language – Key Issues in Emotion Research’, Emotion Review, 1 (2009), 3–14
Websites of centres, associations, etc.
ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE). The Publications & Resources link from the homepage will take you to an extensive (historically-oriented) bibliography as well as video resources and blog sites.
Emotions Make History video streaming channel
H-Emotions list-serv
Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions
Society for the History of Emotions, under the aegis of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
Publication series
Brill: Emotions and States of Mind in East Asia
Cambridge University Press: Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
Oxford University Press: Emotions in History
Palgrave Macmillan: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions