On Resentment: Past and Present

by Bernardino Fantini, Dolores Martín Moruno, Javier Moscoso

Resentment has a history. Paintings such as G(r)ricaultOCOs Le Radeau de La M(r)duse, nineteenth-century womenOCOs manifestos and WWI war photographs provide but a few examples to retrace the changing physiognomy of this emotion from the second half of the eighteenth century up to our contemporary society. The essays in this collection attempt to shed light on the historical evolution of this affective experience adopting the French Revolution as a gravitational force, namely as a moment in which t..."

324 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2013