Periods in emotions history: a next step?

Emotions history has become a significant subfield in the discipline and also offers abundant opportunities for interdisciplinary discussion about change and continuity in emotional standards and experience. To facilitate wider discussion, this article urges more attention to key periods of emotional change. The impact of the Enlightenment and pre-Romanticism eras certainly highlights the later 18th and early 19th centuries, but a significant cluster of changes also emerge in the early 20th century and, some would argue, again today, particularly with regard to the impact of social media. Periodisation discussions encourage a more systematic approach to emotions history and may facilitate dialogue with other emotions disciplines.