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A lire, une longue interview de trois historiens des émotions, malheureusement conduite de façon séparée, par Jan Plamper dans History and Theory, 49 (mai 2010), p. 237-265.The History of Emotions: An Interview with William Reddy,  Barbara Rosenwein, and Peter Stearns JAN PLAMPERHistory and Theory 49 (May  2010), 237-265The history of emotions is a burgeoning field—so much so,  that some are invoking an “emotional turn.” As a way of charting this  development, I have interviewed three of the leading practitioners of  the history of emotions: William Reddy, Barbara Rosenwein, and Peter  Stearns. The interviews retrace each historian’s  intellectual-biographical path to the history of emotions, recapitulate  key concepts, and critically discuss the limitations of the available  analytical tools. In doing so, they touch on Reddy’s concepts of  “emotive,” “emotional regime,” and “emotional navigation,” as well as on  Rosenwein’s “emotional community” and on Stearns’s “emotionology” and  offer glimpses of each historian’s ongoing research. The interviews  address the challenges presented to historians by research in the  neurosciences and the like, highlighting the distinctive contributions  offered by a historical approach. In closing, the interviewees appear to  reach a consensus, envisioning the history of emotions not as a  specialized field but as a means of integrating the category of emotion  into social, cultural, and political history, emulating the rise of  gender as an analytical category since its early beginnings as “women’s  history” in the 1970s.