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How did the public expression of feeling become central to political culture in England and the United States? This revisionist account of a much expanded Age of Sensibility traces the evolution of the politics of emotion on both sides of the Atlantic, from the late-17th to early-19th century.

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Someday Bridges May Have Feelings Too Chapter 1: Conspiracy, Sensibility, and the Stoic Chapter 2: Cato's Tears Chapter 3: The Deathbed of the Just Chapter 4: Female Authorship, Public Fancy Chapter 5: Vagrant Races Chapter 6: Walkers, Stalkers, Captives, Slaves Conclusion: Liberal Guilt and Libertarian Revival Notes Index

Catos Tears the Making of AngloAmerican Emotion

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 12/15/1999 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780226205953
      978-0226205953
      ISBN-10 0226205959
      Also in:
      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Gender studies, gender groups

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How did the public expression of feeling become central to political culture in England and the United States? This revisionist account of a much expanded Age of Sensibility traces the evolution of the politics of emotion on both sides of the Atlantic, from the late-17th to early-19th century.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction: Someday Bridges May Have Feelings Too Chapter 1: Conspiracy, Sensibility, and the Stoic Chapter 2: Cato's Tears Chapter 3: The Deathbed of the Just Chapter 4: Female Authorship, Public Fancy Chapter 5: Vagrant Races Chapter 6: Walkers, Stalkers, Captives, Slaves Conclusion: Liberal Guilt and Libertarian Revival Notes Index

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