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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the distinct representations of emotions in non-fictional texts from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century (1600-1850). Focusing on memoirs, autobiographies, correspondences and conduct manuals, it argues that in those writings, passions and emotions are differently expressed than in fiction. It also offers a comparative study of texts from cultures as diverse as English, French, Korean and Chinese, and of emotions in relation to genre, identity, and morality during significant cultural transformation of the early modern period. This book is distinctive in its choice of non-fictional genres, its period, and its cross-cultural approach. It can benefit scholars interested in exploring emotion as a historical and cultural product, and in enriching their knowledge of an emerging scholarly direction: studies in self-narratives (autobiography, memoirs, dream narratives, letters, etc.) often insufficiently explored in earlier historical periods.
Table of ContentsPart 1 : Encounters and Crossings.- 1. Frédéric Charbonneau (McGill) : Nou Nou: a Chinese inheritance quarrel at the Académie royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 1713-1743.- 2. Shirley F. Tung: East Meets West in Elysium: Liminal Landscapes and Loss in Montagu’s Letters from Turkey and Italy.- 3. Daniel Williford, UCLA: “Buddhism and Emotions: Asian Enlightenment and the Anxieties of European Identity” Daniel Williford.- 4. Angelina Del Balzo, UCLA: Shakespeare’s Art of the Dervish: Elizabeth Montagu, Voltaire, and National Sentiment.- Part 2: Emotions: high and low, private and public, male and female.- 5. Yinghui Wu, UCLA: How to Manipulate Emotions in The Classic of Whoring.- 6. Tina Lu, Yale University: Competing versions of 17th-century Interiority.- Part 3: From noble to popular sentiments.- 7. Marie-Paule De Weerdt-Pilorge, Universitéde Tours, Emotions in the face of silence in the Memoir of 1805, by Lady Hyegyŏng. The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea.- 8. Dorthea Fronsman-Cecil, UCLA, "Hemlock and Hair Shirts: Valentin Jamerey-Duval's Affective Habitus.- 9. Jean-Jacques Tatier-Gourin, Université de Tours : Staging Revolutionary Choices and Expressing Personal Sentiments in the Memoirs by Louvet (1795).
