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An emotional history of the United States / edited by Peter N. Stearns and Jan Lewis.

Contributor(s): Stearns, Peter N | Lewis, Jan, 1949-2018
Material type: TextTextSeries: History of emotion series: Publisher: New York : New York University Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: ix, 476 pages ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0814780881 (paperbound : alk. paper); 0814780873 (clothbound : alk. paper)Subject(s): United States -- History -- Psychological aspects | United States -- Social life and customs -- Psychological aspects | Emotions -- Social aspects -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 973/.01/9 LOC classification: E179 | .E54 1998Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
History and psychology : three weddings and a future / Kenneth J. Gergen -- Class, gender and regulation of emotional expression in revolutionary-era conduct literature / C. Dallett Hemphill -- "Those scenes for which alone my heart was made": affection and politics in the age of Jefferson and Hamilton / Jan Lewis -- "While our souls together blend": narrating a romantic readership in the Early Republic / Lucia McMahon -- Gender and racial politics of mourning in antebellum America / Jeffrey Steele -- Passionate voices and cool calculations : the emotional landscape of the nineteenth-century New England textile industry / Mary H. Blewett -- Reign of passion : white supremacy and the clash between passionate and progressive emotional styles in the New South / Dolores Janiewski -- Journalistic gore : disaster reporting and emotional discourse in The New York Times, 1852-1956 / Michael Barton -- Creating the emotional body : confusion, possibilities, and knowledge / Otniel E. Dror -- Ethnicity and emotions in America : dimensions of the unexplored / Hasia R. Diner -- "Joy unspeakable and full of glory" : the vocabulary of pious emotion in the narratives of American pentecostal women, 1910-1945 / R. Marie Griffith -- "Stand by me": sacred quartet music and the emotionology of African American audiences, 1900-1930 / Kimberley L. Phillips -- American Catholics and the discourse of fear / Timothy Kelly and Joseph Kelly -- Etiquette books and emotion management in the twentieth century : American habitus in international comparison / Cas Wouters -- Something old, something new : romance and marital advice in the 1920s / David R. Shumway -- Problem of modern married love for middle-class women / John C. Spurlock -- New man and early twentieth-century emotional culture in United States / Kevin White -- "Another self"? : middle-class American women and their friends, 1900-1960 / Linda W. Rosenzweig -- Frocks, finery, and feelings : rural and urban women's envy, 1890-1930 / Susan J. Matt -- Consumerism and childhood : new targets for American emotions / Peter N. Stearns -- Toward a psychohistory of late-life emotionality / W. Andrew Achenbaum -- Reuben Davis, Sylvia Plath, and other American writers : the perils of emotional struggle / Bertram Wyatt-Brown.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

History and psychology : three weddings and a future / Kenneth J. Gergen -- Class, gender and regulation of emotional expression in revolutionary-era conduct literature / C. Dallett Hemphill -- "Those scenes for which alone my heart was made": affection and politics in the age of Jefferson and Hamilton / Jan Lewis -- "While our souls together blend": narrating a romantic readership in the Early Republic / Lucia McMahon -- Gender and racial politics of mourning in antebellum America / Jeffrey Steele -- Passionate voices and cool calculations : the emotional landscape of the nineteenth-century New England textile industry / Mary H. Blewett -- Reign of passion : white supremacy and the clash between passionate and progressive emotional styles in the New South / Dolores Janiewski -- Journalistic gore : disaster reporting and emotional discourse in The New York Times, 1852-1956 / Michael Barton -- Creating the emotional body : confusion, possibilities, and knowledge / Otniel E. Dror -- Ethnicity and emotions in America : dimensions of the unexplored / Hasia R. Diner -- "Joy unspeakable and full of glory" : the vocabulary of pious emotion in the narratives of American pentecostal women, 1910-1945 / R. Marie Griffith -- "Stand by me": sacred quartet music and the emotionology of African American audiences, 1900-1930 / Kimberley L. Phillips -- American Catholics and the discourse of fear / Timothy Kelly and Joseph Kelly -- Etiquette books and emotion management in the twentieth century : American habitus in international comparison / Cas Wouters -- Something old, something new : romance and marital advice in the 1920s / David R. Shumway -- Problem of modern married love for middle-class women / John C. Spurlock -- New man and early twentieth-century emotional culture in United States / Kevin White -- "Another self"? : middle-class American women and their friends, 1900-1960 / Linda W. Rosenzweig -- Frocks, finery, and feelings : rural and urban women's envy, 1890-1930 / Susan J. Matt -- Consumerism and childhood : new targets for American emotions / Peter N. Stearns -- Toward a psychohistory of late-life emotionality / W. Andrew Achenbaum -- Reuben Davis, Sylvia Plath, and other American writers : the perils of emotional struggle / Bertram Wyatt-Brown.

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