1st Edition
Stemming the Torrent Expression and Control in the Victorian Discourses on Emotion, 1830-1872
By Gesa Stedman
Copyright 2002
286 Pages
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Routledge
This title was first published in 2002: Gesa Stedman mines the vein of emotion in Victorian writing to unearth new insights into the ways literature responded to the dramatic social and political changes then taking place. Contemporary research from various disciplines, including sociology, ethnology and history, inform this study, which juxtaposes canonical material such as Dickens' "Hard... Read more
My leaves cannot contayne in them the large discourse - introduction; emotion vocabularies - the history and usage of key emotion words; I could not speak the feeling - emotions and the body; the local moral order - emotions and the development of a middle class habitus; plot and passion - narrating the heart; modern passion? - concluding remarks.
Biography
Gesa Stedman (Author)
