Historical Research on the Self and Emotions

Reddy, William M.

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“…72 As William Reddy has argued, in the interwar years in America, 'Men began to focus on how far a woman would let them go; women, on how to tell if his feelings were sincere.' 73 Norah's diary entries throughout the summer and autumn of 1943 suggest that she believed Danny to be sincere.…”

Section: Letters Written Between Women Welders In Sheffield and Collementioning

confidence: 99%

‘Went into raptures’: reading emotion in the ordinary wartime diary, 1941–1946

Twells¹

2018

Love, Desire and Melancholy

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The last two decades have seen the emergence of an 'emotional turn' within social and cultural history. Groundbreaking studies by William Reddy, Peter Stearns and Barbara Rosenwein, building on the pioneering work of Norbert Elias, Lucien Febvre and others in the early decades of the twentieth century, have inspired a substantial body of work which interrogates the argument that emotions are to some degree shaped by culture. 1 As Susan Matt has recently argued, Febvre was right to suggest that 'the study of emotions would bring new energy to the field', citing as examples recent work on political change and religious life. 2 However, despite the emergence of studies attentive to the difference between discourses about emotion and the experience of emotion within women's history, gay history, men's studies and more, 3 social class has been a neglected category. More specifically, those historical sources which enable engagement with a subject's emotional life have been largely produced by middle-class and elite individuals and groups. 4 It remains notoriously difficult to gain access to the interior lives of 'ordinary' people. 5 Scholarly interest in emotions has been one impetus for a new enthusiasm for diaries as historical sources. Recent work has explored the diary not just as a 'chronicle of the everyday' 6 but as 'a template for personal change, a means of means of the tracking of the self in time.' 7 The diary, in the words of James Hinton, is a 'technology of the self... "the room behind the shop", in which the diarist reflects on and prepares his or her performance, mask, persona', enabling the construction of the self over time. 8 Emotions-their concealment, management and expressionare central to this process. Here again, however, despite the extensive recovery work that has been a feature of feminist scholarship over the last thirty years and which has included the re-evaluation of the sgnificance of the feminine, private and domestic spheres, ordinary diaries have been largely ignored. 9 Literary scholars, concerned to expand the canon to admit previously marginalised women writers, have been keen to identify the literary qualities of some previously neglected diaries. When making selections for inclusion in Revelations: Diaries of Women, for example,

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Section: Letters Written Between Women Welders In Sheffield and Collementioning

confidence: 99%

‘Went into raptures’: reading emotion in the ordinary wartime diary, 1941–1946

Twells¹

2018

Love, Desire and Melancholy

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“…5 Nevertheless, I would like to remember that for Nussbaum compassion is the passion that inspires justice. 6 It is a myth that now historical research has also proven wrong (Reddy, 2009). 7 While reflecting on justice and care, Nussbaum (2006) and Kittay (1999) put particular emphasis on the issue of disability-on which, see also Susan Wendell (1996).…”

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What Emotions Motivate Care?

Pulcini

2016

Emotion Review

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The importance of emotions is supported by many authors of the ethics of care in contrast to the rationalistic paradigm of justice. However, the reference to the emotions remains generic. By focusing on three paradigmatic typologies (care out of love, care work, and care of the distant other), I propose to investigate this aspect further, and distinguish between the different emotions that motivate care (such as love, compassion, and generosity). I will try, first, to offer a reflection on which emotions are likely to motivate ethical action within an ethics of care; second, to survey different potential obstacles to these emotions and propose how they might be overcome to more successfully achieve good care and ethical action.

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“…Even if we agree that emotions are embodied and not always part of a subject's conscious reflection, we also see that emotions in the military and on the battlefield represented a 'domain of effort' in which there may have been an enormous variance between emotional standards and the extent to which individuals managed to conform to them. 42 Moreover, the authors of the eye-witness accounts and egodocuments analysed by Füssel, Germani and Sandberg moved from one space to the other and usually were members of more than one social community. Sometimes a multiplicity of emotional styles therefore made up the expression of an individual battle experience on paper, all of these styles being authentic and 'true' at the time.…”

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Battlefield Emotions 1500-1800

Kuijpers

Haven²

2016

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Historical Research on the Self and Emotions

Cited by 45 publications

References 78 publications

‘Went into raptures’: reading emotion in the ordinary wartime diary, 1941–1946

‘Went into raptures’: reading emotion in the ordinary wartime diary, 1941–1946

What Emotions Motivate Care?

Battlefield Emotions 1500-1800

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