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Biard, Michel; Leuwers, Hervé

doi:10.3917/arco.lefeb.2021.01.0007

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“…Fear was among the first emotions studied by historians. A pioneer was Georges Lefebvre, who in his book on the Grande Peur (Great Fear) of 1789, first published in 1932, tried to “put himself among those who had felt it” (Lefebvre, 1970, p. 3). The Grande Peur , caused by rumours of brigands and leading to revolts against the lords who were supposedly inactive against this menace or even using it to their advantage, was a collective phenomenon but a particular event.…”

Section: Charcot’s Fear or Lack Thereof: Emotions Of Exploration And ...mentioning

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How Jean-Baptiste Charcot came to embrace fear but not anger. Emotions of polar exploration and their communication to the public in the 1900s

Simon-Ekeland

2024

Polar Record

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This article makes the case for applying recent developments in the history of emotions, and in particular the concept of “emotional arena”, to the study of past polar expeditions. It focuses on the first Antarctic expedition of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1903–1905), showing how, despite a lack of ideal sources, attention to the role of emotions in his expedition, and in the way it was communicated to the public provides a new understanding of the culture of exploration of the time. The article pays particular attention to two groups of emotions: first, those related to fear, an emotion that Charcot initially was reluctant to say that he had experienced (his position changed under the influence of journalists who saw the emotion as an interesting selling point); and second, anger and hate, emotions that were deemed inappropriate and were omitted from hidden in published accounts of the expedition, even though they appear in other sources.

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Section: Charcot’s Fear or Lack Thereof: Emotions Of Exploration And ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

How Jean-Baptiste Charcot came to embrace fear but not anger. Emotions of polar exploration and their communication to the public in the 1900s

Simon-Ekeland

2024

Polar Record

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How Jean-Baptiste Charcot came to embrace fear but not anger. Emotions of polar exploration and their communication to the public in the 1900s

How Jean-Baptiste Charcot came to embrace fear but not anger. Emotions of polar exploration and their communication to the public in the 1900s

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