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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"history of emotions"”.
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Ben Jonson and the Four Emotions
This dissertation offers a revisionary reading of Ben Jonson's corpus and a challenge to current approaches to the study of the history of emotions. Focusing on the traditional four fundamental emotions–desire, fear, grief, and happiness–,I show that Jonson's corpus presents a wider range of …
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Treason, passion and power in England, 1660 – 1685.
General rejoicing greeted the Restoration of Charles II to the English throne in 1660; however the twenty-five year reign of the “merry monarch” was to become one characterised by division and dissent. This thesis analyses the passions of the period, which, although hitherto underexplored by …
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‘Knot of Love and Concord’: Loyalty in the Life of Mary I
… queenship. Emotion has always been at the centre of scholarly assessments of Mary, but it has been used predominantly to dismiss her as hysterical and poor in judgement – in other words, a poor politician, monarch and head of state. However, this narrative has been significantly revised in the …
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The Public Perceptions and Personal Experiences of Only Children Growing Up in Britain, c. 1850-1950
… the sole, and only ever a minor, determinant of only children’s experiences. It analyses autobiographies and oral history interviews of only children who grew up between 1850 and 1950 to show how personal inclinations, parental attitudes, domestic circumstances, geographical location, class, …
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Feeling Suicidal in England, c.1750-1850
This thesis examines the experience of feeling suicidal in England, between c.1750 and 1850. During this time, suicide was an act with immense religious and legal significance, and historians have done much to examine how attitudes to self-killing developed over this important period of change. …
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Sensation, Sacred Landscapes, and the Sense of the Past in Britain and Ireland, 1689-1760
… sensation could be central to the articulation of the sacrality of the landscape for British Protestants in the first half of the eighteenth century. It examines the relationship between attitudes to the visible past and the history of emotions, the senses, and experience to reveal the religious …
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The Heart of the Sectional Conflict: Emotion, Politics, and the Coming of the American Civil War
<p>My dissertation analyzes how emotions shaped Americans' perceptions of and responses to the sectional conflict over slavery to explain why it culminated in the Civil War. Emotions are not universal and are subject to change over time. To understand the political influence of specific emotions …
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The evolution of British imperial perceptions in Ireland and India c. 1650 - 1800
… – 1800. While the traditional characterisation of Ireland as a settlement colony and India as primarily a mercantile colony would suggest diverse imperial encounters, a comparative analysis of the two shows significant similarities. Temporal and/or geographical distances notwithstanding, the …
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Traditions of Tenderness: Sensibility and the Classics in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
Sensibility in eighteenth-century Britain is often described by critics as a rejection of Augustan classicism in favour of a modern, proto-Romantic focus on individual emotion and mutual sympathy. My thesis argues, by contrast, that the classicism of the early eighteenth century was inextricably …
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The functions of empathy in Anglo-Saxon England
… dissertation contributes to the fledgling field of medieval empathy studies by tracing the articulation of fellow-feeling in the literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England across a broad corpus of anonymous homilies, saints’ lives, elegies, and heroic poems including Beowulf. The first three …
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‘Unsettled Minds’ in England and Wales, 1800-1834.
… critical framework to access the emotional lives of what Edward Thompson once called ‘people from below’ under the last years of the Old Poor Law. The concept and spectrum of ‘unsettled mind’ is to be introduced as the central interpretive framework through which the content and emotional …
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Marital Miseries: A History of Marital Conflicts in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony, 1828-1900
… Cape Colony has focused on the themes of gender and sexuality, and within this framework, significant research has been done with regards to slavery, sexual violence, illegitimacy, infanticide, health and medicine. The monogamous, Christian marriage took on particular political and …
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Infants' Emotions in Early Modern England
This dissertation is the first sustained study of how the emotional capacities, experiences, and expressions of infants under the age of two years were sensed and understood in early modern England. Within early modern histories of pregnancy, the family, and childhood, infants’ perspectives are …
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Memoria y nostalgia del Ochocientos: Il Gattopardo y Bearn. La transformación de la clase aristocrática italiana y española y su retrato en la literatura del siglo XX
This study examines the transformation of the 19th-century Italian and Spanish aristocracy through its literary representation in Il Gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and Bearn o la sala de las muñecas by Llorenç Villalonga. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that integrates history, …
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Þá varð hlátr mikill: On the role of laughter in Old Norse saga literature
The field of emotion research is vast and continuously growing, and laughter might be the most prominent and contagious of all emotions we experience. Even though the word ‘laughter’ can be found in a plethora of study titles, the reader is frequently left disappointed as the focus is most often …
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‘Violent Emotion’ and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel, 1847–1895
… the elusive yet frequently invoked concept of ‘violent emotion’ in nineteenth-century literature, seeking to articulate what a poetics of violent emotion looks like in the novel between 1847 and 1895. It shows that for novelists such as Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and …
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Moving the Nation: Multiculturalism, Race, Representation, and Emotional Belonging in Canada
This dissertation is a braided history that weaves together personal, professional, and scholarly narratives to critically examine the complex interrelationship between multiculturalism, race, representation, and emotional belonging in Canada. A one-time “Asian” refugee child from Uganda, a …
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"The Indignation of Freedom-Loving People": Emotion, Politics, and the Brooks-Sumner Affair
<p>This thesis blends emotions history and political history by exploring the role of indignation in antebellum American politics, focusing on the northern reaction to the May 1856 caning of Charles Sumner. The study begins by situating indignation in its nineteenth-century cultural context. A …
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Emotions in Njáls saga and Egils saga: Approaches and literary analysis
The fundamental question of this dissertation is how we as modern readers can understand the feelings depicted in literature written on the periphery of Europe over seven hundred years ago — that is, what might be hidden in the text that we, due to our unfamiliarity with the distant culture, might …
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Anxiety and Urban Life in late Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1880-1914
… and modernity at this high point of urban growth and rural-urban migration: one that marked Britain’s decisive breakthrough to a largely and permanently urbanised society. During the period, earlier nineteenth-century tropes of the ‘shock’ of the city, and anxieties surrounding …
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