The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
PART I WHAT ARE EMOTIONS?......Page 17
CHAPTER 1 Answers from Cognitive Psychology......Page 19
EMOTION AND COGNITION......Page 24
1. Valence, Intensity, and Goals......Page 37
2. Mental Control......Page 41
CONCLUSION......Page 47
CHAPTER 2 Answers from Anthropology......Page 50
THE CONSTRUCTIONIST APPROACH......Page 51
PSYCHOCULTURAL APPROACHES......Page 64
OTHER APPROACHES......Page 66
THE UNIVERSAL FEATURES OF EMOTIONAL LIFE......Page 70
FROM PROCESS TO TRANSLATION......Page 79
Cartesian Dualism in Psychology......Page 80
The Poststructuralist Critique of Social Science......Page 83
Critiques of Poststructuralism......Page 89
Poststructuralism, Translation, and New Realisms......Page 91
Translation, Activation, and Attention......Page 104
EMOTIVES: SPEECH ACTS IN THE CONTEXT OF TRANSLATION......Page 112
Forms of Expression Related to Emotives......Page 121
Sincerity and Self-Deception......Page 124
CONCLUSION......Page 126
CHAPTER 4 Emotional Liberty......Page 128
LIBERTY AND HISTORY IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EMOTIONS......Page 129
COORDINATION OF GOALS AND EMOTIONAL NAVIGATION......Page 134
Emotional Liberty, Emotional Suffering, Emotional Effort......Page 138
Induced Goal Conflict......Page 140
POLITICAL EVALUATION OF CASE MATERIAL......Page 146
PART II EMOTIONS IN HISTORY: FRANCE, 1700–1850......Page 155
CHAPTER 5 The Flowering of Sentimentalism (1700–1789)......Page 157
HONOR AND EMOTIONAL REFUGE IN THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY......Page 163
SENTIMENTALISM IN RECENT RESEARCH......Page 170
THE EXCESSES OF SENTIMENT AND THE THEORY OF EMOTIVES......Page 177
THE COMING CRISIS......Page 188
CHAPTER 6 Sentimentalism in the Making of the French Revolution (1789–1815)......Page 189
SENTIMENTALISM: THE MISSING INGREDIENT......Page 193
THE EARLY YEARS OF THE REVOLUTION......Page 198
THE TERROR......Page 206
THE ERASURE OF SENTIMENTALISM, 1794–1814......Page 215
EMOTIVES AND THE SENTIMENTALIST EPISODE......Page 225
CHAPTER 7 Liberal Reason, Romantic Passions (1815–1848)......Page 227
EMOTIONS IN LIBERAL SOCIAL THOUGHT......Page 232
A New Kind of Introspection: Maine de Biran and Cousin......Page 234
The New Emotives of Powerlessness......Page 240
Emotions in the Liberalism of the Globe Group......Page 248
Filling Sentimentalism’s Shoes: Nascent Socialism......Page 253
THE NEW DISPENSATION IN THE REALM OF ART......Page 256
SAND’S SENTIMENTALIST CRITIQUE......Page 264
CONCLUSION......Page 269
CHAPTER 8 Personal Destinies: Case Material of the Early Nineteenth Century......Page 273
SOURCES AND METHOD......Page 276
FOUR SALIENT CASES......Page 279
1. Lallemand et al. v. Descoutures, 1827......Page 280
2. Baron D*** v. Mme H***, veuve, 1827......Page 293
3. La Caisse hypothécaire v. le duc de Raguse, 1828–1829......Page 296
4. Mlle Mars v. Mlle Thélusson, MM Trobriant, Constantin, and Forster-Grant, 1827......Page 300
Preliminary Conclusions......Page 302
1. Overview of the Gazette Sample......Page 307
2. Evidence from the Versailles Sample......Page 312
(1) Public Acts of Generosity......Page 320
(2) Virtue in Distress......Page 322
(3) True Love versus Arranged Marriages......Page 323
(4) The Good Father versus Evil Relatives......Page 325
CONCLUSION......Page 327
EMOTIONS IN WESTERN COMMON SENSE......Page 331
THE THEORY OF EMOTIVES......Page 336
EMOTIONS IN THE BIRTH OF MODERNITY: FRANCE, 1680–1848......Page 340
WIDER IMPLICATIONS......Page 346
CLOSING THE CIRCLE......Page 348
APPENDIX A Detailed Review of Anomalous Cases from the Gazette des Tribunaux Sample......Page 351
APPENDIX B Detailed Review of Anomalous Cases from the Tribunal Civil de Versailles Sample......Page 361
References......Page 365
Index......Page 385