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- catalog abstract ""In this new study, 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." "Through an examination of the history of key Victorian emotion words, the major topics that dominate the discourses on emotions in this era, and the central fictional and non-fictional 'paradigm scenarios' which constitute these discourses, Stedman shows how slowly written representatives of the 'passions' change in the 19th century. She argues that in texts about feelings, Victorian authors seem to attempt to delay or halt on a discursive level what can no longer be stopped on any other level of their culture and society." "Reading fictional texts alongside non-fictional works, this study highlights the tensions between the need of 19th-century writers to control 'storms of passion' and their effects, and their need to express feelings. Contemporary research from various disciplines such as sociology, ethnology and history inform this study, which juxtaposes canonical material such as Dicken's Hard Times, Charlotte Bronte's Shirley and Germaine de Stael's Corinne with popular novels and non-fictional texts such as The Education of the Heart, by Sarah Ellis, and Darwin's The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals. The analysis deals with emotions applying to both genders, but includes a special section examining the representation of emotion in relation to women." "Stemming the Torrent provides new insights into the literature of the period, and brings to light important new material for the scholars interested in the philosophy and psychology of emotions."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12563263.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""In this new study, 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." "Through an examination of the history of key Victorian emotion words, the major topics that dominate the discourses on emotions in this era, and the central fictional and non-fictional 'paradigm scenarios' which constitute these discourses, Stedman shows how slowly written representatives of the 'passions' change in the 19th century. She argues that in texts about feelings, Victorian authors seem to attempt to delay or halt on a discursive level what can no longer be stopped on any other level of their culture and society." "Reading fictional texts alongside non-fictional works, this study highlights the tensions between the need of 19th-century writers to control 'storms of passion' and their effects, and their need to express feelings. Contemporary research from various disciplines such as sociology, ethnology and history inform this study, which juxtaposes canonical material such as Dicken's Hard Times, Charlotte Bronte's Shirley and Germaine de Stael's Corinne with popular novels and non-fictional texts such as The Education of the Heart, by Sarah Ellis, and Darwin's The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals. The analysis deals with emotions applying to both genders, but includes a special section examining the representation of emotion in relation to women." "Stemming the Torrent provides new insights into the literature of the period, and brings to light important new material for the scholars interested in the philosophy and psychology of emotions."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-265) and index.".
- catalog description "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 -- Modem passion? concluding remarks.".
- catalog extent "x, 275 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Stemming the torrent.".
- catalog identifier "0754606430".
- catalog isFormatOf "Stemming the torrent.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,".
- catalog relation "Stemming the torrent.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "823/.809353 21".
- catalog subject "Emotions History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Emotions Social aspects Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Emotions in literature.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR878.E46 S74 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 -- Modem passion? concluding remarks.".
- catalog title "Stemming the torrent : expression and control in the Victorian discourses on emotion, 1830-1872 / Gesa Stedman.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".