William M. ReddyThe Navigation of Feeling
A Framework for the History of Emotions
William M. Reddy is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, a Fellow of the National Humanities Centre, and a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is the author of three previous books: The Invisible Code: Honor and Sentiment in Postrevolutionary France, 1815-1848 (University of California Press, 1987); Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historical Understanding (Cambridge University Press, 1987); The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French Society, 1750-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 1984).
Preface
Part I. What are Emotions?: 1. Answers from cognitive psychology
2. Answers from anthropology
3. Emotional expression as a type of speech act
4. Emotional liberty
Part II. Emotions in History: France 1700-1850: 5. The flowering of sentimentalism (1700-89)
6. Sentimentalism in the making of the French Revolution (1789-1815)
7. Liberal reason, romantic passions (1815-48)
8. Personal destinies: case material of the early nineteenth century
Conclusion
Appendix A: detailed review of anomalous cases from the Gazette des Tribunaux sample
Appendix B: detailed review of anomalous cases from the Tribunal Civil de Versailles sample
References
Index.
