Civilizing Emotions

Civilizing Emotions
Author: Margrit Pernau
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198745532

Traces the history of the concepts of civility and civilization in nineteenth-century Europe and Asia and explores why and how emotions were an asset in civilizing peoples and societies - their control and management, but also their creation and their ascription to different societies and social groups.

Learning how to Feel

Learning how to Feel
Author: Ute Frevert
Publisher: Emotions in History
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0199684995

This volume demonstrates how children, through their reading matter, were provided with learning tools to navigate their emotional lives, presenting this in the context of changing social, political, cultural, and gender agendas, the building of nations, subjects and citizens, and the forging of moral and religious values.

Spiritual Wives

Spiritual Wives
Author: William Hepworth Dixon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1868
Genre: Free love
ISBN: