Cato's tears and the making of Anglo-American emotion
How did the public expression of feeling become central to political culture in England and the United States? This revisionist account of a much expanded "Age of Sensibility" traces the evolution of the politics of emotion on both sides of the Atlantic, from the late-17th to early-19th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226205953, 9780226205960, 0226205959, 0226205967
41096130
Acknowledgments Introduction: Someday Bridges May Have Feelings Too Chapter 1: Conspiracy, Sensibility, and the Stoic Chapter 2: Cato's Tears Chapter 3: The Deathbed of the Just Chapter 4: Female Authorship, Public Fancy Chapter 5: Vagrant Races Chapter 6: Walkers, Stalkers, Captives, Slaves Conclusion: Liberal Guilt and Libertarian Revival Notes Index