ABSTRACT
This volume of primary sources focuses on the history of emotions in Europe and its empires between 1714 and 1789. The study examines the subjects of the self, family and community, religion, politics and law, science and philosophy, and art and culture.
Sources include letters, diaries, legal papers, institutional records, newspapers, science and philosophical writings, literature and art from a diversity of voices and perspectives. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of history and literature.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|53 pages
The Self
chapter 1|6 pages
Charles Johnson, a General History of the Pyrates, from their Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time …
(London: T. Warner, 1724), pp. 157–65
chapter 2|6 pages
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles (1647–1733), the Philosophy of Love, or New Reflections on the Fair Sex
Trans. John Lockman (London: J. Hawkins, 1729 and 1737), pp. 22–48
chapter 3|6 pages
John Cleland (1709–1789), Memoirs of a Coxcomb
(London: R. Griffiths, 1751), pp. 16–23, 74–76, 356–360
chapter 4|6 pages
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Emilius and Sophia: or, a New System of Education
2 vols (Émile, ou De l’éducation) (London: R. Griffiths, 1762), vol. 2, pp. 135–146, 150–153
chapter 5|6 pages
Confession of James Duncan, Theft, 1770
National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh JC26/191
chapter 6|8 pages
Johannes Ewald (1743–1781), Life and Opinions (Levnet Og Meninger)
(Copenhagen, [written 1774–1778, published 1804–1808] 1856)
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chapter 7|6 pages
Sophie von la Roche (1730–1807), Sophie in London, 1786: Being the Diary of Sophie V. la Roche
Trans. Clare Williams (London: Jonathan Cape, 1933), pp. 293–300
chapter 8|5 pages
Olaudah Equiano (1745–1797), the Life of Olaudah Equiano: or Gustavus Vassa, the African
2 vols (Boston: Isaac Knapp, [1789] 1837), pp. 53–62
part 2|44 pages
Family and Community
chapter 9|6 pages
Selection of Letters from Philip Doddridge (1702–1751) to his Wife Mercy Doddridge (1709–1790)
Dr Williams’s Library, London
chapter 11|6 pages
Criminal Indictment of David Young for Assaulting his Father and Mother, 1738
National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh JC26/128/d2059
chapter 12|6 pages
The Royal African: or, Memoirs of the Young Prince of Annamaboe
(London: W. Reeve, [1750]), pp. 35–45
chapter 13|7 pages
David Zeisberger (1721–1808), Diary of David Zeisberger: a Moravian Missionary Among the Indians of Ohio
Trans. Eugene F. Bliss, 2 vols (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke 1885), vol. 1, pp. 51–57, 68–70, 71–72
chapter 14|9 pages
Caroline–stéphanie–Félicité, Madame de Genlis (1846–1830), Adelaide and Theodore; or Letters on Education, Containing all the Principles Relative to Three Different Plans of Education; to that of Princes, and to those of Young Persons of both Sexes
3 vols (London: C. Bathurst, 1783), vol. 1, pp. 5–8, 10–18, 62–66
part 3|62 pages
Religion
chapter 16|11 pages
Erik Pontoppidan (1698–1764), Truth unto Godliness (Sandhed til Gudfrygtighed)
(Copenhagen, 1737)
chapter 17|7 pages
George Brown (C.1715–1779), Diary of George Brown, Merchant in Glasgow, 1745–53
(Glasgow: Thomas Constable, 1856), pp. 132–143, 298–305
chapter 19|7 pages
Edward Synge (1659–1741), Sober Thoughts for the Cure of Melancholy, Especially that which is Religious
(London: Thomas Trye, 1749), 5–18, 22–23
chapter 21|6 pages
Elizabeth Cairns (1685–1741), Memoirs of Elizabeth Cairns
(Glasgow: John Brown, 1762), pp. 45–53, 61–63, 65
part 4|50 pages
Politics and Law
chapter 23|6 pages
Reuben Thwaites, ed. (1853–1913), the Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in new France, 1610–1791: vol. 67 Lower Canada, Abenakis, Louisiana 1716–1727
(Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1900), pp. 231–247
chapter 24|7 pages
Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria (1738–1794), an Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Trans. Edward D. Ingraham, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: Philip H. Nicklin, 1764/1819), pp. 47, 93–108
chapter 25|7 pages
Adam Ferguson (1723–1816), an Essay on the History of Civil Society
(Dublin: Boulter Grierson, 1767), pp. 85–98
chapter 26|7 pages
Catherine II (1729–1796) , the Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a new Code of Laws for the Russian Empire
Trans. Michael Tatischeff (London: T. Jeffreys, 1768), pp. 112–113, 115–118, 121–124, 125–127, 137–141
chapter 28|7 pages
Andrew Greenfield (1750–1788), the Cause and Cure of National Distress: a Sermon
(Edinburgh: William Creech, 1779)
chapter 29|7 pages
John Hawkesworth (1715–1773), an Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present …
3 vols (London: W. Strahan, 1783), pp. 152–158, 186–188, 231–233, 410–412
part 5|55 pages
Science and Philosophy
chapter 30|6 pages
James Blondel (1666–1734), the Power of the Mother’s Imagination Over the Foetus
(London: John Brotherton, 1729), pp. 1–5, 13–18
chapter 31|1 pages
Jewish Love Potion, from a Medical Recipe Book, Italy, 18–19th C
British Library or 10268, f.10r
chapter 33|7 pages
Johann Georg Zimmerman (1728–1795), Solitude
(London: T. Maiden, [1758] 1799), pp. 215–228
chapter 34|7 pages
Adam Smith (1723–1790), the Theory of Moral Sentiments
3rd ed. (London: A. Millar, 1767), pp. 1–15
chapter 35|7 pages
John Leake (1729–1792), Practical Observations Towards the Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases Peculiar to Women
7th ed. (London, Baldwin, [1777] 1792), pp. 224–228, 229–232, 237–248, 252–253
chapter 36|6 pages
Johann Herder (1744–1803), Outlines of a Philosophy of a History of Man
Trans. T. Churchill (New York: Bergman, [1784] 1800), pp. 98–103
chapter 37|9 pages
Louise Florence PÉtronille Tardieu D’esclavelles D’epigny (1726–1783), the Conversations of Emily
2 vols (London: John Marshall, 1787), pp. 49–71, 98–107
part 6|61 pages
Art and Culture
chapter 39|7 pages
Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] (1694–1778), ‘Poem on the Lisbon Disaster; or an Examination of the Axiom, “all is Well”’
In Toleration and Other Essays, trans. Joseph McCabe (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1912), pp. 255–263
chapter 40|7 pages
Julia Mandeville [Frances Brooke] (1724–1789), the History of Emily Montague
(London: J. Dodsley, 1769), pp. 63–79, 89–92
chapter 41|7 pages
Henry Mckenzie (1745–1831), the Man of Feeling: a Novel
(Philadelphia: Robert Bell, [1771] 1782), pp. 7–10, 34–38
chapter 42|7 pages
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), the Sorrows of Werter: a German Story
Tans. John Gifford (London: Harrison, [1774] 1789), pp. 34, 35–36, 38, 43, 63–64
chapter 43|6 pages
Charles Avison (1709–1770), an Essay on Musical Expression
(London: Lockyer Davis, 1775), pp. 1–18
chapter 44|11 pages
Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803), ‘Myrrha’, (1786)
In The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, ed. Edgar Bowrig, 2 vols (London: George Bell, [1782] 1876), pp. 317–328
