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 …
chapter 2|6 pages
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles (1647–1733), the Philosophy of Love, or New Reflections on the Fair Sex
chapter 3|6 pages
John Cleland (1709–1789), Memoirs of a Coxcomb
chapter 4|6 pages
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Emilius and Sophia: or, a New System of Education
chapter 5|6 pages
Confession of James Duncan, Theft, 1770
chapter 6|8 pages
Johannes Ewald (1743–1781), Life and Opinions (Levnet Og Meninger)
chapter 7|6 pages
Sophie von la Roche (1730–1807), Sophie in London, 1786: Being the Diary of Sophie V. la Roche
chapter 8|5 pages
Olaudah Equiano (1745–1797), the Life of Olaudah Equiano: or Gustavus Vassa, the African
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)
chapter 11|6 pages
Criminal Indictment of David Young for Assaulting his Father and Mother, 1738
chapter 12|6 pages
The Royal African: or, Memoirs of the Young Prince of Annamaboe
chapter 13|7 pages
David Zeisberger (1721–1808), Diary of David Zeisberger: a Moravian Missionary Among the Indians of Ohio
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
part 3|62 pages
Religion
chapter 16|11 pages
Erik Pontoppidan (1698–1764), Truth unto Godliness (Sandhed til Gudfrygtighed)
chapter 17|7 pages
George Brown (C.1715–1779), Diary of George Brown, Merchant in Glasgow, 1745–53
chapter 19|7 pages
Edward Synge (1659–1741), Sober Thoughts for the Cure of Melancholy, Especially that which is Religious
chapter 21|6 pages
Elizabeth Cairns (1685–1741), Memoirs of Elizabeth Cairns
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
chapter 24|7 pages
Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria (1738–1794), an Essay on Crimes and Punishments
chapter 25|7 pages
Adam Ferguson (1723–1816), an Essay on the History of Civil Society
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
chapter 28|7 pages
Andrew Greenfield (1750–1788), the Cause and Cure of National Distress: a Sermon
chapter 29|7 pages
John Hawkesworth (1715–1773), an Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present …
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
chapter 31|1 pages
Jewish Love Potion, from a Medical Recipe Book, Italy, 18–19th C
chapter 33|7 pages
Johann Georg Zimmerman (1728–1795), Solitude
chapter 34|7 pages
Adam Smith (1723–1790), the Theory of Moral Sentiments
chapter 35|7 pages
John Leake (1729–1792), Practical Observations Towards the Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases Peculiar to Women
chapter 36|6 pages
Johann Herder (1744–1803), Outlines of a Philosophy of a History of Man
chapter 37|9 pages
Louise Florence PÉtronille Tardieu D’esclavelles D’epigny (1726–1783), the Conversations of Emily
part 6|61 pages
Art and Culture