ABSTRACT
This volume of primary sources focuses on the history of emotions in Europe and its empires between 1789 and 1914. The study ends with WW1, by which point psychology and modern frameworks for the self had become standard knowledge. 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|48 pages
The Self
chapter 1|7 pages
Excerpt from Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle (1778–1857), The Wynne Diaries
chapter 2|6 pages
Excerpt from Marjory Fleming (1803–1811), The Handwritten Diary, Letters and Poems of Kirkcaldy-Born Marjory Fleming, who Died in Edinburgh in 1811, Aged 8
chapter 3|3 pages
Declaration, and Associated Medical Report, of John Gibson Tried for Murder, 1814
chapter 5|6 pages
Solomon Bayley (C.1771–C.1839), A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley, Formerly a Slave in the State of Delaware, North America; Written by Himself, and Published for his Benefit
chapter 6|6 pages
Joseph Blanco White (1775–1841), The Life of Rev Joseph Blanco White
chapter 7|7 pages
Excerpt from Étienne Eugène Azam (1822–1899), ‘Periodical Amnesia; or, Double Consciousness’
chapter 8|7 pages
Hermine Hug-Hellmuth (1871–1924), A Young Girl’s Diary
part 2|65 pages
Family and Community
chapter 10|8 pages
Daniel Webster (1782–1852), The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster
chapter 11|5 pages
The Confession of Mary Cole, who was Executed Friday, 26th June, 1813 at Newton, Sussex County for the Murder of Agnes Teaurs, her Mother
chapter 12|7 pages
William Hazlitt (1778–1830), Libor Amoris; or the New Pygmalion
chapter 13|9 pages
Letters from a Variety of People to the Archbishopric of Dublin
chapter 15|7 pages
Fredrika Bremer (1801–1865), The Homes of the New World; Impressions of America
chapter 16|6 pages
Henry James (1843–1916), What Maisie Knew
part 3|49 pages
Religion
chapter 18|6 pages
Johannes Hendrickus Van Der Palm (1763–1840), Sermon IV. Necessity of Divine Grace to Change
chapter 20|6 pages
William H. Neligan, Saintly Characters Recently Presented for Canonisation
chapter 23|7 pages
Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–1897), Story of a Soul (L’histoire D’une Ame): the Autobiography of st Thérèse of Lisieux
chapter 24|8 pages
‘How the Mohammedans Keep the Festival of Mohurrim’, in The World’s Story: a History of the World in Story, Song and Art, Vol. II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia, and Palestine
part 4|51 pages
Politics and Law
chapter 25|7 pages
Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Reflections of the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London
chapter 29|7 pages
Pompee Valentin Vastey (1781–1820), An Essay on the Causes of the Revolution and Civil Wars of Hayti
chapter 30|9 pages
Charles Philips (1787–1859), ‘Speech of Mr. Philips in the Case of Guthrie V. Sterne, Delivered in the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin’, the Speeches of Charles Philips, Esq
chapter 32|10 pages
Alfred Dreyfuss (1859–1935), Five Years of my Life, 1894–1899
chapter 33|3 pages
Helen Sjöstedt, Women’s Freedom Appeal: a Complement to V.V. Heidenstam’s Citizen’s Song (Kvinnornas Frihetsvädjan Ett Komplement till V.V. Heidenstams “Medborgarsång”)
part 5|52 pages
Science and Philosophy
chapter 34|6 pages
Philippe Pinel (1745–1826), A Treatise of Insanity
chapter 35|6 pages
John G. Millingen (1782–1849/62), the Passions; or Mind and Matter
chapter 36|6 pages
Charles Darwin (1809–1882), the Expressions of Emotion in Man and Animals
chapter 37|7 pages
Antoinette Blackwell (1825–1921), Sexes Throughout Nature
chapter 38|7 pages
William James (1842–1910), The Principles of Psychology
chapter 39|9 pages
Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley (1874–1947), The Mental Traits of Sex; an Experimental Investigation of the Normal Mind in Men and Women
chapter 40|7 pages
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939), Studies in the Psychology of Sex
part 6|45 pages
Art and Culture