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The work of the heart : young women and emotion, 1780-1830

Title
  1. The work of the heart : young women and emotion, 1780-1830 / Martha Tomhave Blauvelt.
Published by
  1. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, ©2007.
Author
  1. Blauvelt, Martha Tomhave, 1948-

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Description
  1. xi, 275 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "How did young American women construct and express their emotions between 1780 and 1830? Before Oprah and therapy, how did they reconcile society's demanding and often contradictory expectations? In The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780-1830, Martha Tomhave Blauvelt looks to the often spirited diaries written by young women in America's early republic, arguing that the continuous, demanding, and often unnoticed emotional labor of women exemplified their, uneasy position within society." "Showing work where none seemed to exist, The Work of the Heart suggests emotion work as a key measure of women's status, whether for the twenty-first century or the eighteenth, and offers an analytical tool for historians exploring the self."--BOOK JACKET.
Series statement
  1. Jeffersonian America
Uniform title
  1. Jeffersonian America
Subject
  1. Women > United States > Psychology > History
  2. Young women > United States > Psychology > History
  3. Young women > United States > Diaries
  4. Emotions
  5. Women > Psychology
  6. Young women
  7. Young women > Psychology
  8. Psychologie
  9. Tagebuch
  10. Gefühl
  11. Frau
  12. Psykologi > historia > Förenta staterna > 1700-talet > 1800-talet
  13. Unga kvinnor > känslor > kärlek
  14. Dagböcker
  15. Kvinnor > psykologi > historia > Förenta staterna
  16. Unga kvinnor > psykologi > historia > Förenta staterna
  17. Unga kvinnor > Förenta staterna > dagböcker
  18. Känslor
  19. United States
  20. USA
Genre/Form
  1. Diary
  2. diaries.
  3. Diaries.
  4. History.
  5. Journaux intimes.
Contents
  1. Introduction: the theory and practice of emotion -- The work of the heart: emotion, class, and performance -- Schooling the heart: education and emotional expression at Litchfield Female Academy -- Discerning the heart: fear and fancy in courtship -- Losing it: anger and the boundaries of female behavior -- Reconstructing the heart: religion, marriage, and motherhood -- Conclusion.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-261) and index.