The Invisible Code: Honor and Sentiment in Postrevolutionary France, 1814?1848 Reddy, William M.

Reddy, William M.

ISBN 10: 0520205367 / ISBN 13: 9780520205369

Editore: University of California Press, 1997

Ex-library; usual treatments. Some underlining, pages are otherwise clean. Binding solid. Codice articolo 0-5-CODE

Riassunto:

Starting from the premise that private feeling cannot be contained or eliminated from public deliberation or action, William M. Reddy embarks on a fascinating inquiry into the influence of honor on behavior in nineteenth-century France. He discovers that French society was governed by a strict code of honor and that males in particular were vulnerable to acute feelings of shame, while any other feelings—referred to as "sentiment"—were considered the special domain of women. Examining the realms of both marriage and the public sphere, Reddy uncovers the feelings of shame and self-esteem, fear and desire, that entered in an unperceived yet fundamental way into the sense of self that many elite men and women worked out in the course of their lives.

Reddy draws from archival documents spanning the disparate realms of marriage, bureaucracy, education, the fledgling profession of journalism, and literature from 1814 to 1848. Inspired by the research of women's studies and the history of gender, he explores the relationship between gender and emotion, and reveals the threads that held the social order together and gave coherence to peoples' lives and identities.

Informazioni sull?autore:

William M. Reddy is Professor of History and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and author of The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French Society (1984), and Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historical Understanding (1987).

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Titolo: The Invisible Code: Honor and Sentiment in ...
Casa editrice: University of California Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1997
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Good