A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 251781-243130-1282
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Granta
- ISBN
- 9781847085733
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- A Revolution of Feeling engages with an enormous corpus of existing research on 1790s cultural history as well as the more recent field of history of emotion. It meticulously analyses the effect of radicalism’s collapse on individual lives, and shows how that collapse was a fulcrum in shifting attitudes to emotion and politics. It analyses in detail the lives and projects of the radicals Thomas Beddoes, Thomas Wedgwood, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This use of group biography, necessarily underpinned by extensive research, is innovative in tracing how emotions are shaped by personal experience and social forces.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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