The Invisible Code: Honor and Sentiment in Postrevolutionary France, 1814-1848 - Couverture rigide

Reddy, William M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520205367 ISBN 13 : 9780520205369

Editeur : University of California Press, 1997

Synopsis

Starting from the premise that private feelings cannot be contained or eliminated from public deliberation or action, this text embarks on an inquiry into the influence of honour on behaviour in 19th-century France. It considers how French society was goverend by a strict code of honour and that males in particular were vunerable 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, the author 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520205367
• ISBN 13: 9780520205369
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 292
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible