Last time this course taught: Spring 1997

Texts:
Along with a substantial collection of articles, we will read the following monographs:
Philip Greven, The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America (1977)
Carol Z. Stearns and Peter N. Stearns, Anger: The Struggle for Emotional Control in America's History (1986)
John Kasson, Rudeness and Civility: Manners in 19th-Century North America (1990)
Paul C. Rosenblatt, Bitter, Bitter Tears: Nineteenth-Century Diarists and Twentieth-Century Grief Theories (1983)
Peter N. Stearns, Jealousy: The Evolution of an Emotion in American History (1989)
George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1994)
Peter Stearns, American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style (1994)

About the course:

This is a graduate seminar that focuses on an advanced analysis of enduring patterns and innovative shifts in the ways Americans have defined, controlled, and expressed emotions such as anger, lust, shame, pride, fear, jealousy, grief, and joy from the 17th century to the present.