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Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer

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Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer examines how writers as diverse as Rousseau, Diderot, Marivaux, and Challe discuss the social appropriateness of anger and gratitude in regulating social life. Emotions are social transactions, with rules identifying when and where it is appropriate to express one's feelings and, especially in the case of anger and gratitude, who is allowed or expected to put them on display. Defining the kinds of slight or favor that demand an angry or a grateful response became problematic in ...

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Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer 2011, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780199589340

Hardcover