The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780-1830 (Jeffersonian America)

by Martha Tomhave Blauvelt (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $19.27

  How did young American women construct and express their emotions between 1780 and 1830? This work looks to the often spirited diaries written by young women in America's early republic, arguing that the continuous, demanding, and often unnoticed emotional labor of women exemplified their uneasy position within society.