The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780-1830.(Book review)

The Historian | June 22, 2009| | Copyright

The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780-1830. By Martha Tomhave Blauvelt. (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2007. Pp. 275. $39.50.)

If diarists are chroniclers of history, then The Work of the Heart is an invaluable study of what the author classifies as "emotion history" (2). Focusing on several diaries, the author presents a compelling sample of white, Protestant young women of means and the challenging "emotion work" contained in their diaries. The result of that "work," as Martha Tomhave Blauvelt notes, is the evolving task of ...

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