3 Feeling
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Lucy Noakes
Abstract
Chapter Two discusses the emotional economy of interwar Britain, Examining the range of different cultural texts that advised people on the management of emotions, and the desirability of restraint and stoicism, it shows how the British people were encouraged to be self-reflective and to work to understand, and thus manage, their emotions. Self-restraint, it argues, became seen as a key and desirable aspect of modernity. The chapter begins by examining the impact of the Great War on grief and religious practice in the interwar period before examining the development of a historically specific emotional economy that valued self-reflection and restraint. It concludes by discussing the growth of a popular psychology in the 1930s, and the impact of this focus on emotional self-management on British people as they prepared for a second, devastating, war.
Abstract
Chapter Two discusses the emotional economy of interwar Britain, Examining the range of different cultural texts that advised people on the management of emotions, and the desirability of restraint and stoicism, it shows how the British people were encouraged to be self-reflective and to work to understand, and thus manage, their emotions. Self-restraint, it argues, became seen as a key and desirable aspect of modernity. The chapter begins by examining the impact of the Great War on grief and religious practice in the interwar period before examining the development of a historically specific emotional economy that valued self-reflection and restraint. It concludes by discussing the growth of a popular psychology in the 1930s, and the impact of this focus on emotional self-management on British people as they prepared for a second, devastating, war.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vi
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 Shadowing 21
- 3 Feeling 45
- 4 Planning 73
- 5 Coping 101
- 6 Dying 125
- 7 Burying 155
- 8 Grieving 193
- 9 Remembering 229
- 10 Conclusion 265
- Bibliography 271
- Index 291
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vi
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 Shadowing 21
- 3 Feeling 45
- 4 Planning 73
- 5 Coping 101
- 6 Dying 125
- 7 Burying 155
- 8 Grieving 193
- 9 Remembering 229
- 10 Conclusion 265
- Bibliography 271
- Index 291
