Uncomfortable Situations : Emotion between Science and the Humanities / Daniel M. Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Daniel M., author.

Contributor:

Preston, Stephanie D. (Stephanie Delphine)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. Expression of the emotions in man and animals.

Darwin, Charles.

Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797. Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano.

Equiano, Olaudah.

Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. Romance of the forest.

Radcliffe, Ann Ward.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Sense and sensibility.

Austen, Jane.

Emotions in literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Emotions (Philosophy).

Psychology and literature.

Neurosciences and the humanities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What is a hostile environment? How exactly can feelings be mixed? What on earth might it mean when someone writes that he was "happily situated" as a slave? The answers, of course, depend upon whom you ask. Science and the humanities typically offer two different paradigms for thinking about emotion-the first rooted in brain and biology, the second in a social world. With rhetoric as a field guide, Uncomfortable Situations establishes common ground between these two paradigms, focusing on a theory of situated emotion. Daniel M. Gross anchors the argument in Charles Darwin, whose work on emotion has been misunderstood across the disciplines as it has been shoehorned into the perceived science-humanities divide. Then Gross turns to sentimental literature as the single best domain for studying emotional situations. There's lost composure (Sterne), bearing up (Equiano), environmental hostility (Radcliffe), and feeling mixed (Austen). Rounding out the book, an epilogue written with ecological neuroscientist Stephanie Preston provides a different kind of cross-disciplinary collaboration. Uncomfortable Situations is a conciliatory work across science and the humanities-a groundbreaking model for future studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Uncomfortable Situations

1. Defending the Humanities with Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

2. Bearing Up in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

3. Hostile Environments in Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest

4. Mixed Feelings in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

Epilogue. Irreconcilable Differences? (With Stephanie Preston)

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226485171

022648517X

OCLC:

1001944657