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Ferdinand Mount is one of Continuum's bestsellers and his ability to pack insights and wit into a long-form essay is unrivalled. Here he turns his attention to feelings. This book is a sweeping history of emotion that takes in the Crusades, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, Imperialism and Modernism. As Mount points out, to know what British or Western life was 'really like' at any particular period, it's helpful to know the prevailing conventions about how people went about showing grief and joy, about the importance (or lack of it) attached to sympathy and empathy, above all, about when and how much to weep for the misfortunes of others.
If we can understand a little more about how emotional display is, to quite a large extent, historically conditioned, then we may feel more inclined to question our own assumptions and inhibitions about such things.
Product details
| Published | 06 Jan 2026 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 320 |
| ISBN | 9781399421881 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Continuum |
| Dimensions | 234 x 153 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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