Informalization : manners and emotions since 1890

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Label

Informalization : manners and emotions since 1890

Title remainder

manners and emotions since 1890

Statement of responsibility

Cas Wouters

Creator

• Wouters, Cas

Subject

• Emotions -- Social aspects | History -- 20th century
• Etiquette -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

Following the successful Sex and Manners, this highly original book explains the sweeping changes to twentieth-century regimes of manners and self. Broad in scope and deep in analytic reach, it provides a wealth of empirical evidence to demonstrate how changes in the code of manners and emotions in four countries (Germany, Netherlands, England and the US) have undergone increasing informalization. From the growing taboo toward the displays of superiority and inferiority and diminishing social and psychicogical distance between people, it reveals an 'emancipation of emotions' and the new repres

Member of

• Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central
• Theory, culture & society

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

395.0904

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BJ1821

LC item number

.W68 2007eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography