With The Sentimental State, Elizabeth Garner Masarik shows how middle-class women, both white and Black, harnessed the nineteenth-century “culture of sentimen

What is the political allure, value and currency of emotions within contemporary cultures of governance? What does it mean to govern more humanely? Since the em

An Analysis Of How emotion functions cooperatively with reason & contributes to a healthy democratic politics.

Sentimentalism emerged in eighteenth-century Europe as a moral philosophy founded on the belief that individuals are able to form relationships and communities

This book explores how specific emotions shaped Americans' perceptions of, and responses to, the sectional conflict over slavery in the United States.