Fashioning the Emotional Self: The Dutch Statesman Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (1761-1825) and the Cult of Sensibility

This article proposes a combined perspective of Greenblatt’s famous concept of ‘self-fashioning’ and Reddy’s well-known theory of ‘emotives’ as a possible new approach to the study of Dutch political culture, and more specifically to political figures. Exploring emotions as an aspect of public self...

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Main Author: Edwina Hagen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: openjournals.nl 2014-06-01
Series:BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review
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Online Access:https://ojs.minions.amsterdam/article/view/6137