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"Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome is an essay in cultural psychology. By examining the ways in which emotions, and talk about emotions, reinforce cultural norms, it aims to understand the interplay between the emotions and the ethics of the Roman upper classes in the late Republic and early Empire. How (in the Roman view) is virtuous behavior shaped by the emotions? How in particular do various Roman forms of fear, dismay, indignation,...

An exploration of the role of women in the representation of leisure in turn-of-the-century New York, this text argues for a reconsideration of the position of women in the bourgeois elite in 19th-century America.