Includes bibliographical references and index.

History and psychology : three weddings and a future / Kenneth J. Gergen -- Class, gender and regulation of emotional expression in revolutionary-era conduct literature / C. Dallett Hemphill -- Those scenes for which alone my heart was made : affection and politics in the age of Jefferson and Hamilton / While our souls together blend : narrating a romantic readership in the Early Republic / Lucia McMahon -- Gender and racial politics of mourning in antebellum America / Jeffrey Steele -- Passionate voices and cool calculations : the emotional landscape of the nineteenth-century New England textile industry / Mary H. Blewett -- Reign of passion : white supremacy and the clash between passionate and progressive emotional styles in the New South / Dolores Janiewski -- Journalistic gore : disaster reporting and emotional discourse in The New York Times, 1852-1956 / Michael Barton -- Creating the emotional body : confusion, possibilities, and knowledge / Otniel E. Dror -- Ethnicity and emotions in America : dimensions of the unexplored / Hasia R. Diner -- "Joy unspeakable and full of glory" : the vocabulary of pious emotion in the narratives of American pentecostal women, 1910-1945 / R. Marie Griffith -- Stand by me : sacred quartet music and the emotionology of African American audiences, 1900-1930 / Kimberley L. Phillips -- American Catholics and discourse of fear / Timothy Kelly, Joseph Kelly -- Etiquette books and emotion management in twentieth century : American habitus in international comparison / Cas Wouters -- Something old, something new : romance and marital advice in the 1920s / David R. Shumway -- Problem of modern married love for middle-class women / John C. Spurlock -- New man and early twentieth-century emotional culture in United States / Kevin White -- Another self? : middle-class American women and their friends, 1900-1960 / Linda W. Rosenzweig -- Frocks, finery, and feelings : rural and urban women's envy, 1890-1930 / Susan J. Matt -- Consumerism and childhood : new targets for American emotions / Peter N. Stearns -- Toward a psychohistory of late-life emotionality / W. Andrew Achenbaum -- Reuben Davis, Sylvia Plath, and other American writers : the perils of emotional struggle / Bertram Wyatt-Brown.