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1 Online-Ressource (384 pages)
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9780814771037
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0814771033
Series Statement:
History of Emotions S
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Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. Chill out.), the idea of cool, in its many manifestations, has seized a central place in our vocabulary. Where did this preoccupation with cool come from? How was Victorian culture, seemingly so ensconced, replaced with the current emotional status quo? From whence came American Cool?. These are the questions Peter Stearns seeks to answer in this timely an
Content:
Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. Chill out.), the idea of cool, in its many manifestations, has seized a central place in our vocabulary. Where did this preoccupation with cool come from? How was Victorian culture, seemingly so ensconced, replaced with the current emotional status quo? From whence came American Cool?. These are the questions Peter Stearns seeks to answer in this timely an
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814779798
Additional Edition:
Stearns, Peter N., 1936 - American cool New York [u.a.] : New York Univ. Press, 1994 ISBN 0814779964
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0814779794
Additional Edition:
Print version Stearns, Peter N American Cool : Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style New York : NYU Press, ©1994 ISBN 9780814779798
Language:
English
Subjects:
Psychology
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Sociology
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Stearns, Peter N. 1936-
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