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This article was first published in my 1997 study, Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Invention of a Fin-de-Siècle. One of the goals of that project was to study certain »keywords« that were invented in the late seventeenth century in France. My hypothesis was that we can only truly understand a given period if we understand the new vocabulary then invented, because the invention of a new word proves that the period experienced a need for this vocabulary. In this essay, I explore the invention of a new vocabulary for the emotions, a process that began in the mid-seventeenth century and was initiated by a novelist, Madeleine de Scudéry.
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DeJean, J. (2002). Mapping the Heart. In: Kasten, I., Stedman, G., Zimmermann, M. (eds) Querelles: Jahrbuch für Frauenforschung 2002. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-02869-3_4
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