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The Sentimental Family: A Biohistorical Perspective (2014)

Harper, Kyle (Author)

American Historical Review
Volume: 119, no. 5
Issue: 5
Pages: 1547-1562

Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Part of a series: History Meets Biology
Language: English

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IN 1960 PHILIPPE ARIES PUBLISHED ` L'enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien Re'gime, a study that helped launch social history on the study of private life.1 Arie`s located a major transformation in the “sentimental climate” of the family in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the new climate brought greater sensitivity toward childhood as a special stage of life, the expulsion of non-nuclear residents such as servants and lodgers from the domicile, greater solicitude for early development, and more privacy within the family. By associating these characteristics---sentimentality, nuclearity, investment, privacy---with modernity, Arie`s gave impetus to the search for the “modern family” in other societies. Probably the most famous contribution in this vein was Lawrence Stone's The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England, 1500--1800. 2 Stone's model of development, while more complex, still posited a trajectory toward intimacy, companionship, and affection within family relations. This sort of historical work was pioneering both in the subjects it sought to understand and in the sorts of documents it called upon as sources of knowledge about the human past. In concert, the study of gender, the family, and sexuality developed into one of the most prominent and successful subfields of the historical discipline.3

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