10.25405/data.ncl.11830383.v1
David Rein Johnson
David Rein
Johnson
Emotions Lexicon for Nineteenth-Century British Homes
Newcastle University
2020
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History of Emotions
Nineteenth century
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British History
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2020-02-10 15:44:52
Dataset
https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Emotions_Lexicon_for_Nineteenth-Century_British_Homes/11830383
<p>This data archive contains an emotions lexicon created by
surveying 55 different guides focussed on domestic economy published between
1814 and 1914. It is not exhaustive, but
represents a robust enough sample size to serve as a useful tool for prescriptive
emotions of the nineteenth-century British middle-class home. Entries were sorted by those traits that were
clearly desirable in a home (e.g. cheer, comfort, happiness) and those that
were undesirable and ought to be avoided (e.g. misery, vexation, discomfort). The original intent was to provide a baseline
of emotions words that allowed the study of the emotions people recorded about
their homes across the nineteenth century, though this material may have other
applications, too. Please see the READ ME file for more details.</p>