The coexistence of an ethic of emotional control with a contrasting discourse encouraging male sexual expression generated confusion amongst men (Robinson, 2002, pp. This restraint, however, accompanied an equally widely recognized belief that male sexual energies must be released. 231).Whereas the Victorians believed all emotions to be socially useful in one way or another, twentieth-century Americans called for a far more restrained and less intense emotional style, where emotions should be controlled and no emotion should dominate one’s thought processes (Sterns, 1994, p. Although the word “cool” became a widespread term for an emotional style only in the 1960s, it signifies a feeling that was already evident in the preceding decades (Sterns, 1994, p. Emotion historians such as Phillip Sterns and Sally Robinson have argued that a fundamental shift in the hegemonic emotional norm occurred in America in the early twentieth century. These conflicting emotional styles are characteristic features, not only of Hinton’s novel, but of contemporary views of youth at the time.
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