Tears before the storm
Ruth Bernard Yeazell, 24 October 1991
The History of Tears: Sensibility and Sentimentality in France
by Anne Vincent-Buffault.
Macmillan, 284 pp., £40, July 1991,0 333 45594 0 Show More
by Anne Vincent-Buffault.
Macmillan, 284 pp., £40, July 1991,
“... crowd, it seems premature to proclaim a new era for Henry Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling. Tears, as Anne Vincent-Buffault suggests, have a rhetoric as well as a history, and shedding them while making war is not the same thing as weeping at the loss of a race – or even in defence of your wife, as Muskie did in 1972. Muskie’s tears were prompted by the ... ”
