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What is a hostile environment? How exactly can feelings be mixed? What on earth might it mean when someone writes that he was �happily situated� as a slave? The answers, of course, depend upon�whom�you ask. Science and the humanities typically offer two different paradigms for thinking about emotion�the first rooted in brain and biology, the second in a social world. With rhetoric as a field guide, Uncomfortable Situations establishes�common ground�between these two paradigms, focusing on a theory of situated emotion.�Daniel M. Gross anchors the argument in Charles Darwin, whose work on emotion has been misunderstood across the disciplines�as it has been�shoehorned into the perceived�science-humanities divide.�Then Gross turns to sentimental literature as the single best domain for studying emotional situations. There�s lost composure (Sterne), bearing up (Equiano), environmental hostility (Radcliffe), and feeling mixed (Austen). Rounding out the book, an epilogue�written with ecological neuroscientist Stephanie Preston provides a different kind of cross-disciplinary collaboration. Uncomfortable Situations is a conciliatory work across science and the humanities�a groundbreaking model for future studies.Typham this is the title: Uncomfortable Situations Emotion between Science and the Humanities 1st Edition