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Remorse

Here are entered works on pangs of conscience and the sense of guilt and repentance for sins committed, wrongs done, or duty not performed. Works on the emotional response or sorrow aroused by circumstances beyond one's control or power to repair are entered under Regret.

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• Emotions

• Remorse -- Poetry

• Remorsefulness
• Reproach of self
• Self-reproach

• Dora (based on the 1887 Lee and Shepard edition, with additional illustrations), by Alfred Lord Tennyson, illust. by William Ladd Taylor and John Everett Millais (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Tracing the Melanesian Person: Emotions and Relationships in Lihir (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2013), by Susan R. Hemer (multiple formats with commentary at Adelaide)
• On Emotional Presentation (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1972), by A. Meinong, trans. by Marie-Luise Schubert Kalsi, contrib. by J. N. Findlay (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Emotions, Senses, Spaces: Ethnographic Engagements and Intersections (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2016), ed. by Susan R. Hemer and Alison Dundon (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Feeling and Emotion: A History of Theories (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1937), by H. Norman Gardiner, Ruth Clark Metcalf, and John G. Beebe-Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emotions of Normal People (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1928), by William Moulton Marston (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872), by Charles Darwin (HTML at Brock)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (London: John Murray, 1872; with other editions), by Charles Darwin (illustrated HTML and page images with commentary at Charles Darwin Online)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898), by Charles Darwin (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899), by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Focusing on the Emotions of Daily Life: A Guide for Their Maintenance, by Ilan Shalif (HTML at shalif.com)
• The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers, by George Washington Crile (Gutenberg text)
• Workers' Emotions in Shop and Home: A Study of Individual Workers From the Psychological and Physiological Standpoint (Wharton Industrial Research Department research study #18; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932), by Rexford B. Hersey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emotion as the Basis of Civilization (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1928), by John Hopkins Denison, contrib. by George Foot Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• How You Can Keep Happy (Chicago: American Health Book Concern, 1926), by William S. Sadler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Men, Women and Emotions (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1899), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Social Destiny of Man: or, Theory of the Four Movements (with an added treatise and outline by Brisbane; New York: R. M. Dewitt and C. Blanchard, 1857), by Charles Fourier, trans. by Henry Clapp, contrib. by Albert Brisbane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und Physiognomik (in German; Detmold: Klingenberg, 1867), by Theodor Piderit (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Divine Passions: The Social Construction of Emotion in India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), ed. by Owen M. Lynch (HTML at UC Press)

• A Treatise Concerning Enthusiasme, As it is an Effect of Nature, But is Mistaken by Many for Either Divine Inspiration, or Diabolical Possession (London: Printed by R.D. for T. Johnson, 1655), by Meric Casaubon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• The Passions of the Minde in Generall: Corrected, Enlarged, and With Sundry New Discourses Augmented (London: Printed by V. Simmes for W. Burre, 1604), by Thomas Wright (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Fleetwood: or, The New Man of Feeling (Standard Novels #32; London: R. Bentley, 1832), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Menticulture: or, The A-B-C of True Living (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1895), by Horace Fletcher (Gutenberg text)

• 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Thomas J. Harrison (HTML at UC Press)

• Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance (1996), by Harlan Ullman and James P. Wade
  • HTML at af.mil
  • Gutenberg text

• Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts (London and New York: Routledge, c2023), ed. by Anke K. Finger and Manuela Wagner
  • multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Belief in God (second edition; Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1888), by Alfred Williams Momerie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Excellent Religion: An Essay on the Relations Existing Between Agnosticism, the Polar Theory of Being, and the Higher Theism (London: Watts and Co., ca. 1890), by George Chetwynd Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Causation, With a Chapter on Belief (London: Longman's Green and Co., 1916), by Charles Arthur Mercier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Psychology of Confidence: An Experimental Inquiry (Archives of Psychology #67, 1923), by William Clark Trow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Study of Natio-Racial Mental Differences (Genetic Psychology Monographs v1 #3-4; 1926), by Nathaniel D. Mttron Hirsch (page images at Harvard)

• The Psychology of Confidence: An Experimental Inquiry (Archives of Psychology #67, 1923), by William Clark Trow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Authoritarians (c2006), by Bob Altemeyer (multiple formats with commentary at theauthoritarians.org)

• Laughing and Crying: A Study of the Limits of Human Behavior (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Helmuth Plessner, trans. by James Spencer Churchill and Marjorie Grene (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• The Desire Body, by Max Heindel (PDF at rosicrucian.com)

• Euphorias in Gender, Sex and Sexuality Variations: Positive Experiences (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, c2023), by Tiffany Jones
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer Nature Link
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), ed. by Mary Chapman and Glenn Hendler (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Transformation of Rage: Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction (New York: New York University Press, 1994), by Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Zum Problem der Einfühlung (author's doctoral dissertation, in German; Halle: Buchdruckerei des Waisenhauses, 1917), by Edith Stein
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at wordpress.com

• Natural History of Enthusiasm (from the 9th London edition; New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1859), by Isaac Taylor
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA

• The Conquest of Fear, by Basil King, contrib. by Henry C. Link (Gutenberg text)
• Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear, by Arthur Christopher Benson (Gutenberg text)
• Happiness, As Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought (New York: F. A. Stokes co., c1898), by Horace Fletcher, contrib. by William H. Holcombe (Gutenberg text)

• How to Survive the Loss of a Love, by Melba Colgrove, Harold H. Bloomfield, and Peter McWilliams (HTML at drugsense.org)

• On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v16; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2016), ed. by Suzana Milevska (PDF with commentary in Austria)
• Shame and Guilt: A Psychoanalytic and a Cultural Study (Springfield, IL: C. C. Thomas, 1953), by Gerhart Piers and Milton B. Singer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rossi Formula for Maximum Happiness: A Philosophy of Life (New York: Exposition Press, c1972), by Emidio J. Rossi (HTML with commentary at Verizon)
• The Anatomy of Happiness (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1951), by Martin Gumpert (page images at HathiTrust)
• How You Can Keep Happy (Chicago: American Health Book Concern, 1926), by William S. Sadler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Happiness, As Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought (New York: F. A. Stokes co., c1898), by Horace Fletcher, contrib. by William H. Holcombe (Gutenberg text)
• Happiness That Lasts, by Martin Israel (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Just Be Glad (Los Angeles: New Literature Pub. Co., 1912), by Christian D. Larson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Laugh and Live (with a "close-up" of the author; New York: Britton Pub. Co., 1917), by Douglas Fairbanks, contrib. by George Creel (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Help Yourself to Happiness (New York and London: Whittlesey House, 1937), by David Seabury (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Way to Happiness (main text of Scientology-promoted ethical guide; electronic edition), by L. Ron Hubbard (illustrated HTML with commentary at thewaytohappiness.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.