Passion Is the Gale (eBook)

Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution

Nicole Eustace (Autor)

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2012
624 Seiten
Omohundro Institute and Unc Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-3879-2 (ISBN)

Infos

At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the genteel, while sinful and selfish passions remained the reflexive emotions of the masses, from lower-class whites to Indians to enslaved Africans. Yet by 1776 radicals would propose a new universal model of human nature that attributed the same feelings and passions to all humankind and made common emotions the basis of natural rights. In Passion Is the Gale, Nicole Eustace describes the promise and the problems of this crucial social and political transition by charting changes in emotional expression among countless ordinary men and women of British America.From Pennsylvania newspapers, pamphlets, sermons, correspondence, commonplace books, and literary texts, Eustace identifies the explicit vocabulary of emotion as a medium of human exchange. Alternating between explorations of particular emotions in daily social interactions and assessments of emotional rhetoric's functions in specific moments of historical crisis (from the Seven Years War to the rise of the patriot movement), she makes a convincing case for the pivotal role of emotion in reshaping power relations and reordering society in the critical decades leading up to the Revolution. As Eustace demonstrates, passion was the gale that impelled Anglo-Americans forward to declare their independence--collectively at first, and then, finally, as individuals.

Autor

Nicole Eustace is associate professor of history at New York University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
• Reihe/Serie: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
• Zusatzinfo: 20 illus., 1 fig., 1 table, notes, index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: affections • Alexander Pope • American History • American Revolution • Anger • Atlantic World • Banjamin Wilson • Benjamin West • Colonial America • Colonial British America • Colonial Pennsylvania • Eighteenth-Century Studies • Family • Feeling • Gender • Grief • History of Emotion • James Claypoole • Love • Moral Philosophy • Passion • Paul Revere • Paxton Controversy • Pennsylvania • Politics • Religion • rhetoric • selfhood • sensibility • Seven Years War • Speech • Sympathy
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-3879-9 / 0807838799
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-3879-2 / 9780807838792