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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821716603321

Autore

Eustace Nicole

Titolo

Passion is the gale : emotion, power, and the coming of the American Revolution / / Nicole Eustace ; designed by Kimberly Bryant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

979-88-908831-3-1

0-8078-7198-2

1-4696-0082-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (624 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

973.3/11

Soggetti

Emotions - Social aspects - United States - History - 18th century

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Causes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Introduction: The Rising Tempest; 1 ''Passions Rous'd in Virtue's Cause'': Debating the Passions with Alexander Pope, 1735-1776; 2 The Dominion of the Passions: Dilemmas of Emotional Expression and Control in Colonial Pennsylvania; 3 ''A Corner Stone . . . of a Copious Work'': Love and Power in Eighteenth-Century Alliances; 4 Resolute Resentment versus Indiscrete Heat: Anger, Honor, and Social Status; 5 The Passion Question: Religious Politics and Emotional Rhetoric in the Seven Years War

6 ''The Turnings of the Human Heart'': Sympathy, Social Signals, and the Self7 ''Allowed to Mourn, but . . . Bound to Submit'': Grief, Grievance, and the Negotiation of Authority; 8 Ruling Passions: Surveying the Borders of Humanity on the Pennsylvania Frontier; 9 A Passion for Liberty-The Spirit of Freedom: The Rhetoric of Emotion in the Age of Revolution; Postlude: The Passions and Feelings of Mankind; Appendix: Toward a Lexicon of Eighteenth-Century Emotion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O;



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