Passion is the gale : emotion, power, and the coming of the American Revolution / Nicole Eustace.

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Eustace, Nicole

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TextSeries: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VirginiaPublication details: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (x, 613 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

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9781469600826
146960082X

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E210 .E96 2008

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"Passions rous'd in virtue's cause": Debating the passions with Alexander Pope, 1735-1776 -- The dominion of the passions: dilemmas of emotional expression and control in Colonial Pennsylvania -- "A corner stone ... of a copious work": love and power in eighteenth-century alliances -- Resolute resentment versus indiscrete heat: anger, honor, and social status -- The passion question: religious politics and emotional rhetoric in the Seven Year War -- "The turnings of the human heart": sympathy, social signals, and the self -- "Allowed to mourn, but ... bound to submit": grief, grievance, and the negotiation of authority -- Ruling passions: surveying the borders of humanity on the Pennsylvania frontier -- A passion for liberty- the spirit of freedom: the rhetoric of emotion in the Age of Revolution -- The passions and feelings of mankind -- Toward a Lexicon of eighteenth-century emotion.

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Subject: 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 white 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 of this crucial social and political transition by charting changes in emotional expression among countless ordinary men and women of British America. -- from back cover.

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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 white 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 of this crucial social and political transition by charting changes in emotional expression among countless ordinary men and women of British America. -- from back cover.

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