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Passion Is the Gale - Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution (Paperback, New edition)
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Passion Is the Gale - Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
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This book shows how the Age of Reason relied on emotion.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.
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