Title: Passion is the gale
First published: 2008
Description: 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.
Subjects: Causes, Emotions, History, Social aspects, Social aspects of Emotions, United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, causes
Places: United States
Time periods: 18th century, Revolution, 1775-1783
LC classification: E210 .E96 2008