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Passion Is the Gale : Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press SeriesPublisher: Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (580 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9798890883131
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Passion Is the GaleDDC classification:
  • 973.3/11
LOC classification:
  • E210.E96 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- 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 Self -- 7. "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.
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Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- 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 Self -- 7. "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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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