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Sensibility and the American Revolution / Sarah Knott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knott, Sarah, 1972- author.
- Series:
- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sensitivity (Personality trait)--Social aspects--United States--History--18th century.
- Sensitivity (Personality trait).
- Sensitivity (Personality trait)--Political aspects--United States--History--18th century.
- Self-perception--United States--History--18th century.
- Self-perception.
- Social interaction--United States--History--18th century.
- Social interaction.
- Community life--United States--History--18th century.
- Community life.
- Political culture--United States--History--18th century.
- Political culture.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social aspects.
- United States.
- United States--Social life and customs--1775-1865.
- United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
- United States--Politics and government--1783-1809.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the wake of American independence, it was clear that the new United States required novel political forms. Less obvious but no less revolutionary was the idea that the American people needed a new understanding of the self. Sensibility was a cultural movement that celebrated the human capacity for sympathy and sensitivity to the world. For individuals, it offered a means of self-transformation. For a nation lacking a monarch, state religion, or standing army, sensibility provided a means of cohesion. National independence and social interdependence facilitated one another. What Sarah Knott calls "the sentimental project" helped a new kind of citizen create a new kind of government. Knott paints sensibility as a political project whose fortunes rose and fell with the broader tides of the Revolutionary Atlantic world. Moving beyond traditional accounts of social unrest, republican and liberal ideology, and the rise of the autonomous individual, she offers an original interpretation of the American Revolution as a transformation of self and society.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: Transatlantic Conduits; CHAPTER 1 Print, Booksellers, and the Sentimental; CHAPTER 2 Medicine, Physicians, and the Nervous; PART II: American Circles; CHAPTER 3 Sentimental Coteries: A Quartet of Types; CHAPTER 4 The War for Independence; CHAPTER 5 Shaping the New Republic; PART III: Transatlantic Backlash; CHAPTER 6 Wars of Words: Radicalism, Youth, and Reaction; Epilogue; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908833-6-0
- 979-88-908833-7-7
- 1-4696-0081-1
- OCLC:
- 966803066
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