Sensibility and the American Revolution - 9780807859186
Un libro in lingua di Sarah Knott edito da Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2009
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Sensibility and the American Revolution
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Sarah Knott
- Editore: Univ of North Carolina Pr
- Collana: Univ of North Carolina Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Febbraio '09
- Genere: HISTORY
- Argomenti : Sensitivity (Personality trait) Social aspects United States History 18th century Sensitivity (Personality trait) Political aspects United States History 18th century Self-perception United States History 18th century
- Pagine: 338
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 158 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0807859184
- EAN-13: 9780807859186