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Passion is the gale : emotion, power, and the coming of the American Revolution / Nicole Eustace.

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Passion is the gale : emotion, power, and the coming of the American Revolution / Nicole Eustace.

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Passion is the gale : emotion, power, and the coming of the American Revolution / Nicole Eustace.

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Passion is the gale : emotion, power, and the coming of the American Revolution / Nicole Eustace.

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Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

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N973.311/19

Record Identifier

74VMj8PLKMGA

MMS ID

991001198799702626

Language

English

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Physical content

x, 613 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents

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 E...

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Publisher

Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

Place of Publication

North Carolina

Date Published

c2008.

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Summary

"From Pennsylvania newspapers, pamphlets, sermons, correspondence, commonplace books, and literary texts, Nicole 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 momen...

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Passion is the gale : emotion, power, and the coming of the American Revolution / Nicole Eustace.

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"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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c2008.

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N973.311/19

Record Identifier

74VMj8PLKMGA

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMj8PLKMGA

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ISBN

9780807831687 (cloth : alk. paper)

0807831689 (cloth : alk. paper)

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973.311

MMS ID

991001198799702626

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