Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America - Couverture rigide

Schwartz, Ana

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1469671778 ISBN 13 : 9781469671772

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2023

Synopsis

New England's Puritans were devoted to self-scrutiny. Consumed by the pursuit of pure hearts, they latched on to sincerity as both an ideal and a social process. It fueled examinations of inner lives, governed behavior, and provided a standard against which both could be judged. In a remote, politically volatile frontier, settlers gambled that sincerity would reinforce social cohesion and shore up communal happiness. Sincere feelings and the discursive practices that manifested them promised a safe haven in a world of grinding uncertainty.

But as Ana Schwartz demonstrates, if sincerity promised much, it often delivered more: it bred shame and resentment among the English settlers and, all too often, extraordinary violence toward their Algonquian neighbors and the captured Africans who lived among them. Populating her "city on a hill" with the stock characters of Puritan studies as well as obscure actors, Schwartz breathes new life into our understanding of colonial New England.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ana Schwartz is assistant professor of English at University of Texas at Austin

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1469671778
• ISBN 13: 9781469671772
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296
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