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Sensibility and the American Revolution
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.
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
- Publish Date: Feb 1st, 2009
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.10in - 0.90in - 1.14lb
- EAN: 9780807859186
- Categories: • United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)• United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)
About the Author
Knott, Sarah: - Sarah Knott is associate professor of history at Indiana University and coeditor of Women, Gender, and Enlightenment.
Praise for this book
A stimulating book, beautifully edited and produced.--American Historical Review
Knott appealingly bridges the two disciplines [18th century history and literature] with her discerning, well-organized analysis. . . . This richly reflective book is a comprehensive and sophisticated study of emotionalism and community.--Journal of American History
This is an immensely stimulating book, one with valuable lessons for cultural historians of late eighteenth-century Britain. . . . Knott here achieves a remarkable breadth in constructing her arguments across so many different fields, while at the same time retaining a carefully structured narrative.--History Workshop Journal
A luminous, crisply written intellectual history. . . . A masterful book. . . . A book which will, in short order, show us a new way of examining the foundation of American society and culture.--Journal of Social History
Ambitious, demanding, and provocative.--William and Mary Quarterly