Unmoored - The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America

"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. 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"--

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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

Zusammenfassung

Populating her ‘city on a hill’ with the stock characters of Puritan studies as well as obscure actors, Ana Schwartz breathes new life into our understanding of colonial New England.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ana Schwartz
• Verlag: University Of North Carolina
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9781469671772
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-7177-2
• Seiten: 288
• Serien: Published by the Omohundro Ins; Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
• Thema: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges