Description |
1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction. Great Expectations: The Promise of Sincerity -- Moral Unmoorings: Fear and the Foundations of Settler Sincerity -- Dreaming on Dry Land: Thoughtfulness beyond Good Intentions -- Blood, Regret, and Tears: How to Put on Sincerity, and Why -- The Happiest Memories: Duties, Debts, and the Generation of Freedom -- Friendship, Fair and True: Sincerity Makes a Compromise with History -- Conclusion. Miserable Comforts: A Dialectical Lyric |
Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed February 27, 2023) |
Subject |
Puritans -- New England -- History -- 17th century
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Puritans -- New England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
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Sincerity -- History -- 17th century
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Manners and customs
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Puritans
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Puritans -- Social life and customs
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Sincerity
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New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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New England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
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New England
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, issuing body.
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ISBN |
9781469671796 |
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1469671794 |
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9781469671789 |
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1469671786 |
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