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Author Schwartz, Ana, author.

Title Unmoored : the search for sincerity in colonial America / Ana Schwartz
Published Williamsburg, Virginia : The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
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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
Puritans -- New England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
Sincerity -- History -- 17th century
Manners and customs
Puritans
Puritans -- Social life and customs
Sincerity
New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
New England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
New England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, issuing body.
ISBN 9781469671796
1469671794
9781469671789
1469671786