Atlantic families : lives and letters in the later eighteenth century

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    • Pearsall, Sarah M. S.

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Atlantic families : lives and letters in the later eighteenth century

Sarah M.S. Pearsall

Oxford University Press, 2008

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Bibliography: p. [248]-281

Includes index

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内容説明

The Atlantic represented a world of opportunity in the eighteenth century, but it represented division also, separating families across its coasts. Whether due to economic shifts, changing political landscapes, imperial ambitions, or even simply personal tragedy, many families found themselves fractured and disoriented by the growth and later fissure of a larger Atlantic world. Such dislocation posed considerable challenges to all individuals who viewed orderly family relations as both a general and a personal ideal. The more fortunate individuals who thus found themselves divided by the Atlantic were able to use family letters, with attendant emphases on familiarity, sensibility, and credit, in order to remain connected in times and places of considerable disconnection. Portraying the family as a unified, affectionate, and happy entity in such letters provided a means of surmounting concerns about societies fractured by physical distance, global wars, and increasing social stratification. It could also provide social and economic leverage to individual men and women in certain circumstances. Sarah Pearsall explores the lives and letters of these families, revealing the sometimes shocking stories of those divided by sea. Ranging across the Anglophone Atlantic, including mainland American colonies and states, Britain, and the British Caribbean, Pearsall argues that it was this expanding Atlantic world-much more than the American Revolution-that reshaped contemporary ideals about families, as much as families themselves reshaped the transatlantic world.

目次

  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • PART I: "DEALING BY INK ALTOGETHER": MECHANISMS OF CONNECTION AND DISCONNECTION
  • Introduction to Part I
  • 1. Fractured Families: The Perils and Possibilities of Atlantic Distance
  • 2. Familiarity in Life and Letters
  • 3. Sensibility in Life and Letters
  • 4. Credit in Life and Letters
  • PART II: "WHAT MAY BE OUR LOT": STORIES OF CONNECTION AND DISCONNECTION
  • Introduction to Part II
  • 5. The Repentant Son and the Unforgiving Father: Making a Man of Feeling, a Man of Credit
  • 6. The Farewell between Husband and Wife: The Politics of Family Feeling
  • 7. The Old Husband and the Young Wife: Scandal, Feeling, and Distance
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography

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