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The Pursuit of Happiness

The Pursuit of Happiness Books

The Pursuit of Happiness

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This is an unusual and challenging study of the 'inner world' of the Virginia gentry during Jefferson's lifetime. It argues that, in the years after the Revolution, the gentry turned away from public life into the privacy of their homes and families. A new, sentimental religion agreed that the world was filled with woe and advised detachment from it in preparation for a better one to come. Notions of success, likewise, offered little cheer, as men and women reluctantly accepted the individualistic proposition that their destinies were in their own hands. Neither religion nor success assured earthly happiness; instead, Virginians sought their salvation in love. There, in the family and in feeling, men and women broke through the eighteenth-century's emotional restraint to pursue, but not always to find, the happiness they believed awaited them.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
312
Release Date:
2008-01-12
Publication Date:
2003-02-22
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0521315085
ISBN13:
9780521315081
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
442 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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