Atlantic families: lives and letters in the later eighteenth century

The growth of the Atlantic world led to the separation of many families. Sarah Pearsall explores their lives and letters, revealing the sometimes shocking stories of those divided by sea, and argues that it was these transatlantic bonds, much more than the American Revolution, that reshaped contemporary idealsabout marriage and the family. INDICE: Prologue; Introduction; Part I: 'Dealing by Ink Altogether': Mechanisms of Connection and Disconnection; Introduction to Part I; 1: FracturedFamilies: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-960044-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés