Americans like to use words of sentiment and sympathy, passion and power to explain their democracy. Here the noted Jefferson scholar Andrew Burstein examines the metaphorically rich language that Americans developed two centuries ago to express their guiding principle: that the New World would improve upon the Old. In journals, letters, speeches, and books, an impassioned rhetoric of "feeling" set the tone for American patriotism. Burstein shows how the eighteenth-century "culture of sensibility" encouraged American ...
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Americans like to use words of sentiment and sympathy, passion and power to explain their democracy. Here the noted Jefferson scholar Andrew Burstein examines the metaphorically rich language that Americans developed two centuries ago to express their guiding principle: that the New World would improve upon the Old. In journals, letters, speeches, and books, an impassioned rhetoric of "feeling" set the tone for American patriotism. Burstein shows how the eighteenth-century "culture of sensibility" encouraged American optimism about a global society; their new nation would succeed, they believed, as much by sublime feeling as by intellectual achievement or political liberty. As they grew more self-confident, this pacific ideal acquired teeth; noble Washington and humane Jefferson yielded to boisterous Jackson, and the language of gentle feeling to the force of Manifest Destiny. Yet Americans never stopped celebrating what they believed was their innate impulse to do good.
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