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The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia
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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.

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THE WORLD Thomas Jefferson departed in 1826 was very different from the one into which he had been born more than eighty years earlier.

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  • Title The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia
  • Author Jan Lewis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Publication date 1985-02-22
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780521315081 / 0521315085
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.94 x 6.14 x 0.8 in (20.17 x 15.60 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: South Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Virginia
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 83001786
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.85
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